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Running On Ice Lyrics
There's a lot of tension in this town
I know it's building up inside of me
I've got all the symptoms and the side effects
Of city life anxiety
I could never understand why the urban attitude
Is so superior
In a world of high rise ambition
Most people's motives are ulterior
Sometimes I feel as though I'm running on ice
Paying the price too long
Kind of get the feeling that I'm running on ice
Where did my life go wrong
I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate
Of culture and intelligence
The culmination of technology
And civilized experience
But I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk
A modern man accumulates
I'm a statistic in a system
That a civil servant dominates
And all that means is that I'm running on ice
Caught in a vise so strong
I'm slipping and sliding, cause I'm running on ice
Where did my life go wrong
You've got to run
You've got to run
As fast as I can climb
A new disaster every time I turn around
As soon as I get one fire put out
There's another building burning down
They say this highway's going my way
But I don't know where it's taking me
It's a bad waste, a sad case, a rat race
It's breaking me
I get no traction cause I'm running on ice
It's taking me twice as long
I get a bad reaction cause I'm running on ice
Where did my life go wrong
You've got to run
You've got to run
Running on ice
Running on ice
Running on ice
I know it's building up inside of me
I've got all the symptoms and the side effects
Of city life anxiety
Is so superior
In a world of high rise ambition
Most people's motives are ulterior
Paying the price too long
Kind of get the feeling that I'm running on ice
Where did my life go wrong
Of culture and intelligence
The culmination of technology
And civilized experience
A modern man accumulates
I'm a statistic in a system
That a civil servant dominates
Caught in a vise so strong
I'm slipping and sliding, cause I'm running on ice
Where did my life go wrong
You've got to run
A new disaster every time I turn around
As soon as I get one fire put out
There's another building burning down
But I don't know where it's taking me
It's a bad waste, a sad case, a rat race
It's breaking me
It's taking me twice as long
I get a bad reaction cause I'm running on ice
Where did my life go wrong
You've got to run
Running on ice
Running on ice
Running on ice
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someones a little stressed eh? haha I love him
This song shows Billy Joel's skills to the most, frantic music, electric lyrics, genius in an ambitious piano demo, voice ad hoc. Of course is the perfect show off of part of his Jekyll/Joel/Hyde/Martin personality full of up and downs. He gets so high (I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence the culmination of technology and civilized experience) that you don't want to be around when he is going down. But such enormous gifted talent is that way. Again: one day will come when Billy Joel will be put to altars. And many will say: I saw him first.