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Music by ??
Produced by chris thomas
Recorded 1969 at emi studios, abbey road
Never released (the bread and beer band)

[instrumental]

Music by elton john
Lyrics by gary osborne
Released as a uk b-side in 1982

Lonely boy, get up and fly
Lonely boy, get up and try
Everyone knows you got what it takes
All you need is one or two good breaks

Lonely boy, this is your time
Lonely boy, you're on the line
This just could be the only throw you got
Get on up and give it your best shot


You gotta make it lonely boy
You gotta take it lonely boy
Oh do da do da day
You gotta do it lonely boy
Get to it lonely boy
Oh take it all the way


Lonely boy, you are the one
Lonely boy, your chance has come
Destiny gonna put you to the test
Face the music and disregard the rest

Written by elton john
Released as a uk b-side in 1980

[instrumental]

Music by reg dwight
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

You're too low to see me smiling
When i'm flying in the air
But you're too high to frighten me
Pretend you didn't see me
Pretend you didn't need me
Pretend you didn't see me
Pretend you didn't need me

To frighten away all the lost and the lonely
The sacred forgotten of yesterday's problems
Your wooden construction was meant for infliction
To penetrate pain with the thoughts from my mind


Can you see me scarecrow
Can you still feel free
For all your love scarecrow
And will you still be there tomorrow
And will you still be there tomorrow


Like moths around a light bulb, your brain is still bleeding
From visions and pictures of nature's young raincoat
If only my eyes were not pinned to your table
My arms would be grasping the lilies of summer
It's no good to be a scarecrow post
And i've said it before, and i'll say it some more

Written by tony collacott, jack mowbray and breen leoeuf
Never released

I'm just sitting counting all the cobwebs
And wondering just when you'll come along
You said that you'd be here an hour ago
But an hour ago is hours ago from then

No, and i don't know what to do
I'm drawing crazy patterns on my shoe
And the sand in the hour glass slips on by


Light another cigarette, watch the burning glow
Catching spiders in my hand, and then i let them go
Imagine pictures on the wall, watch the insects where they crawl
They don't care about you and i've nothing to do


Maybe the bus didn't get there on time
Maybe the train doesn't run on that line for some reason
And she might not come
Because she doesn't want to see you again
No no no, that can't be true
And i've got nothing to do

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

Take every ray of sunshine from the sky
Let the rain fall, i don't care if the flowers die
The night lights can forget me
The stars will never glow
The days just seem so worthless
The hours, they come and go

Reminds me of you
Reminds me of you
The things we used to say
The things we used to do
All these happy hours are now just empty days
And i can't bear the strain to pass the time away
Reminds me of you


I see couples walking down the street
I watch them here
With tear filled eyes there's nothing left for me
For i just think about the times
That you and i were two
And still these things remind me of you
Oh they do

Written by leonard cohen
Available on the tribute album tower of song - the songs of leonard cohen


If you want a lover
I'll do anything you ask me to
And if you want another kind of love
I'll wear a mask for you
If you want a partner, hold my hand
If you want to strike me down in anger
Here i stand
Baby i'm your man

If you want a boxer
I will step into the ring for you
And if you want a doctor
I'll examine every inch of you
If you want a driver, climb inside
Or if you want to take me for a ride
You know you can
Baby i'm your man


The moon's too bright
The chain's too tight
The beast won't go to sleep
I've been running through these promises to you
That i made and i could not keep


But a man never got a woman back
Not by begging on his knees
Or i'd crawl to you baby
I'd fall at your feet
And i'd howl at your beauty
Like a dog in heat
And i'd claw at your heart
And i'd tear at your sheet
I'd say please
I'm your man


And if you gotta sleep a moment on the road
I will steer for you
And if yo want to work the street alone
I'll disappear for you
If you want a father for your child
Or only want to walk with me a while
Across the sand
Baby i'm your man
I'm your man


If you want a lover, i'm your man
If you want a boxer, i'm your man
If you want a doctor, i'm your man

Written by elton john
Never released, recorded for versace fashion show, paris 1995

Some people are born royal
Others become queens on their own

Queen, queen
Queen, queen


I don't need to be king
I just wanna be queen


No doubt about it
I'm gonna shout it


Queen, queen
Queen, queen


Darling, she's the queen of queens

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the french album sol en si

There's a chance we may lose it all
All those hollow souls
Can't hope to hold that wall

What i breathe used to be my life
How come a good thing dies
And the evil still survive


Oh i've got to paint it red
Wake up and colour all the pieces
Don't sleep without your faces, and
Oh i've got to paint it red
Put your eyes back in your head
And oh paint it red


Where's the dance they may never dance
All those open hands
Can't hope to have a chance


What i see used to be a smile
How come your lips are sealed
And your spirit never flies


Cash on delivery
That's all they ever said
Grey tones can't be trusted
I say paint it red

Written by william monk and h.f. lyte
Arranged by dave hartley
Available on the collection carnival!

Abide with me, fast falls the eventide
The darkness deepens, lord abide with me
When other helpers fail and comforts flee
Help of the helpless, o abide with me

I fear no foe, with thee at hand to bless
Ills have no weight and tears no bitterness
Where is death's sting, where, grave, that victory
I triumph still if thou abide with me


Hold thou thy cross before my closen eyes
Shine throught the gloom and point me to the skies
Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee


In life, in death, o lord abide with me
In life, in death, o lord abide with me

Written by noel coward
Available on the uk album 20th century blues - the songs of noel coward

Twentieth century blues are getting me down
Blues, escape those dreary twentieth century blues
Why, if there's a god in the sky, why shouldn't he grin
High above this dreary twentieth century din

In this strange illusion, chaos and confusion
People seem to lose their way
What is there to strive for, love or keep alive for
Say, hey hey, call it a day


Blues, nothing to win or to lose, it's getting me down
Blues, escape those weary twentieth century blues


Why is it that civilized humanity can make this world so wrong
In this hurly-burly of insanity, our dreams cannot last long
We've reached a deadline, a press headline, every sorrow
Blues value is news value tomorrow

Music by elton john
Never released

[instrumental]

Music by ??
Produced by chris thomas
Recorded 1969 at emi studios, abbey road
Never released (the bread and beer band)


[instrumental]

Music by elton john
Lyrics by tim rice
Elton's solo version is unreleased

This is the moment when the gods expect me
To beg for help but i won't even try
I want nothing in the world but myself to protect me
But i won't lie down, roll over and die

All i have to do is to forget how much i love him
All i have to do is put my longing to one side
Tell myself that love's an ever-changing situation
Passion would have cooled and all the magic would have died


It's easy, it's easy


Until i think about him as he was when i last saw him
And how he would have been were i to be with him today
Tender in his manner _____ consolation
All i ever wanted and i'm throwing it away


It's easy, easy as life


All i have to do is to pretend i never knew him
On those very rare occasions when he steals into my heart
Better to have lost him when the ties were barely binding
Better the contempt of the familiar cannot start


It's easy, it's easy


Until i think about him as he was when i last touched him
And how he would have been were i to be with him today
Those very rare occasions don't let up, they keep on coming
All i ever wanted and i'm throwing it away


It's easy, it's easy as life


And then i see the faces of a worn defeated people
A father and a nation who won't let a coward run
Is this how the gods reward the faithful through the ages
Forcing us to prove that all the hardest things we've done


Are easy, so easy


And though i'll think about him until the earth draws in around me
And though i choose to leave him for another kind of love
This is no denial, no betrayal, but redemption
Redeemed in my own eyes and in the pantheon above


It's easy, it's easy, it's easy as life

Music by elton john
Lyrics by tim rice
Elton's solo version is unreleased

I once knew all the answers, i stood on certain ground
A picture of true happiness, confidence so effortless
No brighter could be found

I never asked the questions that trouble me today
I knew all there was to know, love worn lightly, put on show
A conquest on display


And who would have thought his love could be so good
Not me, not me
My secrets and my passions understood
Not me, not me


Who would have guessed he'd throw his world away
To be with someone till his dying day
Not me, not me


I shall not envy lovers, but long for what they share
An empty room is merciless, don't be surprised if i confess
I need some comfort there


And who would have thought his love could be so good
Not me, not me
My secrets and my passions understood
Not me, not me


Who would have guessed he'd throw his world away
To be with someone till his dying day
Not me, not me


But not me, oh not me

Written by randy newman
Available on randy newman's album faust

In two long wars, my country bled
To save the world for everyone
As through the years, the fight we've led
Too long, we stood alone, too long alone
And when at last, the battle won
We asked for no reward
An empire gone
Two generations turned to blood and dust
Only the best were lost
Only the best

And now the years have passed
The times have changed
The foe is risen up
He stands astride the world
His dreams of conquest all fulfilled


Little island, little island
Glory lost in the mists of time
They will pay for what was done
To those of us who died so young
They will pay for what was done
Little island, little island
Little island

Written by christine mcvie
Available on the tribute album legacy: a tribute to fleetwood mac's rumours

If you wake up and don't want to smile
If it takes just a little while
Open your eyes and look at the day
You'll see things in a different way

Don't stop thinking about tomorrow
Don't stop, it'll soon be here
It'll be here, better than before
Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone


Why not think about the times to come
And not about the things that you've done
If your life was bad to you
Just think what tomorrow will do


All i want is to see you smile
If it takes just a little while
I know you don't believe that it's true
I never meant any harm to you


Don't you look back
Don't you look back

Written by elton john and bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in 1978

I've been blown away like a printed page
That reads "you're lovesick"
Headline news had me so abused
But i was lovesick

You never tried although i sacrificed
My weaknesses for you
I could have understood, i could have read your looks
I should have known better too


I've been holding out but it's time to shout
You know i'm lovesick
A helping hand for a dying man
Who says he's lovesick


I can't explain why i'll never change
This sickness deep inside
I've been doctored down, i've had the nurse around
I've heard too many lies

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

I was born in the north of england
I was raised in a working town
I broke all the rules when i went to school
But the teachers couldn't pin me down

I tried to make my parents proud
By adapting to the social powers
Oh pigs will fly, and the earth will fry
When they get me doing honest hours


Snookeroo, snookeroo
Daddy's going on the booze
Mother used to cut my hair
And sister used to make the news


Oh it was two rooms up and two rooms down
And we were sentenced by the wrecking crane
I was born on the eve of halloween
And snookeroo, snookeroo, snookeroo's my name, snookeroo


I need someone to cook for me
And turn me loose at night
I could spend my life with a factory girl
'cause the factory girl's my type


I hear them gossip on the street
Most of what they say is true
Oh don't you know that i hear them say
There goes that lazy, no-good snookeroo

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in 1992

Looking back in anger
On this dirty little town
It stained your dress carved up my face
Put a wedge between our state of grace

Somethings so young and pretty
Should never be released
We place our bets we take our pick
They wind up in the belly of the beast


And when you can't get what you want
You take anything you can
So i wear this suit of wolves at night
I slip it on how come it feels so right


I get a hungry man
When i can't get what i want
I take anything i can
I wear a suit of wolves


Just across from friday
The weekend circus rolls
I cross my heart turn on the charm
I say my prayers between two hungry arms


There's a string of dangerous flowers
All around my bed
There's some want rings and some just want
And those who'd like to see me dead

Music by elton john
Lyrics by gary osborne
Never released
Demo version of "lonely boy"


Lonely man, get up and fly
Come on dance, get up and try
Everyone knows you got what it takes
All you need is one or two good breaks

Lonely man, this is your time
Come on dance, you're on the line
This just could be the only throw you got
Get on up and give it your best shot


You gotta make it lonely man
You can take it lonely man
Oh do da do da day
You gotta do it lonely man
Get to it lonely man
Oh take it all the way


Lonely man, you are the one
So come on dance, your chance has come
Destiny gonna put you to the test
Face the music and disregard the rest

Music by elton john
Never released


Timothy
Why are you following me
Why don't you take a few chances
While you got time on your side

Timothy
How can i make you see
Somebody's got all the answers
But it sure ain't me


You know that love's a game
And i played it once or twice
Oh you're asking for advice
That i can't give you


'cause it just don't feel the same
If you haven't paid the price
It's something that you're just gonna
Have to live through


Timothy
Why are you following me


Timothy
I'm not the person to tell you
What you should do with your life


Timothy
The joke's on me
You got yourself more to handle
Than i will ever be


You know that love's a game
You can guarantee to win
Love has always been a game of learning


'cause it just don't feel the same
When you're outside looking in
And it's still the same old question keeps returning


Timothy
Why are you following me


Well you know that love's a game
You play the best you can
It's hard to understand
Though we keep trying


'cause it just don't feel the same
When you lose the master plan
I sometimes have to laugh
To keep from crying

mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Man maira bohot behlatee hay

Choras
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay

Jab bhee main dukhee hota hoon
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Phir jab main kaaam par jata hoon
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay

Choras
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay

Phir jab main ghar say aata hoon

Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay


Hasta la vista baby

Written by reg dwight
Released as a single by bluesology in february, 1966

When you hold me, when you thrill me
My heart just sets on fire
When you love me, when you hold me
I'm just filled with desire

You know that i love you baby
But your kind of loving just drives me crazy
When you hold me, when you kiss me
Mr. frantic, mr. frantic


When you tell me that i'm your only
I feel on top of the world
If you'd only say you will
Then you'll be my only girl


We could be such a happy pair
And i promise to do my share
When you hold me, when you kiss me
Mr. frantic, mr. frantic


You know that i have loved you since
The day we met in the rain
And if you were to go away now
My heart couldn't stand the pain

Music by elton john
Lyrics by tim rice
Elton's solo version is unreleased


Take me in my dreams recurring
Cheerful as a childhood dance
Into one more taste of freedom
One more longing backward glance

In the sway of somber music
I shall never, never understand
Let me slip into the sweeter
Chorus of that other land


The gods love nubia, the beautiful, the golden
The radiant, the fertile, the gentle and the blessed
The pain of nubia is only of the moment
The desolate, the suffering, the plundered, the oppressed


The gods love nubia, the glorious creation
The songs roll sweetly across the harvest plain
The tears of nubia, a passing aberration
They wash into the river and are never cried again


The gods love nubia, we have to keep believing
The scattered and divided, we are still it's heart
The fall of nubia, ephemeral and fleeting
The spirit always burning though the flesh is torn apart

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

Have you heard about the love sensation
That someone in the submarine
Love what you take
Love what you want
Love is the steam about
My whole adventure

Got what you want
Got what you need
Got what you want
I want my love adventure


Got a lot of love
Got a lot of dreams
______________
About my soul adventure


________________....

Music by elton john
Lyrics by tim rice
Elton's solo version is unreleased

In life one has to face a huge assortment
Of nauseating fads and good advice
There's health and fitness, diet and deportment
And other pointless forms of sacrifice

Conversation, wit, i am a doubter
Manners, charm, they're no way to impress
So forget the inner me, observe the outer
I am what i wear and how i dress


Overwear, underwear, anytime, anywhere
Overwear, underwear, anytime, anywhere
Overwear, underwear, anytime, anywhere, ooh
Overwear, underwear, anytime, anywhere
Overwear, underwear, anytime, anywhere
Overwear, underwear, anytime, anywhere, ooh


Now i believe in looking like my time on earth is cooking
Whether polka-dotted stripes or even checks
With some glamour guaranteeing every fiber of my being
Is displayed to quite remarkable effects
From your cradle via trousseau to your death bed you're on view so
Never compromise accept no substitute
I would rather wear a barrel than conservative apparel
A dress has always been my strongest suit


Staying in or hitting townwards, from the top and working downwards
I ensure that every stitch is stitched in time
Whether wig or hat or turban, whether clad boudoir or urban
Not to strut your stuff outrageously's a crime
And the few who are invited to my wardrobe are delighted
As they wander through my things to find en route
That in negligee or formal i am anything but normal
A dress has always been my strongest suit


Now you don't need a recital of the reasons why its vital
That tonight i simply have to look my best
That from coronet to sandal no one else is worth a candle
That i couldn't make more impact if i'm dressed
So bring me out my finest, most audacious, my divinest
Most revealing, most expensive and to boot
Most arresting, most heart-stopping, most free-flowing, most eye-popping
A dress has always been my strongest suit

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the south park album chef aid

Got this bug-eyed girl
Cold hand on my knee
Frozen teeth, chitter chatter
She's dresed up like a cemetary, like a cemetary

Snow-bound all winter
Blue lips on my cheek
Little tongue's prattlin', rattlin'
Talking 'bout them hometown geeks, them home-town geeks


Wake up wendy, smell the coffee
Help me into your custom kitchen
Gimme a cup of that old black magic
I wanna get me some of that old home cookin'


Can you feel it
It's chilly and a-freezin'
Wake up wendy, moods are changing
I got a reason, you got a feeling
Wake up wendy, love's in season


Feels like a steam clean
When she washes me
Valves a-bustin', pumps a-hissin'
Just peel me off the ceiling, off the ceiling


Chill-eyed, bug-eyed girl
Zap me into cinders
Pop the thermal mumbo jumbo
Melt me with your little fingers, with your little fingers

Music by elton john
Lyrics by gary osborne
Released as a uk b-side in 1981

At last i'm over losing you
I've cried so many tears it just ain't true
My eyes are red, my heart is blue
I can't get over getting over losing you

I can't turn back the hands of time
I've come so far, i have to see it through
The trouble is that i still find
I can't get over getting over losing you


I hardly ever think of you
Except in the morning and then in the evening, again in the afternoon
I guess it's true, i'm over the worst
But living's the one thing that ain't rehearsed


But i know that's all behind me now
I'm learning how to live my life anew
And as soon as i discover how
Then i'll get over getting over losing you


I hardly ever think of you, i roll with the punches
I'm taking it easy, i don't play hunches like i used to do
I'm over you now
Still tying to forget you but i don't know how


But at least i'm over losing you
There's only one thing left for me to do
Oh my eyes are red, my heart is blue
I draw the lone on you and me, forget how fine it used to be
And i'll get over getting over losing you
And i'll get over getting over losing you

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

There's a picture in the nursery of a well known soldier man
And he wants to be like father when he grows up if he can
His eyes survey the floorboards with his soldiers around him
But fear not for the future, you will climb the highest mountain

So regimental sergeant zippo
Stand up to attention will you
Hear the bugle sounding in the morning call up rising
So your cowboy castle is standing
You're the one who is commanding
Watch them march along the landing down the stairs


Just a small boy in a small boy's world
And small boys do strange things
He likes to see the match sticks fly
And hear the cannons ring
For his eider down, his battle field
And in his dreams his fights are real
Until the field is won, aim, fire the guns

Written by elton john
Available on the various artists album disney's for our children

[instrumental]

Music by ??
Produced by chris thomas
Recorded 1969 at emi studios, abbey road
Never released (the bread and beer band)

[instrumental]

Written by elton john
Never released, recorded for versace fashion show, paris 1995


And then there were uniforms

We're marching in milan


We're marching in milan

Written by nick drake
Recorded by elton john, but unreleased

Don't you have a word to show what may be done
Have you never heard a way to find the sun
Tell me all that you may know
Show me what you have to show
Won't you come and say
If you know the way to blue

Have you seen the land living by the breeze
Can you understand a light among the trees
Tell me all that you may know
Show me what you have to show
Tell us all today
If you know the way to blue


Look though time and find your rhyme
Tell us what you find
We will wait at your gate
Hoping like the blind


Can you now recall all that you have known
Will you never fall when the light has flown
Tell me all that you may know
Show me what you have to show
Won't you come and say
If you know the way to blue

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

Do you believe in faeries
For the children's rhymes are in my mind
Seen through the colours of my eyes
A rainbow in the sky

With the flowers of seed
Taken by the beautiful people who have gone
Where have they gone
Where have they all gone


They're throwing coins in a velvet fountain
Wishing on stars and floating on air
Can somebody catch me if i __________ stranger
And the mystery beleives me a velvet fountain

Written by elton john and caleb quaye
Never released

I'm just sitting doing nothing
Wondering where i should go
People tell me i'm just lazy
Weather or not it's true i don't know

So i'm just sitting doing nothing
Wondering where i should go
Many people that i've encountered
Say they wish that they were free


And i know that secretly
All those people would really like to be me


So even though they tell me i'm idle
Why should i do what they say
For they're in the same place all the time
But i'm only there for a day


So i'm just sitting doing nothing
Wondering where i should go

Written by elton john and caleb quaye
Never released

I said from the start that you'd be mine
But now it just seems i'm just wasting your time
If only you knew the hurt i've been through
You'll be sorry to see me go
You'll be sorry to see me go

I've always done the best that i could
To make you happy like i should
If only you knew what i've heard about you
You'll be sorry to see me go
You'll be sorry to see me go


I could have been mistreated if i'd been bad
But people tell me i'm the best that you've had
So there's something i want you to know
I think you'll be sorry to see me go
You'll be sorry to see me go


You said from the start that you'd be mine
But now it just seems i'm just wasting your time
If only you knew the hurt i've been through
You'll be sorry to see me go
You'll be sorry to see me go

Music by ??
Produced by chris thomas
Recorded 1969 at emi studios, abbey road
Never released (the bread and beer band)

[instrumental]

Written by george and ira gershwin
Available on the soundtrack four weddings and a funeral

They're writing songs of love, but not for me
A lucky star's above, but not for me
With love to lead the way, i've found more clouds are grey
Than any russian play could guarantee

I was a fool to fall and get that way
Heigh ho, alas, and also lack-a-day
Although i can't dismiss the memory of her kiss
I guess she's not for me


It all began so well, but what an end
This is the time a feller needs a friend
When every happy plot ends with a marriage knot
And there's no knot for me

Music by ??
Produced by chris thomas
Recorded 1969 at emi studios, abbey road
Never released (the bread and beer band)

[instrumental]

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

I watch the raindrops falling on my window pane
All the bloomed forget-me-nots won't falter in the rain
Electric light bulbs cannot replace the sun
And picture postcards can't reveal all the things we've done

And the flowers will never ever die
And the flowers will never die
And autumn in the country cannot withhold the sky
And the flowers will never die


He spreads his cloudy blanket on a raging sea
And calms the cruel waves with the help of powers that be
The hours fly by, the clock ticks on maneuvering its hands
While the autumn leaves fall from the trees and return into the land

Music by elton john
Lyrics by tim rice
Elton's solo version is unreleased

A few more days and we'll be home in glory
Already they'll be getting out the flags
With memphis high _______ dormitory
For me, i only see a lot of snags

The prospect above all i find distressful
Is having to give up the soldier's life
If anything i'm rather too successful
They made me hand my sword in for a wife


For just because i've triumphed as a slaver
Brought booty back to egypt by the ton
Of this and every month, i'm now the flavor
And scheduled to do things i've never done


And why should i tell you this, a stranger i just met
A woman who in hours from now i'll certainly forget
Anonymous and undemanding
Enchantment passing through
My secrets and my confidence are safe enough with you


My days out on the field are all but ended
They'll put me out to grass which means the throne
Bedecked and bejeweled alongside my intended
I feel as though my heart is set in stone


But maybe i am being far too gloomy
Yes, maybe i'll make waves in pastures new
Find goverment and politics come to me
As naturally as i now talk to you


For just because i've triumphed as a slaver
Brought booty back to egypt by the ton
Of this and every month, i'm now the flavor
And scheduled to do things i've never done


And why should i tell you this, a stranger i just met
A woman who in hours from now i'll certainly forget
Anonymous and undemanding
Enchantment passing through
My secret lack of confidence is safe enough with you


Why should i tell you this, a stranger i just met
A woman who in hours from now i'll certainly forget
Anonymous and undemanding
Enchantment passing through
My secret lack of confidence is safe enough with you

Written by elton john
Released as a uk b-side in 1978

Please don't talk about the flintstone boy
He's alright with me
Please don't talk about the flintstone boy
He's alright with me
Please don't worry about the flintstone boy
He got trouble but he ain't got joy
Please don't talk about the flintstone boy
Please don't talk about the flintstone boy
Don't you worry, he's alright with me, oh yeah, oh yeah

Please don't worry about the flintstone boy
He's alright with me
Please don't worry about the flintstone boy
He's alright with me
Please don't talk about the flintstone boy
He got trouble and he ain't got joy
Please don't worry about the flintstone boy
Please don't worry about the flintstone boy
Don't you worry, he's alright with me, oh yeah, oh yeah


Well joey had a lover but he had to run for cover
When someone told a lie
Jo jo his lover, he'd been cheating on him
Shouldn't he know why
Joey had a lover but he had to run for cover
When someone let him down
Jo jo his lover, he'd been cheating on him
He'd been messing around

Music by elton john
Lyrics by gary osborne
Released as a uk b-side in 1984

I'm a simple man with a simple dream
In a far from simple time
And i payed the price of the road i chose
But at least the choice was mine

And the times i get the feeling
That the journey's end is near
But i prefer to die with my head held high
Than to live my life in fear


I'm a simple man from a time gone by
Growing cold and old alone
There's a time to run and a time to hide
And a time to head for home


To forgive and be forgiven
If it's the last thing i can do
Then in death's release i may find the peace
That in life i never knew


'cause i'm a simple man with a simple dream
I may never see come true

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

I'm very low but not too dim
I can still see the faces of you and him
I remember well how it used to be
You remember too obviously

Remember when, remember when i was tealby abbey then
It was not so long ago maybe a hundred years or so
When i was tealby abbey
That's a long long time ago
When i was tealby abbey
That's a long long time ago


When the clock stopped and the rocks dropped
And the gravel started giving away
I can still recall when we were small
But oh what a fateful day


In younger times, children climb
Up and down your walls
And a curse on the day the fates will say
When tealby abbey falls

Music by elton john
Lyrics by tim rice
Elton's solo version is unreleased


I'm sorry for everything i've said
And for anything i forgot to say too
When things get so complicated
I stumble, at best, muddle through
I wish that our lives could be simple
I don't want the world, only you
I wish i could tell you this face to face
But there's never the time, never the place
So this letter will have to do
I love you

Written by jean-paul dreau
Released as a b-side in 1983, and on the french album the fox

J'ai trop r

Music by elton john
Lyrics by gary osborne
Released as a uk b-side in 1982

Take me down to the water
Take me back to the source
Call the meeting to order
And let it run its course

Take me back to my childhood
When i was so alone
Let me feel like a child would
Looking out across the great unknown


Take me down to the ocean
Take me down to the sea
Set the feeling in motion
Forget the tied up time and let my spirit free


Take away the illusion
Of the man, of the king
Help me lose the confusion
So i can breathe again


Take me down to the ocean
Take me down to the sea
Set the feeling in motion
So you can just be you and i can just be me
That's how i need to be

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in 1986


Well he looks through the wreckage
But he can't find a photo of you
Then he ties me in knots
With riddles he chooses to use

And he says how come you two
Are the only ones here who survived
Oh i thought it was me
Who was destined to be
The lord of the flies


And who rules when fools leave, i do
Says the lord of the flies
Leave me your world, give me your earth
Swallow your foolish pride
And don't think i'm wrong, it's here i belong
It's mine, i'm the lord of the flies
Lord of the flies
Lord of the flies


Then take all the money you want
It's the last thing we used for fuel
Here in the late great capital
We burned a bonfire for you


He knows we burned the harvest
And saw through his disguise
He's no phantom at all
He's the only thing left
The lord of the flies

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in 1998

Oh i've been staying up nights
Thinking about a long flight that could take me home
Or a slow train rolling
Or a big boat floating out there on that lonely ocean

I'm not the man i was
I guess the dark side lost and the sun broke through
I thought i knew it all
I was the next big thing until i thought about you


Oh i was reaching for the stars
When i wasn't even touching you
I was lying to myself, i needed no one's help
Thought i was living proof


When there's one set of footsteps
No one's gonna fill your shoes
Now i'm looking in the mirror
At a big man in a little suit


I'm a big man in a little suit
It's tight on me, hard on you
It's a short cut but it's a long way home
When you think you can make it on you own


You think you're bulletproof
But what you really are
Is a big man in a little suit


I was part of the chain
A face with no name in a place with no soul
By a thief in the night
I was robbed of the light and left nothing, nothing to hold


I've turned my back on a world like that
I want to get back to loving you
Give me one more chance
Won't you warm the hands of this cold headed fool

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

Time goes by, it seems so long
But it was only days ago when things were going wrong
What happened to the love, to the love we knew
The days we shared were so short and so few

And baby i miss you
Baby i miss you
Remember when it didn't rain
Will i ever see the sun again
And baby i miss you
Baby i miss you
And i only wish that i could share your love again


I thought about leaving for some new place
Somewhere where i, i don't have to see your face
'cause seeing your face only brings me out in tears
Thinking of the love i've wasted all through the years

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in 1978

This house that i live in has no reason
This house that i sleep in has no purpose
It has a bed and a few old chairs
Three flights up, two flights of stairs
But it has no reason

Then someone shot through the tyre swing
The dogs barked and bayed in the winter and spring
And the ivy that hung now sadly clings
To a dying season


And i cry at night when the lights go out
And the green eyes fuse and the full moon shouts
From road maps and red lines to lipstick lies
And when the lights go out it's tought to survive


This man holds a hand that shows a tremble
This man that i live in bears his faults
He has a heart and a well worn soul
Ten years a slave to rock and roll
But he has to tremble


For the yellow grass on the sun burnt lawn
Sleeps in her seeds from the sunset to dawn
And just like your love that's come and gone
It goes on breathing

Written by adrien avon and demon spiro
Never released

This year, next year, sometime, never
Will we ever get together
I keep hoping things are gonna change
Colours changing red to yellow
Yesterday you said hello
And from now on i'll never be the same

Annabella umberella
Standing on the corner when the rain comes down
That's the way i'll always think of you
When i first met you
Annabella umberella, child


I wanna get to know you better
Get to know your name
And yet i know to me you'll always be the same


Sunshine sunshine go away
Come again another day
Raindrops fall, us both together
How i love the rainy weather

Music by ??
Produced by chris thomas
Recorded 1969 at emi studios, abbey road
Never released (the bread and beer band)


[instrumental]

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in 1981


He's so sophisticated
In a critic's eye
He needs a change of habit
But then so do i
He's all zefferelli
In cool loose clothes
He needs to be rewired
He's plugged on overload

So crisp and new
Well it had to be
I guess he needs a change
From the likes of me
If he should lose some color
When he leaves the sun
I'm sure a little braggi
Wouldn't hurt no one


'cause when the fool's in fashion
He's attracting everyone
He'll be the head of your list
He'll be your dinner guest
If he's the center of attention
Looks like the fool's in fashion


You had your pound of flesh
You got the driver's seat
Well you can keep the car
But i'd like the meat
'cause there must be plenty
Down in the cutting room
It's so tough to suffer
When you want the moon

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a b-side in 1997

I wake up and i look at the clock
In the middle of the night my heart stops
When i see you in the moonlight
I know why i'm in love

Peace will come i promise you
I wish you success in all you do
And when i think about the rest
I know why i'm in love


It's hard to find the kind of thing
You've searched for all your life
Someone bright and crazy
With a little soul inside
And looking at you fast asleep
I thank the stars above


And what more can i say
I've said it all in different ways
The bottom line, the simple facts are true
I know why i'm in love with you
I only hope you know i love you too


I kiss you and i melt inside
What you mean to me i can't describe
And if seeing is believing
You'd know why i'm in love

Written by nick drake
Recorded by elton john, but unreleased

Time has told me
You're a rare rare find
A troubled cure
For a troubled mind

And time has told me
Not to ask for more
Someday our ocean
Will find its shore


So i'll leave the ways that are making me be
What i really don't want to be
Leave the ways that are making me love
What i really don't want to love


Time has told me
You came with the dawn
A soul with no footprint
A rose with no thorn


Your tears they tell me
There's really no way
Of ending your troubles
With things you can say


And time will tell you
To stay by my side
To keep on trying
'till there's no more to hide


So leave the ways that are making you be
What you really don't want to be
Leave the ways that are making you love
What you really don't want to love


Time has told me
You're a rare rare find
A troubled cure
For a troubled mind


And time has told me
Not to ask for more
For some day our ocean
Will find its shore

Written by george and ira gershwin
Available on the tribute album the glory of gershwin

There's a saying old says that love is blind
Still we're often told "seek and ye shall find"
So i'm going to seek a certain girl i've had in mind
Looking everywhere, haven't found her yet
She's the big affair i cannot forget
Only girl i ever think of will regret

I'd like to add her initial to my monogram
Tell me where's the shepherd for this lost lamb


There's a somebody i'm longing to see
I hope that she turns out to be
Someone who'll watch over me


I'm a little lamb who's lost in a wood
I know i could always be good
To one who'll watch over me


Although she may not the girl some men think of
As handsome to my heart
She carries the key


Won't you tell her please to put on some speed
Follow my lead, oh how i need
Someone to watch over me
Someone to watch over me

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in 1986

Nothing looks as bad
After staying up all night
And the cruel words that cut you down
I never meant to write
And what came out as anger
Oh was a lack of self control
Billy won't you hold me
Once before you go

Clever lies keep coming
Some men never change
I'm a hand that's raised in anger
The blow that causes pain
But i just can't be trusted
With a bottle and a child
Billy it's no wonder
You say i've never tried


Oh so leave me now
Oh don't turn around
It's the best thing you ever did
But it's hard for me to say goodbye
To billy and the kids

Written by phil spector, ellie greenwich and jeff barry
Available on the soundtrack four weddings and a funeral

Spring is here, the sky is blue
Birds will sing as if they knew
Today's the day, we'll say "i do"
And we'll never be lonely any more

Because we're going to the chapel
And we're gonna to get married
Going to the chapel
And we're gonna get married
Gee i really love you
And we're gonna get married
Going to the chapel of love


Bells will ring, the sun will shine
I will be hers, and she'll be mine
We'll love until the end of time
And we'll never be lonely any more

Written by reg dwight
Never released

Never thought i'd miss you
When you said goodbye
Never thought i'd see the day
That i break down and cry
Won't you come on back to me
Back where you belong

'cause i get a little bit lonely baby
Lonely and blue missing you
I get a little bit lonely baby
If you ever come back, gonna be true


Oh i know i hurt you
Couldn't you forgive
For i know without you
It's impossible to live
I want you back in my arms again
Back where you belong


Come on baby
Let's forgive and forget
And even though things are bad
I'm gonna get you yet

Written by tammy wynette
Available on the tribute album tammy wynette remembered

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman
Giving all your love to just one man
Oh, you have bad times, and you have good times
Doing things that you don't understand

Hey, but if you love him, you'll forgive him
Even though he's hard to understand
And if you love him, be proud of him
'cause after all, he's just a man


Stand by your man
Give him two arms to cling to
And someone warm to come to
When nights are cold and lonely


Stand by your man
And show the world you love him
Keep giving all the love you can
Stand by your man

Music by elton john and davey johnstone
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in 1989

Have you ever had a good time turn bad
When the leaves turn brown
And the shattered glass just splinters
It's days like this that you can't resist
A long tall drink
And a big yellow sun in the winter

And you can go dancing
You can go dancing
You can go dancing
Dancing in the end zone


Did you ever pray you could stay away
Company excluded
From the curse of the family circle
In a big round room on the edge of the moon
There's a shooting star
In a race for the final hurdle


No need to worry, no need to worry
No need to worry when you dance alone
You already made it, you already made it
When you're dancing in the end zone

Music by elton john
Lyrics by tim rice
Elton's solo version is unreleased

Like father, like son
Like father, like son
Like father, like son

Don't come on so cocksure boy, you can't escape your genes
No point in feeling purer boy, your background intervenes
Listen good and listen straight, you're not the master of your fate
To this you must be reconciled, you'll always be your father's child
At times acclaimed, at times reviled
You'll wind up doing just what i've done
Like father, like son
Like father, like son


Don't assume your vices get handed down the line
That a parent's blood suffices to condemn the child's design
I've done wrong, i can't deny, but at least i know that i
Shouldn't blame that on my stock, this may come as quite a shock
But i'm no chip off any block, i wouldn't wish those words on anyone
Like father, like son
Like father, like son


Son, you're nervous, take my hand
All is settled, all is planned
You've got the world at your command
I don't think you understand


Just have the slave if you must, and be done with her
Don't ever speak of her like that again


I appreciate too well, the squalor at which you excel
It isn't very hard to tell, evil's a distinctive smell


From this day on i choose my own way
If i choose to be with aida, then i will be
And no one, not you, not even the gods can stop me


He's lost all sense of reason, and why? some foreign slut
Not only is that treason, some doors are slamming shut
Just like me, he's found that flesh can excite but will enmesh
Watch me rid him of this blight, once the harlot's out of sight
Then i think he will see the light
He won't walk back to daddy, he will run
Like father, like son
Like father, like son
Like father, like son
Like father, like son

Duet with kiki dee written by stevie wonder and ivy hunter
Released as a uk single in 1981


I remember yet before we met
That every night and day
I had to live the life of a lonely woman

I remember meeting you
Discovering love can be so true
When it's shared by two instead of one


When you said you love me (when you said you love me)
We could not be parted (we could not be parted)
And i built my world around you (i built my world around you)
I'm so thankful that i found you


And loving you is sweeter than ever
(i ain't never felt like this before)
Loving you has made my life sweeter than ever, sweeter than ever


Each night i pray we'd never part
For the love within my heart grows stronger
From day to day


As best i can, and how i try
To reassure and satisfy
'cause i'd be lost if you went away


'cause i really need you (really really need you)
And i need for you to need me too
(if you don't go breaking my heart)
I have built my world around you
(i have built my world around you)
Baby i'm so thankful that i've found you


And loving you has made my life sweeter than ever before
(i ain't never felt like this before)
And loving you has made my life sweeter than ever
So much sweeter


That's what loving you (loving you)


'cause i really love (really really love you)
And i'm thankful that you love me too
(thankful that you love me too)
I have built my world around you
(i have built my world around you)
I am truly glad, i am truly glad
That loving you has made my life sweeter than ever
(you don't know how much this means to me)
When i'm loving you
Me, you, us


Sweeter than ever (tell me about it)
Loving you has made my life sweeter than ever
(you don't know how much this means to me)
I'm loving you, you made my life sweeter than ever
(you're sweeter than ever baby)
Sweeter than ever (sweeter than ever)
So much sweeter (sweeter than ever)


Loving you
Loving you is sweeter than ever...

Written by elton john and caleb quaye
Never released

Oh pity me
I'm so alone and so blue
My friends have all gone away
Their friendliness too

It was i on my own
With no need to be alone
And i wanted to die
That's when you came along


And thank you for all of your loving
Thank you for all of your tears
Thank you for all of your kindness
Thank you for being here


What a difference it makes
My life has started again
And if you go away
It just won't be the same


It's hard to say what i feel
When i'm by your side
You're there when i'm worried
All my troubles in you i confide

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a b-side in 1992

Fat boys cry when ugly girls sing
About the way the world would be if they were thin
And ugly girls turn their heads when fat boys laugh
About the handsome kid next door who broke their heart
Who broke their heart
Broke their heart

And fat boys lie when ugly girls ask
About the size an apple pie looks through a magnifying glass
And ugly girls dream at night when fat boys sleep
About the way the mirrors lie when beauty's only skin deep
Beauty's only skin deep
Skin deep


But it's the fat boy's world for an ugly girl
And ugly girls love that fat boy joy
Who needs the worries of a perfect world
Hear the early birds make that spring time come
When a fat boy falls in love with an ugly girl
When a fat boy falls in love with an ugly girl


Fat boys dance when ugly girls shout
That a waltz is not the dance for the boy who's stout
And ugly girls dream at night when fat boys sleep
About the way the mirrors lie when beauty's only skin deep
Beauty's only skin deep
Skin deep


Fat boys and ugly girls