| Billy Joel Lyrics Page Two |
| Rosalinda's Eyes Say Goodbye to Hollywood She's Always a Woman She's Got a Way Somewhere Along The Line Scenes from an Italian Restaurant Souvenir Stiletto Streetlife Serenader Summer, Highland Falls Tell Her About It The Ballad of Billy the Kid The Downeaster "Alexa" The Entertainer The Great Suburban Showdown The Longest Time The River of Dreams The Stranger This Is The Time To Make You Feel My Love Turn Around Tomorrow Is Today Travellin' Prayer Uptown Girl Vienna We Didn't Start the Fire Why Judy Why You're My Home You're Only Human (Second Wind) You May Be Right Zanzibar |
| Rosalinda's Eyes I play nights in the Spanish part of town, I've got music in my hands. Work is hard to find but that don't get me down, Rosalinda understands. Crazy Latin dancing solo down in Herald Square, oh Havana, I've been searching for you everywhere. And though I'll never be there, I know what I would see there, I can always find my Cuban skies in Rosalinda's eyes. When she smiles she gives everything to me, when she's all alone, she cries. I'd do anything to take away her tears because they're Rosalinda's eyes. Senorita, don't be lonely, I will soon be there. Oh, Havana, I've been searching for you everywhere. I've got a chance to make it, it's time for me to take it, I'll return before the fire dies in Rosalinda's eyes. All alone in a Puerto Rican band, union wages, wedding clothes. Hardly anyone has seen how good I am, but Rosalinda says she knows. Crazy Latin dancing solo down in Herald Square, oh Havana, I've been searching for you everywhere. And though I'll never be there, I know what I would see there, I can always find my Cuban skies in Rosalinda's eyes. Senorita, don't be lonely, I will soon be there. Oh, Havana, I've been searching for you everywhere. I've got a chance to make it, it's time for me to take it, I'll return before the fire dies in Rosalinda's eyes. Say Goodbye to Hollywood Bobby's driving through the city tonight through the lights in a hot new rent-a-car. He joins the lover in his heavy machine, it's a scene down on Sunset Boulevard. Say goodbye to Hollywood, say goodbye my baby. Say goodbye to Hollywood, say goodbye my baby. Johnny's taking care of things for awhile and his style is so right for troubadours. They got him sitting with his back to the door, now he won't be my fast gun anymore. Say goodbye to Hollywood, say goodbye my baby. Say goodbye to Hollywood, say goodbye my baby. Moving on is a chance you take every time you try to stay together. Say a word out of line and you find that the friends you had are gone forever, forever. So many faces in and out of my life, some will last, some will just be now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes, I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again. Say goodbye to Hollywood, say goodbye my baby. Say goodbye to Hollywood, say goodbye my baby. Moving on is a chance you take every time you try to stay together. Say a word out of line and you find that the friends you had are gone forever, forever. So many faces in and out of my life, some will last, some will just be now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes, I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again. Say goodbye to Hollywood, say goodbye my baby. Say goodbye to Hollywood, say goodbye my baby. Scenes From An Italian Restaurant A bottle of white, a bottle of red, perhaps a bottle of rose instead. We'll get a table near the street in our old familiar place, you and I, face to face. A bottle of red, a bottle of white, it all depends on your appetite. I'll meet you any time you want in our Italian restaurant. Things are okay with me these days, got a good job, got a good office, got a new wife, got a new life and the family's fine. We lost touch long ago, you lost weight, I did not know that you could ever look so good after so much time. Do you remember those days hanging out at the village green? Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans. Drop a dime in the box, play a song about New Orleans. Cold beer, hot lights, my sweet romantic teenage nights. Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies and the king and the queen of the prom, riding around with the car top down and the radio on. Nobody looked any finer or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner, we never knew we could want more than that out of life. Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive. Brenda and Eddie were still going steady in the summer of '75 when they decided the marriage would be at the end of July. Everyone said they were crazy, "Brenda you know you're much too lazy and Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life." But there we were waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye. They got an apartment with deep pile carpet and a couple of paintings from Sears, a big waterbed that they bought with the bread they had saved for a couple of years. They started to fight when the money got tight and they just didn't count on the tears. They lived for a while in a very nice style but it's always the same in the end. They got a divorce as a matter of course and they parted the closest of friends. Then the king and the queen went back to the green but you can never go back there again. Brenda and Eddie had had it already by the summer of '75, from the high to the low to the end of the show for the rest of their lives. They couldn't go back to the greasers, the best they could do was pick up the pieces but we always knew they would both find a way to get by. That's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie, Can't tell you more than I told you already and here we are waving Brenda And Eddie goodbye. A bottle of red, a bottle of white, whatever kind of mood you're in tonight. I'll meet you anytime you want in our Italian Restaurant. She's Always a Woman She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes, she can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see, she hides like a child but she's always a woman to me. She can lead you to live, she can take your or leave you. She can ask for the truth but she'll never believe you. And she'll take what you give her as long as it's free She steals like a thief but she's always a woman to me. Oh, she takes care of herself, she can wait if she wants, she's ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out and she never gives in, she just changes her mind. She will promise you more than the Garden of Eden. Then she'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding. But she'll bring out the best and the worst you can be, blame it all on yourself cause she's always a woman to me. Oh, she takes care of herself, she can wait if she wants, she's ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out and she never gives in, she just changes her mind. She is frequently kind and she's suddenly cruel. She can do as she pleases, she's nobody's fool But she can't be convicted, she's earned her degree, And the most she will do is throw shadows at you but she's always a woman to me. She's Got a Way She's got a way about her. I don't know what it is, but I know that I can't live without her. She's got a way of pleasing. I don't know what it is but there doesn't have to be a reason anyway. She's got a smile that heals me. I don't know why it is but I have to laugh when she reveals me. She's got a way of talking. I don't know what it is but it lifts me up when we are walking anywhere. She comes to me when I'm feeling down, inspires me without a sound. She touches me and I get turned around. She's got a way of showing how I make her feel and I find the strength to keep on going. She's got a light around her and everywhere she goes a million dreams of love surround her everywhere. She comes to me when I'm feeling down, inspires me without a sound. She touches me and I get turned around. She's got a smile that heals me. I don't know why it is but I have to laugh when she reveals me. She's got a way about her. I don't know what it is but I know that I can't live without her anyway. Somewhere Along The Line Well it's a rainy night in Paris and I'm sitting by the Seine, it's a pleasure to be soaking in the European rain. Now my belly's full of fancy food and wine but in the morning there'll be hell to pay somewhere along the line. Sweet Virginia Cigarette burning in my hand, well you used to be a friend of mine but now I understand you've been eating up inside me for some time. But I know you're gonna get me somewhere along the line. Somewhere along the line, well I know it's just a matter of time. When the fun falls through and the rent comes due somewhere along the line. Well, you know I love my woman and I would not let her down and I did my share of loving when I used to get around. Now I'm satisfied that she is looking fine but you pay for your satisfaction somewhere along the line. Hey, it's good to be a young man and to live the way you please. Yes, a young man is the king of every kingdom that he sees. There's an old and feeble man not far behind but it surely will catch up to him somewhere along the line. But it surely will catch up to him somewhere along the line… Souvenir A picture postcard, a folded stub, a program of the play. File away your photographs of your holiday. And your mementos will turn to dust, but that's the price you pay. For every year's a souvenir that slowly fades away. Every year's a souvenir that slowly fades away. Stiletto She cuts you once, she cuts you twice, but still you believe. The wound is so fresh you can taste the blood but you don't have strength to leave. You've been bought, you've been sold, you've been locked outside the door. But you stand there pleading with your insides bleeding cause you deep down want some more. When she says she wants forgiveness, it's such a clever masquerade. She's so good with her stiletto, you don't even see the blade, you don't even see the blade. She cuts you hard, she cuts you deep, she's got so much skill. She's so fascinating that you're still there waiting when she comes back for the kill. You've been slashed in the face, you've been left there to bleed. You want to run away but you know you're gonna stay cause she gives you what you need. Then she says she wants affection while she searches for the vein. She's so good with her stiletto, you don't really mind the pain, you don't really mind the pain. She cuts you out, she cuts you down, she carves up your life. But you won't do nothing as she keeps on cutting cause you know you love the knife. You've been bought, you've been sold, you've been locked outside the door. But you stand there pleading with your insides bleeding cause you deep down want some more. Then she says she wants affection while she searches for the vein. She's so good with her stiletto, you don't really mind the pain, you don't really mind the pain. Streetlife Serenader Streetlife serenader, never sang on stages. Needs no orchestration, melody comes easy. Midnight masquerader, shopping center heroes. Child of Eisenhower, New World celebrator. Streetlife serenaders have such understanding, how the words are spoken, how to make the motions. Streetlife serenaders have no obligations. Hold no grand illusions, need no stimulation. Midnight masqueraders, working hard for wages. Need no vast arrangements to do their harmonizing. Summer, Highland Falls 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, and I can only stand apart and sympathize. For we are always what our situations hand us, it's either sadness or euphoria. And so we argue and we 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 co-exists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria. How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies, perhaps we don't fulfill each other's fantasies. And so we'll stand upon the ledges of our lives with our respective similarities. It's either sadness or euphoria. Tell Her About It Listen boy, I don't want to see you let a good thing slip away. You know I don't like watching anybody make the same mistakes I made. She's a real nice girl and she's always there for you but a nice girl wouldn't tell you what you should do. Listen boy, I'm sure that you think you got it all under control. You don't want somebody telling you the way to stay in someone's soul. You're a big boy now and you'll never let her go. But that's just the kind of thing she ought to know. Tell her about it, tell her everything you feel. Give her every reason to accept that you're for real. Tell her about it, tell her all your crazy dreams. Let her know you need her, let her know how much she means. Listen boy, it's not automatically a certain guarantee. To insure yourself, you've got to provide communication constantly. When you love someone, you always insecure and there's only one good way to reassure. Tell her about it, let her know how much you care. When she can't be with you, tell her you wish you were there. Tell her about it every day before you leave. Pay her some attention, give her something to believe. Cause now and then she'll get to worrying just because you haven't spoken for so long. Though you may not have done anything, will that be a consolation when she's gone? Listen boy, it's good information from a man who's made mistakes. Just a word or two that she gets from you could be the difference that it makes. She's a trusting soul, she's put her trust in you. But a girl like that won't tell you what you should do Tell her about it, tell her everything you feel. Give her every reason to accept that you're for real. Tell her about it, tell her all your crazy dreams. Let her know you need her, let her know how much she means. Tell her about it, tell her how you feel right now, tell her about it, the girl don't want to wait too long. You got to tell her about it, tell her now and you won't go wrong. You got to tell her about it, before it gets too late, you got to tell her about it, you know the girl don't want to wait, you got to tell her about it… The Ballad of Billy the Kid From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand. And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time east and west of the Rio Grande. Well, he started with a bank in Colorado. In the pocket of his vest, a Colt he hid. And his age and his size took the teller by surprise and the word spread of Billy the Kid. Well, he never traveled heavy, yes, he always rode alone and he soon put many older guns to shame. And he never had a sweetheart and he never had a home but the cowboy and the rancher knew his name. Well, he robbed his way from Utah to Oklahoma and the law just could not seem to track him down. And it served his legend well, for the folks, they'd love to tell about when Billy the Kid came to town. Well, one cold day a posse captured Billy and the judge said, "String him up for what he did." And the cowboys and their kin like the sea came pouring in to watch the hanging of Billy the Kid. Well, he never traveled heavy, yes, he always rode alone and he soon put many older guns to shame. And he never had a sweetheart but he finally found a home underneath the boot hill grave that bears his name. From a town known as Oyster Bay, Long Island rode a boy with a six-pack in his hand. And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time east and west of the Rio Grande. The Downeaster "Alexa" Well I'm on the Downeaster "Alexa" and I'm cruising through Rock Island Sound. I have chartered a course to the Vineyard but tonight I am Nantucket bound. We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday and left this morning from the bell in Gardner's Bay. Like all the locals here, I've had to sell my home. Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone so I could own my Downeaster "Alexa" and I go where the ocean is deep. There are giants out there in the canyons and a good captain can't fall asleep. I've got bills to pay and children who need clothes. I know there's fish out there but where, God only knows. They say these waters aren't what they used to be but I've got people back on land who count on me so if you see my Downeaster "Alexa" and if you work with the rod and the reel, tell my wife I am trolling Atlantis and I still have my hands on the wheel. Now I drive my Downeaster "Alexa," more and more miles from shore every year. Since they told me I can't sell no stripers and there's no luck in swordfishing here. I was a bayman like my father was before. Can't make a living as a bayman anymore. There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, but there ain't no island left for islanders like me. The Entertainer I am the entertainer and I know just where I stand, another serenader and another long-haired band. Today I am your champion, I may have won your hearts, but I know the game, you'll forget my name and I won't be here in another year if I don't stay on the charts. I am the entertainer and I've had to pay my price. The things I did not know at first, I learned by doing twice. Ah, but still they come to haunt me, still they want their say. So I've learned to dance with a hand in my pants, I let 'em rub my neck and I write 'em a check and they go their merry way. I am the entertainer, been all around the world. I've played all kinds of palaces and laid all kinds of girls. I can't remember faces, I don't remember names. Ah, but what the hell, you know it's just as well cause after a while and a thousand miles, it all becomes the same. I am the entertainer, I bring to you my songs. I'd like to spend a day or two but I can't stay that long. No, I've got to meet expenses, I got to stay in line. Gotta get those fees to the agencies and I'd love to stay but there's bills to pay so I just don't have the time. I am the entertainer, I come to do my show. You've heard my latest record spin on the radio. Ah, it took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life. It was a beautiful song but it ran too long, If you're gonna have a hit, you gotta make it fit so they cut it down to 3:05. I am the entertainer, the idol of my age. I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage. Ah, you've seen me in the papers, I've been in the magazines. But if I go cold I won't get sold, I'll get put in the back in the discount rack like another can of beans. I am the entertainer and I know just where I stand, another serenader and another long-haired band. Today I am your champion, I may have won your hearts, but I know the game, you'll forget my name and I won't be here in another year if I don't stay on the charts. The Great Suburban Showdown Flying east on a plane, drinking all that free champagne, I guess I saw this coming down the line. And I know it should be fun but I think I should've packed my gun, got that old suburban showdown in my mind. Sit around with the folks, tell the same old tired jokes, bored to death on Sunday afternoon. Mom and Dad, me and you and the outdoor barbecue, think I'm gonna hide out in my room. I've been gone for a while, made some changes in my style and they say you can't go home anymore. Well, the streets all look the same and I'll have to play the game. We'll all sit around in the kitchen chairs with the TV on and the neighbors there. Out in the yard where my Daddy worked so hard, he never lets the crab grass grow too high. Oh, the place hasn't changed and that's why I'm gonna feel so strange but I'll have to face the music bye and bye. I've been gone for a while, made some changes in my style and they say you can't go home anymore. Well, the streets all look the same and I'll have to play the game. We'll all sit around in the kitchen chairs with the TV on and the neighbors there. I’ll drive into town when this big bird touches down. I'm only coming home to say goodbye. Then I'm gone with the wind and I won't be seen again till that great suburban showdown in the sky, till that great suburban showdown in the sky. The Longest Time Oh, oh, oh, for the longest time. Oh, oh, oh, for the longest time. If you said goodbye to me tonight, there would still be music left to write. What else could I do? I'm so inspired by you. That hasn't happened for the longest time. Once I thought my innocence was gone. Now I know that happiness goes on. That's where you found me, when you put your arms around me. I haven't been there for the longest time. Oh, oh, oh, for the longest time. Oh, oh, oh, for the longest. I'm that voice you're hearing in the hall and the greatest miracle of all is how I need you and how you needed me too. That hasn't happened for the longest time. Maybe this won't last very long. But you feel so right, I could be wrong. Maybe I've been hoping too hard. I've gone this far and it's more than I hoped for. Who knows how much further we'll go on? Maybe I'll be sorry when you're gone. I'll take my chances, I forgot how nice romance is. I haven't been there for the longest time. I had second thoughts at the start. I said to myself, hold on to your heart. Now I know the woman that you are. You're wonderful so far and it's more than I hoped for. I don't care what consequence it brings. I have been a fool for lesser things. I want you so bad, I think you ought to know that I intend to hold you for the longest time. Oh, oh, oh, for the longest time. Oh, oh, oh, for the longest time… The River of Dreams In the middle of the night, I go walking in my sleep from the mountains of faith to a river so deep. I must be looking for something, something sacred I lost but the river is wide and it's too hard to cross. And even though I know the river is wide, I walk down every evening and I stand on the shore. And try to cross to the opposite side so I can finally find out what I've been looking for. In the middle of the night, I go walking in my sleep through the valley of fear to a river so deep. And I've been searching for something taken out of my soul, something I would never lose, something somebody stole. I don't know why I go walking at night but now I'm tired and I don't want to walk anymore. I hope it doesn't take the rest of my life until I find what it is that I've been looking for. In the middle of the night, I go walking in my sleep through the jungle of doubt to a river so deep. I know I'm searching for something, something so undefined that it can only be seen by the eyes of the blind in the middle of the night. I'm not sure about a life after this, God knows I've never been a spiritual man. Baptized by the fire, I wade into the river that runs to the promised land. In the middle of the night, I go walking in my sleep though the desert of truth to the river so deep. We all end in the ocean, we all start in the streams, we're all carried along by the river of dreams in the middle of the night. The Stranger Well, we all have a face that we hide away forever and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone. Some are satin some are steel, some are silk and some are leather. They're the faces of the stranger but we love to try them on. Well we all fall in love but we disregard the danger. Though we share so many secrets, there are some we never tell. Why were you so surprised that you never saw the stranger? Did you ever let your lover see the stranger in yourself? Don't be afraid to try again, everyone goes south every now and then. You've done it, why can't someone else? You should know by now, you've been there yourself. Once I used to believe I was such a great romancer, then I came home to a woman that I could not recognize. When I pressed her for a reason, she refused to even answer. It was then I felt the stranger kick me right between the eyes. Well we all fall in love but we disregard the danger. Though we share so many secrets, there are some we never tell. Why were you so surprised that you never saw the stranger? Did you ever let your lover see the stranger in yourself? Don't be afraid to try again, everyone goes south every now and then. You've done it, why can't someone else? You should know by now, you've been there yourself. You may never understand how the stranger is inspired, but he isn't always evil and he isn't always wrong. Though you drown in good intentions, you will never quench the fire. You'll give in to your desire when the stranger comes along. This Is The Time We walked on the beach beside that old hotel. They're tearing it down now but it's just as well. I haven't shown you everything a man can do. So stay with me baby, I've got plans for you. This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold on to, cause we won't although we'll want to. This is the time but time is gonna change. You've given me the best of you but now I need the rest of you. Did you know that before you came into my life, it was some kind of miracle that I survived. Some day we will both look back and have to laugh. We lived through a lifetime and the aftermath. This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold on to, cause we won't although we'll want to. This is the time but time is gonna change. I know we've got to move somehow but I don't want to lose you know. Sometimes it's so easy to let a day slip on by without even seeing each other at all. But this is the time you'll turn back and so will I and those will be the days you can never recall. And so we embrace again behind the dunes. This beach is cold on winter afternoons. Oh, but holding you close is like holding the summer sun. I'm warm from the memory of days to come. This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold on to, cause we won't although we'll want to. This is the time but time is gonna change. You've given me the best of you but now I need the rest of you. To Make You Feel My Love (Dylan) When the rain is blowing in your face and the whole world is on your case, I could offer you a warm embrace to make you feel my love. When the evening shadows and stars appear and there is no one there to dry your tears, I could hold you for a million years to make you feel my love. I know you haven't made your mind up yet but I would never do you wrong. I've known it from the moment that we met, no doubt in my mind where you belong. I'd go hungry, I'd go black and blue, I'd go crawling down the avenue. There's nothing that I wouldn't do to make you feel my love. There's times I'm raging on a rolling sea and on the highway of regret. And winds of change and blowing wild and free, you ain't seen nothing like me yet. I could make you happy, make your dreams come true, there's nothing that I would not do. Go to the ends of the Earth for you to make you feel my love. There is nothing that I wouldn't do to make you feel my love. Tomorrow Is Today I've been living for the moment but I just can't have my way and I'm afraid to go to sleep cause tomorrow is today. People tell me life is sweeter but I don't hear what they say. Nothing comes to change my life so tomorrow is today. I don't care to know the hour cause it's passing anyway. I don't have to see tomorrow cause I saw it yesterday. So I listen for and answer but the feeling seems to stay and what's the use of always dreaming if tomorrow is today. Still I'm waiting for the morning but it feels so far away. And you don't need the love I'm giving so tomorrow is today. Oh, Ma, I'm going to the river. Gonna take a ride and the Lord will deliver me. Made my bed, now I'm gonna lie in it. If you don't come, I'm sure gonna die in it. Too late, too much giving, I've seen a lot of life and I'm damn sick of living it. I keep hoping that you will pass my way. And some day if your dreams are leaving you, I'll still believe in you. I don't care to know the hour cause it's passing anyway. I don't have to see tomorrow cause I saw it yesterday. Though I'm living and I'm singing and although my hands still play, soon enough it will all be over cause tomorrow is today. Travellin' Prayer Hey Lord, take a look all around and find where my baby's gonna be. Hey Lord, would you look out for her tonight cause she is far across the sea. Hey Lord, would you look out for her tonight and make sure that she's gonna be all right and things are gonna be all right with me. Hey Lord, would you look out for her tonight and make sure that all her dreams are sweet. Said now, would you guide her on the roads and make them softer for her feet. Hey Lord, would you look out for her tonight and make sure that she's gonna be all right until she's home and here with me. Hey, Lord would you look out for her tonight if she is sleeping under the sky. Said now, make sure the ground she's sleeping on is always warm and dry. Oo, don'tcha give her too much rain, try to keep her away from pain because my baby hates to cry. Hey Lord, would you look out for her tonight cause it gets rough along the way. Said now, this song seems strange is just because I don't know how to pray. Oo, won'tcha give her peace of mind and if you ever find the time, won'tcha tell her I miss her everyday. Hey Lord, take a look all around and find where my baby's gonna be. Hey Lord, would you look out for her tonight cause she is far across the sea. Hey Lord, would you look out for her tonight and make sure that she's gonna be all right and things are gonna be all right with me. With me. Turn Around Oh, sweet lady, running like a stream, you don't look back because you know your hands are clean. You make believe the past was just a dream, you make believe the past was just a dream. Turn around, turn around and I will sing for you a song. I don't know where you been but you've been gone too long. Oh, Elisa, you must begin again and all the roads that you have walked are coming to an end. I was your lover but I thought I was your friend, I loved you but I thought I was your friend. Turn around, turn around and I will sing for you a song. I don't know where you been but you've been gone too long. Oh, sweet lady, stand beside the sea, maybe you will find a little time to think of me. Won't you please remember what I tried so hard to be, yeah, remember what I tried so hard to be. Turn around, turn around and I will sing for you a song. I don't know where you been but you've been gone too long. Uptown Girl Uptown girl, she's been living in her uptown world. I bet she never had a back street guy, I bet her mama never told her why. I'm gonna try for an uptown girl. She's been living in her white bread world as long as anyone with hot blood can and now she's looking for a downtown man, that's what I am. And when she knows what she wants from her time, and when she wakes up and makes up her mind, she'll see I'm not so tough just because I'm in love with an uptown girl. You know I've seen her in her uptown world. She's getting tired of her high-class toys and all her presents from her uptown boys, she's got a choice. Uptown girl, you know I can't afford to buy her pearls. But maybe someday when my ship comes in she'll understand what kind of guy I've been and then I'll win. And when she's walking, she's looking so fine. And when she's talking, she'll say that she's mine. She'll say, I'm not so tough just because I'm in love with and uptown girl. She's been living in her white bread world as long as anyone with hot blood can and now she's looking for a downtown man, that's what I am. Uptown girl, she's my uptown girl. Don't you know I'm in love with an uptown girl, my uptown girl, don't you know I'm in love with an uptown girl, my uptown girl... Vienna Slow down you crazy child, you're so ambitious for a juvenile but then if you're so smart, tell me why are you are 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. When will you realize? Vienna waits for you. Slow down you're doing fine, you can't be everything you want to be before your time although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight. Too bad but it's the life you lead, you're so ahead of yourself that you forget what you need though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right. You've got your passion, you've got your pride, but don't you know only fools are satisfied? Dream on but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize? Vienna waits for you. Slow down you crazy child, take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while. It's all right, you can afford to lose a day or two. When will you realize? Vienna waits for you. 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. When will you realize? Vienna waits for you. When will you realize? Vienna waits for you. We Didn't Start the Fire Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio. Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television, North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe. Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom, Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye." Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen, Marciano, Liberace, Santayouna goodbye. We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire, no we didn't light it but we tried to fight it. Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev, Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc. Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron, Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock," Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team, Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland. Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev, Princess Grace, "Peyton Place," trouble in the Suez. We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire, no we didn't light it but we tried to fight it. Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac, Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai." Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball, Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide. Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia. Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go. U-2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy. Chubby Checker, "Psycho," Belgians in the Congo. We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire, no we didn't light it but we tried to fight it. Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land," Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion. "Lawrence of Arabia," British Beatlemania, Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson. Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex, JFK blown away, what else do I have to say? We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire, no we didn't light it but we tried to fight it. Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again. Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock. Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline, Ayoutollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan. "Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide, foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz. Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law, rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore. We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire, but when we are gone, will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on... Why Judy Why Of all the people in the world that I know, you're the best place to go when I cry, when I cry. I never asked for much before, not before. Things are changed, I need more tell me why, Judy, why? I never thought that she would say, say goodbye, but she did and now I wanna die, I wanna die. I never thought that I would need, need a friend, oh, but I did, in the end. Tell me why, Judy, why Oh, what a scene, it's wrong for her to hang me up this way. Oh, where you been? Cause it's so hard to make it through the day. A man my age is very young, so I'm told. Why do I feel so old? Tell me why, Judy, why? Oh, what a scene, it's wrong for her to hang me up this way. Oh, where you been? Cause it's so hard to make it through the day. There's no tomorrow 'cause my dreams did not last so I live in the past. Tell me why, Judy, why? Tell me why, Judy, why? Oh, tell me why, Judy, why? You May Be Right Friday night I crashed your party, Saturday I said I'm sorry, Sunday came and trashed me out again. I was only having fun, wasn't hurting anyone and we all enjoyed the weekend for a change. I've been stranded in the combat zone, I walked through Bedford-Stuy alone, even rode my motorcycle in the rain. And you told me not to drive but I made it home alive so you said that only proves that I'm insane. You may be right, I may be crazy but it just may be a lunatic you're looking for. Turn out the light, don't try to save me. You may be wrong for all I know, you may be right. Remember how I found you there, alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled. You were lonely for a man, I said take me as I am cause you might enjoy some madness for awhile. Now think of all the years you tried to find someone to satisfy you. I might be as crazy as you say. If I'm crazy then it's true that it's all because of you and you wouldn't want me any other way. You may be right, I may be crazy but it just may be a lunatic you're looking for. Turn out the light, don't try to save me. You may be wrong for all I know, you may be right. You may be right, I may be crazy but it just may be a lunatic you're looking for. Turn out the light, don't try to save me. You may be wrong for all I know, you may be right. You may be wrong but you may be right but you may be wrong but you may be right. You may be wrong but you may be right but you may be wrong but you may be right. You're My Home When you look into my eyes and you see the crazy gypsy in my soul, it always comes as a surprise when I feel my withered roots begin to grow. Well I never had a place that I could call my very own, that's all right, my love, cause you're my home. When you touch my weary head and you tell me everything will be all right, you say, "Use my body for your bed and my love will keep you warm throughout the night." Well I'll never be a stranger and I'll never be alone, whenever we're together, that's my home. Home can be the Pennsylvania Turnpike, Indiana's early morning dew, high up in the hills of California, home is just another word for you. Well, I never had a place that I could call my very own, but that's all right, my love, cause you're my home. If I travel all my life and I never get to stop and settle down, long as I have you by my side, there's a roof above and good walls all around. You're my castle, you're my cabin and my instant pleasure dome, I need you in my house cause you're my home. You're my home. You're Only Human (Second Wind) You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good. You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's all right, it's all right, sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human, you're allowed to make your share of mistakes. You better believe there will be times in your life when you'll be feeling like a stumbling fool. So take it from me you'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school. Don't forget your second wind. Sooner or later you'll get your second wind. It's not always easy to be living in this world of pain. You're gonna be crashing into stone walls again and again. It's all right, it's all right, though you feel your heart break. You're only human, you're gonna have to deal with heartache. Just like a boxer in a title fight, you got to walk in that ring all alone. You're not the only one who's made mistakes but they're the only thing that you can truly call your own. Don't forget your second wind. Wait in that corner until that breeze blows in. You've been keeping to yourself these days cause you're thinking everything's gone wrong. Sometimes you just want to lay down and die, that emotion can be so strong but hold on till that old second wind comes along. You probably don't want to hear advice from someone else but I wouldn't be telling you if I hadn't been there myself. It's all right, it's all right, sometimes that's all it takes. We're only human, we're supposed to make mistakes. I survived all those long lonely days when it seemed I did not have a friend. Cause all I needed was a little faith so I could catch my breath and face the world again. Don't forget your second wind, sooner or later you'll feel that momentum kick in. Don't forget your second wind, sooner or later you'll feel that momentum kick in. Don't forget your second wind, don't forget your second wind... Zanzibar Ali dances and the audience applauds. Though he's bathed in sweat, he hasn't lost his style. Ali, don't you go downtown, you gave away another round for free. Me, I'm just another face at Zanzibar but the waitress always serves a secret smile. She's waiting out in Shantytown, she's gonna pull the curtains down for me, for me. I've got the old man's car, I've got a jazz guitar, I've got a tab at Zanzibar tonight, that's where I'll be, I'll be. Rose, he knows he's such a credit to the game but the Yankees grab the headlines every time. Melodrama's so much fun in black and white for everyone to see. Me, I'm trying just to get to second base and I'd steal it if she only gave the sign. She's gonna give the go ahead, the inning isn't over yet for me, for me. I've got the old man's car, I've got a jazz guitar, I've got a tab at Zanzibar tonight, that's where I'll be, I'll be. Tell the waitress I'll come back to Zanzibar, I'll be hiding in the darkness with my beer. She's waiting out in Shantytown, she's gonna pull the curtains down for me, for me. I've got the old man's car, I've got a jazz guitar, I've got a tab at Zanzibar tonight, that's where I'll be, I'll be. |