Billy Joel - Getting Closer Lyrics






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





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  1. T.... F....

    ビリー・ジョエルの歴史において、the bridgeはあまり評価されていないと聞いたことがありますが、全くそうは感じさせませんよね。特にこの曲は特段語られることはありませんが、ビリーを大切に聴き込んできたわたしにとって、間違いなくかなりの名曲だと思います。
    来月、完コピして発表予定です。楽しみです。

  2. E.... B....

    The Deep irony regarding what Billy wrote and sang about during this song is that, in total *honesty*, he was going through a different version of it all over again. One guy that had swindled him out of millions of dollars was finally being cut out of the picture, but he was in the process of being taken to the cleaners by another guy.

  3. R.... ....

    Billy Joel is the Grand

  4. b.... b....

    Every track was good enough to be single.

  5. G.... B....

    Best song on album. from the heart. Billy always wanted optimism expressed in his music

  6. A.... V....

    I had a tape in the 80´s!!! A brillhant album!!!!

  7. B.... R....

    the best song titled "getting closer" on the internet

    B.... R....

    you're missing Paul McCartney's from Back to the Egg!

  8. A.... S....

    De lo mejor de Billy, temazo

  9. M.... S....

    always thought it was the best track of the album.

  10. K.... S....

    Stevie Winwood on Hammond organ. Billy wish you wouldve just taken a small break and got back to writing and recording songs SIGH no such luck. the 90s were tough but alas u live on playing live.

  11. B.... S....

    Rebel music and I like it. Good stuff.

  12. C.... ....

    I'm guessing this is about him getting ripped off in the music business.

    C.... ....

    no because he wrote it before he knew

    C.... ....

    Actually, you are talking about (The Frank Webber crisis) and in a review I wrote in my blog, I do reference that (michael3282.blogspot.com) however, he had already been ripped off even before that. His first record deal with Artie Ripp, in which he signed away everything (His memorable piano gig for Piano Man was because he had to hide out from that horrible record deal.)
    "I've made every mistake you can make in this business, and I lived to tell the tale" - Billy Joel

    C.... ....

    @orbison nailed it. He didn't even know what was about to take place between himself and Frank Weber when he penned this song. It was about his doomed association with Artie Ripp.

  13. J.... G....

    And if I don't have this all worked out...still I'm getting closer.........

  14. �.... ....

    すばらしい。

  15. D.... L....

    No, Billy definitely said a swear!;)

    D.... L....

    "They haven't taken everything those paybacks are a b!tch."

    D.... L....

    Listen to Laura ;)

    D.... L....

    Haha, you should listen to the Joel song “Laura” from The Nylon Curtain- there’s one part that’ll probably shock you :P

  16. V.... S....

    YES, getting CLOSER"

    ~ <3 ~ LOVE THIS SONG