Slow down, you crazy child
you’re so ambitious for a juvenile
But then if you’re so smart, tell me
Why are you still so afraid?
Where’s the fire, what’s the hurry about?
You’d better cool it off before you burn it out
You’ve got so much to do and
Only so many hours in a day
But you know that when the truth is told..
That you can get what you want or you get old
You’re gonna kick off before you even
Get halfway through
When will you realize, Vienna waits for you?
Slow down, you’re doing fine
You can’t be everything you want to be
Before your time
Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight
Tonight,…
Too bad but it’s the life you lead
you’re so ahead of yourself that you forgot what you need
Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know
You can’t always see when you’re right. you’re right
You’ve got your passion, you’ve got your pride
but don’t you know that only fools are satisfied?
Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true
When will you realize, Vienna waits for you?
Slow down, you crazy child
and take the phone off the hook and disappear for awhile
it’s all right, you can afford to lose a day or two
When will you realize,..Vienna waits for you?
And you know that when the truth is told
that you can get what you want or you can just get old
You’re gonna kick off before you even get half through
Why don’t you realize,. Vienna waits for you
When will you realize, Vienna waits for you?
-Billy Joel
I think somewhere, in the longing and the bitterness, (mostly the latter,) I forgot the art of ‘being.’ I heard this song tonight, after another adventerous day. Mindy and I found ourselves stuck in Savage with a flat tire, and admist our giggles of having to ask an 80 year old walker to please help two, perfectly able 27 year olds change a tire- I came home and sat in front of the tv with friends. We watched 13 going on 30, which was a perfect choice. A little girl stuck in a big girl dream.. only it wasn’t what she wanted.
I never asked for what happened to happen. I didn’t ask to move out, leave the person I loved most in the world.. but I moved. And I moved up. And slowly- in the little things, I found giggles and happiness again- in small, bearable doses. And in whatever happened, I gained a friendship that I hadn’t had since I was seven- and I’ve missed her. And I also gained friends I would have never had.
I miss him, in small doses- driving through a town I wish would fall off the center of the earth, or walking by the place we went for smoothies. Small doses, and that’s bearable.
..Vienna waits for you.
