Tuesday, January 3, 2012

TFT: Billy Joel


 Link: [Billy Joel]

Not every song that will be featured here will be what is generally considered as being “Christian” in the eyes of this world.  For some will be anguished cries from the pit of despair, and others will be quite obviously ferverent rants of rebellion.  Nonetheless, be assured that they will all be of our Heavenly Father (in one way or another) and I hope that you have been given ears to hear the message.


Piano Man
Billy Joel
It's nine o'clock on a Saturday
The regular crowd shuffles in
There's an old man sittin’ next to me
Makin’ love to his tonic and gin
He says
Son can you play me a memory
I'm not really sure how it goes
But it's sad and it's sweet
And I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man's clothes

Lah lah lah
Diddy lah lah
Lah lah
Diddy lah
Di lah

Sing us a song
You're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feelin’ all-right

Now John at the bar is a friend of mine
He gets me my drinks for free
And he's quick with a joke
Or to light up your smoke
But there's someplace that he'd rather be
He says
Bill I believe this is killin’ me
As a smile ran away from his face
Well I'm sure that I could be a movie star
If I could get out of this place

Oh lah lah
Diddy lah lah
Lah lah
Diddy lah
Di lah

Now Paul is a real estate novelist
Who never had time for a wife
And he's talking with Davy
Who's still in the Navy
And probably will be for life
And the waitress is practicin’ politics
As the businessmen slowly get stoned
Yes they're sharin’ a drink they call loneliness
But it's better than drinkin’ alone

Sing us a song
You're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feeling all-right

It's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday
And the manager gives me a smile
'Cause he knows that it's me
They've been comin’ to see
To forget about life for a while
And the piano sounds like a carnival
And the microphone smells like a beer
And they sit at the bar
And put bread in my jar
And say
Man what are you doing here

Oh lah lah
Diddy lah lah
Lah lah
Diddy lah
Di lah

Sing us a song
You're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feeling all-right

 Link: [On YouTube]

We Didn’t Start The Fire
Billy Joel
Harry Truman
Doris Day
Red China
Johnny 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
Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burnin’
Since the world's been turnin’
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
Khrushchev
Princess Grace
Peyton Place
Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burnin’
Since the world's been turnin’
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
Charles de Gaulle
California baseball
Starkwether
Homicide
Children of Thalidomide

Buddy Holly
Ben Hur
Space Monkey
Mafia
Hula Hoops
Castro
Edsel is a no-go
U2
Syngman Rhee
Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker
Psycho
Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burnin’
Since the world's been turnin’
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway
Eichman
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
J.F.K.
Blown away
What else do I have to say

We didn't start the fire
It was always burnin’
Since the world's been turnin’
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
Ayatollah'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 burnin’
Since the world's been turnin’
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on
And on
And on
And on
And on
And on
And on
And on

We didn't start the fire
It was always burnin’
Since the world's been turnin’
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fire
It was always burnin’
Since the world's been turnin’
We didn't start the fire

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14 comments:

  1. Billy Joel is another one you can feature as often as you like. Love his songs.

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  2. "There's an old man sittin’ next to me... Makin’ love to his tonic and gin"

    Ewwww....

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  3. Thanks for stopping by again, my dear Adullamite!!! Well, it's about time! (It probably won't last--will it?)

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  4. Thanks for stopping by again, my dear Ann!!! Yeah, he has had A LOT of truly great songs, but still, I really feel for the boy.

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  5. Thanks for stopping by again, my dear TRFKALD!!! I have been there.

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  6. Yea, Billy Joel...my but your taste in music is improving lately!

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  7. Thanks for stopping by again, my dear Grace!!! Is your hair-net on too tight again?

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  8. But you know what, after all is said and done, Billy Joel DID start the fire after all. All of it is his fault alone.

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  9. Thanks for stopping by again, my dear RN.

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  10. I don't honestly get the references to hair-nets. I know what they are, never owned one and aside from cafeteria workers - who wears them and why?

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  11. Thanks for stopping by again, my dear Grace!!! The hair-net crack is in reference to my question about whether a hair-net and a case of Depends would do as a replacement for a tiara and a cape on one of your pieces.

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  12. Yeah, I didn't get the hair net reference on that either...

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  13. I will try harder next time, my dear Grace.

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