The Wide-eyed And Laughing

Music by elton john, caleb quaye, james newton-howard and davey johnstone

Lyrics by bernie taupin

Available on the album blue moves



Are you still in control of the boat that you row

Or do you still cling to me when its sinking

I never condemned you, i only consoled you

When candlelight made me a king



For the wide-eyed and laughing

Passed like a season

Erasing a passion to sin

For no one knew better than the tealeaves and the tarots

That the wide-eyed and laughing

Were just one step ahead of the wind





And the hearts that you played on the porch swing for me

Was a song that i'd heard in the past

For i had an audience somewhere inside you

That applauded whenever you laughed





Gone is a word that i now rarely use

Though sometime in the course of a day

I go racing back like a man possessed

By the wide-eyed and laughing daughters of some different age


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