Turn on all the Christmas lights
Cause baby's coming home tonight
I can hear her footsteps in the street
Turn the choral music higher
Pile more wood upon the fire

That should make the atmosphere complete
I've had to wait forever
But better late than never

She's just in time for me
She's right on time
She's right where she should be
She's right on time

I'm a man with so much tension
Far too many sins to mention
She don't have to take it anymore
But since she said she's coming home
I've torn out all my telephones
Soon she will be walking through that door
I may be going nowhere
But I don't mind if she's there

She's just in time for me
She's right on time
She's right where she should be
She's right on time

Left to my own device
I can always make believe
That there's nothing wrong
Still I will choose to live
In the complicated world
That we share for so long
Good or bad
Right or wrong

And it occurred to me
While I set up my Christmas tree
She never missed a cue
Or lost a beat
Every time I lost the meter
There sh1e was when I would need her
Greeting me with footsteps in the street
I guess I should have known it

She'd find the perfect moment
She's just in time for me
She's right on time
She's right where she should be
She's right on time

Turn the choral music higher
Pile more wood upon the fire
That will make the atmosphere complete
I've had to wait forever
But better late than never

She's just in time for me
She's right on time
She's right where she should be
She's right on time
She's right on time
She's right on time


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She's Right On Time Lyrics as written by Billy Joel

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    crdesg, thanks so much for phrasing what you said the way you did. As a freshman in band, I knew that the two lines you mentioned were musical references (as well as "She never missed a cue or lost a beat"), but I never put two and two together and realized that the actual title of the song has dual meanings: the more obvious one, that says "It's okay that she's coming back now, she's just in time for me, I don't mind that she left and came back," but also the more subtle, musically-referenced one: being in time, musically. So thanks for indirectly pointing that out, I never noticed that, but I think it's pretty cool. (:

    x_standstillon March 20, 2008   Link

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