I agree. This song is terrific. Nothing that you would want to influence on yourself, but a good song to express a mood of saddness in a cold, cold world when everything in your life is going wrong. Obviously Billy Joel has felt this before, because there would be no way to write songs with such close and intimate lyrics to express emotion. Like GoodOmens had said, Billy Joel once had his own band when he was younger, named Attila, which released one album self-titled back in 1970, and also he was going through a divorce. He tried to kill himself by comsuming furniture polish, which obviously failed, and that's great because we would have missed out of so many big hits if it were to be a success. There is even a song he wrote to help teenagers through suicidal thoughts, called You're Only Human (Second Wind). I encourage you to listen to it immediately after listening to this. You probably won't believe its from the same man!
I agree. This song is terrific. Nothing that you would want to influence on yourself, but a good song to express a mood of saddness in a cold, cold world when everything in your life is going wrong. Obviously Billy Joel has felt this before, because there would be no way to write songs with such close and intimate lyrics to express emotion. Like GoodOmens had said, Billy Joel once had his own band when he was younger, named Attila, which released one album self-titled back in 1970, and also he was going through a divorce. He tried to kill himself by comsuming furniture polish, which obviously failed, and that's great because we would have missed out of so many big hits if it were to be a success. There is even a song he wrote to help teenagers through suicidal thoughts, called You're Only Human (Second Wind). I encourage you to listen to it immediately after listening to this. You probably won't believe its from the same man!