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Songs in the Attic
by Billy Joel
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3.1191
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3.2000
Songs in the Attic Lyrics
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- Seen the lights go out on broadway
- I saw the Empire State laid low
- And life went on beyond the Palisades
- They all bought Cadillacs
- And left there long ago
- They held a concert out in Brooklyn
- To watch the island bridges blow
- They turned our power down
- And drove us underground
- But we went right on with the show
- I've seen the lights go out on Broadway
- I saw the ruins at my feet
- You know we almost didn't notice it
- We'd seen it all time on Forty-second Street
- They burned the chuches up in Harlem
- Like in the Spanish civil war
- The flames were ev'rywhere
- But no one really cared
- It always burned up there before
- I've seen the lights go out on Broadway
- I watched the mighty skyline fall
- The boats were waiting at the battery
- The union went on strike
- They never sailed at all
- They sent a carrier out from Norfolk
- And picked the Yankees up for free
- They said that Queens could stay
- And blew the Bronx away
- And sank Manhattan out at sea
- You know those lights were bright on Broadway
- That was so many years ago
- Before we all lived here in Florida
- Before the Mafia took over Mexico
- There are not many who remember
- They say a handful still survive
- To tell the world about
- The way the lights went out
- And keep the memory alive
- They say that these are not the best of times
- But they're the only time I've ever known
- And I believe there is a time for meditation
- In cathedrals of your own
- Now I've seen that sad surrender in my lover's eyes
- And I can only stand apart and sympathize
- For we are always what our situations hand us
- It's either sadness or euphoria
- So we'll argue and we'll compromise
- And realize that nothing's ever changed
- For all our mutual experience
- Our separate conclusions are the same
- Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity
- And reason coexist with our insanity
- And our reason coexist with our insanity
- It's either sadness or euphoria
- How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies
- Perhaps we don't fulfill each other's fantasies
- And as we stand upon the ledges of our lives
- With our respective similarities
- It's either sadness or euphoria
- Streetlife serenader
- Never sang on stages
- Needs no orchestration
- Melody comes easy
- Midnight masquerader
- Shoppin' center heroes
- Child of Eisenhower
- New world celebrator
- Streetlife serenaders
- Have such understanding
- How the words are spoken
- How to make the motions
- Streetlife serenaders
- Have no obligations
- Hold no grand illusions
- Need no stimulation
- Midnight masqueraders
- Workin' hard for wages
- Nedd no vast arrangement
- To do their harmonizing
- Los Angelenos
- All come from somewhere
- To live in sunshine
- Their funky exile
- Midwestern ladies
- High-heeled and faded
- Drivin' sleek new sports cars
- With their New York cowboys
- Hiding up in the mountains
- Laying low in the canyons
- Goin' nowhere on the streets
- With the Spanish names
- Makin' love with the natives
- In their Hollywood places
- Making up for all the time gone by
- Los Angelenos
- All come from somewhere
- Cuz it's all so easy
- To become acquainted
- Electric babies
- Blue-jeaned and jaded
- Such hot sweet schoolgirls
- So educated
- Tanning out in the beaches
- With their Mexican reefers
- No one ever has to feel
- Like a refugee
- Going into garages
- For exotic massages
- Making up for all the time gone by
- Hiding up in the mountains
- Laying low in the canyons
- Goin' nowhere on the streets
- With the Spanish names
- Makin' love with the natives
- In their Hollywood places
- Making up for all the time gone by
- Los Angelenos
- All come from somewhere
- It's so familiar
- Their foreign faces
- She's got a way about her
- I don't know what it is
- But I know that I can't live without her
- She's got a way of pleasin'
- I don't know what it is
- But there doesn't have to be a reason anywhere
- She's got a smile that heals me
- I don't know why it is
- But I have to laugh when she reveals me
- She's got a way of talkin'
- I don't know why it is
- But it lifts me up when we are walkin' anywhere
- She comes to me when I'm feelin' down
- Inspires me without a sound
- She touches me and I get turned around
- She's got a way of showin'
- How I make her feel
- And I found the strength to keep on goin'
- She's got a light around her
- And everywhere she goes
- A million dreams of love surround her everywhere
- She's got a smile that heals me
- Oh I don't know why it is
- But I have to laugh when she reveals me anyway
- Baby all the lights are turned on you
- Now you're in the center of the stage
- Ev'rything revolves on what you do
- Ah, you're in your prime
- You've come of age
- You can always have your way somehow
- 'Cause ev'rybody loves you now
- You can walk away from your mistakes
- You can turn your back on what you do
- Just a little smile is all it takes
- And you can have your cake and eat it too
- Loneliness will get to you somehow
- But ev'rybody loves you now
- Ah, they all want your white body
- And they await your reply
- Ah, but between you and me and the Staten Island ferry
- So do I
- All the people want to know your name
- Soon there will be lines outside your door
- Feelings do not matter in your game
- 'Cause nothing's gonna touch you anymore
- So your life is only living anyhow
- And ev'rybody loves you now
- Close your eyes when you don't want to see
- And stay at home when you don't want to go
- Only speak to those who will agree
- Yeah, and close your mind when you don't want to know
- You have lost your innocence somehow
- But ev'rybody loves you now
- Ah, you know that nothin' lasts forever
- And it's all been done before
- Ah but you ain't got the time
- To go to Cold Spring Harbour no more
- See how all the people gather around
- Hey, isn't it a thrill to see them crawl
- Keep your eyes ahead and don't look down
- Yeah, and lock yourself inside your sacred wall
- This is what you wanted, ain't you proud
- 'Cause ev'rybody loves you now
- Bobby's drivin' through the city tonight
- Through the lights in a hot new rent-a-car
- He joins the lovers in his heavy machine
- It's a scene down on Sunset Boulevard
- Say goodbye to Hollywood
- Say goodbye to my baby
- Say goodbye to Hollywood
- Say goodbye to my baby
- Johnny's takin' care of things for a while
- And his style is so right for troubadours
- They got him sitting with his back to the door
- Now he won't be my fast gun anymore
- Say goodbye to Hollywood
- Say goodbye to my baby
- Say goodbye to Hollywood
- Say goodbye to my baby
- Movin' on is a chance that you take
- Any time you try to stay together
- Whoa
- Say a word out of line
- And you find that the friends you had
- Are gone forever
- Forever
- So many faces in and out of my life
- Some will last
- Some will just be now and then
- Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes
- I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again
- Say goodbye to Hollywood
- Say goodbye to my baby
- Say goodbye to Hollywood
- Say goodbye to my baby
- Movin' on is a chance that you take
- Any time you try to stay together
- Whoa
- Say a word out of line
- And you find that the friends you had
- Are gone forever
- Forever
- So many faces in and out of my life
- Some will last
- Some will just be now and then
- Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes
- I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again
- Say goodbye to Hollywood
- Say goodbye to my baby
- Saturday night and you're still hangin' around
- Tired of livin' in your one-horse town
- Like to find a little hole in the ground
- For a while
- So you go to the village in your tie-dye jeans
- And you stare at the junkies and the closet queens
- It's just like some pornographic magazine
- And you smile
- Captain Jack will get you high tonight
- And take you to your special island
- Captain Jack will get you by tonight
- Just a little push and you'll be smilin'
- Your sister's gone out. She's on a date
- You just sit at home and masturbate
- The phone is gonna ring soon but you just can't wait
- For that call
- So you stand on the corner in you New English clothes
- And you look so polished from your hair down to your toes
- But still your finger's gonna pick your nose
- After all
- When you look into my eyes
- And you see the crazy gypsy in my soul
- It always comes as a surprise
- When I feel my withered roots begin to grow
- Well I never had a place that I could call my very own
- That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home
- When you touch my weary head
- And you tell me everything will be all right
- You say, "Use my body for your bed
- And my love will keep you warm throughout the night"
- Well I'll never be a stranger and I'll never be alone
- Whenever we're together, that's my home
- Home can be the Pennsylvania Turnpike
- Indiana's early morning dew
- High up in the hills of California
- Home is just another word for you
- Well I never had a place that I could call my very own
- That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home
- If I travel all my life
- And I never get to stop and settle down
- Long as I have you by my side
- There's a roof above and good walls all around
- You're my castle, you're my cabin and my instant pleasure dome
- I need you in my house 'cause you're my home.
- You're my home.
- From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia
- Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand
- And his daring life of crime
- Made him a legend in his time
- East and west of the Rio Grande
- Well, he started with a bank in Colorado
- In the pocket of his vest, a Colt he hid
- And his age and his size
- Took the teller by surprise
- And the word spread of Billy the Kid
- Well, he never traveled heavy
- Yes, he always rode alone
- And he soon put many older guns to shame
- And he never had a sweetheart
- And he never had a home
- But the cowboy and the rancher knew his name
- Well, he robbed his way from Utah to Oklahoma
- And the law just could not seem to track him down
- And it served his legend well
- For the folks, they'd love to tell
- 'Bout when Billy the Kid came to town
- Well, one cold day a posse captured Billy
- And the judge said, "String 'im up for what he did!"
- And the cowboys and their kin
- Like the sea came pourin' in
- To watch the hangin' of Billy the Kid
- Well, he never traveled heavy
- Yes, he always rode alone
- And he soon put many older guns to shame
- And he never had a sweetheart
- But he finally found a home
- Underneath the boothill grave that bears his name
- From a town known as Oyster Bay, Long Island
- Rode a boy with a six-pack in his hand
- And his daring life of crime
- Made him a legend in his time
- East and west of the Rio Grande
- Now we take our time, so nonchalant
- And spend our nights so bon vivant
- We dress our days in silken robes
- The money comes
- The money goes
- We know it's all a passing phase
- We light our lamps for atmosphere
- And hang our hopes on chandeliers
- We're going wrong, we're gaining weight
- We're sleeping long and far too late
- And so it's time to change our ways
- But I've loved these days
- Now as we indulge in things refined
- We hide our hearts from harder times
- A string of pearls, a foreign car
- Oh we can only go so far
- On caviar and cabernet
- We drown our doubts in dry champagne
- And soothe our souls with fine cocaine
- I don't know why I even care
- We'll get so high and get nowhere
- We'll have to change our jaded ways
- But I've loved these days
- So before we end and then begin
- We'll drink a toast to how it's been
- A few more hours to be complete
- A few more nights on satin sheets
- A few more times that I can say
- I've loved these days
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