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[randomness]

They say that these are not the best of times,
But they're the only times I've ever known
And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own
Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lover's eyes
I can only stand apart and sympathize
For we are always what our situations hand us
It's either sadness or euphoria

So we'll argue and we'll compromise
And realize that nothing's ever changed
For all our mutual experience our separate conclusions are the same
Now we are 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
(1976)

Slow down you crazy child,
You're so ambitious for a juvenile.
But then if you're so smart, tell me why are you still so afraid?

Where's the fire, what's the hurry about?
You better cool it off before you burn it out.
You got so much to do and only so many hours in a day

But you know that when the truth is told.
That you can get what you want or you can just get old.
You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through.
(1977)

Comments

[muffyjo]

I love Billy Joel. Shhh...don't tell. :)

Once upon a time in the land of misty satin dreams
There stood a house and a man who painted nature scenes
He painted trees and fields and animals and streams and he stayed
And he didn't hear the fallin' of the rain

In the forest green lived a girl who put her hair in braids
And she sang as she walked all around the wooded glade
She was glad when the rain came falling on her face and she sang
'Cause she didn't mind the fallin' of the rain

Will it always be the same as we recall?
Does it touch you when the rain begins to fall?
Ah, but I don't want to know and I don't want to see
Another rainy day without you lyin' next to me

High upon a hill far away from all the dusty crowd is a boy
With his eyes on the ground; his head is bowed; he is a fool
And his mind is filled with hopeless dreams and he waits
But he will not see the fallin' of the rain

Will it always be the same as we recall?
Does it touch you when the rain begins to fall?
Ah, but I don't want to know and I don't want to see
Another rainy day without you lyin' next to me

So now the boy becomes the man who sits and paints all day
But the girl with the braids in her hair has gone away
And it seems that time has brought things to an end; nothing's changed
'Cause you can't stop the fallin' rain.

[randomness]

I love Billy Joel. Shhh...don't tell. :)

Your secret is safe with me. :)

[doctordidj.livejournal.com]

The second one is Billy Joel "Vienna waits for you."
I don't recognize the first.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

The first is also Billy Joel, "Summer Highland Falls".

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I hope you have a good lunch today! Did I sleep through you saying goodbye or did you decide to just pat me and go because I was drooling and snoring and looked unable to be roused? Either is fine, I'm just curious. :)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I kissed your ear. You mumbled incoherently in your sleep. I took that as a goodbye.

I suppose there's a metaphor there, or something. :)

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

I do not remember that _at all_.

And I bet I was also drooling and snoring.

[jicama]

I love the piano part in Summer Highland Falls.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yes! He does have some beautiful piano solos in many of his songs.