what does "Captain Jack" refer to in Billy Joel's song?
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According to Billy Joel, Captain Jack was the neighborhood drug dealer in his neighborhood when he was growing up.
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The Meaning of The Song:\n\n\nWhile there is no clear reference or explanation of the song's lyrics, the lyrics itself are self explanatory: the song centers around a man's relationship with his girlfriend, and his observations about her wild and reckless behaviour including overindulging in alcohol or drugs. The song also contains numerous references to their active sex life and partying lifestyle. The imagery of the man's girlfriend "passed out on the deck", "pass[ing] the check" and other lyrics certainly paint the picture of fun.\n\nIn a lyrical trick, the observations of the man about his likes of his relationship with his girlfriend at the start of the song (e.g. "I love the places that we go, I love the people that you know") are in the second verse turned into the very same things he dislikes about her and their relationship. Other subtleties of their relationship, such as sex ("I like the white stains on your dress" or "I like your pants around your feet") or rough sex ("I love your lack of self-respect while you're passed out on the deck, I love my hands around your neck") give way to his dissatisfaction with the same behavior he found appealing at the start of the song ("I love the good times that you wreck").\n\nBEST ANSWER?????????
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Taking a guess...not exactly what you've quoted.\n\nPaula Cole\n\nPulling on the apron strings looking up\nStanding on the chair to be grown up\nI feel so little, I need my pillow\nI hate time I hate the clock\nI wanna be a dog or I wanna be a rock\n\nSunday's pancakes, Miss mary mack\nColor polaroids show my heart attack\nIn my second hand pants and dusty shoes\nThe day that the playground laughed at my shoes\n\nIts my birthday next week and what I want please\nIs to turn on the heat so the fish wont freeze\nThe fish in the tank froze and died last week\nOh I wanna be a dog or I wanna be a leaf\n\nChorus:\nQuarry miners fisherman in my town of bethlehem\npicket fences church at ten no star above my bethlehem\n\nNow im only 16 and I think I have an ulcer\nI'm hiding my sex behind a dirty sweatshirt\nI've lost 5 pounds these past few days\nTrying to be class president and get straight a's\nWell who gives a shit about that anyway\nI just wanna be a dog or a lump of clay\n\nChorus:\nQuarry miners fisherman in my town of bethlehem\npicket fences church at ten no star above my bethlehem\n\nStill, I'm tired of standing still\nI'm tired of living still\nEveryday i dream of leaving\n\nEveryone's talking about Becky's bust\nThe boys on the basketball just fuck \nThe same ten girls who dont know who they are \nThey're looking for some comfort in the back of a car \nThe six pack of beer, the locker room jeers\nI don't wanna be me I dont wanna be here\n\nChorus:\nQuarry miners fisherman in my town of bethlehem\npicket fences church at ten no star above my bethlehem\n\nRed brick school house\nDead end dirt road, daffodils\nNo star above my bethlehem\nI wanna be a dog or I wanna be a rock\nI dont wanna be me, Idont wanna here in bethlehem
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Especially which line??? But that's okay, here's the meaning of the song: This song is about Billie Joe's Dad who died of cancer when Billie was only 10 years old. (in September of 1982) The Wake Me Up When September Ends part comes from the painful memories that return in the month of his father's pass (obviously September) and Billie just wants to sleep through the month, wake up and the whole thing was just a horrible dream...Listen to that song again to feel it. Though the clip was about war, but originally it's about his daddy.
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Billy Joel seems to think so:\nome folks like to get away\nTake a holiday from the neighborhood\nHop a flight to Miami Beach\nOr to Hollywood\nBut I'm taking a Greyhound\nOn the Hudson River Line\nI'm in a New York state of mind \n\nI've seen all the movie stars\nIn their fancy cars and their limousines\nBeen high in the Rockies under the evergreens\nBut I know what I'm needing\nAnd I don't want to waste more time\nI'm in a New York state of mind \n\nIt was so easy living day by day\nOut of touch with the rhythm and blues\nBut now I need a little give and take\nThe New York Times, The Daily News \n\nIt comes down to reality\nAnd it's fine with me 'cause I've let it slide\nDon't care if it's Chinatown or on Riverside\nI don't have any reasons\nI've left them all behind\nI'm in a New York state of mind \n\nIt was so easy living day by day\nOut of touch with the rhythm and blues\nBut now I need a little give and take\nThe New York Times, The Daily News \n\nIt comes down to reality\nAnd it's fine with me 'cause I've let it slide\nDon't care if it's Chinatown or on Riverside\nI don't have any reasons\nI've left them all behind\nI'm in a New York state of mind \n\nI'm just taking a Greyhound on the Hudson River Line\n'Cause I'm in a New York state of mind
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I saw that a group called "Four Jacks and a Jill" had a song with that lyric in it in their song, "Half and Half."  It was released in 1972, though, so that doesn't really fit.\n\nThree Dog Night had a song called "Black and White" with these lyrics, "The world is black, the world is white..."  That was also in the 70s.\n\nAny other key words from the lyrics that you can remember?
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"Just the way you are" - Billy Joel
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The song was written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin as a favor to Elton's friend, tennis star Billie Jean King. King was part of the Philadelphia Freedoms tennis team.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Freedom_%28song%29
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It's hard to say, Elton John, had some funky lyrics through the days... most likely a referances to ladies and men....It could be an english expression.  I know this most likely doesn't help...
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"Its about two young lovers who have just meant and as the song goes on their love progresses. At first he is reminising on all the good times they've had and how she made him feel 'whole' again.\nThe next verse is how he's got to the point where he doesnt value himself anymore and all he can think and care about is her. \nAnd even though they've had bad times and raging arguments they'll still always be friends because they each share that bond that no one else has"\n\nhttp://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858485373&offset=25&page=2#comments
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The tune is from an old English drinking song.  The lyrics were written as a poem by Francis Scott Key while imprisoned on an English ship and watching the bombardment of Fort McHenry.\n\nI guess if you drink enough you can hit the high notes.  :-)
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This is the only thing that I came up with.  http://www.lyricsandsongs.com/song/264335.html\nIt is by Dogwood.
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e\n  \nOne Tin Soldier (The Legend of Billy Jack) \nby Lambert-Potter, sung by Coven \n \nListen, children, to a story\nThat was written long ago,\n'Bout a kingdom on a mountain\nAnd the valley-folk below.\n\nOn the mountain was a treasure\nBuried deep beneath the stone,\nAnd the valley-people swore\nThey'd have it for their very own.\n\nGo ahead and hate your neighbor,\nGo ahead and cheat a friend.\nDo it in the name of Heaven,\nYou can justify it in the end.\nThere won't be any trumpets blowing\nCome the judgement day,\nOn the bloody morning after....\nOne tin soldier rides away.\n\nSo the people of the valley\nSent a message up the hill,\nAsking for the buried treasure,\nTons of gold for which they'd kill.\n\nCame an answer from the kingdom,\n"With our brothers we will share\nAll the secrets of our mountain,\nAll the riches buried there."\n\nGo ahead and hate your neighbor,\nGo ahead and cheat a friend.\nDo it in the name of Heaven,\nYou can justify it in the end.\nThere won't be any trumpets blowing\nCome the judgement day,\nOn the bloody morning after....\nOne tin soldier rides away.\n\nNow the valley cried with anger,\n"Mount your horses! Draw your sword!"\nAnd they killed the mountain-people,\nSo they won their just reward.\n\nNow they stood beside the treasure,\nOn the mountain, dark and red.\nTurned the stone and looked beneath it...\n"Peace on Earth" was all it said.\n\nGo ahead and hate your neighbor,\nGo ahead and cheat a friend.\nDo it in the name of Heaven,\nYou can justify it in the end.\nThere won't be any trumpets blowing\nCome the judgement day,\nOn the bloody morning after....\nOne tin soldier rides away.\n\nGo ahead and hate your neighbor,\nGo ahead and cheat a friend.\nDo it in the name of Heaven,\nYou can justify it in the end.\nThere won't be any trumpets blowing\nCome the judgement day,\nOn the bloody morning after....\nOne tin soldier rides away.
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It's "My Life" by Billy Joel....great song and theme to Bosom Buddies!!!\n\nGot a call from an old friend we'd used to be real close\nSaid he couldn't go on the American way\nClosed the shop, sold the house, bought a ticket to the west coast\nNow he gives them a stand-up routine in L.A.\n\nI don't need you to worry for me cause I'm allright\nI don't want you to tell me it's time to come home\nI don't care what you say anymore this is my life\nGo ahead with your own life leave me alone\n\nI never said you had to offer me a second chance\nI never said I was a victim of circumstance\nI still belong\nDon't get me wrong\nAnd you can speak your mind\nBut not on my time\n\nThey will tell you you can't sleep alone in a strange place\nThen they'll tell you can't sleep with somebody else\nAh but sooner or later you sleep in your own space\nEither way it's O.K. you wake up with yourself
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Its a general spiritual song about life. Throughout the song, the singer hears (what I presume to be) the voice of God telling him to carry on through hardship and high points. "I was soaring ever higher" perhaps signifies the high points in the singer's life and the following "but I flew too high" may suggest a fall from grace. "Tossed about like a ship on the ocean" suggests being out of control and at the mercy of life's hardships and "I set a course for winds of fortune" could mean the singer's picking himself up out of a down period and moving on to a brighter future. The bridge (and the ending) "Carry on, you will always remember. Carry on, nothing equals the splendor. Now your life's no longer empty. Surely heaven waits for you." suggests that life was worth living through all of the experiences since, if the singer had not 'carried on' then life would have been meaningless. \n\nThat's just my interpretation though. Its a rockin' song even if it means nothing ;-D
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Captain Jack\nSay Goodbye To Hollywood\nNew York State of Mind\nScenes From an Italian Restaurant\nOnly The Good Die Young\nStiletto\nSometimes A Fantasy\nIt's Still Rock&Roll To Me\nAllentown\nGoodnight Saigon\nPressure\nKeeping The Faith\nWe Didn't Start The Fire
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"Sloop John B." - the Beach Boys