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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.

Billy Joel

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
No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
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Healing Matter Music
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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Heart Loud Musician Voices
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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Mean Opinion Singers
There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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Couple Hard Times Years
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
In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along
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Heart Past Sanctuary Strong
You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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Crazy Insanity Mind
I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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Country Political Soldiers Trying
Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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Call Fool Moments
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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Graduation Help Real Teacher Wall
In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
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Comes Heart Past Sanctuary Strong
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 have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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Mother Piano Years
We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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Humans Making Mistakes Suppose
You can linger too long in your dreams.
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Dream Linger Long

You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.

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