Billy Joel - Getting Closer (Alternate Version) Lyrics

Lyrics Getting Closer (Alternate Version) - Billy Joel



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



Writer(s): BILLY JOEL


Billy Joel - My Lives

1 Los Angelenos (DVD Audio Version)
2 Don't Worry Baby
3 You May Be Right (Duet with Elton John) [Live from Giants Stadium]
4 Movin' Out (Live)
5 Why Should I Worry
6 Hey Girl
7 To Make You Feel My Love
8 New York State of Mind (From Concert for NY)
9 Light As the Breeze
10 The River of Dreams (Alternate Version)
11 Motorcycle Song (Demo)
12 In a Sentimental Mood
13 Heartbreak Hotel
14 All Shook Up
15 All Shook Up
16 Shout (Live at Yankee Stadium)
17 I Go to Extremes (Live)
18 The Downeaster "Alexa"
19 A Hard Day's Night (Live)
20 Glass Houses Promo Talk
21 The Times They Are A-Changin' - Live
22 Money or Love (Demo)
23 House of Blue Light
24 Getting Closer (Alternate Version)
25 My Journey's End
26 She's Got A Way
27 Baby Grand (Duet With Ray Charles)
28 Modern Woman
29 I'll Cry Instead (Live)
30 And So It Goes (Demo)
31 Easy Money
32 Christie Lee (Demo)
33 An Innocent Man
34 Nobody Knows But Me
35 Elvis Presley Blvd.
36 She's Right on Time
37 The Prime of Your Life (Demo)
38 The End of the World (Demo)
39 Captain Jack (Live)
40 It's Still Rock And Roll To Me
41 Until the Night
42 Only the Good Die Young (Alternate Version)
43 Everybody Has a Dream
44 These Rhinestone Days (Demo)
45 Cross to Bear (Demo)
46 New Mexico (Demo)
47 The Siegfried Line (Demo)
48 Piano Man (Demo)
49 Oyster Bay (Demo)
50 Only a Man (Demo)
51 Baby Grand (Duet With Ray Charles)
52 Elegy: The Great Peconic
53 Josephine (Demo)
54 Zanzibar (Unfaded)
55 Keeping the Faith (Dance Remix)
56 And So It Goes (Demo)
57 The Prime of Your Life (Demo)
58 Only the Good Die Young (Alternate Version)
59 New Mexico (Demo)
60 Cross to Bear (Demo)
61 The Siegfried Line (Demo)
62 Movin' Out (Live)
63 She's Right on Time
64 The Times They Are A-Changin' - Live
65 She's Got A Way
66 Why Should I Worry
67 Money or Love (Demo)
68 New York State of Mind (From Concert for NY)
69 Piano Man (Demo)
70 Only a Man (Demo)
71 Miami 2017 (Demo)
72 Captain Jack (Live)
73 Elvis Presley Blvd.
74 Nobody Knows But Me
75 Easy Money
76 Modern Woman
77 House of Blue Light
78 I Go to Extremes (Live)
79 When You Wish Upon a Star
80 In a Sentimental Mood
81 Motorcycle Song (Demo)
82 The River of Dreams (Alternate Version)
83 A Hard Day's Night (Live)
84 Light As the Breeze
85 Highway 61 Revisited (Demo)
86 Don't Worry Baby
87 Goodnight Saigon (Vietnam Veterans Version)




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