"What Billy Joel song contains the lyric: ""Son can you play me a memory, I'm not really sure how it goes""?"
The Ballad of Billy the Kid The Ballad of Billy the Kid "The Ballad of Billy the Kid" is a song by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel from the album "Piano Man". It was also issued as a single in the UK backed with "If I Only Had The Words (To Tell You)." The song is Joel's fictionalized version of the story of Billy the Kid. In an interview from 1975, Joel admitted, "Basically [the song] was an experiment with an impressionist type of lyric. It was historically totally inaccurate as a story." Examples of these inaccuracies include when Joel sings that Billy the Kid was "from
You Really Got Me that term, heavy metal. I think, in all humility, it was the first heavy guitar riff rock record. Just because of the sound—if you played it on a ukulele, it might not have been so powerful." The lyrics of the song are about lust and sex. Dave Davies said of the song's lyrics, You Really Got Me' [is] such a pure record, really. It's a love song for street kids. They're not going to wine and dine you, even if they knew how to chat you up. [They say] 'I want you—come here. "You Really Got Me" was released as