| Billy Joel – Sleeping With The Television On Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I know it can't really be an interpretation, since the song came out two years before the show, but I'm surprised no one else has noted the similarities in this song to the television show "Cheers." The 'Diane' in the song could be 'Diane Chambers' as played by Shelley Long. The song's narrator could be one of two other characters: 'Sam Malone' (Ted Danson) or 'Frasier Crane' (Kelsey Grammer). The first half of the song sounds like Sam, telling Diane to relax her too-high standards or she'll end up alone. The second half (starting "This isn't easy for me to say Diane) is clearly the intellectual Frasier, worrying that Diane will only see him for his mind. ("I really wish I was less of a thinking man/ And more a fool who's not afraid of rejection.") Anyway, as I said, not an actual interpretation, just a fun comparison. |
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