Running On Ice Lyrics - Billy Joel

There's a lot of tension in this town 

I know it's building up inside of me 

I've got all the symptoms and the side effects 

Of city life anxiety 

I could never understand why the urban attitude 

Is so superior 

In a world of high rise ambition 

Most people's motives are ulterior 

Sometimes I feel as though I'm running on ice 

Paying the price too long 

Kind of get the feeling that I'm running on ice 

Where did my life go wrong 

I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate 

Of culture and intelligence 

The culmination of technology 

And civilized experience 

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But I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk 

A modern man accumulates 

I'm a statistic in a system 

That a civil servant dominates 

And all that means is that I'm running on ice 

Caught in the vise so strong 

I'm slipping and sliding, cause I'm running on ice 

Where did my life go wrong 

You've got to run 

You've got to run 

As fast as I can climb 

A new disaster every time I turn around 

As soon as I get one fire put out 

There's another building burning down 

They say this highway's going my way 

But I don't know where it's taking me 

It's a bad waste, a sad case, a rat race 

It's breaking me 

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I get no traction cause I'm running on ice 

It's taking me twice as long 

I get a bad reaction cause I'm running on ice 

Where did my life go wrong 

You've got to run 

You've got to run 

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