Тексты песен BILLY JOEL

They say it takes a lot to keep a love alive: In every heart there pumps a different beat But if we shift the rhythm into overdrive, We could generate a lot of heat.... CHORUS On 52nd Street On 52n

It's been a hard day's night And I've been working like a dog It's been a hard day's night I should be sleeping like a log But when I get home to you I find the things that you do Will make me feel al

Some love is just a lie of the heart The cold remains of what began with a passionate start And they may not want it to end But it will it's just a question of when I've lived long enough t

Some days I have to give right in to the blues Despite how I try to keep fightin' It's a sure shot I'm going to lose And I'll tell you why You think I'm crazy It's such

You've got diamonds and I've got spades You've got pills And I've got razor blades You've got yoga honey I've got beer You got overpriced And I got weird But it's a

pening: You got to open your eyes in the morning, Nine o'clock comin' without any warnin' And you gotta get ready to go. You say you went out late last evenin' Did a lot of drink

She waits for me at night, she waits for me in silence She gives me all her tenderness and takes away my pain And so far she hasn't run, though I swear she's had her moments She still belie

-- Billy Joel She stood on the tracks Waving her arms Leading me to that third rail shock Quick as a wink She changed her mind She gave me a night That's all it was What will it take until I s

Oh baby, you don't get turned on by the radio. Oh baby, you got nothing to play on your stereo. "Why don't the Beatles get back together?" "Why don't nobody sing of roma

Well we're living here in Allentown And they're closing all the factories down Out in Bethlehem they're killing time Filling out forms Standing in line Well our fathers fought the Seco

Some people stay far away from the door If there's a chance of it opening up They hear a voice in the hall outside And hope that it just passes by Some people live with the fear of a touch And

Late at night When it's dark and cold I reach out For someone to hold When I'm blue When I'm lonely She comes through She's the only one who can My baby grand Is all I need In my

Why can't I lay low Why can't I say what I mean Why don't I stay home And get myself into some boring routine Why can't I calm down Why is it always a fight I can't get unwo

You went uptown riding in your limousine In your fine Park Avenue clothes You had the Dom Perignon in your hand And the spoon up your nose And when you wake up in the morning With your head on fire A

Some days when I'm far away In a lonely room in a cold seclusion Some nights when I'm wound so tight There is no release, there is no solution In hell there's a big hotel Where the bar

Here I am again In this smoky place With my brandy eyes I'm talking to myself You were the one You were the one Here I go again Looking for your face And I realize That I should look for someone else

Careless talk That's what you heard about me Jealous talk That's what I heard about you Everybody's telling lies I don't even know why Why can't people Find something better

Let me tell you a story About a woman and a man Maybe you will find familiar Maybe you won't understand The man's name I don't remember He was always Joe to me But I can't forget the woman She was alw

Everybody's got a million questions Everybody wants to know the score What you went through It's something you Should be over now Everybody wants to hear the secrets That you never told a

- Billy Joel All the waiters in your grand cafe Leave their tables when you blink Every dog must have his everyday Every drunk must have his drink Don't wait for answers Just take your chances

You don't have to talk all night I'm a man who can't say no You don't have to twist my arm Just point me where you want to go Take me to the action Take me to the track Take me t

Baby all the lights are turned on you Now you're in the center of the stage Everything revolves on what you do Ah, you are in your prime; you've come of age And you can always have your wa

Once upon a time in the land of misty satin dreams There stood a house and a man who painted nature scenes He painted trees and fields and animals and streams and he stayed And he didn't hear th

I went searching for the truth But in my innocence I found All the con men and their acrobats Who stomped me in the ground If I count up their percentages I know they're getting rich But they ha

We met as soul mates On Parris Island We left as inmates >From an asylum And we were sharp As sharp as knives And we were so gung ho To lay down our lives We came in spastic Like tameless horses W

Little Geo is a friend of mine We get some money and we buy a cheap wine Sit on the corner and have a holiday Hide the bottle when the cop goes by Talk about women and lie, lie, lie Oh, my other worl

If you search for tenderness It isn't hard to find You can have the love you need to live But if you look for truthfulness You might just as well be blind It always seems to be so hard to give

- Billy Joel She said she'd meet me in the bar At the Plaza Hotel "Wear a jacket and a tie" "What's the occasion?" She just smiled and she wouldn't say why So here

Call me a joker, call me a fool Right at this moment I'm totally cool Clear as a crystal, sharp as a knife I feel like I'm in the prime of my life Sometimes it feels like I'm going to

- Billy Joel What's the matter with the clothes I'm wearing? "Can't you tell that your tie's too wide?" Maybe I should buy some old tab collars? "Welcome back to t

Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore I wouldn't leave you in times of trouble We

If it seems like I've been lost In let's remember If you think I'm feeling older And missing my younger days Oh, then you should have known Me much better Cause my past is something th

Well if money makes a rich man Then I might never make the grade I'll be a small time operator If I just get the landlord paid But if time is an indication Of the wealth that I never knew Then I

Laura Calls me In the middle of the night Passes on her Painful information Then these careless fingers They get caught in her vice Til they're bleeding On my coffee table Living alone isn'

Even though I'm in love Sometimes I get so afraid I'll say something so wrong Just to have something to say I know the moment isn't right To tell the girl a comical line To keep the c

Viktor was born in the spring of '44 And never saw his father anymore A child of sacrifice, a child of war Another son who never had a father after Leningrad Went off to school and learned to s

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 mo

Goodnight, my angel Time to close your eyes And save these questions for another day I think I know what you've been asking me I think you know what I've been trying to say I promised I wou

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

You see her sitting with her coffee and her paper With her high top sneakers of italian design With a long cool stare she aggravates the tension Makes up her face while she makes up her mind Now you

thony works in the grocery store Savin' his pennies for someday Mama Leone left a note on the door, She said, "Sonny, move out to the country." Workin' too hard can give me A hear

Anthony works in the grocery store Savin' his pennies for someday Mama Leone left a note on the door, She said, "Sonny, move out to the country." Workin' too hard can give me a heart attack

Got a call from an old friend We used to be real close Said he couldn't go on the American way Closed the shop, sold the house Bought a ticket to the West Coast Now he gives them a stand-up rout

Some folks like to get away, take a holiday from the neighborhood Hop a flight to Miami Beach or Hollywood. I'm taking a Greyhound on the Hudson River line- I'm in a New York state of mind.

've seen those big machines come rolling through the quiet pines Blue suits and bankers with their Volvos and their valentines Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise Raise up a m

Come out Virginia, don't let me me wait You Catholic girls start much too late But sooner or later it comes down to fate I might as well be the one They showed you a statue and told you to pray

It's nine o'clock on a Saturday The regular crowd shuffles in There's an old man sitting next to me Makin' love to his tonic and gin He says, "Son, can you play me a melody?

You have to learn to pace yourself Pressure You're just like everybody else Pressure You've only had to run so far So good But you will come to a place Where the only thing you feel Are loaded

Roberta, you say you know me But I see only what you're paid to show me Oh, I wish you had the time Oh, I wish you had the time Oh, Roberta, I understand you I know you need to move in other ci

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 a

Bobby's driving through the city tonight- Through the lights- In a hot new rent-a-car. He joins the lover in his heavy machine- It's a scene down on Sunset Boulevard. CHORUS Say goodbye to

A bottle of white, a bottle of red Perhaps a bottle of rose instead We'll get a table near the street In our old familiar place You and I-face to face A bottle of red, a bottle of white It all

Some things were perfectly clear, seen with the vision of youth No doubts and nothing to fear, I claimed the corner on truth These days it's harder to say I know what I'm fighting for My fa

Well I'm shameless when it comes to loving you I'd do anything you want me to I'd do anything at all And I'm standing here for all the world to see There ain't that much lef

he can kill with a smile She can wound with her eyes She can ruin your faith with her casual lies And she only reveals what she wants you to see She hides like a child But she's always a woman t

he'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 hav

urn 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

I didn't want to do it but I got too lonely I had to call you up in the middle of the night I know it's awful hard to try to make love long distance But I really needed stimulation Though it was only

A picture postcard A folded stub A program of the play File away your photographs Of your holiday And your mementos Will turn to dust But that's the price you pay For every year's a souven

She cuts you once, she cuts you twice But still you believe The wound is so fresh you can taste the blood BUt you don't have strength to leave You've been bought, you've been sold You&

Safe at harbor, everything is easy Off to starboard, daylight comes up fast Now I'm restless for the open water Red flags are flying fromhe Coast Guard mast They told me to stay, I heard all the

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 Ha

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 su

Don't get excited, don't say a word Nobody noticed, nothing was heard It was committed discreetly It was handled so neatly And it shouldn't surprise you at all, you know Break all the records, burn th

Listen boy Don't want to see you let a good thing Slip away You know I don't like watching Anybody make the same mistakes I made She's a real nice girl And she's always there fo

It's time for me to be on my way I know I've got business to conduct And I've got places to go But I can't help looking at her sleeping instead Another morning I'll have trou

ome people think that she's one of those mink-coated ladies They say she wakes up at one And makes the paparazzi run till dawn She wines and dines with Argentines and Kuwaitis After she sips mar

>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 wit

Well I'm on the Downeaster "Alexa" And I'm cruising through Rock Island Sound I have chaartered a course to the Vineyard But tonight I am Nantucket bound We took on diesel back in Montauk yester

I am the entertainer And I know just where I stand Another serenader And another long-haired band Today I am your champion I may have won your hearts But I know the game, you'll forget my name A

Flyin' east on a plane Drinkin' all that free champagne I guess I saw this comin' down the line And I know it should be fun But I think I should've packed my gun Got that old subu

Advice is cheap you can take it from me It's yours to keep 'cause opinions are free Nobody knows about the trouble I've seen Nobody's perfect, mister, nobody's clean It costs

Oh, oh, oh For the longest time Oh, oh, oh For the longest time If you said goodbye to me tonight There would still be music left to write What else could I do I'm so inspired by you That hasn&#

One, two, ah, one, two, three, four... Some love is just a lie of the heart The cold remains of what began with a passionate start And they may not want it to end But it will it's just a question of w

In the middle of the night I go walking in my sleep >From the mountains of faith To a river so deep I must be looking for something Something sacred I lost But the river is wide And it's too

Well we all have a face That we hide away forever And we take them out and Show ourselves When everyone has gone Some are satin some are steel Some are silk and some are leather They're the face

We walked on the beach beside that old hotel They're tearing it down now But it's just as well I haven't shown you everything a man can do So stay with me baby I've got plans for

Didn't I say I wasn't ready for a romance Didn't we promise We would only be friends And so we danced Though it was only a slow dance I started breaking my promises Right there and th

I've been livin' for the moment But I just can't have my way And I'm afraid to go to sleep 'Cause tomorrow is today People tell me life is sweeter But I don't hear what

ey Lord, take a look all around And I'd a-find where my baby's gonna be. Hey Lord, would ya look out for her tonight 'Cause she is far across the sea. Hey Lord, would ya look out for h

Oh, sweet lady, runnin' like a stream You don't look back because you know your hands are clean You make believe the past was just a dream You make believe the past was just a dream Turn a

I never ask you where you go After I leave you in the morning We go our different ways to seperate situations It's not that easy anymore Today I do what must be done I give my time to total str

Uptown girl She's been living in her uptown world I bet she never had a back street guy I bet her mama never told her why I'm gonna try for an uptown girl She's been living in her whi

Slow down you crazy child You're so ambitious for a juvenile But then if you're so smart tell me why You are still so afraid? Where's the fire, what's the hurry about? You better cool it off be

arry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe Rosenbergs,

This back-breakin', bone-shakin', belly-achin', hard-workin' Two more hours to go Yes, it's keeping me alive doin' nine to five And I ain't got nothin to show Prett

When a star is born, they receive a gift or two One of them is this, they have the power to make a dream come true When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are Anything your heart desire

Where's the orchestra? Wasn't this supposed to be a musical? Here I am,.. In the balcony, How the hell could I have missed the overture? I like the scenery Even though, I have absolutely no,..idea at

Of all the people in the world that I know You're the best place to go When I cry, when I cry I never asked for much before, not before Things are changed; I need more Tell me why, Judy, why?

Today I'm livin' like a rich man's son Tomorrow mornin' I could be a bum It doesn't matter which direction, though I know a woman in New Mexico Chorus: Worse comes to worst

You can make me free You can make me smile You can make me be Like a little child You can melt the ice that chills my body You can dry my every tear You make the lonely hours disappear You can make

Ah, you look so good to me With my eyes open wide, I can see Ah, you feel so good to me And it's so good when you're here 'cause I'm free Feelin' the glory from that smile upon your face It's liftin'

-- Billy Joel Friday night I crashed your party Saturday I said I'm sorry Sunday came and trashed me out again I was only having fun Wasn't hurting anyone And we all enjoyed the weekend fo

hen 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&

Ali dances and the audience applauds Though he's bathed in sweat he hasn't lost his style Ali don't you go downtown You gave away another round for free Me, I'm just another face at Zanzibar But the w