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Late at night
When it's dark and cold
I reach out
For someone to hold
When I'm blue
When I'm lonely
She comes through
She's the only one who can
My baby grand
Is all I need

In my time
I've wandered everywhere
Around this world
She would always be there
Any day
Any hour
All it takes
Is the power in my hands
This baby grand's
Been good to me

I've had friends
But they have slipped away
I've had fame
But it doesn't stay
I've made fortunes
Spent them fast enough
As for women
They don't last with just one man
But my baby grand
Will stand by me

They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio
They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone
But only songs like these
Played in minor keys
Keep those memories holding on

I've come far
From the life I've strayed in
I've got scars
From those dives I've played in
Now I'm home
And I'm weary
In my bones
Every dreary one night stand
But my baby grand
Is coming home with me

Ever since this gig began
My baby grand's
Been good to me

BABY GRAND / Billy Joel / 1986 (With Ray Charles)

The Bridge is Billy Joel's tenth studio album released by Columbia Records in 1986, and was his final album to be produced by Phil Ramone. This album had several successful singles, including "A Matter of Trust" (peaking at #10), "Modern Woman" (which also appeared on the Ruthless People soundtrack, peaking at #10), and "This Is the Time" (peaking at #18).

Joel began work on the album in 1985 and it would become The Bridge in early 1986. Two of Joel's big influences, Ray Charles and Steve Winwood, made guest appearances on the album. Ray Charles sang a duet with Joel on the song "Baby Grand," and Steve Winwood played Hammond organ on the song "Getting Closer." Other notable musicians who made guest appearances on the album included the jazz musicians Ron Carter and Michael Brecker who both played on the jazzy track "Big Man on Mulberry Street."

The album also had some New Wave influences. For instance, the first song, "Running on Ice," is heavily influenced by the music of The Police, and the final song recorded for the album, "Code Of Silence," featured Cyndi Lauper who contributed backing vocals and received co-writing credit for the lyrics (Joel would return the favor by contributing backing vocals on Lauper's song "Maybe He'll Know" for her 1986 album True Colors).

Though it broke into the Top Ten, The Bridge was not a success in relation to some of Joel's other albums, but it yielded the hit "A Matter of Trust."

The Bridge was Joel's last album to carry the "Family Productions" logo which had appeared on all of Joel's albums up to that time as part of a deal that Columbia Records made to get Joel out of his recording contract with Artie Ripp's Family Productions.

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Baby Grand


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