My first experience with Billy's music was when I was fourteen and I listened to my sister's copy of "Glass Houses;" I was hooked.  I then discovered his previous albums and continued to enjoy his later music as well.  His music his classic; his songs tell wonderful tales, and some send out messages to educate people.

We Didn't Start the Fire
JFK. Blown away. What else do I have to say?
We didn't start the fire...
it was always burning since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire...
but when we are gone will it still burn on and on and on and on..."

Piano Man
And the piano sounds like a carnival!
And the microphone smells like a beer! 
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say
"Man what are you doing here?"

Only the Good Die Young
"They say there's a heaven for those who will wait...
some say it's better but I say it ain't...
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints...
the sinners are much more fun..." 

Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
(I couldn't just take an exerpt since this my favorite song, so I just put down the whole song)

Bottle of white, bottle of red, perhaps a bottle of rose instead
we'll get a table near the street  in our old familiar place you and I, face to face
A bottle of red, a bottle of white it all depends upon your appetite
I'll meet you anytime you want in our Italian restaurant 

Things are okay with me these days
Got a good job, got a good office
Got a new wife, got a new life and the family is fine
Oh, we lost touch long ago, you lost weight I did not know 
you could ever look so nice after so much time
Do you remember those days hanging out at the village green
engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans
oh you drop a dime in the box play a song about New Orleans
cold beer, hot lights, my sweet romantic teenage nights 

Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies and the king and the queen of the prom
riding around with the car top down and the radio on
nobody looked any finer or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner
we never knew we could want more than that out of life
surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive 

Brenda and Eddie were still going steady in the summer of '75
when they decided the marriage would be at the end of July
everyone said they were crazy
Brenda you know that you're much too lazy
and Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life
oh but there we were wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye 

Well they got an apartment with deep pile carpet and a couple of paintings from Sears
a big waterbed that they bought with the bread they had saved for a couple of years
they started to fight when the money got tight and they just didn't count on the tears
(oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh.... yeah rock and roll) 

They lived for awhile in a very nice style but it's always the same in the end
they got a divorce as a matter of course and they parted the closest of friends
then the king and the queen went back to the green but you can never go back there again
oh oh oh oh... oh oh oh oh 

Brenda and Eddie had had it already by the summer of '75
from the high to the low to the end of the shore for the rest of their lives
they couldn't go back to the greasers
the best they could do was pick up their pieces
and we always knew they would both find a way to get by
That's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie 
can't tell you more than I told you already
and here we are waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye 

Bottle of red... ooh bottle of white whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
meet you anytime you want in our Italian restaurant 

(now is that a song or what?!?!)