TO BE CONTINUED...(1990)
This 4-disc box set included four new Elton John/Taupin songs.
Made For Me
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
If I wasn’t born to love you
Why was I born at all
If I wasn’t made to hold you
What are these two arms for.
If I can’t protect you
What are these muscles for
If I can’t enrich your life
I might as well be poor.
If I couldn’t see you naked
Oh I might as well be blind
If I couldn’t treat you right
Wouldn’t I be so unkind.
And you were made for me
You were made for me
You weren’t born to be alone
No you were made for me.
Yea you were made for me
You were made for me
Flesh and bone, etched in stone
You were made for me.
If I couldn’t translate fantasy
Oh imagine how I’d feel
If I couldn’t hear your secrets
My ears would both be sealed.
If I can’t make love to you
This body has no use
If you believed I loved you
You wouldn’t need no proof.
And if I can’t return to you
I wouldn’t need legs to run
And if I can’t feel warmth from you
Then why do I need this sun.
You Gotta Love Someone
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
You can win the fight, you can grab a piece of the sky
You can break the rules but before you try
You gotta love someone
You gotta love someone
You can stop the world, steal the face from the moon
You can beat the clock, but before high noon
You gotta love someone
You gotta love someone
You've got one life with a reason
You need two hearts on one side
When you stand alone and there's no one there
To share the way it feels inside, and baby…
You can cheat the devil and slice a piece of the sun
Burn up the highway but before you run
You gotta love someone
You gotta love someone
When you're gonna play with fire
You let someone share the heat
When you're on your own and there's no one there
To cool the flames beneath your feet, and baby…
You can win the fight, you can grab a piece of the sky
You can break the rules but before you try
You gotta love someone
You gotta love someone
You gotta love someone
You gotta love someone
I Swear I Heard The Night Talking
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
In the nicotine glare of a cold naked light
I drag my body from the covers and down forty flights.
I run out the front door into the center of the street,
I scream out your name as the scene just swells around my feet.
I hear you after midnight from the inner city
As ev’ry little Cinderella turns to drop dead pretty.
We were built out of the darkness into this West Side Story
We came together in the shadows but the moon just steals our glory.
Well this is my battleground, baby
This is my plaything
The only thing I’ve ever known
Outside of a wedding ring.
And I swear I heard the night talking
Cursing me for being a little more than hopeless
Telling me we're running lonely, loose and broken
Stronger now on passion but haven't we really spoken
And all we ever do is listen to the night talking.
On the border of insanity we can't find the cause
On a flatbed truck well the home girl she paints her claws
There's a coward who gets his courage under cover of the dark
And it’s a strange breed of devil freeze at night to go walkin’ in the park.
Easier To Walk Away
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)
Every time you turn around you
Wear another face
Every time I look away I
Find a hiding place
If you knew me like you know him
You would know just how I feel
Slipping through somebody’s fingers
Falling under someone’s wheels
It’s easier to walk away
Better off to face the fact
When love holds you up for ransom
Walk away and don’t look back
Never seen you looking back through
Smiling eyes and tears
Never knew you holding on to
Memories and fears
Just release me I can’t take it
Can’t you see a change has come
Strangled by infatuation
Buried under someone’s thumb
It’s easier to walk away
Cover up and fade to black
When love scars and leaves you branded
Walk away and don’t look back