![]() The refrain “Vienna waits for you” beckons us to enjoy life. The lyrics of Vienna resonated with me this morning, 33 years after hearing them for the first time. Why don't you realize, Vienna waits for you? That you can get what you want or you can just get old When will you realize, Vienna waits for you? It's all right, you can afford to lose a day or two I transported back to 2022 in time to hear the last verse.Īnd take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while It was in this nostalgic fog that I listened to Vienna on Sirius Radio this morning – or at least the first half of the song. ![]() I resisted them and dismissed the rest of the song. Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas’ character in the movie Wall Street) was my hero and I had plans to be rich and famous. Those lyrics were meant for less-ambitious people. I scoffed the first time I heard this song in 1985. You'd better cool it off before you burn it out Where's the fire, what's the hurry about? The opening verse …īut then if you're so smart, then tell me It entered my life via my prized Sony dual-cassette, auto-reverse boom box stereo. Vienna was the fifth song on The Stranger. I was voted as “Class Yuppie” (which have had something to do with carrying a briefcase to school every day.)īilly Joel’s album, The Stranger, had been released 8 years earlier, but I heard it for the first time thanks to the Columbia House Music Club (15 cassette tapes for a penny!). I was so intensely driven, my high school classmates created a new category for our Senior yearbook. I wasn’t going to let someone get ahead of me. I lived life on overdrive, never taking time to rest. I was a wiry, pimple-faced 10th grader brimming with raw ambition and wide-eyed dreams. A nostalgic aura enveloped me as 2022 melded into 1985. The moment those first few G-minor notes and that bluesy melody hit my ear, I was transfixed. It happened again this morning while listening to Sirius Radio. ![]() In the blink of an eye a song can transport you to a long-forgotten place.
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