When will you realize… Vienna waits for you? It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two (oooh) Take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while Maybe getting a new prescription for my glasses this year will help, (I doubt it, but it can’t hurt, right?) I know I’m getting closer to knowing, the picture is becoming clearer every step I take towards it. I’m not quite sure what my Vienna is it yet. He traveled to Vienna to find his father and used that city as a metaphor for anything someone might be searching for. (listen to the interview here: ) It turns out that his Father moved to Vienna, and that is where the inspiration came from. I listened to an interview done with Billy Joel himself about this song to learn more about his inspiration for it. When I need to feel inspired, when I need to focus, when I need to remind myself that I’m fighting for something and not against it. I have this song on my phone for whenever I need it, no matter the circumstance. These lyrics will follow me everywhere no matter what is thrown my way. I’ve sung the above lyrics in tears, with a smile on my face and with despair in my heart. You know you can’t always see when you’re right (you’re right) You’re so ahead of yourself that you forgot what you need Someone else out there feels how I feel when they hear this. This song reminds me that this feeling is normal and most importantly, It reminds me that I’m not alone. I’m smart enough to do anything, yet I feel like I’m accomplishing nothing. This has been a phenomenon that I’ve struggled with my whole life. I have to tell myself to slow down, that I can’t do everything in one day. I can’t be everything I want to be before my time. The days when I’m frustrated with work, the fact that I’m not done with school, and even because of this blog. I have to say the above lyrics over and over again most days. You can’t be everything you want to be before your time I didn’t know why I was still afraid, but now I have a better understanding. You know what was happening? I was feeling scared, heartache, but also, inspired. Looking back I can believe I was having this reflex to this song as a young kid, I just didn’t know exactly what was happening. It’s hard to hear that now as a 22-year-old but I understand it more. I have so much more appreciation for those words and the way it made me feel as a kid. I’ve had people tell me to slow down, I’m still young, I have my entire life ahead of me, etc. Now I finally get it and it gives me chills listening to just these first couple lines. I remember hearing this as a kid and not quite understanding. Vienna grabbed my heart in the first couple of lines:īut then if you’re so smart, then tell me Listening to this song often brings tears to my eyes, that is how much it has touched me. I immediately started singing the lyrics I remembered and was so over joyed that I had found the song that spoke to me as a young girl. This then came on my Pandora and I remember asking, “This is Billy Joel?”. It was a song lost in my soul that I didn’t know how to get out. He had turned me on to other Billy Joel songs and at this time I didn’t know this song was from Billy Joel. This song came back into my life when I started dating Arron. We love to spend our afternoons driving around the state, getting lost and listening to our favorite music. 13 Going on 30 is still one of my favorite movies to this day, part of the reason is that song. I remember hearing it and loving that part of the movie because the way that song made me feel, even as a young girl. It plays in the critical scene where Jennifer Garner’s character is figuring out what she really wants with her life after watching Mark Ruffalo’s character marry the wrong girl. I first heard Vienna on the popular chick flick 13 Going on 30. The song that really hits home with me is Vienna by Billy Joel. It makes me feel empowered, and that I’m not alone in this world whenever I hear it. The feeling you get when you hear a song that you relate to is something like no other. Have you listened to a song and thought, “this is me, my life, I relate to this so much.” This happens to me a lot and sometimes that might just be because I’m looking for.
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