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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

Billy Joel

You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
BILLY JOEL

Girl Shame Walk
In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
BILLY JOEL

Birthday Business Jobs Crazy Song
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
BILLY JOEL

Criticism Honor Praise Received Sometimes
Only the good die young.
BILLY JOEL

Dense Iron Maiden Young
I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
BILLY JOEL

Age Birthday Insecurity
You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
BILLY JOEL

Cake Loneliness Love Mistakes Smile
And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
BILLY JOEL

Old Share Told Truth
I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
BILLY JOEL

Believe Meditation Religious
But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
BILLY JOEL

Help Point Promised Something Try
Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.
BILLY JOEL

Dream Vienna Waiting
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

Graduation Help Real Teacher Wall
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.
BILLY JOEL

Artist Perception Sea
I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
BILLY JOEL

Education Graduate School Self Teacher
Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
BILLY JOEL

Giving Mind Waiting
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
BILLY JOEL

Book Country Kids
Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
BILLY JOEL

Baby Country Goodbye Hollywood

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