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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.

Billy Joel

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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Kids Pianist Song Songwriter Writing
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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Everybody Loneliness Love Somehow
I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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People Retirement Retiring
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.
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Beautiful Down Gotta Life Years
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
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Anymore Familiar Fashion Hair Love Please
Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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Drinking Loneliness
People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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Believe Lying People
You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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Home Phones Waiting
If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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Kids Kids Want Something Tell
I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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Mother Piano Years
You can linger too long in your dreams.
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Dream Linger Long
I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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Age Entertainer Idols Magazines Money
It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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Relationship Sorry Strong
Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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Blac Color Philosophy White
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 Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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Change Good Times Hair Love Trying
I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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Insanity Talking Winos
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’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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Beer Relationship Yoga
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
Nobody’s telling me, “Yeah, I left.” Everybody says, “You know, I’m there. It’s great. It’s really nice there, and you made our town famous.”
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Everybody Famous Really Town
Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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Celebrity Disneyland Peter
Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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Knows Right Wrong
You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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Giving Hate People
You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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Crazy Insanity Mind
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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Evil Home Open Phones Window
She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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Cutting Evil Laughing

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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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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