{"id":4762,"date":"2025-08-24T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engelsiz000.wordpress.com\/2018\/11\/07\/billy-joel-an-innocent-man-lyrics\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T08:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:59:20","slug":"billy-joel-an-innocent-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.detuy.com\/lyrics\/billy-joel-an-innocent-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Joel &#8211; An Innocent Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<b>Billy Joel &#8211; An Innocent Man &#8211; Lyrics\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Some people stay far away from the door<br \/>\nIf there\u2019s a chance of it opening up<br \/>\nThey hear a voice in the hall outside<br \/>\nAnd hope that it just passes by<\/p>\n<p>Some people live with the fear of a touch<br \/>\nAnd the anger of having been a fool<br \/>\nThey will not listen to anyone<br \/>\nSo nobody tells them a lie<\/p>\n<p>I know you\u2019re only protecting yourself<br \/>\nI know you\u2019re thinking of somebody else<br \/>\nSomeone who hurt you<br \/>\nBut I\u2019m not above<br \/>\nMaking up for the love<br \/>\nYou\u2019ve been denying you could ever feel<br \/>\nI\u2019m not above doing anything<br \/>\nTo restore your faith if I can<br \/>\nSome people see through the eyes of the old<br \/>\nBefore they ever get look at the young<br \/>\nI\u2019m only willing to hear you cry<br \/>\nBecause I am an innocent man<br \/>\nOh yes I am<\/p>\n<p>Some people say they will never believe<br \/>\nAnother promise they hear in the dark<br \/>\nBecause they only remember too well<br \/>\nThey heard somebody tell them before<br \/>\nSome people sleep all alone every night<br \/>\nInstead of taking a lover to bed<br \/>\nSome people find that\u2019s it\u2019s easier to hate<br \/>\nThan to wait anymore<br \/>\nI know you don\u2019t want to hear what I say<br \/>\nI know you\u2019re gonna keep turning away<br \/>\nBut I\u2019ve been there and if I can survive<br \/>\nI can keep you alive<br \/>\nI\u2019m not above going through it again<br \/>\nI\u2019m not above being cool for a while<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re cruel to me I\u2019ll understand<\/p>\n<p>Some people run from a possible fight<br \/>\nSome people figure they can never win<br \/>\nAnd although this is a fight I can lose<br \/>\nThe accused is an innocent man<br \/>\nOh yes I am<br \/>\nAn innocent man<\/p>\n<p>You know you only hurt yourself out of spite<br \/>\nI guess you\u2019d rather be a martyr tonight<br \/>\nThat\u2019s your decision<br \/>\nBut I\u2019m not below<br \/>\nAnybody I know<br \/>\nIf there\u2019s a chance of resurrecting a love<br \/>\nI\u2019m not above going back to the start<br \/>\nTo find out where the heartache began<\/p>\n<p>Some people hope for a miracle cure<br \/>\nSome people just accept the world as it is<br \/>\nBut I\u2019m not willing to lay down and die<br \/>\nBecause I am an innocent man<\/p>\n<p>I am an innocent man<br \/>\nOh yes I am<br \/>\nAn innocent man<br \/>\n<b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Joel &#8211; An Innocent Man &#8211; Lyrics\u00a0 Some people stay far away from the door If there\u2019s a chance of it opening up They&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[181,388],"class_list":["post-4762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics","tag-an-innocent-man","tag-billy-joel","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detuy.com\/lyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detuy.com\/lyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detuy.com\/lyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detuy.com\/lyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detuy.com\/lyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.detuy.com\/lyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38109,"href":"https:\/\/www.detuy.com\/lyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions\/38109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detuy.com\/lyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detuy.com\/lyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detuy.com\/lyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}