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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.

Billy Joel

It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
BILLY JOEL

Beautiful Down Gotta Life Years
We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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Alcohol Drug Soul
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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Art Literature Music
When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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Club Jobs Musician
There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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Islands Men Sea
Sing us a song you’re the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feeling all right.
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Men Piano Song Tonight
There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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Butter Peanut Sex Witty
My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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Autograph Daughter Missions
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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Heart Loud Musician Voices
I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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Clever Love Want
You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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Given Needs Relationship
I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
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Life Looking Philosophy
If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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Kids Kids Want Something Tell
I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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About Affecting Going Remember Song Valley
When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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Musician Pursue Young
you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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Crazy May might
They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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Believe Eye Sadness
I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
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Country Mass Problems Thinking
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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Demand Music Successful
Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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Madness Philosophy Reality Sadness
And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts… Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they’re for.
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Humorous Men People
I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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Extremes Insanity Knows
Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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Distance Long Night Stimulations
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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Results Style Success Weakness
What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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Believe Friendship Way
I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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Cheer Limos People
They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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Drink Expression Loneliness

Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.

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