There's a lot of tension in this town
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I know it's building up inside of me
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I've got all the symptoms and the side effects
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Of city life anxiety
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I could never understand why the urban attitude
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Is so superior
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In a world of high rise ambition
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Most people's motives are ulterior
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Sometimes I feel as though I'm running on ice
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Paying the price too long
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Kind of get the feeling that I'm running on ice
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Where did my life go wrong
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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate
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Of culture and intelligence
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The culmination of technology
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And civilized experience
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But I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk
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A modern man accumulates
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I'm a statistic in a system
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That a civil servant dominates
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And all that means is that I'm running on ice
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Caught in the vise so strong
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I'm slipping and sliding, cause I'm running on ice
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Where did my life go wrong
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You've got to run
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You've got to run
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As fast as I can climb
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A new disaster every time I turn around
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As soon as I get one fire put out
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There's another building burning down
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They say this highway's going my way
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But I don't know where it's taking me
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It's a bad waste, a sad case, a rat race
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It's breaking me
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I get no traction cause I'm running on ice
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It's taking me twice as long
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I get a bad reaction cause I'm running on ice
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Where did my life go wrong
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You've got to run
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You've got to run
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Running on ice
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Running on ice
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Running on ice
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Running on ice
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Running On Ice
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Billy Joel |