You can linger too long in your dreams.
BILLY JOELIt’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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You’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright.
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