She's Right On Time Lyrics

Lyric discussion by x_standstill 

Cover art for She's Right On Time lyrics by Billy Joel

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. (:

But it has yet another meaning...it's a sexual metaphor as well..."And it occured to me, as I put up my Christmas tree, she never missed a cue or lost a beat." Very phallic I'd say.