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Running on Ice

Billy Joel

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Running on Ice

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There's a lot of tension in this townI know it's building up inside of meI've got all the symptoms and the side effectsOf city life anxietyI could never understand why the urban attitudeIs so superiorIn a world of high rise ambitionMost people's motives are ulteriorSometimes I feel as though I'm running on icePaying the price too longKind of get the feeling that I'm running on iceWhere did my life go wrongI'm a cosmopolitan sophisticateOf culture and intelligenceThe culmination of technologyAnd civilized experienceBut I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junkA modern man accumulatesI'm a statistic in a systemThat a civil servant dominatesAnd all that means is that I'm running on iceCaught in the vise so strongI'm slipping and sliding, cause I'm running on iceWhere did my life go wrongYou've got to runYou've got to runAs fast as I can climbA new disaster every time I turn aroundAs soon as I get one fire put outThere's another building burning downThey say this highway's going my wayBut I don't know where it's taking meIt's a bad waste, a sad case, a rat raceIt's breaking meI get no traction cause I'm running on iceIt's taking me twice as longI get a bad reaction cause I'm running on iceWhere did my life go wrongYou've got to runYou've got to runRunning on iceRunning on iceRunning on iceRunning on ice
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