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Billy Joel (again)
There are many questions raised by the lyrics of Billy Joel's breakthrough smash single Piano Man. What, for example, is a real estate novel? What kind of bar permits elderly men to make love to gin and tonics? Did 'Davy' join the Navy simply because it rhymed with his name? Does he ergo only eat gravy? And why have the naval brass procured his services until the day he dies, anyway?
Many questions, but arguably the most puzzling is this: whose clothes is the old man wearing? The lyrics inform us that he's wearing a younger man's clothes, but whose? At first you think, Macauley Culkin. But the clothes can't belong to The Incredible Culk, because he hadn't been born when the song was issued. So from whom did the old man steal the clothes? Billy never makes this clear.
Yet, despite this explanatory lapse, I still have to say that of all the songs featuring geriatrics who dress as small children and who are sexually obsessed with alcoholic beverages, this remains my favourite. I guess I just like the notion of pianists being paid in jars full of bread.
Begone,
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