Billy Joel Lyrics

Greatest Hits Volume III

A Matter Of Trust Some love is just a lie of the heart The core remains of what began with a passionate start And they...
A Matter Of Trust Chords and Tabs

All About Soul She waits for me at night, she waits for me in silence She gives me all her tenderness and takes awa...
All About Soul Chords and Tabs

An Innocent Man Some people stay far away from the door If there's a chance of it opening up They hear a voice in th...

And So It Goes In every heart there is a room A sanctuary safe and strong To heal the wounds from lovers past Until...
And So It Goes Chords and Tabs

Baby Grand Late at night When it's dark and cold I reach out For someone to hold When I'm blue When I'm lonely ...

Hey Girl Hey girl! I want you to know I'm gonna miss you so much if you go And hey girl! I tell you no lie So...

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...

Keeping The Faith If it seems like I've been lost in let's remember If you think I'm feeling older and missing my youn...
Keeping The Faith Chords and Tabs

Leningrad Viktor was born in the spring of '44 And never saw his father anymore A child of sacrifice, a child ...
Leningrad Chords and Tabs

Light As The Breeze She stands before you naked You can see it, you can taste it But she comes to you Light as the breez...

Lullabye (Goodnight My Angel) Goodnight, my angel Time to close your eyes And save these questions for another day I think I know ...

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...

The Downeaster "Alexa" Well I'm on the Downeaster "Alexa" And I'm cruising through Block Island Sound I have char...

The River Of Dreams In the middle of the night I go walking in my sleep From the mountains of faith To the river so deep...

This Is The Time We walked on the beach beside that old hotel They're tearing it down now But it's just as well I hav...

To Make You Feel My Love When the rain is blowing in your face And the whole world is on your case I could offer you a warm e...
To Make You Feel My Love Chords and Tabs

We Didn't Start The Fire Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe Mc...
We Didn't Start The Fire Chords and Tabs

52nd Street

52nd Street They say it takes a lot to keep a love alive: In every heart there pumps a different beat But if we ...

Big Shot Well, you went uptown ridin' in your limousine With your fine Park Avenue clothes You had the Dom Pe...

Half a Mile Away Little Geo is a friend of mine We get some money and we buy a cheap wine Sit on the corner and have ...

Honesty If you search for tenderness It isn't hard to find You can have the love you need to live But if you...
Honesty Chords and Tabs

My Life Got a call from an old friend We used to be real close Said he couldn't go on the American way Close...
My Life Chords and Tabs

Rosalinda's Eyes I play nights in the Spanish part of town I've got music in my hands The work is hard to find But th...

Stiletto She cuts you once, she cuts you twice But still you believe The wound is so fresh you can taste the ...

Until The Night I never ask you where you go After I leave you in the morning We go our different ways to separate s...

Zanzibar Ali dances and the audience applauds Though he's bathed in sweat he hasn't lost his style Ali don't ...

Greatest Hits Volume I

Captain Jack Saturday night and you're still hangin' around Tired of living in your one horse town you'd like to ...
Captain Jack Chords and Tabs

Just The Way You Are Don't go changing, to try and please me, You never let me down before, Don't imagine, you're too fam...
Just The Way You Are Chords and Tabs

Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) Anthony works in the grocery store Savin' his pennies for someday Mama Leone left a note on the door...

New York State Of Mind Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to H...
New York State Of Mind Chords and Tabs

Only The Good Die Young Come out Virginia, don't let me wait You Catholic girls start much too late aw But sooner or later i...
Only The Good Die Young Chords and Tabs

Piano Man It's nine o'clock on a Saturday The Regular crowd shuffles in There's an old man sitting next to me ...
Piano Man Chords and Tabs

Say Goodbye To Hollywood Bobby's drivin' through the city tonight Through the lights in a hot new rent-a-car He joins the lov...

Scenes from an Italian Restaurant A bottle of white, a bottle of red Perhaps a bottle of rosé instead We'll get a table near the stre...
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant Chords and Tabs

She's Always A Woman She can kill with a smile She can wound with her eyes She can ruin your faith with her casual lies A...
She's Always A Woman Chords and Tabs

The Entertainer I am the entertainer And I know just where I stand Another Serenader And another long-haired man Tod...
The Entertainer Chords and Tabs

The Stranger Well we all have a face That we hide away forever And we take them out and Show ourselves When every...
The Stranger Chords and Tabs

Greatest Hits Volume II

Allentown Well we're living here in Allentown And they're closing all the factories down Out in Bethlehem they...
Allentown Chords and Tabs

Don't Ask Me Why All the waiters in your grand cafe Leave their tables when you blink Every dog must have it everyday...

Goodnight Saigon We met as soul mates on Parris Island We left as inmates from an asylum And we were sharp, as sharp ...
Goodnight Saigon Chords and Tabs

It's Still Rock and Roll To Me What's the matter with the clothes I'm wearing? Can't you tell that your tie's too wide? Maybe I sho...
It's Still Rock and Roll To Me Chords and Tabs

Pressure You have to learn to pace yourself PRESSURE You're just like everybody else PRESSURE You've only had...

She's Got A Way She's got a way about her I don't know what it is But I know that I can't live without her She's go...
She's Got A Way Chords and Tabs

Tell Her About It Listen boy I don't want to see you Let a good thing slip away You know I don't like watching anybod...

The Longest Time Oh, oh, oh, oh For the longest time Oh, oh, oh, oh For the longest time If you said goodbye to me t...
The Longest Time Chords and Tabs

The Night Is Still Young I`m young enough to still see the passionate boy that I used to be But I`m old enough to say I got a...

Uptown Girl Oooh... Uptown girl She's been living in her uptown world I bet she never had a back street guy ...
Uptown Girl Chords and Tabs

You May Be Right Friday night I crashed your party Saturday I said I'm sorry Sunday came and trashed me out again I w...
You May Be Right Chords and Tabs

You're Only Human (Second Wind) You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good You're getting a bad reputation in your ...

Turnstiles

All You Wanna Do Is Dance Oh, baby, you don't get turned on by the radio. Oh, baby, you got nothing to play on your stereo. &q...

I've Loved These Days Now we take our time … so nonchalant, And spend our nights so bon vivant. We dress our days in sil...

James James We were always friends from our childhood days. And we made our plans, And we had to go our se...

Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway) I've seen the lights go out on Broadway- I saw the Empire State laid low. And life went on beyond th...

Prelude/Angry Young Man There's a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical pla...

Summer, Highland Falls They say that these are not the best of times But they're the only times I've ever known And I belie...

The River Of Dreams

A Minor Variation Some days I have to give right in to the blues Despite how I try to keep fightin' It's a sure shot I...

Blonde Over Blue Some days when I'm far away In a lonely room in a cold seclusion Some nights when I'm wound so tight...

Famous Last Words Sitting here in Avalon, looking at the pouring rain Summertime has come and gone and everybody's hom...
Famous Last Words Chords and Tabs

No Man's Land I've seen those big machines come rolling through the quiet pines Blue suits and bankers with their ...
No Man's Land Chords and Tabs

Shades Of Grey Some things were perfectly clear, seen with the vision of youth No doubts and nothing to fear, I cla...

The Great Wall Of China Advice is cheap you can take it from me It's yours to keep 'cause opinions are free Nobody knows abo...

Two Thousand Years In the beginning There was the cold and the night Prophets and angels gave us the fire and the light...

Cold Spring Harbor

Everybody Loves You Now Baby all the lights are turned on you Now you're in the center of the stage Everything revolves on w...

Falling Of The Rain Once upon a time in the land of misty satin dreams There stood a house and a man who painted nature ...

Got To Begin Again Well so here I am at the end of the road Where do I go from here? I always figured it would be like ...

Nocturne Nocturne was released as an instrumental piece. However, there were lyrics written for it. These ar...

Tomorrow Is Today I've been livin' for the moment But I just can't have my way And I'm afraid to go to sleep 'Cause to...
Tomorrow Is Today Chords and Tabs

Turn Around Oh, sweet lady, runnin' like a stream You don't look back because you know your hands are clean You ...

Why Judy? Why? Of all the people in the world that I know You're the best place to go When I cry, when I cry I nev...

You Can Make Me Free You can make me free You can make me smile You can make me be Like a little child You can melt the ...

You Look So Good To Me Ah, you look so good to me With my eyes open wide, I can see Ah, you feel so good to me And it's so ...

Streetlife Serenade

Last Of The Big Time Spenders Well if money makes a rich man Then I might never make the grade I'll be a small time operator If I ...

Los Angelenos Los Angelenos All come from somewhere To live in sunshine Their funky exile Midwestern ladies High-h...

Roberta Roberta, you say you know me But I see only what you're paid to show me Oh, I wish you had the time...

Root Beer Rag (Instrumental) ...

Souvenir A picture postcard A folded stub A program of the play File away your photographs Of your holiday A...

Streetlife Serenader Streetlife Serenader Never sang on stages Needs no orchestration Melody comes easy Midnight Masquer...

The Great Suburban Showdown Flyin' east on a plane Drinkin' all that free champagne I guess I saw this comin' down the line And ...

The Mexican Connection (Instrumental ...

Weekend Song This back-breakin', bone-shakin', belly-achin', hard-workin' Two more hours to go Yes, it's keeping ...

An Innocent Man

Careless Talk Oooooh, Oooooh, Oooooh, Hah yah yah yah yah yah yah Careless talk That's what you heard about me Je...

Christie Lee Let me tell you a story About a woman and a man Maybe you will find familiar Maybe you won't underst...

Easy Money Ugh! All right! Ugh! Hey! Aaaahh hah! Ugh! You don't have to talk all night, I'm a man who can't sa...

Leave a Tender Moment Alone Even though I'm in love Sometimes I get so afraid I'll say something so wrong Just to have something...

This Night Didn't I say I wasn't ready for a romance Didn't we promise We would only be friends And so we danc...

Piano Man

Ain't No Crime Opening: You got to open your eyes in the morning, Nine o'clock comin' without any warnin' And you g...

If I Only Had The Words (to tell you) If I only had the words to tell you If you only had the time to understand Though I know it wouldn't...

Somewhere Along The Line Well it's a rainy night in Paris And I'm sitting by the Seine It's a pleasure to be soaking In the E...

Stop In Nevada He always found it hard to take her She wouldn't listen to advice And though he never tried to make ...

The Ballad of Billy The Kid From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand And his daring li...
The Ballad of Billy The Kid Chords and Tabs

Travellin' Prayer Hey Lord, take a look all around And I'd a-find where my baby's gonna be. Hey Lord, would ya look ou...

Worse Comes To Worst Today I'm livin' like a rich man's son Tomorrow mornin' I could be a bum It doesn't matter which dir...

You're My Home When you look into my eyes And you see the crazy gypsy in my soul It always comes as a surprise When...
You're My Home Chords and Tabs

The Stranger

Everybody Has A Dream While in these days of quiet desperation As I wander through the world in which I live I search ever...

Get It Right The First Time I don't believe in first impressions For just this once I hope that looks don't deceive I ain't got ...

Vienna Slow down you crazy child You're so ambitious for a juvenile But then if you're so smart tell me why...

Glass Houses

All For Leyna She stood on the tracks Waving her arms Leading me to that third rail shock Quick as a wink She chan...

C'Etait Toi (You Were The One) Here I am again In this smoky place With my brandy eyes I'm talking to myself You were the one You w...

Close To The Borderline Blackout, heatwave, .44 caliber homicide The buns drop dead and dogs go mad In packs on the West Sid...

I Don't Want To Be Alone She said she'd meet me in the bar At the Plaza Hotel "Wear a jacket and a tie" "What'...

Sleeping With The Television On I've been watching you waltz all night Diane Nobody's found a way behind your defenses They never no...

Sometimes A Fantasy I didn't want to do it but I got too lonely I had to call you up in the middle of the night I know i...

Through The Long Night The cold hands, the sad eyes The dark Irish silence It's so late, but I'll wait Through the long nig...

The Nylon Curtain

A Room Of Our Own You've got diamonds and I've got spades You've got pills and I've got razor blades You've got yoga h...

Laura Laura calls me in the middle of the night Passes on her painful information Then these careless fing...

Scandinavian Skies The sins of Amsterdam were still a recent surprise And we were flying over Scandinavian Skies We cli...

She's Right On Time Turn on all the Christmas lights Cause baby's coming home tonight I can hear her footsteps in the st...

Surprises Don't get excited, don't say a word Nobody noticed, nothing was heard It was committed discreetly It...

Where's The Orchestra? Where's the orchestra? Wasn't this supposed to be a musical? Here I am in the balcony How the hell c...

Kohuept

Angry Young Man There's a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical pla...
Angry Young Man Chords and Tabs

Back In The USSR Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC Didn't get to bed last night On the way the paper bag was on my knee M...

Big Man On Mulberry Street Why can't I lay low Why can't I say what I mean Why don't I stay home And get myself into some borin...

Odoya "Odoya"was recorded at the Djvari Monastary in Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR. This piece is perfo...

The Times They Are A-Changin' I have a feeling that’s been goin’ on in your country right now is very much like the ‘60s. [A...

Storm Front

State Of Grace There you go, slipping away into a state of grace I know the look that comes across your face It's s...

Storm Front Safe at harbor, everything is easy Off to starboard, daylight comes up fast Now I'm restless for the...

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 ...

When In Rome Well I see you in the morning Putting on your pretty clothes And I watch you do your make-up Like th...

The Bridge

Code Of Silence Everybody's got a million questions Everybody wants to know the score What you went through It's som...

Getting Closer I went searching for the truth But in my innocence I found All the con men and their acrobats Who st...

Modern Woman You see her sitting with her coffee and her paper With her high top sneakers of Italian design With ...

Running on Ice There's a lot of tension in this town I know it's building up inside of me I've got all the symptoms...

Temptation It's time for me to be on my way I know I've got business to conduct And I've got places to go But I...

No album

All My Life All my life I've searched this whole world to Try as I might To find someone like you Years drifted...

All Shook Up Well, bless my soul, what's wrong with me? I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree My friends say I'm...

Amplifier Fire (Attila) Instrumental. ...

Big Shot (Live) Yeay...Well, you went uptown riding in your limousine with your fine Park Ave. clothes You had the D...

Christie Lee (Unreleased Version) One, two, a-one two three Let me tell you a story about a woman and a man Maybe you will find famil...

Cross To Bear Well I know you got your troubles But I’ve got problems of my own It’s all relative you see, wha...

Don't Worry Baby (Live) (This one’s for Alexa, okay?) Ah, ah ah, ah...Ah, ah ah, ah... Well, it's been building up insid...

Elvis Presley Blvd. Once long ago, all the faithful held a show Down in Elvis Presley Blvd. on Memphis Radio Where the h...

Every Step I Take (Every Move I Make) (The Hassles) Everything I do I'm thinking thoughts of only you, girl Everywhere I go Dreams of you will always fo...

For the Longest Time Oh, oh, oh For the longest time Oh, oh, oh For the longest If you said goodbye to me tonight There w...

Getting Closer (Unreleased Version) (One, two, one two three four) I...went...searching for the truth but in my innocence I found All th...

Goodnight Saigon (Live) (This is called “Goodnight Saigon�?) We met as soul mates on Parris Island, we left as inmates f...

Heartbreak Hotel Well, since my baby left me, I found a new place to dwell Down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartb...

Highway 61 Revisited One, two, one two three four Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son", Abe says, "Man...

House Of Blue Light Well I’m driving on down to the subside bar These days my old shovelhead should go travel far Up s...

I'll Cry Instead One, two, a-one two three four I've got every reason on earth to be mad, ‘cause I just lost the o...

In A Sentimental Mood In a sentimental mood, I can see the stars come thru my room While your loving attitude, is like a f...

Los Angelenos (Video Version) (We need a count-on for this, all right? One two three four!) Los Angelenos all come from somewhere...

Matter Of Trust Some love is just a lie of the heart The cold remains of what began with a passionate start And they...

Money or Love One-two-three-four Money or love, which one are you doing it for? Everybody has to make that choice...

Motorcycle Song Yeay......Well I’m driving down this road, on this big old motorcycle I’ve been riding this so m...

My Journey's End (The Lost Souls) (Originally recorded 1965) Well I climb the highest mountain, and I swim the deepest sea If I knew...

New Mexico Today I'm living like a rich man's son Tomorrow morning I could be a bum It doesn't matter which dir...

Nobody Knows But Me (One two) One two (One two) One two (One two) (One two three four)......[gibberish talking] I got a...

Only A Man Only a man whose broken can appreciate the awful thing I feel Only a man whose world is always real ...

Only The Good Die Young (Unreleased Version) Come out, Virginia, don't let me wait, you Catholic girls start much too late Aw, but sooner or late...

Oyster Bay From my room, I see the blue Pacific Ocean Yes my hotel has me right beside the shore Well today it'...

Piano Man (Unreleased Version) Well it’s nine o’clock on a Saturday Drinks are going fast There’s an old man sitting next to ...

River of Dreams In the middle of the night I go walking in my sleep From the mountains of faith To the river so deep...
River of Dreams Chords and Tabs

Rockin' In The Free World There's colors on the street Red, white and blue People shufflin' their feet People sleepin' in t...

Shout (Live at the Yankee Stadium) Whoa...(Whoa)...Whoa, whoa whoa...(Whoa, whoa whoa)... Whoa ho ho oh oh...(Whoa ho ho oh oh)...Whoa ...

The End Of The World This is your life, you’ve got problems with your wife She ONCE MADE YOU mashed potatoes now she gi...

The Prime Of Your Love One...two...And-a-one, and-a-two, and-a-buckle-my-shoe There you are WITH nowhere left to hide All ...

The Siegfried Line All the guns are silent on the Western wall And they cleaned the rifles that we never use it all And...

These Rhinestone Days Now we live our lives so nonchalant We spend our time so bon vivant Our Spanish nights so well arran...

Time And Time Again (The Lost Souls) (Originally recorded 1965.) Well you love me, just flow it Through these phantom eyes They're star...

When You Wish Upon A Star When a star is born, they receive a gift or two One of them is this, they have the power to make a d...

Where Were You (On Our Wedding Day)? Where were you on our wedding day? I got bad news that you went away Where were you on our wedding...

Why Should I Worry? ~*Verse One.*~ One minute I'm in Central Park. Then, I'm down on Delancey Street. Said, from the Bo...

You May Be Right (live, with Elton John) [Billy:] Friday night I crashed your party, Saturday, I said I'M SORRY! Sunday came and trashed me o...

You Picked a Real Bad Time Don't get me wrong I ain't the kind To turn away from you When something's on your mind But you have...

You've Got Me Hummin' (The Hassles) Umm hmm hmm hmm oh Hmm hmm hmm hmm I don't know what you've got But it's getting to me It makes my ...