The Elton John Live Collection

Music and lyrics by leslie duncan
Available on the album tumbleweed connection

The words i have to say
May well be simple but they're true
Until you give your love
There's nothing more that we can do

Love is the opening door
Love is what we came here for
No one could offer you more
Do you know what i mean
Have your eyes really seen


You say it's very hard
To leave behind the life we knew
But there's no other way
And now it's really up to you


Love is the key we must turn
Truth is the flame we must burn
Freedom the lesson we must learn
Do you know what i mean
Have your eyes really seen

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 (last verse by elton john)
Available on the album elton john

Holy moses i have been removed
I have seen the spectre he has been here too
Distant cousin from down the line
Brand of people who ain't my kind
Holy moses i have been removed

Holy moses i have been deceived
Now the wind has changed direction and i'll have to leave
Won't you please excuse my frankness but it's not my cup of tea
Holy moses i have been deceived


I'm going back to the border
Where my affairs, my affairs ain't abused
I can't take any more bad water
I've been poisoned from my head down to my shoes


Holy moses i have been deceived
Holy moses let us live in peace
Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease
There's a man over there what's his colour i don't care
He's my brother let us live in peace
He's my brother let us live in peace
He's my brother let us live in peace

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


The roses in the window box
Have tilted to one side
Everything about this house
Was born to grow and die

Oh it doesn't seem a year ago
To this very day
You said i'm sorry honey
If i don't change the pace
I can't face another day


And love lies bleeding in my hand
Oh it kills me to think of you with another man
I was playing rock and roll and you were just a fan
But my guitar couldn't hold you
So i split the band
Love lies bleeding in my hands


I wonder if those changes
Have left a scar on you
Like all the burning hoops of fire
That you and i passed through


You're a bluebird on a telegraph line
I hope you're happy now
Well if the wind of change comes down your way girl
You'll make it back somehow

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the soundtrack friends

I work for the foundry for a penny and a half a day
Like a blind street musician i never see those who pay
It's dirty work in birmingham
Better deal for a sheffield man
If he can rivet then his kids can buy
Candy from the candy man

And the van that comes around weekends
Selling fancy city things
Sold by the man with the trilby hat
And the whiskers spread like wings
You can hear him sing
Oh you can hear him sing
Can i put you on, people can i put you on
Tell you that i love you people
Sing a salesman's song and put you on


And a second cousin works in the pits in newcastle on tyne
And he don't care if it rains outside, there's coal dust on his mind
It's dirty work in manchester
But the crew gets paid its gelt
Bang on the bell on friday
You buys a little something for yourself


And the van that comes around weekends
Selling fancy city things
Sold by the man in the trilby hat
And the whiskers spread like wings
You can hear him sing
Oh you can hear him sing
Can i put you on, people can i put you on
Tell you that i love you people
Sing a salesman's song and put you on

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

You tell me there's an angel in your tree
Did he say he'd come to call on me
For things are getting desperate in our home
Living in the parish of the restless folks i know

Everybody now bring your family down to the riverside
Look to the east to see where the fat stock hide
Behind four walls of stone the rich man sleeps
It's time we put the flame torch to their keep


Burn down the mission
If we're gonna stay alive
Watch the black smoke fly to heaven
See the red flame light the sky


Burn down the mission
Burn it down to stay alive
It's our only chance of living
Take all you need to live inside


Deep in the woods the squirrels are out today
My wife cried when they came to take me away
But what more could i do just to keep her warm
Than burn burn burn burn down the mission walls