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You can’t go the distance with too much resistance

Billy Joel

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.
BILLY JOEL

Change Good Times Hair Love Trying
Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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Moment Now South Trying
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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Musician Safety Wire
Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
BILLY JOEL

Crucial Inspiration Living Make
Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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Artist Perception Sea
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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Musician Position Thinking Unlikely
You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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Hard Old Rock Roll
Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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Doors Opening People
Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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Art Rock Roll War
Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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Madness Philosophy Reality Sadness
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
Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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Heart Love Lying
Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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Advice Answers Waiting
It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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Alright Loses Two
The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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Country Education Helped People Wall
Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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Goes Gone Someday

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