Well, mostly this is a song that got me through some rough patches years ago when I was querying Music Major. It's all right, you can afford to lose a day or two. Joel!Īnd take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while. (I won't say any more to avoid too much of a spoiler.)Īnyway, this song just catapults me to a contemplative place whenever I hear it.
I think the writers realized that to end it there would be cheating the audience out of something special, so. There are ups and downs, and they form a much deeper bond than they'd ever had back home. In the episode, platonic friends Alex and Elaine go on an impulsive trip to Europe, with Billy Joel's song playing in the background several times throughout. But major changes just because the story demands it? So rare. Sure, M*A*S*H's Henry Blake could die kids could grow up and go to college, and so on, but it was usually obvious that there were "real world" reasons for the changes (actors wanting to leave, etc). In the 70s, it was pretty rare to see true character development in an ongoing comedy series. The episode, appropriately titled Vienna Waits, was kind of a shocker at the time.
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:-)īut I suppose the deepest impression this song had on me was (don't laugh now) from an episode of the TV sitcom Taxi that was built around it. Tolkien's elves sought out when they grew tired of their Type A lives in Middle Earth. I kind of got a similar impression when I heard the song as a teen, but being a sci-fi/fantasy geek, I associated Vienna with Valinor, the mythical western paradise that J.R.R. When will you realize, Vienna waits for you? You've got your passion, you've got your pride,īut don't you know that only fools are satisfied?ĭream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. That stuck with the young Piano Man, who kept this city in the back of his mind for years as a place that he could always return to when he was old. His dad told him that the elderly were valued there, and they're given things to do so they still feel useful. In an interview, Joel talked about visiting his long-lost father in Vienna, and seeing so many old people working in shops, sweeping sidewalks, and so on.
There are places where he seems to mock the person he is addressing ( "You know that when the truth is told, that you can get what you want or you can just get old") then later he makes it clear that kind of Type A thinking is just no damn good for you in the long run. When I first heard the song as a teenager, I was a bit confused by the way Joel alternated between irony and sincerity in the lyrics.
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