I'll throw you the line
the stained-glass curtain you're hiding behind never lets in the sun
and only the good die

All grown up and no place to go.

I am the entertainer, I dress to fit the style
I wear all kinds of sparkles, I flash the crowd my smile
But when the night is over, and I stand without my clothes
The perspiration stains and varicous veins
My eyes look shot, my belly's got a pot
And there's a pimple on my nose, oh

I've seen the lights go out on Broadway

I've seen the lights go out on Broadway

Lol

well why judy why where he says i wanna die is funny imagne that

No comments.

Synthesizer.

I love Billy Joel, but this line just made me stop and ask 'what?'. An Amiright moment, if you will.

Simply untrue.

Well, he certaintly didn't hold on to Christie Brinkley for the longest time.

Hogwash! I could go on airplanes. I love plane rides!!! It’s fun!!! 'My Life' is a theme song from the tv's 'Bosom Buddies.'

Although these lines do not rhyme, very few in the song do. The song is not composed in rhyme, but rather in cadence. Cadence is a balanced rhytmic flow used in poetry and oration, and has a falling inflection at the end of a line to bring a sense of closure, rather than a similar sound as found in rhyming.

'around,' 'town,' and 'ground'. 'town!?!?' That don't make sense at all!

He is telling,this guy that,he made a ,fool of himself,with his BIG MOUTH!

What? He doesn't care about the consequences of what he does but then he admits that he's been a fool for lesser things than what the consequences are?

The lyrics prefer to 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High' scene where Mark Ratner and Stacy Hamilton were on a date with each other, going out to dinner at Cinema Four. And another scene where Brad Hamilton was sitting at home in the bathroom and masturbating, thinking about Linda, fantasizing a lip-kissing scene...'Does anybody hafta knock anymore?'

According to the lyrics...On 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High', Judge Reinhold as Brad Hamilton, sat at the bathroom at home, masturbating and thinking about Linda Barrett (Phoebe Cates) swimming in the pool, before uttering 'Doesn't anybody ever knock anymore?'

What could be new after '86? Internet!!!

'86 is now in the past

Beau Brummell, a 19th century dandy

I count at least 46 famous people specifically named, plus others mentioned by their achievements.

Dom Perignon Champagne

"Captain Jack" is a nickname for Jack Daniels whiskey. And "a little push" means drinking a shot.

Rock Around The Clock-Bill Haley and the Comets.

Originally done by Freddy Scott in 1963.

"Slipping away" sounds like going down the waterslide.

"Thing" is singular; "are" is plural

Yeah, but this line makes me grammatically nauseous.

Central Park, Delancey Street, Bowery Avenue, and St. Mark's Place - All streets or locales on Manhattan Island in New York City

One of the more interesting last half of the 1980's (influenced by the success of both Band-Aid and USA For Africa) social commentary songs has to be Billy Joel's late 1989 #1 hit, "We Didn't Start The Fire". Born out of two things Billy Joel heard from two different type of audience members, teachers saying they couldn't figure out how to teach children history post 1950 with so many changes occurring from that year in what seemed almost every minute, and children (mainly teenagers) telling Billy Joel they couldn't figure out why history was so important to learn (Joel's thought going into writing the tune was that it is important for students to learn history to learn from it, to not repeat the same mistakes if possible), Billy Joel wrote this dity about the history from 1950 to 1989 that contains so many references to various events, people who made that history and even countries and places in the news of that history it is hard to repeat all of them. Upabove is transcribed the 1st to 4th verse, 6th to 10th verse and 12th to 17th verse that contain references to several real places (the 5th and 11th verse do not). The places in the verses are: the country of China, South Pacific (also a name of a book by James A. Michener and a Broadway and Hollywood musical from Rodgers and Hammerstein), the countries of North Korea and South Korea, Panmunjom (where an interesting skirmish between the North Korean communists and the U.S. military took place in 1954 on the Korean penisula, after the Korean War that would set the boundary lines between the two countries to this day), England, Dien Bien Phu Falls (a 1954 Vietnam battle that the French colonial rulers lost that set the tone that would drag the U.S. into the prolonged Vietnam War), Brooklyn, New York, Disneyland out in Los Angeles, Budapest, Hungary, the U.S. state of Alabama, Suez in Egypt, Little Rock, Arkansas, the River Kwai (that is in Burma-Siam and an important and interesting World War II incident took place that had a book and a movie made about it), the country of Lebanon, the U.S. state of California, the country of Belgium (through Belgians), the country of the Congo (otherwise known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Berlin, Germany, Bay of Pigs in Cuba, Arabia (what Saudi Arabia was called in the past), Britian (twice, through the word British), the U.S. state of Mississippi (as Ole Miss), Ho Chi Minh would have a city named after him, Kennedy and Reagan have both had several places named after them, the moon (the Earth's only known natural satellite), Woodstock, New York, Watergate references the breakin by aides to President Nixon at the Democratic headquarters in the real Watergate hotel in the summer of 1972 and the events of scandal and Congressional hearings that ensued afterwards, the state of Palestine, the country of Iran, the country of Russia (through Russians), the country of Afghanistan, and China, yet again. History teachers did use and some still use Billy Joel's song to help teach the history between 1950 and 1989.

The entire song is sung first in English, then in French. I have included the first verse as partial example.

The part in quotation marks means "do you speak French?"

what's so great,about this ballad,concerning a,SELF-CENTERED LOSER!

this"UPLIFTING" song is all,about this,SELFISH JERK!

Baptized by the wire, I fade into the river.

That long-running PBS kid's show "Sesame Street." Channel 13 is the Newark, New Jersey affiliate, which is the big one in the New York City Metropolitan area

Imagine if you are taking an American History test- especially something like a final exam or AP test. And your cell phone starts ringing with those lyrics. The teacher will immediately think you are cheating!