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Summer, Highland Falls Lyrics

Artist: Billy Joel (Buy Billy Joel CDs)
Album: Turnstiles

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 co-exists with our insanity
So 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
So we stand upon the ledges of our lives
With our respective similarities
It's either sadness or euphoria

Comments/Interpretations

by Maria on 8/19/2008 1:07am
This song holds such memories for my friend Rosie. We sang this somg over and over until we memorized the words. This was 13 years ago. Tonite we tried to sing htis and could not rememebr the words. LOL>>>>>
I am here to remember the proper lyrics.
Thanks