You've been playing at my club for three months, and though you're a fine musician and an acceptable vocalist, these things you perform are just not songs in the traditional sense. Because you don't sing any at all right now. I'm hoping that by writing my thoughts down, you'll have a chance to read this when you're at home or something. I've occasionally given you a nervous smile hoping it would initiate a conversation, but that hasn't worked out. It's hard to find time to talk at the club since I'm busy managing the place and you're at the piano.
General CommentFound this VERY funny take on the origin of this song. The really amazing thing about the song is that anyone who has worked in a bar/restaurant can relate to the people in the story, and even if you have never worked in this enviornment the song paints the picture so beautifully that you can see exactly what the Piano Man feels and sees.
I had never really thought about it in that much depth before but as I played it all unfolded infront of me. Playing at a bar one night I began to play this song when it all hit me what it was about. I love this song and am also a bar piano player. He is so great because of these people needing an outlet he knows this and accepts this. It's just that these people have problems for one and are drunk for two. The Piano Man knows that he is a respectable player but is no different from anyother bar piano player. Everyone at the bar has a problem and while they are there the Piano Man makes them "forget about life for a while." He does this for these people and the customers think he is such a good piano player. The waitress is praticing politics while the buisness man slowly gets more and more drunk.
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John at the bar is a bartender that seems to be stuck and wants to apparently be a movie star. The man is making love to his tonic and gin he is presumably drunk and rambling on about his life. The first clue that tells you what the song is about is when he talks to the old man sitting next to him.
He seems to have a good repour with all the customers they all seem to like and respect him. Piano Man is indeed about a bar piano player and what he sees at the bar he works at. General CommentPiano Man has such a simple meaning/story but yet seems to be misinterprated by so many people. 'Cause he knows that it's me they've been comin' to seeĪnd they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness "Well, I'm sure that I could be a movie starĪnd he's talkin' with Davy, who's still in the Navy He says, "Bill, I believe this is killing me" But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it completeĪnd he's quick with a joke or to light up your smokeīut there's some place that he'd rather be