Summer, Highland Falls

Album: Turnstiles (1976)
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  • This is called "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
    I can only stand apart and sympathize
    For we are always what our situations hand us
    It's either sadness or euphoria

    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
    A reason coexists with our insanity
    Though 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 Writer/s: Billy Joel
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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