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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

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

Turn to me, turn to me when you're lonely
Brush them aside, gather your pride
Baby turn to me
Turn to me, turn to me when you're lonely
Brush them aside, gather your pride
Baby turn to me
Don't listen to the people
Who spread lies about your name
I know it hurts
But baby i've had it too


I've learned to live with their abuse
I've learned to live with those who choose
To disregard my emptiness and lose me


Your laughter has died in the heat of the night
The people they pretend that company is bright
But brighter you'll wait by the phone that has died
Don't bury your hopes, there's nothing that's left for you to confide in


But you seem to be happy just for now to go on
Try to see through them baby, can't you see what is wrong
You're hurting yourself more that you'll ever know
You're pushing the people to tell you to go

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

Written by paul raymond and tony murray
Never released

Just got the price in my pocket for a one course meal
My shoes are tilting over to an angle at the heel
I should be feeling sorry for myself and i may
But i've got a little happiness, i know she's gone away

Sara's coming back to me, yes she is
To take away my suffering and pain
Sara's coming back to me, yes she is
To show me that the good times will be here once again


She's got the face of an angel and a heart made of gold
She's got me feeling like a spy that came in from the cold
Now i can shout about it, that's the way that i feel
'cause sara's coming back to me, she's coming back for real


Now i know that i wasn't very kind to her before
'cause i was staying out at night, i guess it made her sore
And there were times that i thought she'd left me for good
But she wrote to me this morning, and she said she never could

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

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

They're barring the doors at the back of the hall
It's cold in the winter, some freeze in the fall
The banquet's the supper that's set for the swine
If you're not at the gathering, and you've gone down the line

You're the last to arrive, you're the first one to leave
You don't give us the time, you don't drop us a line
Well a dime in the phone is the best way i know
You're the last to arrive, my friend you're the first one to go


The truck picks you up on your front porch at night
And you're back before sundown if you don't get blind
We're not chaining you down to your castle tonight
We're just trying to make you see some sort of light


They'll all drink your health out of pewter and wood
Get drunk in the hayloft playing dirty and good
There's ten pounds of oxen were skewered on spit
There'll not be an ounce if you don't make it quick

Music by elton john
Never released

[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 bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in 1984

I'd like to make this song so simple
Don't want to hide my feeling under
Drawn up words in shades of many colours
How can i make them think i am clever
By merely saying that i miss you

It's just a state they claim i'm going through
Don't want you to think that i am weakening
Although you know i'm always dreaming
Someday you'll be coming home to me


Tortured, i've been so tortured by you so many times
But you always love the ones that hurt you
And i guess those are the ties that bind
Tortured by you


If i had taken parting easy
It might have been a better lesson
For all concerned in wars of love and hate
How can you swear through words and music
The heart you crave and how to move it


It's just a beach you washed my body onto
Don't want you to know that i an crying
Although your friends can see i'm dying
Slowly from the knife you left in me


Tortured by you
Tortured by you
Tortured by you so many times

Written by elton john, gary osborne and tim renwick
Released as a uk b-side in 1983

Steamboat waiting by the waterside
Sunlight shining on the morning tide
Got my ticket in my hand
Got some celebrating planned

Can't remember when i felt so fine
I've been waiting such a long long time
Just to hear those engines hum
Look out dreamboat here i come


And i say dream on dreamboat, let my love light ride
Steam on steamboat to the other side
All aboard, make it fast
Thank the lord, i'm coming home at last


If you love me like you did before
Be there waiting on the distant shore
When my steamboat comes inside
Then i know we'll be alright


And i say dream on dreamboat, let your love light ride
Stem on steamboat to the other side
Turn the crank, change the gear
Raise the flag and let's get out of here


Feels so good to know that soon i'll see
You've been saving all your love for me
For honey if there's any doubt
Just be sure i don't find out


And i say dream on dreamboat, let my love light ride
Steam on steamboat to the other side
Cast the line, check the fuse
Save some time, this ain't no pleasure cruise


Tell the captain not to take too long
Keep that big wheel turning fast and strong
Fires are burning down below
Come on steamboat don't be slow


And i say dream on dreamboat, let my love light ride
Steam on steamboat to the other side
Wind the springs, set the course
Pull some strings before i turn to force


Dream on dreamboat, let my love light ride
Steam on steamboat to the other side
Ring the bell, sound the horn
Move like hell, i'm heading back where i was born


And i say dream on dreamboat, let my love light ride
Steam on steamboat to the other side
All aboard and make it fast
Thank the lord, i'm coming home at last


And i say dream on dreamboat, let your love light ride
Stem on steamboat to the other side
Turn the crank, change the gear
Raise the flag and let's get out of here


Dream on dreamboat, let my love light ride
Steam on steamboat to the other side
Cast the line, check the fuse
Save some time, this ain't no pleasure cruise


You're me dreamboat, yes you are


And i say dream on dreamboat, let my love light ride
Steam on steamboat to the other side
Ring the bell, sound the horn
Move like hell, i'm heading back where i was born


You're my dreamboat, yes you are

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

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
Never released


It makes a lot of difference
It takes a lot of time
To call it quits, and let it slide
And leave someone behind

It's hard not to think of her
In terms of causing pain
I see her now for what she's worth
She takes my love in vain


And wild love is dangerous play
And now she cuts you time and time again
Cuts the rough with the smooth
Cuts the heart out of you
Now you're taking my love in vain
Yes wild love is dangerous play
And feel you and touch you
And cut you time and time again


Can't always blame a woman
I should have read her mind
I cut the deck too low i guess
I walked a fine thin line


It's like they say so often
The calm before the scream
The days that passed in silence
Were so few and far between

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

Written by leon russell
Released as a live uk b-side in 1988

I've been so many places in my life and times
I've seen a lot of things, i've had some bad rhymes
I acted out my life on stages, ten thousand people watching
Now i'm alone and i'm gonna sing these songs for you

I know your image of me isn't what i hoped it would be
I treated you unkindly, i'm a fool you see
There's no one more imprtant to me
Darling can you please see through me
Now i'm alone and i'm gonna sing these songs for you

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


[instrumental]

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

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

Never released

Got an indian maiden
I've got a photograph of you
And i'm hanging on to every little clue about you

I've got a prepaid reservation
I've got my regulation __________
And this child is on his way to indian land
My indian maiden


Got an indian maiden
I've got my hopi charms in hand
And i'm tracking down her footprints in the sand of indian lands
My indian maiden


Shake it loose, i have no use for city living
Turn my back on the back-slap jacks
And the madcap women, women


Got an indian maiden
I've got a photograph of you
And i'm hanging on to every little clue about you
My indian maiden

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 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
Released as a uk charity single in 1977


We are the goaldiggers, we are the goaldiggers
And we'd like you to help us if you can
We would like your cooperation
To help our organization
Provide football pitches throughout the land

If you were a kid, oh what would you say
If you found out there was just nowhere to play
If i were a kid, oh i would feel abused
If the energy that i had couldn't be used


We are the goaldiggers, we are the goaldiggers
So help us to start the ball to roll
Spread the word from man to man
Give us anything you can
Help us to achieve our goal


Goaldigger, goaldigger
I'm a goaldigger, he's a goaldigger
Goaldigger, goaldigger
I'm a goaldigger

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

Duet with cat stevens
Written by cat stevens and ken cumberbatch
Never released

I want to be your honey man
I want to be, i want to be your honey man
To wash your clothes and hold your hand
I want to be, i want to be your honey man

You've got a lot
But all of your money and stuff
Just isn't enough to buy what i can give
When things get rough
And all of your friendliest friends
Are turning to dust


We will live ______________
You know i'll give you the world
I'll sacrifice girl anything
I'll do it all on my own, believe me

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

[instrumental]

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

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

Music by elton john
Never released


[instrumental]

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

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 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

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

Duet with jennifer rush
Written by bruce roberts and andy goldmark
Released as a single in 1987

You're walking, talking like a flame, baby
You're walking, talking like a flame, baby

Never knew what my heart would be facing
Guess i must have been blind saying goodbye yo you, baby
Close my eyes at night i can taste it
I'm running back in the fire where i once had you, baby


You said don't ever leave me
But i say that's something i won't ever do


I want you back in my arms
In the flames of paradise
In the flames of paradise
I want you back in my arms
In the flames of paradise
The flames of paradise


I give all of my love just to you
It's been so long baby
I give you all my love waits for you
Don't take too long baby


I've been making some brave conversation
Telling friends i'm way better off without you
Then i was living in my imagination
Thinking i could make it without you too baby


My heart tried to deceive me
But that's one thing it just can't do


You said don't ever leave me
Oh that's one thing i won't ever do

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

The angel tree has grown so high
And its roots are planted deep
Never climb that willow
'cause its trunk is awful steep
Yeah the trunk is awful steep

Seven miles south of the city
Way on a windy hill
The whistling branches of the angel tree
Are calm at the evening still


Magical ___________________
As the leaves are _______________
And strange things happen to people
Who go on to the windy hill


__________down here
Had gone up to there
And rested underneath her bough
They slept long, what is wrong
They never woke up again

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

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 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

Sad to say our mighty ruler
Is not really in the pink
Hopes could not be minuscular
That he'll come back from the brink
Not to beat around the bush
He looks like heading for his box
At the risk of seeming pushy
We must plan for future shocks

According to the hawk god horus
Our most regal invalid
Is not that much longer for us
Build another pyramid


Build it, build it
Another pyramid
Build it, build it


Though all doctors and physicians
Have been summoned to his bed
It'll soon be top morticians
We'll be calling for instead
With each wheeze the nation's humming
Egypt shakes with every cough
No two ways about what's coming
No discussion, bets are off


Soon our monarch will have filled the tomb
Just like his fathers did
Summon egypt's greatest builder
Re: another pyramid


Build it, build it
Another pyramid
Build it, build it


We hate to depress the nation
But our leader has been told
He should scrub his next vacation
Even put tonight on hold
This is where his loyal priesthood
Has the chance to do him proud
Holy leaders at the least should
See him happy to his shroud


He must have a vault that's grand by
Any standards floor to lid
Put five thousand slaves on standby
Build another pyramid

Written by elton john and bruce roberts
Available on the soundtrack ferngully


You stare through a tunnel of
Solid wall that should be broken down
And you can't see the field of green
Has been turned into a raging battleground
And you'll live with the consequence
Tell me why don't you understand
You'll destroy all the love that's been created
Be a miser with an empty hand
And it's all such a simple thing
Changing everything
Listen to the one who brings all this love to you

Some other world, some other world, that's where you live
Some other world, some other world, that's where you live
Don't you care, stop and think about us and what you feel
I'll be there, don't you cut yourself off from what is real
Don't live in some other world
You don't live in some other world


There's a boat bound for paradise
If you hurry you can ride it back
'cause once the bait hits the water
It don't take long 'till the sharks attack
Oh but it's all such a simple thing
Change is everything
Let me be the one who brings all this love to you


Some other world, some other world, that's where you live
Some other world, some other world, that's where you live
Don't you care, stop and think about us and what you feel
I'll be there, don't you cut yourself off from what is real
Don't live in some other world, in some other world
Oh you don't live in some other world, in some other world
Got to stop living in some other world


Let me help you with a change of mind
And it's all such a simple thing
Changing everything
Listen to the one who brings all this love to you


This is our world, not some other world
You don't live in some other world
Live in our world, not some other world
You don't live in some other world

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

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

J'ai trop r

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

It's very clear our love is here to stay
Not for a year but ever and a day
The radio and the telephone and the movies that we know
May just be passing fancies, and in time may go

But, oh my dear, our love is here to stay
Together we're going a long, long way
In time the rockies may crumble
Gibraltar may tumble
They're only made of clay
But our love is here to stay
But, oh my dear, our love is here to stay


Together we're going a long, long way
In time the rockies may crumble
Gibraltar may tumble
They're only made of clay
But our love is here to stay
Our love is here to stay

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

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

Hold my hand girl much tighter, much much tighter
'cause what i've got to say i only hope and pray
Comes out as well as i rehearsed it yesterday

And baby when the first tear shows
It's a sign for you to go
And baby when the first tear shows
It's a sign for you to go and leave her alone
With the broken dreams that she owns


It's a crime for me to tell you
It's a sin for me to stay
And i'll never look behind me
When i start to walk away
Firl i'm sorry but it's all that i can say


You know that i used to love you so
Enjoy every moment together
Well i'm not the kind of man
To forever hold your hand
And i've said as much as i should say

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

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

Don't you worry where i'm going
I'll just go without you knowing
I won't come back to you again
I'll leave right now and catch the train

Don't you wait for me anymore
I loved you then and then i was sure
Our love was something at the start
You killed the sun and you broke my heart


Why oh why did you do it
I thought i'd never get through it
While you were telling me lies
You were taking the sun
Taking the sun from my eyes
Taking the sun from my eyes
Taking the sun from my eyes


So just listen to me while i say
Forget all the love of those days
They're only empty and they're gone
Just like the river that's washed in the storm

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

Written by elton john
Released as a uk b-side in 1983

[instrumental]

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

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

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

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released


I've served upon this railroad for longer than i know
My father and his father did the same thing long ago
To keep the western union rolling down towards the sea
The benefits of this great line built for you and me

So rolling western union, you can roll on to the sea
Ten thousand miles of beatin' steel has made a man out of me
In every state i've driven home a rivet with my hands
Oh it's rolling western union rolling onward, onward through our land


It's friends of mine who died upon the building of this line
Irishmen and chinamen and some from the british isles
I've even seen the convicts come to work here for a while
Before the law caught up with them and sent them back to trial


I had a wife while on the job a hundred miles on back
She died in oklahoma and i laid her by the track
All that's left is a wooden cross upright on a mound
And every time the train rolls past, it rumbles in the ground

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

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released


I can't go on living without you, oh no
I once said i could go on without your love
I would be strong but things have changed and heaven's above
I know that i need you more than i did before

I can't go on living without you, oh no my love
I can't go on living without you, oh no my love
I can't go on living without you, oh no


If you could see the state i'm in you'd never know
That it was the same old me that told you to go
I've never been happy since i walked out on you


You know that i've missed you more than anything at all
If there's any way to get you back i'll try it
I won't deny it, i'm lonely for you girl

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
Lyrics by tim rice
Elton's solo version is unreleased

I grew up in your hometown, at least began to grow
I hadn't got to my first shave before the body blow
Egyptians in the courtyard, my family in chains
You witnessed our abduction which possibly explains

How i know you
How i know you


Before that fateful morning my family enjoyed
A privileged existence, for my father was employed
As advisor to the king, no less, which surely rings a bell
For as you are his daughter, you probably can tell


How i know you
How i know you


Enough of reminiscence, and such happy memories
The reason why i know you well is really none of these
It's just you reek of royalty, you ooze uncommon grace
I'd know you were a princess, in any time and place


Yes i know you
How i know you
Yes i know you
How i know you

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Performed at princess diana's funeral, saturday september 6, 1997.

Goodbye england's rose
May you ever grow in our hearts
You were the grace that placed itself
Where lives were torn apart
You called out to our country
And you whispered to those in pain
Now you belong to heaven
And the stars spell out your name

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never fading with the sunset
When the rain set in
And your footsteps will always fall here
Along england's greenest hills
Your candle's burned out long before
Your legend ever will


Loveliness we've lost
These empty days without your smile
This torch we'll always carry
For our nation's golden child
And even though we try
The truth brings us to tears
All our words cannot express
The joy you brought us through the years


And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never fading with the sunset
When the rain set in
And your footsteps will always fall here
Along england's greenest hills
Your candle's burned our long before
Your legend ever will


Goodbye england's rose
May you ever grow in our hearts
You were the grace that placed itself
Where lives were torn apart
Goodbye england's rose
From a country lost without your soul
Who'll miss the wings of your compassion
More than you'll ever know


And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never fading with the sunset
When the rain set in
And you footsteps will always fall here
Along england's greenest hills
Your candle's burned out long before
Your legend ever will

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