THE PIANOMAN 
 
 
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   It's nine o'clock on a saturday, 
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   the regular crowd shuffles in. 
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   There's an old man sitting next to me 
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   making love to his tonic and gin. 
 
 
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   He says: "Son can you play me a memory? 
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   I'm not really sure how it goes, 
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   but it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete 
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   when I wore a younger man's clothes". 
 
 
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   "Sing us a song you're the piano man, 
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   sing us a song tonite. 
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   Well, we're all in the mood for a melody 
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   and you've got us feeling alright". 
 
 
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   Now, Paul at the bar, he's a friend of mine, 
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   he gets me my drinks for free, 
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   and he's quick with a joke or the light of your smoke, 
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   but there's some place that he'd rather be. 
 
 
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   He says: "Bill I believe this is killing me" 
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   as a smile ran away from his face. 
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   "Well I'm sure that I could be a movie star 
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   if I could get out of this place". 
 
 
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   Now Paul is a real estate novelist 
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   who never had time for a wife, 
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   and he's talking with David, who's still in the navy 
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   and probably will be for life. 
 
 
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   And the waitress is practising politics 
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   as a businessmen slowly gets stoned. 
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   Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness, 
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   but it's better than drinking alone 
 
 
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   It's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday 
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   and the manager gives me a smile, 
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   'cause he knows that it's me they've been coming to see 
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   to forget about life for a while. 
 
 
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   And the piano sounds like a carnival, 
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   and the microphone smells like a beer, 
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   and they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar 
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   and say: "Man what are you doing here"? 
 
 
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