To Be Continued..."

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 march, 1978

Take a look at me now and take a taste of the money
I'm not in it for the bread i'm in it for the gravy, honey
Step on the thin ice lightly
And check out the show twice nightly
'cause i'm on the stage tonight
And if the price is right
I will amaze before the light i crave the light
Blinding white i need the light tonight

Take a look at me now and take a look at my billing
I'm not in it as an extra, i'm in it for the killing
Inflate my ego gently, tell them heaven sent me
'cause i'm so expressive and i'm so obsessed with my ego
My ego and it's message
Oh inform the press, invite the guests
I need the press tonight


Do you remember acting out your youth
A romeo resplendent on an orange case
Do you remember how i would recite
And how i'd blow my lines and hide my face


Well maybe it was childish, foolish, before schoolish
Immaturish, lose your coolish
But i had to grow and prove my ego


Take a look at me now and take a taste of the money
I'm not in it for the bread i'm in it for the gravy, honey
Inflate my ego gently, tell them heaven sent me
Oh 'cause i'm so expressive and i'm so obsessed with my ego
My ego and it's message
Oh inform the press, invite the guests
I need the press tonight

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 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

Music by elton john
Lyrics by gary osborne
Available on the album jump up

Blue eyes
Baby's got blue eyes
Like a deep blue sea
On a blue blue day
Blue eyes
Baby's got blue eyes
When the morning comes
I'll be far away
And i say

Blue eyes
Holding back the tears
Holding back the pain
Baby's got blue eyes
And she's alone again


Blue eyes
Baby's got blue eyes
Like a clear blue sky
Watching over me
Blue eyes
I love blue eyes
When i'm by her side
Where i long to be
I will see


Blue eyes laughing in the sun
Laughing in the rain
Baby's got blue eyes
And i am home, and i am home again

Duet with france gall
Written by michel berger and bernie taupin
Released as a french b-side in february, 1981

We're no handy silver lining
We're no crime to make the headline news
If it's a matter for decision
You and i can be the ones to choose

Je te donne mes espoirs caches
Je te donne me incertitudes
Je te donne mes plus grands secrets
La vie c'est deja si compli


I give you my hidden hopes

I give you my uncertainties

I give you my deepest secrets

Live is already so complicated

Donner pour donner, tout donner
C'est la seule fa

Music by elton john
Lyrics by gary osborne
Available on the album the fox

How come you're so understanding
When i tell you all my lies
And pretending to believe them
See through all my alibis
And i need you more than ever
And i want you till the end
Chloe

How you handle what you live through
I can never hope to learn
Taking all the pain i give you
Loving blindly in return
And i need you more than ever
I will always be your friend
Chloe, chloe


Chloe, what you gonna do about me
Chloe, what you gonna do
What you gonna do about me


You're the lifeline that i cling to
When i feel like giving in
When the dreams that i rely on
Start to wear a little thin
Then i need you more than ever
And i want you till the end
Chloe, chloe

Written by john lennon and paul mccartney
Released as a european b-side in august, 1988


Everybody is talking about blagism
Shagism, dragism and madism
Ragism and tagism bob tailing
Thisism, thatism, ism, ism, ism
George chisolm, yes

All we are saying
Is give peace a chance
All we are saying
Is give peace a chance


Everybody's talking about ministers
Sinisters, banisters, canisters
Roger bannisters, bishops, bishops
Bishop auckland, rabbis, popeyes, bye-byes
Max bygraves and everybody else


All we are saying
Is give peace a chance
All we are saying
Is give peace a chance


Everybody's talking about revolution
Evolution, the everly brothers, mastication
Euston station, fladulation, flatulation
Regulations, integration, mediation
United nations, congratulations


All we are saying
Is give peace a chance
All we are saying
Is give peace a chance


Everybody in the soviet union, unite
Go down to the shops and talk about john and yoko
Timothy leary, barbara windsor, yoko ono, madonna
Bobby dylan, bobby charlton, eddie charlton
Tommy cooper and the amazing horseradish dancers
Derek baker, norman mailer, alan ginsberg and the hare krishna three


All we are saying
Is give peace a chance
All we are saying
Is give peace a chance


Everybody's talking about gagism, tagism
Shagism, dragism, madism
Ragism, tagism, botulism, thisism, thatism
Listen to this


Everybody's talking about ministers
Sinisters, banisters, canisters
Bishops, bishops, bishop's avenue
Why not talk about bishop's avenue
I've got a lovely house on bishop's avenue


Everybody's talking about popeye, olive oyl
Everybody, everybody, everybody, mrs. jean schnook
Twenty three chepstow villas
Because they are the next contestant on "make a b-side"


All we are saying
Is give peace a chance
All we are saying
Is give peace a chance

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in june, 1973

Go jack-rabbit running through the wood
You had a good night and you feel real loose
Heard they got you going round the goosecreek shed
Trying to fill your belly full of buckshot lead

Go jack-rabbit get the cabbage patch
Farmer left the back porch door on the latch
Heard you coming and he got his gun
Better go jack-rabbit better start to run


Go jack-rabbit running through the wood
You had a good night and you feel real loose
Gunfire breaking up the peaceful night
Jack-rabbit lying in the cold daylight

Written by dinah card and carte blanche
Released as a uk b-side in august, 1980

If your life is dull and dreary
And you're feeling rather weary
Of the mundane things that clutter up one's life
Drive your roller up to bond street
Where royalty and sheiks meet
Make your day
Here's the thing to do
Spend a grand or two at cartier

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
Released as a uk b-side in june, 1973

I lived in a tenement six floors above
I lent you my records and i lent you my love
But you left me on the weekend without a by-your-leave
That's a dirty and a low-down trick
My folks all think you're mean

But i don't mind, that's kind of nifty
You always set those break-ups in the movies
And just like a light honey you put me out
Now i'm gonna do my best
To get you back in the nest you came from


You can erase me if you want to
Turn your back in other men
But whenever you're ready
Honey, we'll go steady again


It's nasty without you in my little room
I miss you like crazy, please come back soon
I was joking with those things i said
I couldn't have been thinking
If you don't come back i think i'll crack
Just like my old ceiling

Written by reg dwight
Released as a single by bluesology in july, 1965

Come back baby
Come back to me yeah
And you will see yeah
How i've changed
`cause you're the only love that i ever had
You're the only love that i ever had
Come back to me

Come back baby
I did you wrong yeah
And this is the song i sing
I hope will bring you back to me
`cause you're the only love that i ever knew
You're the only love that i ever knew
Come back come back


Come back baby
Come back and treat me right
Come back baby
Come on back, i'll hold you tight


Come back baby
Come back i'll treat you right
Come back baby
Come on back
Come back and hold me tight


Come back baby
Everything's gonna be fine right now
It's gonna be fine right now
It's gonna be fine right now
`cause you're the only love that i ever had
Yeah you're coming back and i'm so glad
You're coming back to me

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in march, 1970

It seems as though i've lived my life
On the bad side of the moon
To stir your dregs in sickness still
Without the rustic spoon

Common people live with me
Where the light has never shone
And the hermits flock like hummingbirds
To speak in a foreign tongue


I'm a light world away
From the people who make me stay
Sitting on the bad side of the moon


There ain't no need for watchdogs here
To justify our ways
We live our life in manacles
The main cause of our stay


Exiled here from other worlds
My sentence comes too soon
Why should i be made to pay
On the bad side of the moon

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk single in january, 1969


When the shrill winds are screaming
And the evening is still
Lady samantha glides over the hill
In a long satin dress that she wears every day
Her home is the hillside, her bed is the grave

Lady samantha glides like a tiger
Over the hills with no one beside her
No one comes near
They all live in fear
But lady samantha, she sheds only tears


The tales that i told round the fire every night
Are out of proportion and none of them right
She is harmless and empty of anything bad
For she once had something that most of you have

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

i can't light no more of your darkness
All my pictures seem to fade to black and white
I'm growing tired and time stands still before me
Frozen here on the ladder of my life

It's much too late to save myself from falling
I took a chance and changed your way of life
But you misread my meaning when i met you
Closed the door and left me blinded by the light

Don't let the sun go down on me
Although i search myself, it's always someone else i see
I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

Ladies and gentlemen mr. elton john

I can't find
Oh, the right romantic line
But see me once and see the way feel
Don't discard me baby don't
Just because you think i mean you harm
Just because you think i mean you harm, oh
But these cuts i have, cuts i have
They need love
They need love, they need love to help them heal

Oh, don't let the sun go down on me
Although i search myself, it's always someone else i see
I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
Cause' losing everything is like the sun going down on me

Don't let the sun go down on me
Although i search myself, it's always someone else i that see, yeah
I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free baby, oh
Cause' losing everything is like the sun going down on me

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album madman across the water

Blue jean baby, l.a. lady, seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand

Jesus freaks out in the street
Handing tickets out for god
Turning back she just laughs
The boulevard is not that bad


Piano man he makes his stand
In the auditorium
Looking on she sings the songs
The words she knows, the tune she hums


But oh how it feels so real
Lying here with no one near
Only you and you can hear me
When i say softly, slowly


Hold me closer tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today


Blue jean baby, l.a. lady, seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand

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 tumbleweed connection

Soon the pines will be falling everywhere
Village children fight each other for a share
And the 6:09 goes roaring past the creek
Deacon lee prepares his sermon for next week

I saw grandma yesterday down at the store
Well she's really going fine for eighty four
Well she asked me if sometime i'd fix her barn
Poor old girl she needs a hand to run the farm


And it's good old country comfort in my bones
Just the sweetest sound my ears have ever known
Just an old-fashioned feeling fully-grown
Country comfort's in a truck that's going home


Down at the well they've got a new machine
The foreman says it cuts man-power by fifteen
Yeah but that ain't natural well so old clay would say
You see he's a horse-drawn man until his dying day


Now the old fat goose is flying cross the sticks
The hedgehog's done in clay between the bricks
And the rocking chair's creaking on the porch
Across the valley moves the herdsman with his torch

Written by pete townshend
Released as a uk single in 1976
Available on the soudtrack tommy

Ever since i was a young boy i played the silver ball
From soho down to brighton i must have played them all
But i ain't seen nothing like him in any amusement hall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball

He stands like a statue, becomes part of the machine
Feeling all the bumpers, always playing clean
Plays by intuition, the digit counters fall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball


He's a pinball wizard, there has to be a twist
A pinball wizard's got such a supple wrist
How do you think he does it i don't know
What makes him so good


Ain't got no distractions, can't hear no buzzes or bells
Don't see lights a-flashing, plays by sense of smell
Always gets a replay, never seen him fall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball


I thought i was the bally table king
But i just handed my pinball crown to him


Even on my favourite table, he can beat my best
His disciples lean him in and he just does the rest
He's got crazy flipper fingers, never seen him fall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball

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
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in 1990

In the nicotine glare of a cold naked light
I drag my body from the covers and down forty flights
I run out the front door into the center of the street
I scream out your name as the steam just swells around my feet

I hear you after midnight from the inner city
As every cinderella turns to drop dead pretty
We were built out of the darkness into this west side story
We came together in the shadows but the moon just steals our glory


Well this is my battleground baby
This is my plaything
The only thing i've ever known
Outside of a wedding ring


And i swear i heard the night talking
Cursing me for being a little more than hopeless
Telling me we're running lonely, loose and broken
Stronger now on passion but haven't we really spoken
And all we ever do is listen to the night talking


On the burden of insanity we can't find the cause
On a flatbed truck well the home girl she paints her claws
There's a coward who gets his courage undercover of the dark
And it's a strange breed of devil freeze at night to go walking in the park

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 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 b-side in november, 1990


If i wasn't born to love you, why was i born at all
If i wasn't meant to hold you, what are these two arms for
If i can't protect you, what are these muscles for
If i can't enrich your life, i might as well be poor
If i couldn't see you naked, i might as well be blind
If i couldn't treat you right, wouldn't i be so unkind

And you were made for me
You were made for me
You weren't born to be alone
And you were made for me


You were made for me
You were made for me
Flesh and bone, it's etched in stone
That you were made for me


If i couldn't translate fantasy, imagine how i'd feel
If i couldn't hear your secret, my ears would both be sealed
And if i can't make love to you, this body has no use
If you believe i loved you, you wouldn't need no proof
And if i can't return to you, i wouldn't need my legs to run
And if i can't draw warmth from you, why do i need this sun

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album madman across the water

I can see very well
There's a boat on the reef with a broken back
And i can see it very well
There's a joke and i know it very well
It's one of those that i told you long ago
Take my word i'm a madman don't you know

Once a fool had a good part in the play
If it's so would i still be here today
It's quite peculiar in a funny sort of way
They think it's very funny everything i say
Get a load of him, he's so insane
You better get your coat dear
It looks like rain


We'll come again next thursday afternoon
The in-laws hope they'll see you very soon
But is it in your conscience that you're after
Another glimpse of the madman across the water


I can see very well
There's a boat on the reef with a broken back
And i can see it very well
There's a joke and i know it very well
It's one of those that i told you long ago
Take my word i'm a madman don't you know


The ground's a long way down but i need more
Is the nightmare black
Or are the windows painted
Will they come again next week
Can my mind really take it

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in september, 1973

When i was a boy i had a lot of fun
I lived by the sea, i was a fisherman's son
My mother she was a fisherman's wife
She was scrubbing floors most of her life

They said screw you
I ain't got nothing to lose
I could paper a matchbox
With the money i use


At the school i attended i got into fights
I was beaten in an alley on a cold winter night
The teachers cared less for the blood in our veins
They got most of their thrills out of using a cane


They said screw you
Oh you bloody young fools
I could get more sense
Out of the back end of a mule


So you see there's man who get paid for being slaves
And men who get paid for being free
And there's men behind bars who pray for the light
And men in the suburbs who pray for the night
And they're all trying to climb to the top of the mine
And all of them say most of the way
Screw you


I worked in the mill from seven till nine
Tears in my eyes nearly drove me half-blind
Trying to make wages that weren't even there
Taking hell from a foreman with the build of a bear


He said screw you
This is all you'll ever do
It's the only existence for someone like you

Music by elton john
Lyrics by gary osborne
Available on the album 21 at 33

Oh little jeannie, you got so much love, little jeannie
And you take it where it strikes and give it to the likes of me
Oh little jeannie, she got so much love, little jeannie
So i see you when i can, you make me all a man can be

And i want you to be my acrobat, i want you to be my lover
Oh there were others who would treat you cruel
And oh little jeannie, you were always someone's fool


Little jeannie, you got so much time, little jeannie
Though you've grown beyond your years, you still retain the fears of youth
Oh little jeannie, you got so much time, little jeannie
But you're burning it up so fast, searching for some lasting truth


And i want you to be my acrobat, i want you to be my lover
Oh there were others who would treat you cruel
But oh jeannie, i will always be your fool


And i want you to be my acrobat, i want you to be my lover
Oh there were others, and i've known quite a few
But oh oh jeannie, i'm still in love with you


Stepped into my life from a bad dream
Making the life that i had seem suddenly shiny and new
Oh jeannie i'm so in love with you
Stepped into my life from a bad dream

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 caribou

I was justified when i was five
Raising cane, i spit in your eye
Times are changing, now the poor get fat
But the fever's gonna catch you when the bitch gets back

Eat meat on friday that's alright
Even like steak on a saturday night
I can bitch the best at your social do's
I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue


I'm a bitch, i'm a bitch
Oh the bitch is back
Stone cold sober as a matter of fact
I can bitch, i can bitch
`cause i'm better than you
It's the way that i move
The things that i do


I entertain by picking brains
Sell my soul by dropping names
I don't like those, my god, what's that
Oh it's full of nasty habits when the bitch gets back