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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.

Billy Joel

And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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Old Share Told Truth
You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
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Distance Much Resistance Too
My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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Being Crazy Sane
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.
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Country Political Soldiers Trying
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
Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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Anyway One Songs
What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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Smart Unanswered Questions
I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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Antiques May Stones
You can linger too long in your dreams.
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Dream Linger Long
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
There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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Alcohol Drug Men
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
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.
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Feel Good Night People
I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
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Country Mass Problems Thinking
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
And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts… Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they’re for.
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Humorous Men People

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