Billy Joel - summer, highland falls

노래는 슬픔과 환희라는 감정을 통해 서로 다른 경험을 하면서도 공통된 인간성을 인식하게 되는 과정을 이야기합니다
각자의 상황 속에서 서로의 감정을 이해하고 인식함으로써, 선택의 기로에서 현실과 비현실 사이에서 치열한 갈등을 겪는 인간의 모습을 드러냅니다
결국, 우리는 삶의 경계에서 자신의 에너지를 어떻게 사용할지를 고민하게 됩니다

They say that these are not the best of times
But they're the only times I've ever known
And I believe there is a time for meditation
In cathedrals of our own
Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lover's eyes
And I can only stand apart and sympathize
For we are always what our situations hand us
It's either sadness or euphoria

And so we'll argue and we'll compromise
And realize that nothing's ever changed
For all our mutual experience
Our separate conclusions are the same
Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity
Our reason co-exists with our insanity
So we choose between reality and madness
It's either sadness or euphoria

How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies
Perhaps we don't fulfill each other's fantasies
And as we stand upon the ledges of our lives
With our respective similarities
It's either sadness or euphoria