Billy Joel Keeping The Faith Lyrics

Keeping The Faith Lyrics

If it seems like I've been lost
In let's remember
If you think I'm feeling
older
And missing my younger days
Oh, then you should have known
Me
much better
Cause my past is something that never
Got in my way
Oh
no

Still I would not be here now
If I never had the hunger
And I'm
not ashamed to say
The wild boys were my friends
Oh
Cause I never felt
the desire
'Til their music set me on fire
And then I was saved,
yeah
That's why I'm keeping the faith
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Keeping
the faith

We wore matador boots
Only Flagg Brothers had them with the
Cuban heel
Iridescent socks with the same color shirt
And a tight pair of
chinos
Oh
I put on my shark skin jacket
You know the kind with the
velvet collar
And ditty-bop shades
Oh yeah
I took a fresh pack of
Luckies
And a mint called Sen-Sen
My old man's Trojans
And his Old
Spice after shave
Oh
Combed my hair in a pompadour
Like the rest of
the Romeos wore
A permanent wave
Yeah
We were keeping the
faith
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Keeping the faith

You can get just so
much
From a good thing
You can linger too long
In your dreams
Say
goodbye to the
Oldies but goodies
Cause the good ole days
weren't
Always good
And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems

Learned
stickball as a formal education
Lost a lot of fights
But it taught me how
to lose O.K.
Oh
I heard about sex
But not enough
I found you could
dance
And still look tough anyway
Oh yes I did
I found out a man ain't
just being macho
Ate an awful lot of late night drive-in food
Drank a lot
of take-home pay
I thought I was the Duke of Earl
When I made it with a
red-haired girl
In the Chevrolet
Oh yeah
We were keeping the
faith
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Keeping the faith

You know the good
ole days weren't
Always good
And tomorrow ain't as bad as it
seems

Now I told you my reasons
For the whole revival
Now I'm
going outside to have
An ice cold beer in the shade
Oh
I'm going to
listen to my 45's
Ain't it wonderful to be alive
When the rock 'n' roll
plays
Yeah
When the memory stays
Yeah
I'm keeping the
faith
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Keeping the faith
I'm keeping the
faith
Yes I am