please, someone out there know this song so I don't feel so middle-aged
That is some of the newer stuff for me NJ.:) Did Billy Joel come before or after Queen, ABBA? \:\) Just kidding.

"The best they could do is pick up the pieces"...and,

I recognized that's exactly how I feel right now!
Picking up pieces and rearranging them. Where do to the pieces fit the best? Where did the missing parts go?

Life's mysteries.