Getting closer...

A long time ago, Billy Joel put out an album called "The Bridge". On it were some of (in my opinion) his best solo works, and one duet (with Ray Charles - what a fabu duet, it was, too!). "Getting Closer" was one of those songs that was kicky, and it stuck in your head for a long time after you'd heard it - not only for the lyrics and music, but for the message - that yeah, things had been bad, and ill-advised choices had been made, but still and all, the best was just around the corner... It was, in fact, getting closer.

I remember having this song kick into my head whenever I was on the brink of something good and positive happening in my life. It would sit there, playing over and over in my head, and I'd be humming it for days.

I know right now that I'm getting closer. This is the third day I've voluntarily gone out for a walk - for FUN. It's making me feel better... Well, actually, it's making me feel achy, sweaty and darn-right tired. But I know that eventually it will make me feel better. LOL. Meanwhile, I know that there's still a ways to go, and I won't every run a marathon, but still - I'm getting closer...


Getting Closer

by Billy Joel
album: The Bridge (1986)

I went searching for the truth
But in my innocence I found
All the con men and their acrobats
Who stomped me in the ground
If I count up their percentages
I know they're getting rich
But they haven't taken everything
Those paybacks are a bitch

Though I've lost quite a lot
I am still in control
They can keep what they've got
But they can't have my soul
And if I don't have this all worked out
Still I'm getting closer, getting closer
I still have far to go no doubt
But I'm getting closer, getting closer

What was ripped off by professionals
Is not all that it seems
While I must live up to contracts
I did not give up my dreams
If I see it as experience
It hasn't gone to waste
Lately all the missing pieces
Have been falling into place

And if I could go back and start over somehow
I would not change that much
Knowing what I know now
Thought there have been sins
I will regret
Still I'm getting close, getting closer
I don't have all the answers yet
But I'm getting closer, getting closer

I'm a mark for every shyster
From Topanga to Berlin
And I should have learned to kick them out
As soon as they crawled in
So to every bank in Switzerland
That stores my stolen youth
I'm alright because despite the laws
You cannot hide the truth

And although you will say
I am still too naive
But I have not lost faith
In the things I believe

And if I don't have a this all worked out
Still I'm getting closer, getting closer
I still have far to go no doubt
But I'm still getting closer, getting closer


Definitely getting closer...

~M