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Doenlaod vienna waits for you9/13/2023 ![]() You can hire David to be an executive coach, job search strategist or resume/LinkedIn profile writer. Published by David Pinkley, Jet Fuel for Your Career™. If you want to hear the entire song, I’ve linked to the YouTube video in the comment below. Fennon, Traute Furthner, Nikolaus Habjan, Cosima Lehninger. If you’re burned out or at risk of being so, “When will you realize Vienna waits for you?” Vienna Waits For You (2012) iMDb:7.1/10/267 Genre: Short, Comedy, Horror Actors: Alexander E. Whether you’re in high school or in high finance, a backpack is much more practical than a briefcase.ģ. Never under-estimate the power of music.Ģ. ![]() I am fortunate to have learned this lesson.ġ. I have not been to Vienna physically, but I’ve learned to go to the proverbial Vienna – finding time and space to travel physically and mentally and allowing myself to relax. But I no longer heap guilt on myself for taking time away. ![]() “You can afford to lose a day or two.”Īnd what better place to escape than in Vienna, Austria? Nestled in the heart of Europe, rich in history and European charm, it’s a place far removed from our daily problems and feigned self-importance. It’s a call to step off the treadmill of grinding work and endless deadlines. The refrain “Vienna waits for you” beckons us to enjoy life. The true message of Vienna resonated with me this morning, 35 years after hearing the song for the first time. Why don't you realize, Vienna waits for you? That you can get what you want or you can just get old When will you realize, Vienna waits for you? It's all right, you can afford to lose a day or two I arrived back in 2020 just in time to hear the last verse.Īnd take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while It was in this nostalgic fog that I listened to Vienna on Sirius Radio this morning – or at least the first half of the song. I resisted them and dismissed the rest of the song. These lyrics were meant for the “less-ambitious”. Back then, the suggestion to “slow down” made me even more laser-focused. I scoffed the first time I heard these lyrics in ‘85. You'd better cool it off before you burn it out Where's the fire, what's the hurry about? The opening verse …īut then if you're so smart, then tell me It entered my life via my prized Sony dual-cassette, auto-reverse boom box stereo. Vienna was the fifth song on The Stranger. Laser-focused.īilly Joel’s album, The Stranger, had been released 8 years earlier, but I was hearing it for the first time in 1985 thanks to the Columbia House Music Club (15 cassette tapes for a penny!). (Maybe that’s because I didn’t carry a backpack. ![]() I was so intensely driven, my high school graduating class created a new category for the yearbook, voting me Class Yuppie. I lived life on overdrive, never taking time to rest for fear of losing ground to whomever was out there ready to best me. I was a wiry, pimple-faced 10th grader brimming with raw ambition and wide-eyed dreams. A nostalgic aura enveloped me and 2020 suddenly melded into 1985. The moment those first few G-minor notes and that bluesy melody hit my ear, I was transfixed. It happened again this morning while listening to Sirius Radio. In the blink of an eye a song can transport you to a long-forgotten place. ![]()
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