Reviews for Piano Man Lyrics

This song saved my life after I fell down a well and lost the use of the left side of my body. I couldnt function. I could barely speak. Someone (an angel I think) climbed through the window of my hospital room with a ghettoblaster and played this song into my ears. I awoke the next morning with an enormous sense of well being. I will forever remember this song and that angel(?)

So many people just don't get what they want out of life. Dusty ambitions crowd the skeletons in most anyone's closet.
Paul never had a wife, Davy will never leave the navy, the barman cherishes movie star dreams, the businessmen are all lonely and the waitress wants to have a political career. And as for the piano man: "man what are you doing here?" all these people with all these fantastic dreams make the fact that they are all stuck in a bar trying "to forget about life for a while" all the more pathetically tragic. Especially as most people can relate to this.
But aside from these poor hopes and dreams i love this song for the wonderful music. Thank you Billy Joel for the best song in the world!!!

This song is about people who are stuck in one job (or life) and wish they were doing another. Indeed there is no such thing as a real estate novelist but it is because he is the type that sells real estate by day and writes novels on the side but has never been published.

yeah great song bill. ps a real estate novelist refers to someone who sells suprise suprise real estate. they're all novelists when it comes to describing property. they have to be.

It's about western civilization, and how core is alcohol cons core to it. Alcohol is still crap, no matter how accepted it is. This lyric just encourages drinkers, that everyone does it, so why shouldn't I. Bunch of drunkfarts

i think piano man is awesome because i think imma play it in school i thonk the girls will be impressed because i play it nice and slow and sometimes fast but i think i and they will like it anyway

This song is about a place where you go when you are feeling down. The Piano Man is a guy who (surprise, surprise) plays the piano and sings to cast bad feelings away, to make people who feel bad feel a bit better. The old man, John, Paul, Davy, the businessman, the waitress, and the pretty good crowd for a Saturday are all like that: people with problems in life. Hey, the Piano Man himself is like that, what else would he be doing there?

It's a beautiful song. If you feel down, sit with a friend, with a bottle, alone, it doesn't really matter if you are listening to this. Billy Joel will be your Piano Man.

This song is basically telling the listener to relax and let go of the events so they can unwind and be themselves(generic interpretation). But what I truthfully think and can relate to is that life can be a blur and we don't have time to screw around or someone will have to retell us the story.

actual, piano man is what billy joe was called as a child and this was an experience he shared with many people, the ones who where lucky enough to know billy joe where more fortunate than most

So the businessman gets STONED?? I just thought that it was a poetic rhyming with alone and that the word was "Done", as in gets done with his job, anyway, glad to see what the last stanza's line about the beer smelling was, I was wondering WHAT the hell the Beer SMELLED like!:)

ANd the best Billy Joel song.

Bueno, esta canción representa algo diferente para cada persona, a algunos los hace sentirse felices, a otros no les gusta, otros se sienten melancólicos, otros empiezan a tratar de ver cosas ocultas dentro de ella y realmente "ven lo que quieren ver". Pero hay algo muy cierto en esta canción... que cumple su propósito pues nos hace olvidarnos de nuestras vidas por un momento para concentrarnos en otra cosa...

I think this song is about a guy who plays piano at a bar. Hey, look, Wikipedia agrees with me:

"'Piano Man' is a fictionalized retelling of Joel's experience as a piano-lounge singer in Los Angeles at the Executive Lounge and Joel has stated that all of the characters depicted in the song were based on real people."

so... to put to end this hate on Jesus guy, and to show that ecryone is right, let me say one thing in general about art. art is, just like this sone, what you interpret it to be. "piano man" can be about jesus and the cross.
jesus guy did a great job comparing it to the bible, so nice job doing that... not neccisaraly meaning i agree with it, but...

just as well, it could also be about an avrage day at the bar. people comeing to forget there sorrows and finding a feeling of togetherness... agan, im not saying i agree with this, but...

so lets just drop this whole thing and talk about what is really important. the song, and how YOU interpret it, not how we think others are wrong.

I never thought this had anything to do with Jesus or God but if that's what pepole want to think then go ahead you can but I think it's abour just sitting back, relaxing, and forgetting the world around you

Yeah you're right, it's a real nice song, and I don't know why, I also've been lovin' it 'till I'm very young... and for your question, I think that "real estate novelist" means that that guy is working in the real estate, but like many novelist is unknown and has very small incomes, even if he's tryin' hard... I know it's a bit simple, but most of the time, people who write songs go with simple things meaning deeper things, wich are really personnal, so you can have your own deep meaning for that, and the writer has its own, that can be really hard to find.By the way, I think it's "carnival" instead of "carnivore"...