Candle In The Wind

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in june, 1970
Available on the album goodbye yellow brick road


Why's it never light on my lawn
Why does it rain and never say good-day to the new-born
On the big screen they showed us the sun
But not as bright in life as the real one
It's never quite the same as the real one

And tell me grey seal
How does it feel
To be so wise
To see through eyes
That only see what's real
Tell me grey seal


I never learned why meteors were formed
I only farmed in schools that were so warn and torn
If anyone can cry then so can i
I read books and draw life from the eye
All my life is drawings from the eye


Your mission bells were wrought by ancient men
The roots were formed by twisted roots
Your roots were twisted then
I was re-born before all life could die
The phoenix bird will leave this world to fly
If the phoenix bird can fly then so can i

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album don't shoot me i'm only the piano player

Walk a mile in my tennis shoes
Tina turner gave me the highway blues
But i don't love nobody but you honey
I'm true rat for the things i done
Second cousin to a son of a gun
I'm gonna wipe out your mama if she puts me on honey

`cause i'm a midnight creeper
Ain't gonna lose no sleep over you
When there's a nightmare i'm there
Tempting you to blow a fuse


Well there's no more sleeping
When i'm midnight creeping over you
Watch out honey, watch out honey
Watch the things you do


Long haired ladies well they look so fine
Locked in my cellar full of cheap red wine
But, i don't think those ladies they really mind honey
I still don't know why you hate me so
A little bit of fun never stopped no show
Well i just want to loosen up my soul honey

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album don't shoot me i'm only the piano player

I was sitting in the classroom
Trying to look intelligent
In case the teacher looked at me
She was long and she was lean
She's a middle-aged dream
And that lady means the whole world to me

It's a natural achievement
Conquering my homework
With her image pounding in my brain
She's an inspiration
For my graduation
And she helps to keep the classroom sane


Oh teacher i need you like a little child
You got something in you to drive a schoolboy wild
You give me education in the lovesick blues
Help me get straight come out and say
Teacher i, teacher i, teacher i, teacher i need you


I have to write a letter
Tell about my feelings
Just to let her know the scene
Focus my attention
On some further education
In connection with the birdies and the bees


So i'm sitting in the classroom
I'm looking like a zombie
I'm waiting for the bell to ring
I've got john wayne stances
I've got erroll flynn advances
And it doesn't mean a doggone thing

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album goodbye yellow brick road

Goodbye norma jean
Though i never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And i would have liked to have known you
But i was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend never did


Loneliness was tough
The toughest role you ever played
Hollywood created a superstar
And pain was the price you paid
Even when you died
Oh the press still hounded you
All the papers had to say
Was that marilyn was found in the nude


Goodbye norma jean
From the young man in the 22nd row
Who sees you as something as more than sexual
More than just our marilyn monroe

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album empty sky
Released as a uk b-side in january, 1973

Turn me loose from your hands
Let me fly to distant lands
Over green fields, trees and mountains
Flowers and forest fountains
Home along the lanes of the skyway

For this dark and lonely room
Projects a shadow cast in gloom
And my eyes are mirrors
Of the world outside
Thinking of the way
That the wind can turn the tide
And these shadows turn
From purple into grey


For just a skyline pigeon
Dreaming of the open
Waiting for the day
He can spread his wings
And fly away again
Fly away skyline pigeon fly
Towards the dreams
You've left so very far behind


Just let me wake up in the morning
To the smell of new mown hay
To laugh and cry, to live and die
In the brightness of my day


I want to hear the pealing bells
Of distant churches sing
But most of all please free me
From this aching metal ring
And open out this cage towards the sun

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album elton john

If you feel that it's real i'm on trial
And i'm here in your prison
Like a coin in your mint
I am dented and i'm spent with high treason

Through a glass eye your throne
Is the one danger zone
Take me to the pilot for control
Take me to the pilot of your soul


Take me to the pilot
Lead me through the chamber
Take me to the pilot
I am but a stranger


Take me to the pilot
Lead me through the chamber
Take me to the pilot
I am but a stranger


Well i know he's not old
And i'm told he's a virgin
For he may be she
But what i'm told is never for certain

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album rock of the westies

Can you tell me how old dan might have done it
If he'd been here now, holy cow
My stars might have been read on the planet mars
Because i don't have foresight to see
If we still be together in the twenty first
In the twenty first century

He's our flying ace, pilot of the future
In an endless space, holy cow
My eyes never saw a rocket that was quite that size
Because i don't have the energy
To be cat and mouse for the champions
For the champions of destiny


So long captain dan
I fail to see what motivates your hands
Goodbye restless night
You know i loved dan dare, but i couldn't make his flight
So long, so long


Dan dare doesn't know it
He doesn't know it
He doesn't know it
But i liked the mekon