There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
BILLY JOELHave you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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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 watched the mighty skyline fall
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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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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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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