He was either at work, or tried to mastermind his novel out. Paul, he's indeed the real-estate guy who always tried to write the AMAZING novel everybody's waiting for, and he always lost women by his insecurity and forgettiness, because he never really payed them attention. But he makes the best out if it with small talks and jokes, who, are of course, often made when somebody's lighting your smoke. That's what's killing him and what makes him sad.
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His friend John, the bartender, he's just a dissapointed guy who came to LA for the big work, but then never actually put himself out there, and started a bar just for the money, and now can't get out if it anymore. But he remembers the sweetness of love, as well as the sadness. And he meets all his old friends there and the old man, with the gin tonic does NOT want him to play a song from earlier years, he wants him to play a song about LOVE of course: "Son can you play me a memory, I'm not really sre how it goes, but it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete, when I wore a younger men's clothes" means nothing less and nothing more than that he HAS loved, but he winded up alone, and he's old now, and forgotten what it's exactly like.
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So really, you gotta practice all the politics you can find to resist the longing of just beating one of those guys up and keep your temper under control.Īs far as the rest of the song is concerned. It's obvious, and I speak from experience, for I am a waitress, that you need to have a lot of patience, tact and power to stay friendly, polite, smiling and pretending dumb, as if your only goal in life is to make your customer happy and not lose your temper if one of them starts yelling at you: ye'there dahlin' bring me 'nother one-a those will-ye? And then, when you come with the next couple of beers/wodka's or whatever it is they're drinking, thinks he hasn't been annoying enough and actually starts feeling you up or saying thins like: why shall I not give ye me phonenumber dahlin, huh? Gimme a call sometime will-ye, yeah yer hot! I think there have been some pretty good explanations of what Billy Joel meant by this song, but what is striking me is that people still seem to think that the waitress is actually talking about politics.