OTHER ARTISTS 1970s
Songs written with someone other than Elton John and not appearing on a Taupin solo album
Lover Come Back To Me
(Bill, Mark & Brett Hudson/Bernie Taupin)
The Hudson Brothers
From the album "Totally Out Of Control" (1974)
This album was produced by Taupin
If you say lover come back to me
No, never again
I'll turn away before it makes a fool of me
No, never again
So I'll live alone
And I'll probably die alone
If you say lover come back to me,
I don't understand
Is there a chance that you could believe in me
Instead of pretend
So I'll live alone
And I'll probably die alone
So sad he wants to die
So sad he can't see why
I can't get next to you
No matter what I do
Baby, love me
Baby, love me
Lover come back to me
So sad he wants to die
So sad he can't see why
I can't get next to you
No matter what I do
Baby, love me
Baby, love me
If you say lover come back to me
It's only a game
You played around with a heart that loved you
No, never again
So I'll live alone
And I'll probably die alone
Lover come back to me
Lover come back to me
Lover come back to me
Lonely School Year
(Bill, Mark & Brett Hudson/Bernie Taupin)
The Hudson Brothers
From the album "Ba-Fa" (1975)
This album was produced by Taupin
It’s gonna be a lonely school year
I’ll sing it again
It’s gonna be a lonely school year
Baby, baby can’t you finish what you started
It’s not that bad
Don’t go call me when you’re broken-hearted
Open up, I gave you everything that I had
It’s gonna be a lonely school year
I’ll sing it again
It’s gonna be a lonely school year
Listen girl this is the last time I’ll tell you, I’m not mad
Wasting time was the way that we liked it
Come September remember we got to get back
Because he loves her
I don’t care if everyone knows it
Because he needs her
Cause I am the kind of guy that would show it
Ya ya ya
Don’t miss the love because I love you baby, love you baby
I'm Never Gonna Break Your Heart
(Kenny Passarelli/Bernie Taupin)
Kenny Passarelli
From the single "I'm Never Gonna Break Your Heart" (1977)
No, I'm never gonna break your heart
Just remember when we're apart
If you keep me in your eyes
I'll keep you in my heart
Rest assured, I'm never gonna break your heart
Rest assured, I'm never gonna break your heart
I've been tested too many times
You’ve never left me
Even when I'm way out of line
Lost without you, I've been thinking
Maybe it's just homesick drinking
Broken Woman
(Bernie Taupin/James Newton Howard/Davey Johnstone)
China
From the album "China" (1977)
Underneath the sky see the storm clouds forming
Thunder rolling hardly even without warning
So take a hold on me
And trap me in your wasteland
Take a hold on me
Hold on me
Standing still beneath a broken woman
Tough and tender hardly even knows she’s human
See how her image haunts
Give her the magic she wants
So take a hold on me
Take a hold on me
Broken woman take a hold on me
Trap me in your wasteland
Isn’t it enough for you to know
I’m always with you
Isn’t it enough for you this way today
Savage
(Bernie Taupin/James Newton Howard/Davey Johnstone)
China
From the album "China" (1977)
Cold cuts in a back room,
Pool cue in a yard broom
An unshaved face with a twisted smile,
Shaved ice on a hot street
Cold shower in the summer heat
From a fire escape to the alleys beneath
You can hear the Puerto Ricans
Whistling through their teeth at Savage
Have you seen Savage?
Our Savage.
From a broken home,
To a Brooklyn pack.
He rolled out of the ghetto
Like a ball n’ jack, so savage.
Close knit in a night sky.
Rich kids with their wasted eyes.
Lyin’ in a club with a three-piece band.
Cold cuts in a back room
Pool cue in a yard broom
An unshaved face with a twisted smile
Said I ain’t seen Savage
For a long, long while.
If I Weren't So Romantic I'd Shoot You
(Alice Cooper/Rick Derringer/Bernie Taupin)
Derringer
From the album "If I Weren't So Romantic I'd Shoot You" (1978)
You can make a rainbow turn gray
And darken every day
You can be an angel or a saint
You can make my life so sweet
Lay my troubles at my feet
It depends on if you’re able of raising Cain
If I weren't so romantic, I'd shoot you
I'd boot you and then I'll kick you away, right away
'Cos you’re so damn hard
But I'm so soft hearted
I want you, I need you to stay
To look at your face is a mystery
'Cos your lips smile and frown, babe it's true
I'll either marry you or I'll bury you
Only time will tell me what to do
You could melt me with passionate whispers
And rage me and burn me inside
I love you, I hate you,
It scares me
Am I talkin' to Jekyll or Hyde
Wake up this mornin' and wonder
Too worried to wait and to see
'Cos I know who I am every minute
Never knowing who the hell you will be
If I weren't so romantic, I'd shoot you
I'd boot you and then I'll kick you away, right away
'Cos you’re so damn hard
But I'm so soft hearted
I want you I need you
I want you I need you
I need you to stay