"Only the Good Die Young" is a song from Billy Joel's 1977 pop rock album, The Stranger. The song was controversial for its time, with the lyrics describing a boy who tries to convince a Catholic girl who is a virgin to have sex with him.
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Famous quotes containing the words die and/or young:
“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.”
—Socrates (469–399 B.C.)
“Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang
and stood
In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?
Alas! they all are in their graves;”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)