<Tr> <Td> "Say Goodbye to Hollywood" (Live) (1981) Say Goodbye to Hollywood 1981 </Td> <Td> "She's Got a Way" (Live) (1982) She's Got a Way1982 </Td> <Td> "Pressure" (1982) Pressure 1982 </Td> </Tr> <P> "She's Got a Way" is a song by American singer - songwriter Billy Joel, originally released on his first solo album, Cold Spring Harbor (1971) and as a single from that album in some countries . It was also featured as a single from the 1981 live album Songs in the Attic, peaking at number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1982 . </P> <P> "She's Got a Way" is a love ballad . The lyrics to "She's Got a Way" have the singer describing how various characteristics of a particular woman, such as her laugh, make him love her, even though he can't understand why . To music critic Mark Bego it's a song about a woman who has "mesmerized" him . Joel biographer Fred Schruers describes the lyrics as a "plainspoken, never - quite - corny adoration of a loved one ." According to a friend of the couple, Bruce Gentile, the song was written about Joel's first wife Elizabeth . </P> <P> Schruers describes the song's melody as alternating between "surging" and "relenting ." The original studio version has minimal instrumentation . The most prominent instruments are Joel's piano and some cymbal crashes . Schruers describes Joel's piano playing as "stately ." On the 1983 reissue of Cold Spring Harbor, "She's Got a Way" also incorporated strings, which may have been inspired by a live performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City at which strings were included in the instrumentation . Schruers attributes some of the poignance of the song to the way Joel sings the final word of the final phrase "I don't know what it is / But there doesn't have to be a reason anyway ." Schruers describes the last word "anyway" as hanging in the air, "trailing off" and "disrupting the tempo" and thus "seemingly giving in to the emotion" of love . </P>

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