Summer Highland Falls (Live at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, December, 1977)
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 co-exists 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 other's fantasies.
And as we stand upon the ledges of our lives,
With our respective similarities...
It's either sadness or euphoria.
Oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh
oh-oh-oh-ho-oh
oh-oh-oh-ho-oh-ho-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
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 co-exists 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 other's fantasies.
And as we stand upon the ledges of our lives,
With our respective similarities...
It's either sadness or euphoria.
Oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh
oh-oh-oh-ho-oh
oh-oh-oh-ho-oh-ho-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Credits
Writer(s): Billy Joel
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- Prelude / Angry Young Man (Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, June, 1977) [Alternate Take]
- She's Got a Way (Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, June, 1977) [Alternate Take]
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- Vienna (Live at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, December, 1977)
- The Ballad of Billy the Kid (Live at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, December, 1977)
- Get It Right the First Time (Live at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, December, 1977)
- Summer Highland Falls (Live at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, December, 1977)
- Allentown (Live at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, December, 1982)
- Scenes from an Italian Restaurant (Live at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, December, 1982)
- Pressure (Live at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, December, 1982)
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