BILLY JOEL!
I'm getting 3 more of his CD's... that's 2 short of his entire original collection. (I'm also gettign a Yo-yo ma but nobody listens to him because he plays cello, and I'm the only one in the entire universe who screams in the middle of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN "Listen to the cello in the backgroud!") I can see it now... Julia memorizes each and every lyric of all of his songs... and is asked to sing on stage with him and/or Michael Cavanough. And the crowd goes wild (roar).
Just because I'm a nice person, and ya'll the lyrics to SUMMER HIGHLAND FALLS. It makes me mist. Heavily. Because it makes me think about life.
They say that these are not the best of times
But they're the only times I've ever known
And I believe there is a time for meditation
In cathedrals of our own
Now, I have seen that sad surrender in my lover's eyes
And I can only stand apart and sympathize
For we are always what our situations hand us
It's either sadness or euphoria
So we'll argue and we'll compromise
And realize that nothing's ever changed
For all our mutual experience,
Our separate conclusions are the same
Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity
Our reason coexists with our insanity
And though we choose between reality and madness
It's either sadness or euphoria
How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies
Perhaps we don't fulfill each others fantasies
And as we stand upon the ledges of our lives,
With our respective similarities
It's either sadness of euphoria