This song makes the case that truth is harder to find than love. Joel sings about how he can find someone to comfort him with promises, but honesty is far more rare. You can be in love with someone, but it doesn't mean you're going to have truth. It was the third single released from Joel's sixth album, 52nd Street.
When Joel started writing this song, he started with the title "Home Again," but was looking for something more appropriate. At his Howard Stern town hall appearance in 2014, he explained: "I didn't have a lyric for it, so my drummer started to sing 'sodomy' - 'sodomy... such a lonely word.' So I had to come up with some lyrics fast." The new lyrics worked, but they made Joel feel a bit hypocritical. "'Honesty' is the most bulls--t song I ever wrote," he admitted to SiriusXM in 2016. "I mean, who am I to preach to people, 'You gotta be honest with me.' I haven't always been honest in my life."
Beyoncé recorded this song in 2008. It appears on the Platinum Edition of her album I Am... Sasha Fierce.
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