OTHER ELTON 1970s
Elton John/Bernie Taupin compositions that were not originally released on an album by John or Taupin
These can include non-LP singles and b-sides, songsfrom compilations, or songs performed by other artists
Bad Side Of The Moon
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Elton John
B-side to the UK single "Border Song"(March 1970)
This song appears on "To Be Continued..." (1990) and "Rare Masters" (1992)
It seems as though I've lived my life
On the bad side of the moon;
To stir your dregs in sickness still
Without the rustic spoon.
Common people live with me
Where the light has never shone,
And the hermits flock like hummingbirds
To speak in a foreign tongue.
I'm a lightyear away
From the people who make me stay
Sitting on the bad side of the moon.
There ain't no use for watchdogs here
To justify our ways,
We live our life in manacles,
The main cause of our stay.
Exiled here from other worlds,
Our sentence comes too soon;
Why should I be made to pay
On the bad side of the moon?
Season Of The Rain
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Nite People (1970)
Ice thaws the sun when autumn comes,
And Bristol trips and buggy rides are over,
And the nucleus of everyone has disappeared,
As winter holds my shoulder.
So put on your make-up,
Make up to me now;
Kick off your sand-shoes,
Throw them in the sea now,
It's the season of the rain.
You wear your big hat,
I'll wear my check cap,
Throw up your string bags
Into the old trap.
It's the season of the rain,
And I gotta go home –
I wanna go home again.
Castles in the country,
See the maids of air;
Rambling fires and canopies contain us,
And the waters of the countryside
Wash away our cares –
Leave the city lights behind us.
The Tide Will Turn For Rebecca
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Edward Woodward (1970)
Can you hear the floorboards crying
In a room on the second floor
That used to be owned by someone who's no one,
But he don't live there anymore?
Only Rebecca clasping her head in her knees,
Trying to work out what it's about,
And why someone had to leave.
But dry up your tears,
Stop counting the years;
Don't worry what's coming,
Forget all your fears.
And the tide will turn for Rebecca –
And the tide will turn for Rebecca –
Her life will change,
Her hopes rearrange
Into something that might really matter.
She's all alone in a world of her own
With a key that fits her lonely world;
You won't need a crowd to shout out aloud,
What she says deserves to be heard.
Thank You Mama
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Elton John
From the "Elton John" Deluxe Edition CD (2008)
Now the world has turned away
My luck gets colder every day
You don’t know how it is
I lost all my will to live
You’ve taken the love I had to give
You don’t know how it is
Thank you, Mama
You ease to please again
You know, Mama
You take the pain away
Oh it’s sad but not so bad
Made me loose the blues I had
Thank you, Mama
You ease to please again
Well Sunday comes along with the wind
Every Sunday was spent with him
You don’t know how it is
We would watch the flames burn high
Help me Mama, I’m starting to cry
You don’t know how it is
You seem to understand what’s wrong
‘Cos you’ve known me for so long
Oh, you know how it is
Lost on one all down the line
And you always stood behind
Oh, you know how it is
All The Way Down To El Paso
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Elton John
From the "Elton John" Deluxe Edition CD (2008)
Caught me a bus early today
Hours before my dinner time
Packed my case on my early shift
And I left this shack behind
Oh I said I left this shack behind
You may think I done wrong
The police may think so too
But I’m sick and tired of this crumbling life
I said I’m doin’ what I got to do
Lord, I said I’m doin’ what I got to do
Say goodbye to Rachel Anne
Tell her that I had to go
Tell her she can follow my tracks if she wants
All the way down to El Paso
All the way down
All the way down to El Paso
People there, so I’ve been told
Treat you like a man
Who don’t creep your house at night
And mutilate your land
And mutilate your land
Rachel Anne, if you can
You know where to find me
Follow the tracks I left back there
All along the highway
Lord, I said all along the highway
I’m Going Home
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Elton John
From the "Elton John" Deluxe Edition CD (2008)
It’s a long, long journey
When you’re on your own
It’s a long, long way to travel
When you’re all alone
So be careful and you’ll find
That you’re sure to make good time
‘Cos your home is the best place you can go
I’m going home
I’m going home
I’m going home
I’m going home
I’m feeling tired
Sad and all alone
I’m going home
I’m going home
Don’t you try and stop me
I’ve made up my mind
I have been to many places
Where they treated me unkind
So be careful and you’ll find
That you’re sure to make good time
‘Cos your home is the best place that I know
It’s a long late evening
And not far to go
You have traveled many miles
But it’s nice to know
You’re careful, you’ll find
That you’ll always make good time
Good time to the best place you can go
Into The Old Man’s Shoes
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Elton John
B-side to the UK single "Your Song" (1971)
This song appears on "Rare Masters" (1992)
I'm moving out of Tombstone
With the sun behind my back,
I'm tired of people talking
Of the things that I did lack.
Ever since a week ago,
The day he passed away,
I've been taking too much notice
Of the things they've had to say.
And all they say
Is – you ain't half the man he used to be,
He had strength and he worked his life
To feed his family.
So if that's the way it has to be,
I'll say goodbye to you,
I'm not the guy, or so it seems,
To fill my old man's shoes.
Like I'm a wicked way of life,
The kind that should be tamed,
They'd like to see me locked in jail
And tied up in their chains
Oh! It's hard, and I can't see
What they want me to do, Lord,
They seem to think
I should step into my old man's shoes.
Rock Me When He's Gone
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Written for Long John Baldry's album "It Ain't Easy" (1971)
Elton's version is on "Rare Masters" (1992)
Warm the wine and give it to me
One more time again,
I'm just a rolling stone
Who needs a drop of rain;
And to taste your honey, Mona,
Is like lickin' on the sun,
My truck's hid in the back yard,
So come here and give me some.
Said lady, That's the way,
You've gotta rock me when he's gone,
You make me feel like a diesel train going home,
We got so much to give each other
And we've only just begun.
So take me, baby,
Break me lady,
Gotta rock me when he's gone.
Break the bread in two,
And you can give me half,
I've ridden hard and fast
Just to make you laugh,
To make you laugh
I've stood knee-deep in mud outside your door
Clutching in my hand a border rose from Baltimore.
Sisters Of The Cross
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Elton John
Available on the "Tumbleweed Connection" Deluxe Edition CD (2008)
This lyric is also includedon the "Taupin" album (1971)
The old gates are always locked
By the daughter of the keys
Sad eyes are fixed on the world
From the balcony
While the six o’clock procession
Take their prayer books to the hall
It’s sad to see them shed a tear
Inside the convent walls
Red mountains around them
Keep out those who come
But only birds and wild deer
Share the lives of nuns
For ladies who in kindness
Burn the knowledge they have found
Their knowledge lies inside a hole
Buried in the ground
For the Sisters of the Cross
Seek the shadows they have lost
In the walls where their lives
Are protected by God
But the feeling of love
Is somewhere in your bones
Your body is wasted
When it should have been owned
The Mother of the mission bells
Has lived here all her life
She never felt the hands of man
Touch her in the night
And the canopies that cover her
So cold and so afraid
Thinking holy mothers die
Like spinsters in the grave
To be single in the chapel
Praying knelt down on your knees
Where the corridors are echoing their proud solemnity
And the candle-light against the glass
Plays shadow-chasing tricks
As young girls fall, their eyes in tears
Beside the crucifix
Jack Rabbit
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Elton John
B-side to the single "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" (1973)
This song appears on "To Be Continued..."(1990) and "Rare Masters" (1992)
Go, jack-rabbit, running through the wood,
You had a good night and you feel real loose,
Heard they got you going round the goosecreek shed,
Trying to fill your belly full of buckshot lead.
Go, jack-rabbit, get the cabbage patch,
Farmer left the back porch door on the latch,
Heard you coming and he got his gun,
Better go, jack-rabbit, better start to run.
Go, jack-rabbit, running through the woods,
You had a good night and you feel real loose,
Gunfire breaking up the peaceful night
Jack-rabbit lying in the cold daylight.
Whenever You're Ready (We'll Go Steady Again)
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Elton John
B-side to the single "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" (1973)
This song appears on "To Be Continued..."(1990) and "Rare Masters" (1992)
I lived in a tenement six floors above,
I lent you my records and I lent you my love,
But you left me on the weekend without a by-your-leave,
That's a dirty and a low-down trick, my folks all think you're mean.
But I don't mind, that's kind of nifty,
You always see those break-ups in the movies;
And just like a light you put me out,
Now I'm gonna do my best
To get you back in the nest you came from.
You can erase me if you want to,
Turn your sights on other men,
But whenever you're ready,
Honey, we'll go steady again.
It's nasty without you in my little room,
I miss you like crazy, please come back soon;
I was joking with those things I said,
I couldn't have been thinking,
If you don't come back I think I'll crack,
Just like my old ceiling.
Screw You
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Elton John
B-side to the single "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" (1973)
This song appears on "To Be Continued..." (1990) and "Rare Masters" (1992)
This lyric was re-titled "Young Man's Blues" for the U.S. release
When I was a boy I had a lot of fun,
I lived by the sea, I was a fisherman's son;
My mother, she was a fisherman's wife,
She was scrubbing floors most of her life.
They said, Screw you,
I ain't got nothing to lose,
I could paper a matchbox
With the money I use.
At the school I attended I got into fights,
I was beaten in an alley on a cold winter night;
The teachers cared less for the blood in our veins,
They got most of their thrills out of using a cane.
They said, Screw you,
Oh, you bloody young fools,
I could get more sense out of the back end of a mule.
So you see, there's man who get paid for being slaves,
And men who get paid for being free,
And there's men behind bars who pray for the light,
And men in the suburbs who pray for the night;
And they're all trying to climb to the top of the mine,
And all of them say most of the way,
Screw you.
I worked in the mill from seven till nine,
Tears in my eyes nearly drove me half-blind,
Trying to make wages that weren't even there,
Taking hell from a foreman with the build of a bear.
He said, Screw you,
This is all you'll ever do,
It's the only existence for someone like you.
Supercool
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Kiki Dee from the album "Loving And Free" (1973)
You came walking by where I was sitting pretty,
Said, "Hey, babe, do you want to dance with me?"
And I noticed that you acted kind of funky,
As if somehow you were trying to be
Supercool, no one's fool, just a rolling stone
Acting out your party piece
In Valentino tones.
Smoking untipped cigarettes
And calling me a doll,
Sometimes I really wonder
If you're happening at all
Oh, Supercool, I gotta lose you
And your hip asides,
All this far out, right on, baby,
Teenage talking jive.
Supercool, go back to school,
Let's keep the whole thing clean,
As you would say in your sweet way,
You're really not my scene.
You cocked your brand-new felt hat to one side
Like Bogart used to do on the screen,
You've got to realize that I'm a big girl,
Old enough to know you're early in your teens
Lonnie And Josie
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Kiki Dee from the album "Loving And Free" (1973)
Me and Lonnie thumbed down a Cadillac
Outside Laredo in the heat of the sun,
The driver was tanned and he looked like a salesman,
We were just children on the run.
He talked real funny like we`d never heard,
Must have been foreign I guess,
And I felt like an actress in an old movie
As Lonnie and I drove west.
We were saying goodbye to the ones left behind,
Hello to the ones up ahead,
Lonnie and me were just drumming our knees,
While the radio D.J. said -
Keep your eyes open for Lonnie and Josie,
Sixteen and fourteen, playing hookey from school,
Last seen they were walking the road by the courtroom
Downtown Laredo at a quarter past two.
Our friend in the front seat turned around and smiled,
Grinning and shaking his head,
Asked us politely where we were going,
Where the sand turns to sea on the coast, I said.
We were crossing the border just out of Texas,
Passed the last dusty abandoned old farm,
With the AM playing the songs of Sinatra,
And Lonnie sleeping in my arms.
The Last Good Man In My Life
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Kiki Dee
B-side to the single "Lonnie And Josie" (1973)
Think the trees are shedding leaves,
It looks that way and I might say
The same applies to me.
'Cause it's autumn in my heart,
And you're the reason dear,
I should try to get you back
Instead of sitting being silly here.
'Cause you're the last good man in my life,
You left me half the woman that I was,
But I'm gonna find the time,
And you bet I'm gonna climb
Back into the arms of the last good man that I loved.
Could have been me acting smart,
But you know how I can't end
What I usually start;
You'll realize something's gone,
Sure hope you miss me then,
Oh, but I wouldn't make a fool of you.
I'd just pray that you might stay with me again.
Let Me Be Your Car
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Written for Rod Stewart's album "Smiler" (1974)
Elton's version is on "Rare Masters" (1992)
I may not seem your ideal when you look into my eyes,
I don’t smoke, I don’t tell jokes, I’m not the custom-made size;
But baby, let me take you on the highway for a while,
I’ll show you where the man in me is when he doesn’t hide,
He’s cruisin’ in the fast lane,
Stuck behind the wheel,
Jekyll and Hyde going on inside,
When I’m your automobile.
And let me be your car for a while, child,
Shift me into gear and I’ll be there,
Fill me up with five-star gasoline,
I’ll be your car, I’ll take you anywhere.
I can’t dance, I don’t dig it, I can’t see it at all,
You say I’m just a specimen, and baby, I can crawl,
My physique don’t look the way physiques really should,
But then again, I’ve got an engine underneath my hood.
When I’m cutting up the road
With a sports car on my tail,
Frankenstein’s inside my mind
And the wind’s inside my sails.
Step Into Christmas
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Elton John
From the single "Step Into Christmas" (November 1973)
This song appears on "To Be Continued..." (1990) and "Rare Masters" (1992)
Welcome to my Christmas song,
I'd like to thank you for the year.
So I'm a-sending you this Christmas card
To say it's nice to have you here.
I'd like to sing about all the things
Your eyes and mine can see,
So hop aboard the turntable
Oh, step into Christmas with me, yeah.
Step into Christmas, let's join together,
We can watch the snow fall for ever and ever,
Eat, drink and be merry, come along with me,
Step into Christmas, the admission's free.
Take care in all you do next year
And keep smiling through the days.
If we can help to entertain you,
Oh, we will find the ways.
So merry Christmas, one and all,
There's no place I'd rather be
Than asking you if you'll oblige
Stepping into Christmas with me.
Step into Christmas, let's join together,
We can watch the snow fall for ever and ever,
Eat, drink and be merry, come along with me,
Step into Christmas, the admission's free.
Ho! Ho! Ho! (Who'd Be A Turkey At Christmas?)
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Elton John
B-side to the single "Step Into Christmas" (November 1973)
This song appears on "Rare Masters" (1992)
Sitting here on Christmas Eve with a brandy in my hand,
Oh I've had a few too many and it's getting hard to stand,
I keep hearing noises from my fireplace,
I must be going crazy or the brandy's won the race.
And I keep hearing
Ho ho ho, guess who's here,
Your fat and jolly friend draws near,
Ho ho ho, surprise, surprise,
The bearded weirdy's just arrived.
On my roof there's snorting sounds, and bells inside my head,
My vision's blurred with colour, and all I see is red,
There's a pair of large-size wellies coming down my flue,
And the smell of burning rubber, oh, is filling up the room.
And I keep hearing
Ho ho ho, guess who's here,
Your fat and jolly friend draws near,
Ho ho ho, surprise, surprise,
The bearded weirdy's just arrived
(and here he is).
Snookeroo
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Ringo Starr from the album "Goodnight Vienna" (1974)
I was born in the north of England
I was raised in a working town
I broke all the rules when I went to school
But the teachers couldn't pin me down
I tried to make my parents proud
By adapting to the social powers
Oh pigs will fly, and the earth will fry
When they get me doing honest hours
Snookeroo, Snookeroo
Daddy's going on the booze
Mother used to cut my hair
And sister used to make the news
Oh it was two rooms up and two rooms down
And we were sentenced by the wrecking crane
I was born on the eve of Halloween
And Snookeroo, Snookeroo, Snookeroo's my name, Snookeroo
I need someone to cook for me
And turn me loose at night
I could spend my life with a factory girl
'Cause the factory girl's my type
I hear them gossip on the street
Most of what they say is true
Oh don't you know that I hear them say
There goes that lazy, no-good Snookeroo
Sick City
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Elton John
B-side to the single "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" (1974)
This song appears on "Rare Masters" (1992)
Ooh she said, the crowd just loved you
My name's Angel and I'm sixteen
I really love your band and your funny accent
Sure would like a cruise in your limousine
Then she said how about a rubdown
You're so cute, I'm so mean
The way you hold your guitar really gets me
I can show you tricks that you ain't never seen
Sick city, nobody to love you
Oh but sometimes I can taste you when I'm feeling weak
Sick city, isn't it a pity
That you can't float above it when the bottom leaks
Oh, Sick city
Hey man how's about a handout
All you dudes just loaded down
Just a little sugar man makes me sweeter
I like to sit at home and watch the world go round
Stage-door monkey's on my back
Begging me to save his life
Can't he understand we're not a healing show
We're just here to play some music for the kids tonight
Cold Highway
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Elton John
B-side to the single "The Bitch Is Back" (1974)
This song appears on "Rare Masters" (1992)
Your life stepped lightly out our hands
When no one's looking out who understands
Your world was a wheel but the cog ceased to turn
The bottom fell out and our fingers got burned
And there's a cold, cold highway that the wind whistles down
Where the corners turn blind like the graveyard ground
Oh your black icy snare once cut down my friend
In the deepest dark winter when the world seemed to end
Every new version of the way of life
Leaves you reckless and searching for stars in the night
But whose kid are you when they finally decide
The lifestyle you led and the way that you died
But they're oh so simple, they're still trying to tell
The difference for you between heaven and hell
To glorify something, your legends are found
But all they bought you was a hole in the ground
Years rolling by just like a dream
I'm partly human and I'm partly machine
They've lost you and fate put your name on a stone
Perhaps now my friend they might leave you alone
The Flowers Will Never Die
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Ayshea (1975)
I watch the raindrops falling on my window pane
All the bloomed forget-me-nots won't falter in the rain
Electric light bulbs cannot replace the sun
And picture postcards can't reveal all the things we've done
And the flowers will never ever die
And the flowers will never die
And autumn in the country cannot withhold the sky
And the flowers will never die
He spreads his cloudy blanket on a raging sea
And calms the cruel waves with the help of powers that be
The hours fly by, the clock ticks on maneuvering its hands
While the autumn leaves fall from the trees and return into the land
Philadelphia Freedom
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Elton John
From the single "Philadelphia Freedom" (1975)
This song appears on "To Be Continued..."(1990) and other collections
I used to be a rolling stone
You know, if the cause was right
I'd leave to find the answer on the road
I used to be a heart beating for someone
But the times have changed
The less I say the more my work gets done
‘Cos I live and breathe this Philadelphia freedom
From the day that I was born I've waved the flag
Philadelphia freedom took me knee-high to a man
Gave me peace of mind my daddy never had
Philadelphia freedom shine on me, I love you
Shine a light through the eyes of the ones left behind
Shine a light, shine a light
Shine a light won't you shine a light
Philadelphia freedom I love you, yes I do
If you choose to you can live your life alone
Some people choose the city
Some others choose the good old family home
I like living easy without family ties
Till the whippoorwill of freedom zapped me
Right between the eyes
House Of Cards
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Elton John
B-side to the single "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" (1975)
This song appears on "Rare Masters" (1992)
I hear tell some playboy has kidnapped your heart
With his plane and his plans for games after dark
Just a pen in his pocket, and the price of a room
Where the second hand sheets smell of stale perfume
If there's sharks in the water, don't swim where it's deep
For the taste of success can be bitter and sweet
It could be you're right that I act like a child
But you'll be the loser when the jokers run wild
You're just playing the game, but the stakes are too high
What will you do when the chips start to fly
When the deck's stacked against you, and the living gets hard
Oh it's four walls of madness in this house of cards
Common you call me, but I know there's time
In a handful of diamonds, a heart's hard to find
And your house of cards starts weighing you down
Your nights become restless when the clubs start to pound
Planes
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Elton John
This song first appeared on Colin Blunstone's album "Planes" (1976)
Elton's version is on"Rare Masters" (1992)
Oh, Jessie, I'd like to be
One of those men up on the screen
With an elegant lady and a cafe in Paris
Serving Pernot and Kahlua with cream
You can see it I know
All the doors have been closed in my face
And the drinks at the Casbah
Run a mile or more from this place
And oh, Jessie, won't you look at the planes
Tell me, oh Jessie, is it true what they say
That there's a capital G in the name of the game
And the runway's a home for my silver-grey plane
And won't you look at the planes
Riding down the skyway
Jessie ain't those wings just fine
Don't it make you want to fly someday
Why friend am I so still
Tied to my job with time to kill
Do I still bear the traces of old Don Quixote
Tilting giants on imaginary hills
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Elton John and Kiki Dee
From the single "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" (1976)
This song appears on "To Be Continued..." (1990) and other collections
Songwriter credits: "Ann Orson/Carte Blanche"
This song was re-recorded by Elton John and RuPaul for the "Duets" album (1993)
Don't go breaking my heart
I couldn't if I tried
Honey if I get restless
Baby you're not that kind
Don't go breaking my heart
You take the weight off of me
Honey when you knocked on my door
I gave you my key
Nobody knows it
When I was down
I was your clown
Nobody knows it
Right from the start
I gave you my heart
I gave you my heart
So don't go breaking my heart
I won't go breaking your heart
Don't go breaking my heart
And nobody told us
`Cause nobody showed us
And now it's up to us babe
I think we can make it
So don't misunderstand me
You put the light in my life
You put the spark to the flame
I've got your heart in my sights
Snow Queen
Elton John
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin/Davey Johnstone/Kiki Dee/David Nutter)
B-side to the single "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" (1976)
You remind me so much
Of the room you walk in
Where everything's perfect
And nobody's talking
You're a cushion uncrumpled
You're a bed that's unruffled
The finest bone china,
Bone china around
And I believe that the Snow Queen
Lives somewhere in the hills
She's got the world on a string
Like white wine when it's chilled
Arms that spread like icicles
Upon a frosted cake
The Snow Queen reigns in warm L.A.
Behind the cold black gates
Your talents are tested
They're polished and they're shaped
Your talents are wasted
On men of no taste
But how about proving
That passion means more than
A wardrobe of gowns, TV ratings,
A fragile waist, and a name
The Man Who Loved To Dance
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Kiki Dee
B-side to the single"First Thing In The Morning" (1977)
Writer credits: "Tripe and Onions"
I thought I knew
The man who loved to dance
When I marked him on my card
Oh, I knew then in advance
I fell to pieces
I didn’t stand a chance
For the way that things are going
And the way the band keeps playing
My steps are not the best
For the man
The man who loved to dance
Oh it’s so rarely
Moments he’s near me
Shouldn’t I let him know
Could I be jealous
Or am I just nervous
Tell me he feels the same
Play on sweet songs for the man
The man who loved to dance
And before the night is gone
I swear that they will play my song again tonight
I did it for romance
I did it for a fleeting glance
But most of all I will recall
I will recall
I did it for the man
The man who loved to dance
Ego
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Elton John
From the single "Ego" (1978)
This song appears on "To Be Continued..." (1990) and other collections
Take a look at me now and take a taste of the money
I'm not in it for the bread I'm in it for the gravy, honey
Step on the thin ice lightly
And check out the show twice nightly
'Cause I'm on the stage tonight
And if the price is right
I will amaze before the light, I crave the light
Blinding white, I need the light tonight
Take a look at me now and take a look at my billing
I'm not in it as an extra, I'm in it for the killing
Inflate my ego gently, tell them heaven sent me
'Cause I'm so expressive and I'm so obsessed with my ego
My ego and its message
Oh inform the press, invite the guests
I need the press tonight
Do you remember acting out your youth
A Romeo resplendent on an orange case
Do you remember how I would recite
And how I'd blow my lines and hide my face
Well maybe it was childish, foolish
Before-school-ish
Immature-ish, lose-your-cool-ish
But I had to grow
To prove my ego
Take a look at me now and take a taste of the money
I'm not in it for the bread I'm in it for the gravy, honey
Inflate my ego gently, tell them heaven sent me
Oh 'cause I'm so expressive and I'm so obsessed with my ego
My ego and its message
Oh inform the press, invite the guests
I need the press tonight
I Cry At Night
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Elton John
B-side to the single "Part-Time Love" (1978)
This house that I live in has no reason
This house that I sleep in has no purpose
It has a bed and a few old chairs
Three flights up, two flights of stairs
But it has no reason
The sun once shone through the tire swing
The dogs barked and bayed in the winter and spring
And the ivy that hung now sadly clings
To a dying season
And I cry at night when the lights go out
And the green eyes fuse and the full moon shouts
From road maps and red lines to lipstick lies
And when the lights go out it's tough to survive
This man holds a hand that shows a tremble
This man that I live in bears his faults
He has a heart and a well-worn soul
Ten years a slave to rock and roll
But he has to tremble
For the yellow grass on the sunburned lawn
Sleeps in her seed from the sunset to dawn
And just like your love that's come and gone
It goes on breathing
Lovesick
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Elton John
B-side to the single "Song For Guy" (1978)
I've been blown away like a printed page
That reads, "You're lovesick"
Headline news had me so abused
But I was lovesick
You never tried, although I sacrificed
My weaknesses for you
I could have understood, I could have read your looks
I should have known better too
I've been holding out but it's time to shout
You know I'm lovesick
A helping hand for a dying man
Who says he's lovesick
I can't explain why I'll never change
This sickness deep inside
I've been doctored down, I've had the nurse around
I've heard too many lies