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Track: Laura
Artist: Billy Joel
Album: The Nylon Curtain

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Name: Billy Joel
Spotify Genres: soft rock
Followers: 7,214,386
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American singer/songwriter and pianist. Born May 9, 1949, in the Bronx, New York, and shortly thereafter moved to the Levittown section of Hicksville, Long Island, New York, where he started playing piano at age 4. In 1964, inspired by the Beatles, he formed his first band "The Echoes," which became "The Lost Souls" in 1965 and then "The Emerald Lords" in 1966. In 1967, he joined [a=The Hassles] and recorded two albums, which were not successful. Billy Joel and [a=Jon Small], the drummer of The Hassles, then formed the psychedelic duo [a=Attila (5)] and released one album without success. In 1971, Billy Joel started his solo career with the album "Cold Spring Harbour" and finally achieved fame in 1973 with his song "Piano Man." Inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992. Inducted into Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1999 (Performer)

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Release: Billy Joel - Pressure (Presion) / Laura
Year: 1982
Genres: Rock
Styles: Pop Rock

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LYRICS

Laura
Calls me
In the middle of the night
Passes on her
Painful information
Then these careless fingers
They get caught in her vice

Til they're bleeding
On my coffee table
Living alone isn't all that
It's cracked up to be

I'm on her side
Why does she push the poison on me?

Laura
Has a very hard time
All her life has
Been one long disaster
Then she tells me
She suddenly believes she's seen
A very good sign
She'll be taking
Some aggressive action
I fight her wars
While she's slamming her doors
In my face

Failure to break
Was the only mistake
That she made

Here I am
Feeling like a fucking fool
Do I react the way exactly
She intends me to?

Everytime I think I'm off the hook
She makes me lose my cool
I'm her machine
And she can punch all the keys
And she can push any button I was programmed through

Laura
Calls me
When she needs a good fix
All her questions
Will get sympathetic answers
I should
Be so
Immunized
To all of her tricks

She's surviving
On her second chances
Sometimes I feel like this
Godfather deal is all wrong

How can she hold an umbilical chord
For so long?

I've done everything I can
What else am I supposed to do
I'm her machine
And she can punch all the keys
And she can push any button
I was programmed through

Laura
Loves me
Even if I don't care

That's my problem
That's her sacred absolution
If she had to
She would put herself in my chair
Even though I
Faced electrocution
She always says
I'm the best friend that
She's ever had

How do you
Hang up on someone
Who needs you that bad?