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The Songs In The Attic version is much better.
Liberty DeVitto is a beast!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isG3qkQXBic
Appropriate.
These lyrics are kind of crazy if you think about it. Comically apocalyptic and far too prescient.
NYC did it to itself and to the nation. Curses be upon them. They deserve all they’re going to get but the rest of us will have to pay for their misdeeds for years to come.
Constitutional convention to remove New York as a state!
“Weird Al” Yankovic - It’s Still Billy Joel to Me (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UAUCh5ocIg
Great tune!
It sums up what I remember about NYC in the 1970s as a small child. We lived outside, just far enough that we didn’t go into the City regularly. For us kids, it encompassed the entire world - beautiful, ugly, cultured, brutal, rich, poor, exciting, dangerous
Now IMHO its just ugly and dangerous.
This NYC sanctuary illegals. Looting stores. Selling the stolen merchandise on the sidewalks, fleeing when they hear sirens, only to return and repeat.
ZM will fight ICE so this criminal behavior will expand.
Wait, all of this was supposed to happen in 2017, and Billy Joel should be living in Miami now! :-)
I also endorse the version of this on “Songs in the Attic” since his band at the time, especially his drummer (Liberty DeVitto as mentioned by dfwgator), make this song even better.