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Only the good die young.

Billy Joel

Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
BILLY JOEL

Distance Long Night Stimulations
every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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Life Relationship Rose
Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
BILLY JOEL

Crucial Inspiration Living Make
Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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Competition Crazy Poor School Teacher
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
You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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Mind Song Speak Time
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
You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
BILLY JOEL

Giving Hate People
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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Alchemist Fun Wizards
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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Family Like Musician Tied
There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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Islands Men Sea
You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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Cake Loneliness Love Mistakes Smile
If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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Causes Past Way
Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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Courage Fighting Title
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
BILLY JOEL

Criticism Honor Praise Received Sometimes
We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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Hurt Laughing might

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