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Well we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.

Billy Joel

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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Family Like Musician Tied
You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
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Distance Much Resistance Too
I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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Education Fire Long
I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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Boys Drinking Inspirational
Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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Baby Country Goodbye Hollywood
I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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Classical People Rolling Stones Use
Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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Beethoven Guys Phenomenal Productivity Some
I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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Believe Clouds Important
You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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Mind Song Speak Time
We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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Hurt Laughing might
If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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Kids Kids Want Something Tell
Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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Drinking Loneliness
This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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Moments Past Relentless
Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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Artist Perception Sea
Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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Creative Outlets Records
Don’t go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don’t imagine you’re too familiar And I don’t see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble
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Anymore Familiar Fashion Hair Love Please

Well we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.

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