To Be Continued..."

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
Available on the album madman across the water


Levon wears his war wound like a crown
He calls his child jesus
`cause he likes the name
And he sends him to the finest school in town

Levon, levon likes his money
He makes a lot they say
Spend his days counting
In a garage by the motorway


He was born a pauper to a pawn on a christmas day
When the new york times said god is dead
And the war's begun
Alvin tostig has a son today


And he shall be levon
And he shall be a good man
And he shall be levon
In tradition with the family plan
And he shall be levon
And he shall be a good man
He shall be levon


Levon sells cartoon balloons in town
His family business thrives
Jesus blows up balloons all day
Sits on the porch swing watching them fly


And jesus, he wants to go to venus
Leaving levon far behind
Take a balloon and go sailing
While levon, levon slowly dies

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 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 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

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
Available on the album the fox

[instrumental]

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

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

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


I hope the day will be a lighter highway
For friends are found on every road
Can you ever think of any better way
For the lost and weary travellers to go

Making friends for the world to see
Let the people know you got what you need
With a friend at hand you will see the light
If your friends are there then everything's all right


It seems to me a crime that we should age
These fragile times should never slip us by
A time you never can or shall erase
As friends together watch their childhood fly

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

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

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

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk single in june, 1970

If anyone should see me making it down the highway
Breaking all the laws of the land
Well don't you try to stop me
I'm going her way
And that's the way i'm sure she had it planned

Well that's my rock-and-roll madonna
She's always been a lady of the road
Well everybody wants her
But no one ever gets her
Well the freeway is the only way she knows


Well if she would only slow down for a short time
I'd get to know her just before she leaves
But she's got some fascination for that two wheel combination
And i swear it's going to be the death of me

Duet with millie jackson
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk single in june, 1985

This ain't no battle honey, this ain't no fight
How come you take it so hard when i stay out all night
If i take a drink, is that against the law
And if i have a good time, do you call that an act of war

Well you better believe it boy, this house is your home
I didn't build it up for you to live here on my own
And if you think it's easy to forget about me
You'd better think twice, you'd better believe it's an act of war


We're living on the front line you and me
Fighting on this battleground of misery
Oh go ahead bring on your artillery
And we'll make this an act of war
Give it all you've got `cause i'm all dug in
Keep the punches coming i can take them on the chin
Winner takes all, let the best man win
And we call it an act of war


Well i'm a man of convenience i work a long hard day
After twelve long hours ain't i got the right to play
If living together is getting in the way
Then i call that an act of war


Well if that's your game then honey two can play
I'm going on the town tonight and have some fun my way
Ain't no way baby this girl's gonna stay
I call it, i call it an act of war


And it looks like time ain't been on our side
If we could turn the clock back
We might survive this act of war

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

Written by john lennon
Released as a uk b-side in november, 1974

You are my weakness
You are my friend
Nothing i have in the world
Makes better sense
`cause i'm the fish and you're the sea
When we're together
Or when we're apart
There's never a space in-between
The beat of our hearts
`cause i'm the apple and you're the tree

One day at a time
Is all we do
One day at a time
Is good for you, you, you


You are my woman
I am your man
Nothing else matters at all
Now i understand
That i'm the door and you're the key
And every morning
I wake in your smile
Feeling your breath on my face
And the love in your eyes
`cause i'm the honey and you're the bee

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
Released as a uk b-side in june, 1970
Available on the album goodbye yellow brick road


Why's it never light on my lawn
Why does it rain and never say good-day to the new-born
On the big screen they showed us the sun
But not as bright in life as the real one
It's never quite the same as the real one

And tell me grey seal
How does it feel
To be so wise
To see through eyes
That only see what's real
Tell me grey seal


I never learned why meteors were formed
I only farmed in schools that were so warn and torn
If anyone can cry then so can i
I read books and draw life from the eye
All my life is drawings from the eye


Your mission bells were wrought by ancient men
The roots were formed by twisted roots
Your roots were twisted then
I was re-born before all life could die
The phoenix bird will leave this world to fly
If the phoenix bird can fly then so can i

Written by leroy bell and casey james
Released as a uk b-side in april, 1979

Baby, so they give you anything
Darling, all the joy money can bring
Baby, do they bring you happiness
Darling, you're no different from the rest
Can't you see that it's love you really need
Take my hand and i'll show what a love could be
Before it's too late

Mama don't want you, daddy don't want you
Give it up baby, baby mama can't buy you love
Mama don't want you, daddy don't need you
Give it up baby, baby mama can't buy you love


Baby, fancy friends showing you a smile
Darling, rich relations for a while
Baby, i can only give you love
Darling, this old heart should be enough
All i need is a chance to make you mine
Let me in, i'll change the way you feel inside
Before it's too late

Written by john lennon and paul mccartney
Released as a uk single in november, 1974

She was just seventeen
And you know what i mean
And the way she looked was way beyond compare
I couldn't dance with another
When i saw her standing there

Well she looked at me
And i could see
That before too long i fell in love with her
I couldn't dance with another
When i saw here standing there


Well my heart went boom
As i crossed that room
And i held her hand in mine


Oh we danced through the night
And we held each other tight
And before too long i feel in love with her
I couldn't dance with another
When i saw here standing there

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
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
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
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
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 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
Released as a uk b-side in september, 1982

They laid beneath the pine trees with their caps over their eyes
They were drunk with home and mama as they brushed away the flies
In an instant before the sunrise they had gunned the rebels down
As their flags were torn at half mast in the ruins of the town

There were white sails on the water for the crippled on the beach
There was a lack of ammunition so the cause was incomplete
When the bugle blew at breakfast and they knew their ships were in
Signs of grand assurance were carried on the wind


Take it home, take it low, take responsibilities
Came the message from the front
For the captains, captains quarters must retreat
Pack the compass, pack the tents, take the bunks


They just chalked it down in history but they kept their uniforms
They put their medals on the sideboards and they went back to their farms
For it was just a mere reminder that they stood beside the best
That god had saved the chosen few and the devil took the rest


On the planes above the rock face where the sculptured eagles swoop
There's a haunted yell for action among the spectres of his troops
It was silent on the coastline as the crazy angels danced
With the sound of retreating footfall from his military camp

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk single in november, 1973

Welcome to my christmas song
I'd like to thank you for the year
So i'm sending you this christmas card
To say it's nice to have you here
I'd like to sing about all the things
Your eyes and mind can see
So hop aboard the turntable
Oh step into christmas with me

Step into christmas
Let's join together
We can watch the snow fall forever and ever
Eat, drink and be merry
Come along with me
Step into christmas
The admission's free


Take care in all you do next year
And keep smiling through the days
If we can help to entertain you
Oh we will find the ways
So merry christmas one and all
There's no place i'd rather be
Than asking you if you'd oblige
Stepping into christmas with me

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 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