Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
BILLY JOELI took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times, I’ll take you just the way you are.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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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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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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