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
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
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 bernie taupin
Available on the album ice on fire

Hey nikita is it cold
In your little corner of the world
You could roll around the globe
And never find a warmer soul to know

Oh i saw you by the wall
Ten of your tin soldiers in a row
With eyes that looked like ice on fire
The human heart a captive in the snow


Oh nikita you will never know anything about my home
I'll never know how good it feels to hold you
Nikita i need you so
Oh nikita is the other side of any given line in time
Counting ten tin soldiers in a row
Oh no, nikita you'll never know


Do you ever dream of me
Do you ever see the letters that i write
When you look up through the wire
Nikita do you count the stars at night


And if there comes a time
Guns and gates no longer hold you in
And if you're free to make a choice
Just look towards the west and find a friend

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 and james newton-howard
Available on the album the fox

[instrumental]

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

It's a little bit funny this feeling inside
I'm not one of those who can easily hide
I don't have much money but boy if i did
I'd buy a big house where we both could live

If i was a sculptor, but then again, no
Or a man who makes potions in a traveling show
I know it's not much but it's the best i can do
My gift is my song and this one's for you


And you can tell everybody this is your song
It may be quite simple but now that it's done
I hope you don't mind
I hope you don't mind that i put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world


I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss
Well a few of the verses well they've got me quite cross
But the sun's been quite kind while i wrote this song
It's for people like you that keep it turned on


So excuse me forgetting but these things i do
You see i've forgotten if they're green or they're blue
Anyway the thing is what i really mean
Yours are the sweetest eyes i've ever seen

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

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

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 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
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

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 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
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 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 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 too low for zero


You could never know what it's like
Your blood like winter freezes just like ice
And there's a cold lonely light that shines from you
You'll wind up like the wreck you hide behind that mask you use

And did you think this fool could never win
Well look at me, i'm coming back again
I got a taste of love in a simple way
And if you need to know while i'm still standing you just fade away


Don't you know i'm still standing better than i ever did
Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid
I'm still standing after all this time
Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind


I'm still standing yeah yeah yeah
I'm still standing yeah yeah yeah


Once i never could hope to win
You starting down the road leaving me again
The threats you made were meant to cut me down
And if our love was just a circus you'd be a clown by now

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
Released as a uk single in may, 1969

Hey there
Look in the mirror
Are you afraid you might see me looking at you
Waiting, waiting at windows
Oh it's me that you need
Yes it's me and i'm waiting for you

But i remain silent
Oh i won't say a word
I leave you to realise i'm the light in your world
And it's me, yes it's me, yes it's me, yes it's me
That you're needing
It's me, yes it's me, yes it's me, yes it's me
That you need
Yes it's me, yes it's me, yes it's me
If you want to be living
I'm the one who's forgiving
Admit that it's me that you need


Watching, watching the swallows fly
It all means the same
Just like them
You can fly home again
But don't, no don't forget yesterday
Pride is an ugly word girl
And you still know my name