Worse Comes To Worst is the 6th song on the album Piano Man. The song is about how no matter how much Joel messes up his life, he will be fine in the end. When writing Worse Comes To Worst, Billy had run away from New York to LA and worked a low-end job. Because of this, we can assume that Joel is writing about himself and how he would rather be carefree than doing what’s expected of him.

The song was released as a single in 1974 and reached #80 on the Billboard Hot 100.