"Worn Down Piano" is a song by the North-American Mark & Clark Band, from their album Double Take. The song is written in 1977 by Clark and Mark Seymour, twin brothers. It was released as a single.
The length of the song is 8:10.
The lyrics are about a piano that's being bid for on an auction. The song starts in 6/8 time. When the piano starts playing, the structure changes to a 4/4 time.
The song reached 6th place in the Dutch Top 40. Since the year 2000 Worn Down Piano has been in the top 100 of the Dutch most popular songs of all times list, the Top 2000.
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Famous quotes containing the words worn down, worn and/or piano:
“Now the runaways would run no more and never
again would their hair be tangled into diamonds,
never again their shoes worn down to a laugh,
never the bed falling down into purgatory
to let them climb in after
with their Lucifer kicking.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practised, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.”
—Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)