Originally posted by badmoonIts funny you should mention Allentown. I worked with a guy at Lucent who is a drummer in a local Allentown band who actually wrote that song and either the band or someone else sent a cassette to Joel when he came to town. All of a sudden Joel has recorded it and the band here tried to get him to pay for it and he told them basically forget it, I have better lawyers, screw you. So he didn't even write it, he stole it.
Generally, I find him unlistenable. The song Allentown is ok and new York State of Mind as well. His songs are overbearingly self obsessive. Besides that he's ugly but gets great looking women.
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 the age of jive.
Where have you been hidin' out lately, honey?
You can't dress trashy till you spend a lot of money.
Everybody's talkin' 'bout the new sound
Funny, but it's still rock and roll to me
What's the matter with the car I'm driving?
*Can't you tell that it's out of style?
Should I get a set of white wall tires?
*Are you gonna cruise the miracle mile?
Nowadays you can't be too sentimental
Your best bet's a true baby blue Continental.
Hot funk, cool punk, even if it's old junk
It's still rock and roll to me
Oh, it doesn't matter what they say in the papers
'Cause it's always been the same old scene.
There's a new band in town
But you can't get the sound from a story in a magazine...
Aimed at your average teen
How about a pair of pink sidewinders
*And a bright orange pair of pants?
You could really be a Beau Brummell baby
*If you just give it half a chance.
Don't waste your money on a new set of speakers,
You get more mileage from a cheap pair of sneakers.
Next phase, new wave, dance craze, anyways
It's still rock and roll to me
What's the matter with the crowd I'm seeing?
*Don't you know that they're out of touch?
Should I try to be a straight 'A' student?
*If you are then you think too much.
Don't you know about the new fashion honey?
All you need are looks and a whole lotta money.
It's the next phase, new wave, dance craze, anyways
It's still rock & roll to me.
Everybody's talkin' 'bout the new sound
Funny, but it's still rock and roll to me
Originally posted by FrenchQueenThat would be "Downeaster Alexa"
and also the one about a fisherman,
Well I'm on the Downeaster "Alexa"
And I'm cruising through Block Island Sound
I have charted a course to the Vineyard
But tonight I am Nantucket bound
We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday
And left this morning from the bell in Gardiner's Bay
Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home
Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone
So I could own my Downeaster "Alexa"
And I go where the ocean is deep
There are giants out there in the canyons
And a good captain can't fall asleep
I've got bills to pay and children who need clothes
I know there's fish out there but where God only knows
They say these waters aren't what they used to be
But I've got people back on land who count on me
So if you see my Downeaster "Alexa"
And if you work with the rod and the reel
Tell my wife I am 'trolling Atlantis
And I still have my hands on the wheel
Now I drive my Downeaster "Alexa"
More and more miles from shore every year
Since they tell me I can't sell no stripers
And there's no luck in swordfishing here.
I was a bayman like my father was before
Can't make a living as a bayman anymore
There ain't much future for a man who works the sea
But there ain't no island left for islanders like me