The Very Best Of Elton John

Music by elton john
Lyrics by gary osborne
Available on the album a single man

Part time love is bringing me down
`cause i just can't get started with you my love
Did i hear you saying that i'm too hard hearted
Wipe those stars from your eyes
And you'll get quite a surprise
Because you'll see everybody's got a part time love

You've been seen running around
There's not much i don't hear of and still you try
Telling me all the things i must stay clear of
Don't tell me what to do
When you been doing it too
Because you, me and everybody's got a part time love


Falling, i'm falling can't get free
Baby if you keep on stalling
Oh how can i make you see
That you, me and everybody needs a part time love


Part time love
I seem to be pulling in the wrong direction
With you my love
Whatever i do you raise the same objection
I've got someone at home
But she's got a love of her own
Because you, me and everybody got a part time love


I'm waiting, i'm waiting all the time
And it's getting so frustrating
Love well it ain't no crime
Because you, me and everybody needs a part time love
And oh you, me and everybody's got a part time love
And oh you, me and everybody needs a part time love
You, me, everybody got a part time love

Music by elton john, davey johnstone and phineas mchize
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album breaking hearts

Deny the passenger, who want to get on
Deny the passenger, who want to get on
Deny the passenger, who want to get on
Want to get on
He want to get on
Want to get on
He want to get on

To make a chain of fools
You need a matching pair
One hypocritical fool
And a crowd that's never there
There's anger in the silence
There's wheels upon the jail
A black train built of bones
On a copper rail


Company conductor
You need the salt of tears
Falling on a ticket
That no one's used in years
Non-commercial native
It's tattooed in your veins
You're living in a blood bank
And riding on this train


The spirit's free, but you always find
Passengers stand and wait in line
Someone in front and someone else behind
But passengers always wait in line

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

Guess there are times when we all need to share a little pain
And ironing out the rough spots
Is the hardest part when memories remain
And it's times like these when we all need to hear the radio
`cause from the lips of some old singer
We can share the troubles we already know

Turn them on, turn them on
Turn on those sad songs
When all hope is gone
Why don't you tune in and turn them on


They reach into your room
Just feel their gentle touch
When all hope is gone
Sad songs say so much


If someone else is suffering enough to write it down
When every single word makes sense
Then it's easier to have those songs around
The kick inside is in the line that finally gets to you
And it feels so good to hurt so bad
And suffer just enough to sing the blues


Sad songs, they say
Sad songs, they say
Sad songs, they say
Sad songs, they say so much

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

Daniel is travelling tonight on a plane
I can see the red tail lights heading for spain
Oh and i can see daniel waving goodbye
God it looks like daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes

They say spain is pretty though i've never been
Well daniel says it's the best place that he's ever seen
Oh and he should know, he's been there enough
Lord i miss daniel, oh i miss him so much


Daniel my brother you are older than me
Do you still feel the pain of the scars that won't heal
Your eyes have died but you see more than i
Daniel you're a star in the face of the sky


Daniel is travelling tonight on a plane
I can see the red tail lights heading for spain
Oh and i can see daniel waving goodbye
God it looks like daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes
Oh god it looks like daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album sleeping with the past

It's a human sign
When things go wrong
When the scent of her lingers
And temptation's strong

Into the boundary
Of each married man
Sweet deceit comes calling
And negativity lands


Cold cold heart
Hard done by you
Some things look better baby
Just passing through


And it's no sacrifice
Just a simple word
It's two hearts living
In two separate worlds
But it's no sacrifice
No sacrifice
It's no sacrifice at all


Mutual misunderstanding
After the fact
Sensitivity builds a prison
In the final act


We lose direction
No stone unturned
No tears to damn you
When jealousy burns

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk single in 1990


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

Music by elton john and davey johnstone
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album too low for zero

Don't wish it away
Don't look at it like it's forever
Between you and me i could honestly say
That things can only get better

And while i'm away
Dust out the demons inside
And it won't be long before you and me run
To the place in our hearts where we hide


And i guess that's why they call it the blues
Time on my hands could be time spent with you
Laughing like children, living like lovers
Rolling like thunder under the covers
And i guess that's why they call it the blues


Just stare into space
Picture my face in your hands
Live for each second without hesitation
And never forget i'm your man


Wait on me girl
Cry in the night if it helps
But more than ever i simply love you
More than i love life itself

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

I remember when rock was young
Me and suzie had so much fun
Holding hands and skimming stones
Had an old gold chevy and a place of my own
But the biggest kick i ever got
Was doing a thing called the crocodile rock
While the other kids were rocking round the clock
We were hopping and bopping to the crocodile rock

Well crocodile rocking is something shocking
When your feet just can't keep still
I never knew me a better time and i guess i never will
Oh lawdy mama those friday nights
When suzie wore her dresses tight
And the crocodile rocking was out of sight


But the years went by and the rock just died
Suzie went and left us for some foreign guy
Long nights crying by the record machine
Dreaming of my chevy and my old blue jeans
But they'll never kill the thrills we've got
Burning up to the crocodile rock
Learning fast as the weeks went past
We really thought the crocodile rock would last

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album too low for zero

Well she looked a peach in the dress she made
When she was still her mama's little girl
And when she walked down the aisle everybody smiled
At her innocence and curls
And when the preacher said is there anyone here
Got a reason why they shouldn't wed
I should have stuck up my hand
I should have got up to stand
And this is what i should have said

I wanna kiss the bride yeah!
I wanna kiss the bride yeah!
Long before she met him
She was mine, mine, mine
Don't say i do
Say bye, bye, bye
And let me kiss the bride yeah!


Underneath her veil i could see a tear
Trickling down her pretty face
And when she slipped on the ring i knew everything
Would never be the same again
But if the groom would have known he'd have had a fit
About his wife and the things we did
And what i planned to say
Yeah on her wedding day
Well i thought it but i kept it hid

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

When i think of those east end lights, muggy nights
The curtains drawn in the little room downstairs
Prima donna lord you really should have been there
Sitting like a princess perched in her electric chair
And it's one more beer and i don't hear you anymore
We've all gone crazy lately
My friends out there rolling round the basement floor

And someone saved my life tonight sugar bear
You almost had your hooks in me didn't you dear
You nearly had me roped and tied
Altar-bound, hypnotized
Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
You're a butterfly
And butterflies are free to fly
Fly away, high away, bye bye


I never realised the passing hours of evening showers
A slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams
I'm strangled by your haunted social scene
Just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen
It's four o'clock in the morning
Damn it listen to me good
I'm sleeping with myself tonight
Saved in time, thank god my music's still alive


And i would have walked head on into the deep end of the river
Clinging to your stocks and bonds
Paying your h.p. demands forever
They're coming in the morning with a truck to take me home
Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight
Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight
Someone saved my life tonight
So save your strength and run the field you play alone

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk single in february, 1975

I used to be a rolling stone
You know if the cause was right
I'd leave to find the answer on the road
I used to be a heart beating for someone
But the times have changed
The less i say the more my work gets done

`cause i live and breathe this philadelphia freedom
From the day that i was born i've waved the flag
Philadelphia freedom took me knee-high to a man
Yeah gave me peace of mind my daddy never had


Oh philadelphia freedom shine on me, i love you
Shine a light through the eyes of the ones left behind
Shine a light shine a light
Shine a light won't you shine a light
Philadelphia freedom i love you, yes i do


If you choose to you can live your life alone
Some people choose the city
Some others choose the good old family home
I like living easy without family ties
Till the whippoorwill of freedom zapped me
Right between the eyes

Written by ann orson and carte blanche
Duet with kiki dee (1976)
Released as a uk single in march, 1976
Duet with rupaul (1993)
Available on the album duets

Don't go breaking my heart
I couldn't if i tried
Honey if i get restless
Baby you're not that kind

Don't go breaking my heart
You take the weight off me
Honey when you knock on my door
I gave you my key


Nobody knows it
When i was down
I was your clown
Nobody knows it
Right from the start
I gave you my heart
I gave you my heart


So don't go breaking my heart
I won't go breaking your heart
Don't go breaking my heart


And nobody told us
`cause nobody showed us
And now it's up to us babe
I think we can make it


So don't misunderstand me
You put the light in my life
You put the sparks to the flame
I've got your heart in my sights

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

It's getting late have you seen my mates
Ma tell me when the boys get here
It's seven o'clock and i want to rock
Want to get a belly full of beer

My old man's drunker than a barrel full of monkeys
And my old lady she don't care
My sister looks cute in her braces and boots
A handful of grease in her hair


Don't give us none of your aggravation
We had it with your discipline
Saturday night's alright for fighting
Get a little action in


Get about as oiled as a diesel train
Gonna set this dance alight
`cause saturday night's the night i like
Saturday night's alright alright alright


Well they're packed pretty tight in here tonight
I'm looking for a dolly who'll see me right
I may use a little muscle to get what i need
I may sink a little drink and shout out "she's with me!"


A couple of the sound that i really like
Are the sounds of a switchblade and a motorbike
I'm a juvenile product of the working class
Whose best friend floats in the bottom of a glass

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

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album reg strikes back

I've always said that one's enough to love
Now i hear you're bragging one is not enough
Something tells me you're not satisfied
You got plans to make me one of four or five

I guess this kind of thing's just in your blood
But you won't catch me carving up my love
I ain't no puzzle piece that needs to fit
If it takes more than me let's call it quits


`cause i don't wanna go on with you like that
Don't wanna be a feather in your cap
I just wanna tell you honey i ain't mad
But i don't wanna go on with you like that


It gets so hard sometimes to understand
This vicious circle's getting out of hand
Don't need an extra eye to see
That the fire spreads faster in a breeze


And i don't wanna go on with you like that
Don't wanna be a feather in your cap
I just wanna tell you honey i ain't mad
But i don't wanna go on with you like that
No i don't wanna go on with you like that
One more set of boots on your welcome mat
You'll just have to quit them if you want me back
`cause i don't wanna go on with you like that


Oh if you wanna spread it around sister that's just fine
But i don't want no second hand feeding me lines
If you wanna hold someone in the middle of the night
Call out the guards, turn out the light