And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.
I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.
The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?
Sing us a song you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we're all in the mood for a melody, And you've got us feeling all right.
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we're on the verge of all things new.
I don't know why people thought I was retiring.
I'm not sure about life after this; god knows I'm not a spiritual man.
Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.
Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.
There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.
Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.
She's got a smile that heals me.
She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
If you want to know what life is like in the Soviet Union, go to your local department of motor vehicles
Call me a joker, call me a foolRight at this moment I'm totally cool.