LOVE SONGS (1996)
No Valentines
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
No more Valentine's Day
No more Christmas cards
I've thrown ‘em all away
No more sequined stars
No birthday wishes
No more surprises
Who needs ‘em anyway
No reason to get excited
Yes, I gave you everything
I gave you earth and sky
And everything in between
That walks or crawls or flies
No Easter mornings
It's your cross now
Keep it all for yourself
It's overrated anyhow
But keep my Valentine
I'll keep my bleeding heart
Just let me out of here
Before that sentimental music starts
And your regrets
Fall like empty lines
Like the lies we write on Valentines
You Can Make History (Young Again)
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
I can feel the time closing in
I can feel the years crawling through my skin
And if I doubt myself
I can count on the rain
To cover the tears of this aging game
But I can count on you
To play your part
I don’t miss a beat of your animal heart
And when you push from behind
I know I can
Cover a mountain with the palm of my hand
Oh babe you can make history young again
You could rewrite it, you could decide
The things that should or shouldn’t have been
You could look at me in the scheme of things
Oh babe you could make history young again
I can watch the weeks sweeping by
I can recollect the hearts hanging out to dry
When the world shuts down
I can touch my fears
I can hear lost youth ringing in my ears
But I lost nothing
When I gained you
You just blew me away with yesterday’s news
And when you run your fingers
Down my spine
It’s like throwing a switch on the hands of time
Ancient minds, ancient lives
Got a way of comin’ round
If I knew then what I know now
I’d make it back to you somehow