Piano Man - Billy Joel.

QuoteOriginally posted by: outrunThere is an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.Very visual, ... was just on the radio in my car.It is especially creepy when he gets to the part about how he stole some young guy's clothes and wore them, on the theory it gave him special powers or something. The thought of some old guy grinning insanely as he tries on some unwitting person's stolen clothes is a little much. That is some freaky "Silence of the Lambs" stuff. You have to wonder what is next? Kidnapping college kids, and getting off sexually by stitching a magical suit out of their skins?What is especially freaky is that he is reminiscing about stealing someone's clothes, like it is that best thing that ever happened to him!And you have to wonder: How did he steal the clothes? Were they left behind at the laundromat? Did he find a dry cleaning tag on the sidewalk and steal them that way? Did he wait outside the young guy's house for him to leave, and break in specifically to get his young clothes? Or did he dig up the body of a guy who had died young, don the clothes he was buried in, and have sex with the corpse right in the graveyard, in some sick satanic ritual speaking in tongues and uttering forgotten verses? None of this had he known before, but it came to him spontaneously when he put on the clothes!And now he wants the piano man to summon the demon, and take him back to that forgotten place where he bargained with the devil to return his youth, by stealing a younger man's soul through his clothes. Sick sick sick sick.Watch out, young piano man! Those are some mighty nice clothes you're wearing!

You can't be serious. It is a poetic way of saying when *he* was a younger man.It's nine o'clock on a SaturdayThe regular crowd shuffles inThere's an old man sitting next to meMakin' love to his tonic and ginHe says, "Son, can you play me a memoryI'm not really sure how it goesBut it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it completeWhen I wore a younger man's clothes."la la la, di da daLa la, di di da da dumChorus:Sing us a song, you're the piano manSing us a song tonightWell, we're all in the mood for a melodyAnd you've got us all feelin' all rightNow John at the bar is a friend of mineHe gets me my drinks for freeAnd he's quick with a joke and he'll light up your smokeBut there's some place that he'd rather beHe says, "Bill, I believe this is killing me."As his smile ran away from his face"Well I'm sure that I could be a movie starIf I could get out of this place"Oh, la la la, di da daLa la, di da da da dumNow Paul is a real estate novelistWho never had time for a wifeAnd he's talkin' with Davy, who's still in the NavyAnd probably will be for lifeAnd the waitress is practicing politicsAs the businessman slowly gets stonedYes, they're sharing a drink they call lonelinessBut it's better than drinkin' aloneChorussing us a song you're the piano mansing us a song tonight well we're all in the mood for a melodyand you got us all feeling alrightIt's a pretty good crowd for a SaturdayAnd the manager gives me a smile'Cause he knows that it's me they've been comin' to seeTo forget about their life for a whileAnd the piano, it sounds like a carnivoreAnd the microphone smells like a beerAnd they sit at the bar and put bread in my jarAnd say, "Man, what are you doin' here?"Oh, la la la, di da daLa la, di da da da dumChorus:sing us a song you're the piano man sing us a song tonightwell we're all in the mood for a melody and you got us all feeling alright

but if you want to get into to cross-dressing, how about this:Holly came from Miami, F-L-AHitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.Plucked her eyebrows on the wayShaved her legs and then he was a she...Doo do doo do doo do do doo ..."

QuoteOriginally posted by: trackstara poetic way of saying when *he* was a younger man.So he was wearing like a child's clothes? He stole some little boy's clothes? If he was younger, then how much younger do you suppose the person was whose clothes he stole? It is legitimate to suspect it may have been a teenager, or even a young boy.And now he is drunk and sloppy, and moving his stool a little bit uncomfortably close to the piano player. How old do you suppose Billy Joel was when he wrote that, a story of a drunk old pervert making slurping sounds and breathing on him at the piano?

Billy Joel was born in 1949 and Piano Man came out in 1973, so early 20s when he wrote it.**More lyrics please. Guess but do not Google. ** However, I am going outside now and getting away from this bizarre place called the Internet.

In a word Dean Martin Rough when baby leaves

A bottle of white, a bottle of red,Perhaps a bottle of rosé instead.We'll get a table near the streetIn our old familiar placeYou and I - face to face hm, hm

QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnIn a word Dean Martin Rough when baby leaves Of yeah, well how aboutYour baby leftYou done lost your joband the rent is due tomorrowOne Bourbon, One Scotch, and One Beer - George Thoroughgoodand the Destroyers.

It ties in to your first post.Very precisely. ***You can think a bit more; this is the answer

QuoteOriginally posted by: outrunThere is an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.Very visual, ... was just on the radio in my car.here mild weather has recently come back. and, once again couples (groups?) park their cars along the country roads and have sex.

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