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Billy Joel – Big Shot
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Following in the judgmental blame-game tactics of “Captain Jack,” “Big Shot” features Billy Joel berating someone for having to always out-do everyone else.
There are a lot of
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Billy Joel – Big Shot Samples
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Billy Joel – Big Shot (Live at Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY - June 1990)
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[Verse 1] / Well, you went uptown ridin' in your limousine with your fine Park Avenue clothes / You had the Dom Perignon in your hand and the spoon up your nose / Ooh, and when you
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Billy Joel – Big Shot (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Well, you went uptown riding in your limousine / With your fine Park Avenue clothes / You had the Dom Perignon in your hand / And the spoon up your nose / Ooooh / And when you wake
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Drew On The Air – Hamilton Mashup ('My Shot' vs. EMINƎM and Beastie Boys) Samples
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Spotify – This Is Billy Joel
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1. Uptown Girl / 2. Piano Man / 3. My Life / 4. She's Always a Woman / 5. Scenes from an Italian Restaurant / 6. Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) / 7. Vienna / 8. New York State of Mind
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YUNG FLEX – THESE NO MELODY BEATS STILL GO HARD
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[Verse] / Walk in the venue, I’m gripping my blade / Nigga talk to me wrong, he get stabbed in the face / You best get to the back of you ain’t finna rage / I go stupid on stage
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Justin Starling – What Do You Say
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[Verse 1]: / Big shot, like I'm Billy Joel, with the chilly flow, making silly dough / Getting dubs like I'm 10 and 0, since 2010 if you didn't know / Hop out, I'm right in the
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Billy Joel – Goodnight Saigon (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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We met as soul mates on Parris Island / We left as inmates from an asylum / And we were sharp, as sharp as knives / And we were so gung ho to lay down our lives / We came in
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Billy Joel – Honesty (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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If you search for tenderness / It isn't hard to find / You can have the love you need to live / But if you look for truthfulness / You might just as well be blind / It always seems
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Billy Joel – She’s Right On Time (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Turn on all the Christmas lights / Cause baby's coming home tonight / I can hear her footsteps in the street / Turn the choral music higher / Pile more wood upon the fire / That
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Billy Joel – Scenes from an Italian Restaurant (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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A bottle of white, a bottle of red / Perhaps a bottle of rosé instead / We'll get a table near the street / In our old familiar place / You and I, face to face, mmm / A bottle of
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Billy Joel – Storm Front (Live at Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY - June 1990)
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Storm Front (Live at Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY - June 1990) Lyrics:
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Billy Joel – Everybody Loves You Now (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Baby all the lights are turned on you / Now you're in the center of the stage / Everything revolves on what you do / Ah, you are in your prime; you've come of age / And you can
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Billy Joel – The Ballad of Billy the Kid (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia / Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand / And his daring life of crime / Made him a legend in his time / East and West of the Rio
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Billy Joel – It's Still Rock & Roll to Me (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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What’s the matter with the clothes I’m wearing? / (Can’t you tell that your tie’s too wide?) / Maybe I should buy some old tab collars? / (Welcome back to the age of jive.) / Where
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Billy Joel – Laura (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Laura / Calls me / In the middle of the night / Passes on her / Painful information / Then these careless fingers / They get caught in her vice / Til they're bleeding / On my
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Billy Joel – My Life (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Got a call from an old friend we'd used to be real close / Said he couldn't go on the American way / Closed the shop, sold the house, bought a ticket to the west coast / Now he
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Billy Joel – Don’t Ask Me Why (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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(Uno. Dos. Uno, dos, tres, cuatro!) / All the waiters in your grand café leave their tables when you blink / Whoa-oh oh-oh-oh / Every dog must have his everyday, every drunk must
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Billy Joel – Allentown (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Well we're living here in Allentown / And they're closing all the factories down / Out in Bethlehem they're killing time / Filling out forms / Standing in line / Well our fathers
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Billy Joel – Vienna (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Slow down you crazy child, you’re so ambitious for a juvenile / But then if you’re so smart tell me why are you still so afraid? / Mmm-hmm…Where’s the fire, what’s the hurry about
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Billy Joel – The Entertainer (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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I am the entertainer, and I know just where I stand: / Another serenader, and another long-haired band / Today I am your champion, I may have won your hearts / But I know the game
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Billy Joel – New York State of Mind (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Some folks like to get away, take a holiday from the neighborhood / Hop a flight to Miami Beach or to Hollywood / But I’m taking a Greyhound on the Hudson River Line / I’m in a New
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Billy Joel – Only the Good Die Young (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Come out Virginia, don't let me wait / You Catholic girls start much too late / Aw but sooner or later it comes down to fate, I might as well be the one / Well, they showed you a
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Billy Joel – And So It Goes (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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In every heart there is a room / A sanctuary safe and strong / To heal the wounds from lover's past / Until a new one comes along / I spoke to you in cautious tones / You answered
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Billy Joel – Honesty
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The second song off of Billy Joel’s 1978 album 52 Street.
A gripping song dissecting the lack of shame in society. The song was a leading single prior to the album’s release. Both
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Billy Joel – The River of Dreams (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, ah ah ah ah ah ah / Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, uh huh [gibberish] / (I go walking in the, in the middle of the) Ah / (I go walking in the, in the middle of
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Billy Joel – A Matter of Trust (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Some love is just a lie of the heart / The cold remains of what began with a passionate start / And they may not want it to end / But it will it's just a question of when / I've
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Billy Joel – Piano Man (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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It's nine o'clock on a Saturday / The regular crowd shuffles in / There's an old man sitting next to me / Makin' love to his tonic and gin / He says, "Son, can you play me a memory
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Billy Joel – The Downeaster "Alexa" (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Well I'm on the Downeaster "Alexa" / And I'm cruising through Block Island Sound / I have charted a course to the Vineyard / But tonight I am Nantucket bound / We took on diesel
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Billy Joel – You May Be Right (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006)
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Friday night I crashed your party / Saturday I said I'm sorry / Sunday came and trashed me out again / I was only having fun / Wasn't hurting any one / And we all enjoyed the
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Billy Joel – My Life
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Straying away from the piano ballad but still infused with New York soul, “My Life” from 1978’s 52nd Street was also a relatively big hit, reaching #2 on the U.S. adult
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