“You're My Home” by Billy Joel

"You're My Home" is a tender little corner of Piano Man, Billy Joel's 1973 album, and it started as a present he couldn't otherwise afford. Broke and living in California, he wrote it as a Valentine's Day gift for his first wife, Elizabeth Weber, who was also his business manager, and years later, in the liner notes to Songs in the Attic, he owned up that it was corny but true.

The bridge wanders from the Pennsylvania Turnpike to the morning dew of Indiana and the hills of California, and the original arrangement leans country, a finger-picked acoustic guitar and pedal steel alongside Joel's piano and Ron Tutt's drums. Michael Stewart produced it and Michael Omartian arranged it, and the song later rode along as a B-side to both "Piano Man" and "All My Life".

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