5 Reasons I Hate Being A Piano Man

1. Piano Man By Billy Joel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEPV4kolz0 I hate this song. I goddamn hate this song. I hate this song so much that I wish I could go back in time, work my way up to become the owner of a small New York piano bar, and make sure that I never employ Billy Joel. I hate it's insipid and vacuous lyrics. I hate it being requested by morons who think they are being original. And I hate every stupid moment of it. Let me quite frank, I know it's not the worst song in the world. It wasn't written by Paul McCartney for a start so it can't be. But I do resent having to be a piano man who has to play Piano Man, without fail, every week. The chords of the song are surprisingly simple, it's just going down in tones in the key of C, with the corresponding chord over the top. It annoys me the crowd miss the irony of a song about a piano man who hates being a piano man so writes a song about being a piano man, being played in front of them by a piano man who at that moment hates being a piano man singing a song about a self-loathing piano man. They should teach philosophy courses based on that sentence alone. They all join in on the "play me a song you're the piano man" lyric, adopting a false camaraderie and I feel nauseous. Although i have to play it once a week, I can't imagine how much my manager must hate hearing that damn song 6 nights a week. And it's not like he can block it out, the entire bar sings along. So let's take a minute here for the poor piano bar manager. Then let's not because he's the bast**d who makes the most money. So yes, even though they are 5 reasons I hate being a piano man, there are 25 reason I love being one. I love making people's evenings and love being paid to do something I really enjoy. But if you meet me, please don't ask me to play Billy Joel.