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READ THE COPYRIGHT INFORMATION FILE for details. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Storm Front --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Image] Storm Front [Image] That's Not Her Style [Image] We Didn't Start the Fire [Image] The Downeaster "Alexa" [Image] I Go to Extremes [Image] Shameless [Image] Storm Front [Image] Leningrad [Image] State of Grace [Image] When in Rome [Image] And So It Goes Storm Front Artist: Billy Joel 1989 Columbia Records All selections by Billy Joel. ---------------------------------- That's Not Her Style Some 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 maragaritas on the White House lawn CHORUS That's not her style I can tell you That ain't my woman It's just not her style I can tell you Because I'm her man The papers say she was seen in L.A. with a stranger She found a perfect body with aa Maserati right outside And then she chartered a Lear When she heard her career was in danger And the gave the pilot somethin' extra for a perfect ride CHORUS Not that she's never done something crazy or done somethng wild It's just that she's better at doing whatever suits her style And that's not her style I've read where it's said that she sleeps in a bed made of satin She's had her face done in every place you can try They say she gets a piece of every lease in Manhattan And says she's thirty when she's really pushing forty-five CHORUS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We Didn't Start the Fire Harry 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, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye" Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye CHORUS We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser aand Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc Roy hn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock" Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez CHORUS Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai" Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo CHORUS Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land" Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion "Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say CHORUS Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again Moonshot, Woodsto, Watergate, punk rock Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan "Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore CHORUS We didn't start the fire But when we are gone Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on... ----------------------------------------------------------- The Downeaster "Alexa" 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 yesterday And left this morning fromhe bell in Gardner'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 told 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 --------------------------------------------------------- I Go to Extremes 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 fast I don't know how long this feeling will last Maybe it's only tonight CHORUS Darling I don't know why I go to extremes Too high or too low there ain't no in-betweens And if I stand or I fall It's all or nothing at all Darling I don't know why I go to extremes Sometimes I'm tired, sometimes I'm shot Sometimes I don't know how much more I've got Maybe I'm headed over the hill Maybe I've set myself up for the kill Tell me how much do you think you can take Until the heart in you is starting to break? Sometimes it feels like it will CHORUS Out of the darkness, intothe light Leaving the scene of the crime Either I'm wrong or I'm perfectly right every time Sometims I lie awake, night after night Coming apart at the seams Eager to please, ready tto fight Why do I go to extremes? CHORUS --------------------------------------------------------- Shameless 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 left of me That has very far to fall You know I'm not a man who has ever been Insecure about the world I've been living in I don't break easy, I have my pride But if you need to be satisfied I'm shameless, baby I don't have a prayer Anytime I see you standing there I go down upon my knees And I'm changing, I swore I'd never compromise But you convinced me otherwise I'll do anything you please You see in all my life I've never found What I couldn't resist, what I couldn't turn down I could walk away fromnyone I ever knew But I can't walk away from you I have never let anything have this much control over me Cause I worked too hard to call my life my own Yes I made myeself a world and it worked so perfectly But it's your world now, I can't refuse I never had so much to lose I'm shameless...shameless You know it should be easy for a man who's strong To say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong I've never lost anything I ever missed But I've never been in love like this... It's out of my hands I'm shameless, shameless as a man can be You can make a total fool of me I just wanted you to know I am shameless Shameless Shameless... ---------------------------------------------------------- Storm Front 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 information I motored away and steered straight ahead Though the weatherman said CHORUS There's a storm front coming (mood indigo) White water running and the pressure is low Storm front coming (mood indigo) Small craft warning on the radio I've been sailing a long time on this ocean Man gets lonesome, all those years at sea I've got a woman, my life should be easy Most men hunger for the life I lead The morning was gray, but I had the motivation I drifted away and ran into more Heavy weather off shore CHORUS We've got a low pressure system and a northeast breeze We've got a falling barometer and rising seas We've got the cumulonimbus and a possible gale We've got a force nine blowing on the Beaufort scale I'm still restless for the open water Though she gives me everything I need She asked me to stay, but I'd done my navigation I drove her away, but I should have known To stay tied up at home CHORUS ------------------------------------------------------------- Leningrad 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 serve the state Followed the rules and drank his vodka straight The only way to live was drown the hate A Russian life was very sad And such was life in Leningrad I was born in '49 A cold war kid in McCarthy time Stop 'em at the 38th Parallel Blast those yellow reds to hell And cold war kids were hard to kill Under their desk in an air raid drill Haven't they heard we won the war What do they keep on fighting for? Viktor was sent to some Red Army town Served out his time, became a circus clown The greatest happiness he'd ever found Was making Russian children glad And children lived in Leningrad But children lived in Levittown And hid in the shelters underground Until the Soviets turned their shps around And tore the Cuban missiles down And in that bright October sun We knew our childhood days were done And I watched my friends go off to war What do they keep on fighting for? And so my child and I came to this place To meet him eye to eye and face to face He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced We never knew what friends we had Until we came to Leningrad --------------------------------------------------- State of Grace There you go, slipping away into a state of grace I know the look that comes across your face It's so familiar to me Here I am, trying to keep you in my line of sight I'm never certain that you read me right Sometimes you don't want to see me Here we are, both of us know we're in love But that isn't always enough I never could rise above it all, down I fall But darling there you go, slipping away into a state of grace Granted, this world is not a perfect place Still it's the world that I'm in Here I am talking while you don't hear a word I say Knowing you're waatching me from far away Somewhere that I've never been Don't you see, you lived a different life than me It doesn't mean you have to be afraid of how We're not the same, don't leave me now But darling there you go, slipping away How can I get you to stay where you are Keep you from going to far Holding you here is so hard to do...I'm losing you And darling there you go, slipping away into a state of grace Drifting away into your sacred place Someplace that I've never been There you go, slipping away, slipping away into a state of grace There you go, slipping away into a state of grace There you go...drifting away... -------------------------------------------------------------------- When in Rome Well I see you in the morning Putting on your pretty clothes And I watch you do your makeup LIke they do in all those fashion shows Then you trun to me so that I can see If you put yourself together right Then you go away and you're gone all day But I know you're coming home tonight And when you're home, darling all you've got to be is you But when in Rome, do as the Romans do Well it's alright if you're tired when your day is done You can see when you look at me, you're not the only one It's a cold, cruel world for a working girl But you can't let them see you cry It's a fact of life, now man and wife Work full time to just get by And when we're home all it's gonna be is me and you But when in Rome, do as the Romans do I've done some strange thngs I never thought I'd do before But if the strain brings happiness, more or less... More or less... Then I don't mind masquerading with all those other fools I don't mind the games I'm playing, Because I've learned the rules And when tims are tough, I've got just enough If you're standing right by my side Darling more and more I get hungry for All the ways you keep me satisfied On our own there ain't nothing we can't get thru But when in Rome, do as the Romans do Then I don't mind masquerading with all those other fools I don't mind the gmes I'm playing, Because I've learned the rules It doesn't matter when we're home, all alone Al we've got to be is me and you On our own there ain't noghint that we can't get thru But when in Rome, do as the Romans do Swing that hammer and break that stone Push those buttons and answer that phone Coffee in the morning and martinis at night Everybody's working up a big appetite Do as the Romans do... ----------------------------------------------------------------- And So It Goes In every heart there is a room A sanctuary safe and strong To heal the wounds from lovers past Until a new one comes along I spoke to you in cautious tones You answered me with no pretense And still I feel I said too much My silence is my self defense And every time I've held a rose It seems I only felt the thorns And so it goes, and so it goes And so will you soon I suppose But if my silence made you leave Then that would be my worst mistake So I will share this room with you And you can have this heart to break And this is why my eyes are closed It's just as well for all I've seen And so it goes, and so it goes And you're the only one who knows So I would choose to be with you That's if the choice were mine to make But you can make decisions too And you can have this heart to break And so it goes, and so it goes And you're the only one who knows --------------------------------------------- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Eric Wincentsen 267@ef.gc.maricopa.edu Glendale Community College, Glendale, Arizona "Give me ten wheels for Jesus!" -Elvis Hitler +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-