Billy Joel - 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 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 argue and we compromise,
and realize that nothing's ever changed,
For all our mutual experience,
our seperate conclusions are the same.
Now we are forced to
recognize our inhumanity,
Our reason co-exists with our insanity.
And though we choose between
reality and madness...
It's either sadness or euphoria.

How thooughtlessly
we dissipate our energies
Perhaps we don't fulfill
each other's fantasies.
And so we'll stand upon
the ledges of our lives,
With our respective similarities...
It's either sadness or euphoria.


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 argue and we compromise,
and realize that nothing's ever changed,
For all our mutual experience,
our seperate conclusions are the same.
Now we are forced to
recognize our inhumanity,
Our reason co-exists with our insanity.
And though we choose between
reality and madness...
It's either sadness or euphoria.

How thooughtlessly
we dissipate our energies
Perhaps we don't fulfill
each other's fantasies.
And so we'll stand upon
the ledges of our lives,
With our respective similarities...
It's either sadness or euphoria.


Billy Joel - Summer, Highland Falls

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