Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

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

Tune me in to the wild side of life
I'm an innocent young child sharp as a knife
Take me to the garretts where the artists have died
Show me the courtrooms where the judges have lied

Let me drink deeply from the water and the wine
Light coloured candles in dark dreary mines
Look in the mirror and stare at myself
And wonder if that's really me on the shelf


And each day i learn just a little bit more
I don't know why but i do know what for
If we're all going somewhere let's get there soon
Oh this song's got no title just words and a tune


Take me down alleys where the murders are done
In a vast high powered rocket to the core of the sun
Want to read books in the studies of men
Born on the breeze and die on the wind


If i was an artist who paints with his eyes
I'd study my subject and silently cry
Cry for my darkness to come down on me
For confusion to carry on turning the wheel

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

Hello, baby hello
Haven't seen your face for a while
Have you quit doing time for me
Or are you still the same spoiled child

Hello, i said hello
Is this the only place you thought to go
Am i the only man you ever had
Or am i just the last surviving friend that you know


Harmony and me
We're pretty good company
Looking for an island
In our boat upon the sea
Harmony, gee i really love you
And i want to love you forever
And dream of the never, never, never leaving harmony


Hello, baby hello
Open up your heart and let your feelings flow
You're not unlucky knowing me
Keeping the speed real slow
In any case i set my own pace
By stealing the show, say hello, hello

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 goodbye yellow brick road

Hey kids, shake it loose together
The spotlight's hitting something
That's been known to change the weather
We'll kill the fatted calf tonight
So stick around
You're gonna hear electric music
Solid walls of sound

Say, candy and ronnie, have you seen them yet
But they're so spaced out, bennie and the jets
Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful
Oh bennie she's really keen
She's got electric boots a mohair suit
You know i read it in a magazine
Bennie and the jets


Hey kids, plug into the faithless
Maybe they're blinded
But bennie makes them ageless
We shall survive, let us take ourselves along
Where we fight our parents out in the streets
To find who's right and who's wrong

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

I could really get off being in your shoes
I used to be stone sold on rhythm and blues
A heard of a place at the back of town
Where you really kick the shit when the sun goes down

I really got buzzed when your sister said
"throw away them records `cause the blues is dead
Let me take you honey where the scene's on fire"
And tonight i learned for certain that the blues expired


Oh your sister can't twist but she can rock and roll
Out bucks the broncos in the rodeo-do
She's only sixteen but it's plain to see
She can pull the wool over little old me
Your sister can't twist but she can rock and roll
Your sister can't twist but she got more soul than me


Somebody help me `cause the bug bit me
Now i'm in heaven with the aching feet
But i'll be back tonight where the music plays
And your sister rocks all my blues away


I really got buzzed when your sister said
"throw away them records `cause the blues is dead
Let me take you honey where the scene's on fire"
And tonight i learned for certain that the blues expired

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


My bulldog is barking in the backyard
Enough to raise a dead man from his grave
And i can't concentrate on what i'm doing
Disturbance going to crucify my days

And the days they get longer and longer
And the nighttime is a time of little use
For i just get ugly and older
I get juiced on mateus and just hang loose


And i get bombed for breakfast in the morning
I get bombed for dinner time and tea
I dress in rags, smell a lot, and have a real good time
I'm a genuine example of a social disease


My landlady lives in a caravan
Well that is when she isn't in my arms
And it seems i pay the rent in human kindness
But my liquor also helps to grease her palms


And the ladies are all getting wrinkles
And they're falling apart at the seams
Well i just get high on tequila
And see visions of vineyards in my dreams

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

Raised to be a lady by the golden rule
Alice was the spawn of a public school
With a double barrel name in the back of her brain
And a simple case of mummy-doesn't-love-me blues

Reality it seems was just a dream
She couldn't get it on with the boys on the scene
But what do you expect from a chick who's just sixteen
And hey, hey, hey, you know what i mean


All the young girls love alice
Tender young alice they say
Come over and see me
Come over and please me
Alice it's my turn today


All the young girls love alice
Tender young alice they say
If i give you my number
Will you promise to call me
Wait till my husband's away


Poor little darling with a chip out of her heart
It's like acting in a movie when you got the wrong part
Getting your kicks in another girl's bed
And it was only last tuesday they found you in the subway dead


And who could you call your friends down in soho
One or two middle-aged dykes in a go-go
And what do you expect from a sixteen year old yo-yo
And hey, hey, hey, oh don't you know

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


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


When are you gonna come down
When are you going to land
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man

You know you can't hold me forever
I didn't sign up with you
I'm not a present for your friends to open
This boy's too young to be singing the blues


So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough


Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh i've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road


What do you think you'll do then
I bet that'll shoot down your plane
It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To set you on your feet again


Maybe you'll get a replacement
There's plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain't got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground