Love Songs (mca Label Usa)

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 goodbye yellow brick road

I can see by your eyes you must be lying
When you think i don't have a clue
Baby you're crazy
If you think that you can fool me
Because i've seen that movie too

The one where the players are acting surprised
Saying love's just a four letter word
Between forcing smiles, with the knives in their eyes
Well their actions become so absurd


So keep your auditions for somebody
Who hasn't got so much to lose
`cause you can tell by the lines i'm reciting
That i've seen that movie too


It's a habit i have, i don't get pushed around
Stop twinkling your star like you do
I'm not the blue print for all of your b films
Because i've seen that movie too

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album captain fantastic and the brown dirt cowboy

I used to know this old scarecrow
He was my song, my joy and sorrow
Cast alone between the furrows
Of a field no longer sown by anyone

I held a dandelion
That said the time had come
To leave upon the wind
Not to return
When summer burned the earth again


Cultivate the freshest flower
This garden ever grew
Beneath these branches
I once wrote such childish words for you


But that's okay
There's treasure children always seek to find
And just like us
You must have had
A once upon a time

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 judy tzuke
Available on the album 21 at 33


You've been crying, and i'm crazy about you
I've been lying, and hanging you up, `cause
I'm deep on the inside, but flash on the outside
I am the thunder, and you are my lightning

Give me the love, baby, give me the key to your heart
Give me the love, baby, give me the key to your heart
Give me the love, give me the key to your heart
Months of watching, and hours of hoping
That you'd want me, when you see me again
For i am an eagle, but my wings are all tied up
You got the power to fly me again


You've been trying to build walls all around you
But you're lying, `cause i've already been through
And i've seen you trying to capture that feeling
But you're chasing what you've never believed in


Tell me you love me, tell me you need me

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album captain fantastic and the brown dirt cowboy

Wise men say
It looks like rain today
It crackled on the speakers
And trickled down the sleepy subway trains
For heavy eyes could hardly hold us
Aching legs that often told us
It's all worth it
We all fall in love sometimes

The full moon's bright
And starlight filled the evening
We wrote it and i played it
Something happened it's so strange this feeling
Naive notions that were childish
Simple tunes that tried to hide it
But when it comes
We all fall in love sometimes


Did we, didn't we, should we couldn't we
I'm not sure `cause sometimes we're so blind
Struggling through the day
When even your best friend says
Don't you find
We all fall in love sometimes


And only passing time
Could kill the boredom we acquired
Running with the losers for a while
But our empty sky was filled with laughter
Just before the flood
Painting worried faces with a smile

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

What have i got to do to make you love me
What have i got to do to make you care
What do i do when lightning strikes me
And i wake to find that you're not there

What do i do to make you want me
What have i got to do to be heard
What do i say when it's all over
And sorry seems to be the hardest word


It's sad, so sad
It's a sad, sad situation
And it's getting more and more absurd
It's sad, so sad
Why can't we talk it over
Oh it seems to me
That sorry seems to be the hardest word


What do i do to make you love me
What have i got to do to be heard
What do i do when lightning strikes me
What have i got to do
What have i got to do
When sorry seems to be the hardest word

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


Well i'm running away
From this house on the hill
There's a devil inside
Sitting on the window sill
And it's a wild friday night
And i'm all on my own
I knocked on every door in town
There ain't one little girl that's home
And everybody's got a date
And the ones that ain't are tired
What the hell do you do on a weekend honey
When your heart's on fire

And you can go from tokyo to rome
Looking for a girl
But it looks to me like the weekend means
Heartache all over the world
Girls, girls, girls
Have pity on me
Oh it looks to me like the weekend means
Heartache, heartache all over the world


He's got lipstick on his collar
She's got fishnets on her legs
I'm at home and i've got nothing
Just a cold and aching head
There must be something dirty
Just blame it on the magazines
Don't read that trash it'll drive you crazy
`cause the cops invade your dreams
And everybody's got a date
And the one's that ain't are tired
What the hell do you do on a weekend honey
When your heart's on fire