Believe

(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

 

I believe in love

It's all we got

Love has no boundaries

Costs nothing to touch

War makes money

Cancer sleeps

Curled up in my father

And that means something to me

Churches and dictators

Politics and papers

Everything crumbles

Sooner or later

But love

 

I believe in love

It's all we got

Love has no boundaries

No borders to cross

Love is simple

Hate breeds

Those who think difference

Is the child of disease

Father and son

Make love and guns

Families together

Kill someone

Without love

 

Without love

I wouldn't believe

In anything

That lives and breathes

Without love

I'd have no anger

I wouldn't believe

In the right to stand here

 

Without love

I wouldn't believe

I couldn't believe in you

And I wouldn't believe in me

Without love

 

I believe in love

I believe in love

I believe in love

 

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Made In England

(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

 

I was made in England

Out of Cadillac muscle

I had a quit-me father

I had a love-me mother

I had Little Richard

And that black piano

Oh that sweet Georgia Peach

And the boy from Tupelo –

 

Wow oh oh oh I was made in England

Wow oh oh oh I was made in England

 

I was made in England

Out of Cadillac muscle

Face down on a playground

Crying God send me a brother

Not a bloody nose

For Rock-‘n’-Roll

Give me that sweet Georgian Peach

And the boy from Tupelo

 

Wow oh oh oh I was made in England

Wow oh oh oh I was made in England

 

I was made in England

Like a blue Cortina

But a Yankee summer

Had a way about her

You had a scent for scandal

Well here’s my middle finger

I had forty years of pain

And nothing to cling to

 

Wow oh oh oh I was made in England

Wow oh oh oh I was made in England

 

If you’re made in England

You’re built to last

You can still say homo

And everybody laughs

But the joke’s on you

You never read the song

They all think they know

But they’ve all got it wrong –

 

Wow oh oh oh I was made in England

Wow oh oh oh I was made in England

 

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House

(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

 

This is my house

This is where I live

That is the winter

Those are the trees

I can hear them breathe

This is my bed

This is where I sleep

That was the dark

Those are my dreams

They belong to me

 

This is my floor

This is where I lie

This is a square room

That was a bright light

These are not my eyes

What is my soul?

Where is my tired heart?

That is the question

Where is the answer?

Inside my house

 

And I sit by the window

And I wish I was rain

I want to fall from the sky

I want to get wet all over again

 

‘Cause this is my house

It belongs to me

Inside my head

It’s all that’s left

This is my house

This is my bed

This is where I sleep

That was the dark

Those are my dreams

They belong to me

 

This is my house

This is my house

This is my house

Yeah this is my house

This is my house

This is my house

This is my house

 

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Cold

(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

 

You don’t love him any more

He threw your rag doll out the door

I kept my distance, I held my breath

Love always ends up

Hanging by a thread

 

Love hurts so much

Love leaves a scar

‘I don’t love you’ is like a stake

Being driven through your heart

 

But I don’t care

I came back for you

Love is cruel, but I don’t care

I wanted you

And I’m cold, cold, cold

 

You said don’t cry to me

He said I’m a dead man if you leave

I have no feelings, I have no heart

Love always cuts out

The warm and tender part

 

Love hurts so much

Love cuts so deep

It’s a hot sweat and a cold shake

Like drowning in your sleep

 

But I don’t care

I came back for you

Love is cruel, but I don’t care

I wanted you

And I’m cold, cold, cold

 

Love hurts so much

Love leaves a scar

‘I don’t love you’ is like a stake

Being driven through your heart

 

But I don’t care

I came back for you

I don’t care

I came back for you

Love is cruel, but I don’t care

I wanted you

And I’m cold, cold, cold

 

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Pain

(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

 

     What’s your name?

My name is pain

     Where do you live?

I live anyplace

     Where were you born?

In the state of fear

     How old are you?

Nineteen hundred

and ninety-four years

 

     What’s your plan?

My plan is pain

     When will you leave?

I’ll never go away

     How will you breathe?

You’ll give me life

     How will you see?

Sitting in the temple

Right between your eyes

 

My name is pain

You belong to me

You’re all I ever wanted

I’m all you’ll ever be

From the beginning

In a World without end

I am the air

I am pain

 

Pain is love

Pain is pure

Pain is sickness

Pain is the cure

Pain is death

Pain is the religion

Pain is life

Pain is television

 

Pain walks

Pain crawls

Pain is peace

Pain is war

 

     Where were you born?

In the state of fear

     How old are you?

Nineteen hundred

and ninety-four years

 

My name is pain

You belong to me

You’re all I ever wanted

I’m all you’ll ever be

 

From the beginning

In a World without end

I am the air

I am pain

 

From the beginning

In a World without end

I am the air

I am pain

 

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Belfast

(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

 

Deep inside

My soul fights a war

I can’t explain

I can’t cross over any more

All I see are dirty faces

Rain and wire

And common sense in pieces

But I try to see through Irish eyes, Belfast

 

Look outside

Summer’s lost and gone

It’s a long walk

On a street of right and wrong

In every inch of sadness

Rocks and tanks

Go hand in hand with madness

But I never saw a braver place, Belfast

 

And it’s sad when they sing

And hollow ears listen

Of smoking black roses

On the streets of Belfast

And so say your lovers

From under the flowers

Every foot of this world

Needs an inch of Belfast

 

Who’s to say

On whom Heaven smiles

Our different ways

We try hard to recognize

No more enchanted evenings

The pubs are closed

And all the ghosts are leaving

But you’ll never let them shut you down, Belfast

 

And it’s sad when they sing

And hollow ears listen

Of smoking black roses

On the streets of Belfast

And so say your lovers

From under the flowers

Every foot of this world

Needs an inch of Belfast

 

The enemy is not at home

A jealous green

Streaks down this faulty diamond

No bloody boots or crucifix

Can ever hope to split this emerald island

But I never saw a braver place, Belfast

 

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Latitude

(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

 

Grey London morning

Wet London streets

Rain on the window

Wind in the trees

It’s my time to write

It’s your time to call

There’s something about distance

That gets to us all

 

Dark clouds above me

Little people below

All walk with a purpose

With someplace to go

It’s my place to paint

My own selfish scene

On this cold lonely canvas

It’s just the weather and me

 

And latitude

Fold back the morning and bring on the night

There’s an alien moon

That hangs between darkness and light

Latitude

Between me and you

You’re a straight line of distance

A cold stretch of black across blue

Latitude

 

Cracks in the sidewalk

Dogs on the run

An old poster reading

‘Give us your sons’

Window frames capture

Moments in time

But latitude captures

The heart and the mind

 

And latitude

Fold back the morning and bring on the night

There’s an alien moon

That hangs between darkness and light

Latitude

Between me and you

You’re a straight line of distance

A cold stretch of black across blue

Latitude

 

Latitude

Latitude

Latitude

 

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Please

(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

 

We’ve been crippled in love

Short changed and hung out to dry

We’ve chalked on the walls

A slogan or two about life

Stood dazed in the doorway

The king and queen of clowns

We’ve been flipped like a coin

Both of us landing face down

 

So please, please

Let me grow old with you

After everything we’ve been through

What’s left to prove

So please, please, please, please

Let me grow old with you

 

We’ve been living with sorrow

Been up, down and all around

We’ve buried our feelings

A little too deep in the ground

Stood dazed in the doorway

The king and queen of clowns

We’ve been flipped like a coin

Both of us landing face down

 

So please, please

Let me grow old with you

After everything we’ve been through

What’s left to prove

So please, please, please, please

Let me grow old with you

 

But tied to the same track

The two of us look back

At oncoming trains ahead

How many more times

Can we lay on the line

Watching our love hang by a thread

 

So please, please

Let me grow old with you

After everything we’ve been through

What’s left to prove

So please, please, please, please

Please, please, please, please

Let me grow old with you

 

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Man

(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

 

Man stands in all his glory

Sitting at the crossroads of the same old story

Man got his make-up wears it like a mask

Hides inside a child lives inside a glass

Man breathes his own deceit

Man worships his own defeat

 

I’m a man

I know what it feels like

I’m a man working on the living part of life

You see through me

I understand

Don’t lose hope

If you can

Have a little faith in man

 

Shakespeare’s men got all the lines

Modern man lives back in time

Man got bravado in his big steel hand

Runs with the wolf sleeps with the lamb

Man falls cuts and bleeds

Man stumbles on his own belief

 

I’m a man

I know what it feels like

I’m a man working on the living part of life

You see through me

I understand

Don’t lose hope

If you can

Have a little faith in man

 

He’s the hoax

Behind the thrill

The poison arrow

The bitter pill

Hard to swallow

Hard to kill

Hard to understand

He’s the light

Behind the hill

The broken promise

The iron will

Hard to kill

Hard to understand

 

Oh, I’m a man

I know what it feels like

I’m a man working on the living part of life

You see through me

I understand

Don’t lose hope

If you can

Have a little faith in man

I know what it feels like

I’m a man working on the living part of life

You see through me

I understand

Don’t lose hope

If you can

Have a little faith in man

 

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Lies

(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

 

Some lie about who they love

Some lie about the truth

Some lie to save their lives

Some lie about their youth

 

Some lie about age and beauty

And the conquest of sex

Most lie about the night before

A woman lies for a party dress

 

I’ve lied for a stolen moment

I’ve lied for one more clue

I’ve lied about most everything

But I never lied to you

 

And we lie, lie, lie

On a streetcar named desire

Oh we lie, lie, lie

For that sweet bird of youth

I could be great like Tennessee Williams

If I could only hear something

That sounds like the truth

 

Some lie in the face of death

Some lie about their fame

Some kneel and lie to God

Some lie about their name

Some lie in words and speeches

With every living breath

The young lie with their guitars

The old lie for a little respect

 

I’ve lied to lie with danger

I’ve lied for a drug or two

I’ve lied about most everything

But I’ve never lied to you

 

And we lie, lie, lie

On a streetcar named desire

Oh we lie, lie, lie

For that sweet bird of youth

I could be great like Tennessee Williams

If I could only hear something

That sounds like the truth

 

I’ve lied for one more clue

I’ve lied about most everything

But I never lied to you

 

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Blessed

(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

 

Hey you, you’re a child in my head

You haven’t walked yet

Your first words have yet to be said

But I swear you’ll be blessed

 

I know you’re still just a dream

Your eyes might be green

Or the bluest that I’ve ever seen

Anyway you’ll be blessed

 

And you, you’ll be blessed

You’ll have the best

I promise you that

I’ll pick a star from the sky

Pull your name from a hat

I promise you that

I promise you that

Promise you that

You’ll be blessed

 

I need you before I’m too old

To have and to hold

To walk with you and watch you grow

And know that you’re blessed

 

And you, you’ll be blessed

You’ll have the best

I promise you that

I’ll pick a star from the sky

Pull your name from a hat

I promise you that

Promise you that you,

 

You’ll be blessed

You’ll have the best

I promise you that

I’ll pick a star from the sky

Pull your name from a hat

I promise you that

I promise you that

Promise you that

You’ll be blessed

 

I promise you that

You’ll be blessed

Promise you that

You’ll be blessed

Promise you that

You’ll be blessed

 

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