Billy Joel - The Stranger
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Release date: 30 November 1989
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- Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
- My Dream Is Yours
- The Stranger
- It's A Great Feeling
- Just The Way You Are
- Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
- Vienna
- Tea For Two
- Only The Good Die Young
- She's Always A Woman
- Get It Right The First Time
- Everybody Has A Dream
- I'll See You In My Dreams
- Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway) (Live Version)
- April In Paris
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Billy Joel - The Stranger Lyrics
Billy Joel - Miami 2017 Lyrics
I've seen the lights go out on Broadway,
I saw the Empire State laid low.
And life went on beyond the Palisades,
They all bought Cadillacs, and left there long ago.
Billy Joel - Movin Out Lyrics
Anthony works in the grocery store
Savin his pennies for some day
Mama Leone left a note on the door
She said "Sonny move out to the country"
Billy Joel - Angry Young Man Lyrics
There's a place in the world for the angry young man
With his working class ties and his radical plans
He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl
and he's always at home with his back to the wall.
He's proud of the scars and the battles he's lost
He struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross
And he likes to be known as the angry young man.
Give a moment or two to the angry young man
With his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand
He's been stabbed in the back, he's been misunderstood
It's a comfort to know his intentions are good
He sits in a room with a lock on the door
with his maps and his medals laid out of the floor
And he likes to be known as the angry young man.
I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage,
I've found that just surviving was a noble fight
I once believed in causes too, had my pointless point of view
Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
And there's always a place for the angry young man
With his fist in the air and his head in the sand
He's never been able to learn from mistakes
He can't understand why his heart always breaks
His honor is pure, and his courage as well
he's fair and he's true, and he's boring as hell
And he'll go to his grave as an angry old man.
There's a place in the world for the angry young man
With his working class ties and his radical plans
He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl
and he's always at home with his back to the wall.
He's proud of the scars and the battles he's lost
He struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross
And he likes to be known as the angry young man
Billy Joel - The Stranger Lyrics
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.
Billy Joel - Just The Way You Are Lyrics
Don't go changing to try and please me
You never let me down before
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore
Billy Joel - New York State Of Mind Lyrics
New York State of mind
Some folks like to get away,
Take a holiday from the neighborhood.
Hop a flight to Miami Beach or to Hollywood.
Billy Joel - Scenes From An Italian Restaurant Lyrics
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
Billy Joel - Vienna Lyrics
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?
Billy Joel - She's Got A Way Lyrics
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 pleasin'
I don't know why it is, but there doesn't have to be a reason anyway
Billy Joel - Only The Good Die Young Lyrics
Come out, Virginia-
Don't let me wait.
You Catholic girls start much too late.
Ah! But sooner or later it comes down to fate.
I might as well will be the one.
Well they showed you a statue-
Told you to pray.
They built you a temple and locked you away.
Ah! But they never told you the price it would pay.
The things that you might have done...
Only the good die young.
That's what I said!
Only the good die young.
Only the good die young...
You mighta heard I run with a dangerous crowd.
We ain't too pretty, we ain't too proud.
We might be laughin' a bit too loud.
Ah! But that never hurt no one...
So come on Virginia!
Show me a sign-
Send up a signal; I'll throw you a line.
The stained glass curtain you're hidin' behind-
Never lets in the sun...
Darlin' only the good die young!
Oh woe woe woe woe!
I tell ya only the good die young.
Only the good die young...
You got a nice white dress and a party on your confirmation!
You've got a brand new soul.
Mmm, and a cross of gold.
But Virginia they didn't give you quite enough information!
You didn't count on me-
When you were counting on your rosary.
Oh woe woe!
And they say there's a Heaven,
And those who will wait.
And some say it's better,
But I say it ain't!
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
The sinners are much more fun...
You know that only the good die young!
Oh woe woe baby bay!
I tell ya only the good die young!
Only the good die young...
Said your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation!
Ah! She never cared for me.
But did she ever say a prayer for me?
Oh woe woe!
Come out, come out, come out!
Virginia don't let me wait!
You Catholic girls start much too late!
Sooner or later it comes down to fate.
I might as well will be the one...
You know that only the good die young!
Tell ya baby!
You know that only the good die young!
Only the good die young.
Only the gooood!
Only the good die young.
Oo oo oooo
Oo!
Oo oo oo oo
Oooo oo!
Oo oo oo
Oo!
Oo oo oo oo
Oooo oo!
Oo oo oooo
Oo!
Oo oo oo oo
Oooo oo!
Only the good die young!
Only the good die young...
Billy Joel - Entertainer Lyrics
I am the entertainer and I know just where I stand
Another serenader and another longhaired band
Today I am your champion, I may have won your hearts
But I know the game, you'll forget my name
Billy Joel - Always a Woman Lyrics
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
Billy Joel - Get It Right The First Time Lyrics
I don't believe in first impressions
For just this once I hope that looks don't deceive
I ain't got time for true confessions
I've got to make the move right now
Billy Joel - Everybody Has A Dream Lyrics
While in these days of quiet desperation
As I wander through the world in which I live
I search everywhere for some new inspiration
But it's more than cold reality can give
Billy Joel - Captain Jack Lyrics
Saturday night and you're still hangin' around
Tired of living in your one horse town
you'd like to find a little hole in the ground,
for awhile..
Billy Joel - I've Loved These Days Lyrics
Now we take our time, so nonchalant
And spend our nights so bon vivant
We dress our days in silken robes
The money comes
Billy Joel - Say Goodbye To Hollywood Lyrics
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-
Billy Joel - Souvenir Lyrics
A picture postcard
A folded stub
A program of the play
File away your photographs
