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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.”

Billy Joel

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.
BILLY JOEL

Graduation Help Real Teacher Wall
Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
BILLY JOEL

Back Music Romance Together
Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
BILLY JOEL

Honesty Insanity Lonely
You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
BILLY JOEL

Giving Hate People
You can speak your mind But not on my time.
BILLY JOEL

Mind Song Speak Time
I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
BILLY JOEL

Active Issues Mind Writing
I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
BILLY JOEL

Beautiful Heard Record Song Writing
If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
BILLY JOEL

Kids Kids Want Something Tell
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.
BILLY JOEL

Country Political Soldiers Trying
People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
BILLY JOEL

Feel Good Night People
Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
BILLY JOEL

Fine Slow Down Want
You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
BILLY JOEL

Evil May Understanding
The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
BILLY JOEL

Country Education Helped People Wall
I watched the mighty skyline fall
BILLY JOEL

Fall Mighty Skylines Watched
Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
BILLY JOEL

Knows Right Wrong
I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
BILLY JOEL

Age Fighting Noble

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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