Joel describes the discarded number from River of Dreams as \"a dog. It was an art song called `The Winter Crossing' which I took out back and shot. It was really pretentious and stupid. \" He played the doomed tune once for Danny Kortchmar and engineer Niko Bolas. \"I'm watching Danny and Niko behind the console. I see their entire faces, and as the song goes along I see less of their faces. Now I only see up to their noses. Then, as I'm further into the song, I just see eyes -- very wide, open eyes. And I realize, as I'm singing it, that this really is a piece of - - - . And I stopped and I said, OK. I'm sorry. And that was it. \"
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