| Billy Joel – She's Got A Way Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Absolutely a beautiful song. If you haven't heard the original cut (from the Cold Spring Harbor album), you should. I think it is way better than the version that gets airplay and is on GH1&2. It is a significantly younger Billy and you can hear his age in his voice. | |
| Billy Joel – She's Got A Way Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Absolutely a beautiful song. If you haven't heard the original cut (from the Cold Spring Harbor album), you should. I think it is way better than the version that gets airplay and is on GH1&2. It is a significantly younger Billy and you can hear his age in his voice. | |
| Billy Joel – Summer, Highland Falls Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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From Billy in the "To Make You Feel My Love" CD Single.... "The other song you asked about was 'Summer, Highland Falls.' I lived, actually, in a town--upstate New York, right on the Hudson, just below West Point--and it's called Highland Falls. And I lived there, and it was at a time when I was in a relationship where the bloom was off the rose, the honeymoon was over. And, you realize how disappointing it can be when you love somebody so much and then you're mean to each other and you do hurtful things to each other. It's all out of love, but it's that first understanding that all is not right. You either accept it and say, 'maybe we're not as perfect as we thought we were'--there's a certain disappointment, but there's also an acceptance. I was looking for one of those yin-yang kind of things." |
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| Billy Joel – Summer, Highland Falls Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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From Billy in the "To Make You Feel My Love" CD Single.... "The other song you asked about was 'Summer, Highland Falls.' I lived, actually, in a town--upstate New York, right on the Hudson, just below West Point--and it's called Highland Falls. And I lived there, and it was at a time when I was in a relationship where the bloom was off the rose, the honeymoon was over. And, you realize how disappointing it can be when you love somebody so much and then you're mean to each other and you do hurtful things to each other. It's all out of love, but it's that first understanding that all is not right. You either accept it and say, 'maybe we're not as perfect as we thought we were'--there's a certain disappointment, but there's also an acceptance. I was looking for one of those yin-yang kind of things." |
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| Billy Joel – Summer, Highland Falls Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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From Billy in the "To Make You Feel My Love" CD Single.... "The other song you asked about was 'Summer, Highland Falls.' I lived, actually, in a town--upstate New York, right on the Hudson, just below West Point--and it's called Highland Falls. And I lived there, and it was at a time when I was in a relationship where the bloom was off the rose, the honeymoon was over. And, you realize how disappointing it can be when you love somebody so much and then you're mean to each other and you do hurtful things to each other. It's all out of love, but it's that first understanding that all is not right. You either accept it and say, 'maybe we're not as perfect as we thought we were'--there's a certain disappointment, but there's also an acceptance. I was looking for one of those yin-yang kind of things." |
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| Billy Joel – Summer, Highland Falls Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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From Billy in the "To Make You Feel My Love" CD Single.... "The other song you asked about was 'Summer, Highland Falls.' I lived, actually, in a town--upstate New York, right on the Hudson, just below West Point--and it's called Highland Falls. And I lived there, and it was at a time when I was in a relationship where the bloom was off the rose, the honeymoon was over. And, you realize how disappointing it can be when you love somebody so much and then you're mean to each other and you do hurtful things to each other. It's all out of love, but it's that first understanding that all is not right. You either accept it and say, 'maybe we're not as perfect as we thought we were'--there's a certain disappointment, but there's also an acceptance. I was looking for one of those yin-yang kind of things." |
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| Billy Joel – And So It Goes Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I believe Billy wrote this song about Elle McPherson (unless I've mixed this song up with another). He dated her briefly before he met and married Christie Brinkley. That fits with the timing of having written it around the time of Innocent Man. | |
| Billy Joel – You're My Home Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I believe this was written as a present for Billy's first wife, Elizabeth (there is more info in the Songs in the Attic liner notes). I love the sentiment in the song, but I must admit that I hate the lyric "my instant pleasure dome." | |
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