Billy Joel - Piano Man lyrics

Screened portraits projected through

our pockets locate the exits

and buy their lives in

paper magazines

To praise and don't forget to

envy everything that they have

but only one thing that matters

the artificial dialogue portrayed in lies

So we give them our land

give them our attention

and watch them live

whether it be themselves

or the struggling businessman

The holes in the speakers

bleed symphonic feeling

admiration stuck in our heads

and no way out are we thankful

for enjoyment? or dumbstruck

by the raised appearance of a stage

So we look up to them

we look up to them

So we look up to them

we look up to them

This is for the single mother

working double shifts

at the local diner

housing the drug deals

and the farmers awaking the sun

to feed the ground which feeds the world

withholding the lives full of

jealousy