Billy Joel's song choice for the Election while being interviewed on C-Span

[zulchzulu]

I was watching Billy Joel (who I hadn't really listened to in years) on C-SPAN yesterday and the last question asked to him was to name a song for each candidate running in the Election. Being an Obama supporter, it semmd like he didn't want to "go there" with having to describe via song the despicable McCain/Palin campaign, so he decided to play a tune he wrote on the grand piano that I had remembered from a while back, but it really is a brilliant tribute to the Election. Enjoy the lyrics or try to play it yourself...

Summer, Highland Falls
Billy Joel

They say that these are not the best of times
But they're the only times I've ever known
And I believe there is a time for meditation
In cathedrals of our own

Now I have 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

And 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
Our reason coexists with our insanity
And though we choose between reality and madness
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

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SUMMER, HIGHLAND FALLS
(Billy Joel)

Intro: F(no 3) Fmaj7 Gm7 Bb+2
Am7 C Bb+2

F Fmaj7
They say that these are not the best of times
Gm7 Bb+2 F Fmaj7 Gm7 Bb+2
But they're the only times I've ever known
F Fmaj7 Gm7
And I believe there is a time for meditation
Bb+2 C G C
In cathedrals of our own
A7 Dm C Bb+2 F
Now I've seen that sad surrender in my lover's eyes
G7sus G7 Csus C
And I can only stand apart and sympathize
Bb F Gm7
For we are always what our situations hand us
C Bb+2 Eb Bb
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
Out separate conclusions are the same.
Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity
Our reason coexists with our insanity
And though we choose between reality and madness
It's either sadness or euphoria

Dm C Bb+2 F
How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies
G7sus G7 Csus C
Perhaps we don't fulfill each other's fantasies
Bb F Gm7
And as we stand upon the ledges of our lives
C Bb+2 Eb Bb
With our respective similarities
C F
It's either sadness or euphoria

Older video version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo1dkijn0mU

Thank you Billy!

[remember2000forever]

1. I Love Billy Joel! He was, and still is, an activist for the Long Island Bay Men !