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| Billy Joel – Captain Jack Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Joel came up with this in his apartment across from a housing development. He observed kids from the suburbs coming into the development to buy heroin from a dealer known as Captain Jack. The "push" is the pushing the needle with the heroin. The song is about a deadbeat 21 year old whose family is getting on with their life and he is still living at home, pushing heroin, and jacking off. It's NOT about drinking, or the private life of a teenager. It's about the life of a loser junkie and Joel said himself it's an anti-drug song. It's kind of a bummer but it's Billy Joel at his best. |
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