Elton john song meanings. / I want love, / won't break me .

Elton john song meanings this is bernie writing a gay anthem for EJ. Almost all his lyrics are perfect. Love Song Lyrics & Meanings: The words I have to say / May well be simple but they're true / Until you give your love / There's nothin' more that we can do / / Love is the opening door / Love is what we came here for / No one could offer you more / Do you know what I mean / Have your eyes really seen / / You say it's very hard / To leave behind the life we knew / But Original Sin Lyrics & Meanings: Oh, it's carnival night / And they're stringing the lights around you / Hanging paper angels / Painting little devils on the roof / / Oh the furnace wind / Is a flickering of wings about your face / In a cloud of incense / Yea, it smells like Heaven in this place / / I can't eat, can't sleep / Still I hunger for you when you look at me / That face, those eyes Believe Lyrics & Meanings: I believe in love, it's all we got / Love has no boundaries, costs nothing to touch / War makes money, cancer sleeps / Curled up in my father and that means something to me / Churches and dictators, politics and papers / Everything crumbles sooner or later / But love, I believe in love / / I believe in love, it's all we got / Love has no boundaries, no borders to All The Nasties Lyrics & Meanings: If it came to pass that they should ask / What could I tell them / Would they criticize behind my back / Maybe I should let them / Oh if only then and only then / They would understand / They'd turn a full-blooded city boy / Into a full-blooded city man / / If they could face it / I could take it in their eyes / Oh I know I'd make it / Their tiny minds / And Amoreena Lyrics & Meanings: Lately I've been thinking how much I miss my lady / Amoreena's in the cornfield brightening the daybreak / Living like a lusty flower, running through the grass for hours / Rolling through the hay like a puppy child / / And when it rains the rain falls down / Washing out the cattle town / And she's far away somewhere in her eiderdown / And she Cold Heart Lyrics & Meanings: It's a human sign / When things go wrong / When the scent of her lingers / And temptation's strong / / Cold, cold heart / Hardened by you (oh) / Some things lookin' better, baby / Just passin' through (no, no, no, no, no) / / And I think it's gonna be a long, long time / 'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find / I'm not the man they think I am at home / Oh The Bridge Lyrics & Meanings: Elton John - The Bridge (John/Taupin) / Album: The Captain And The Kid (2006) / / / I've seen the bridge and the bridge is long / And they built it high and they built it strong / Strong enough to hold the weight of time / Long enough to leave some of us behind / / Chorus: / And every one of us has to face that day / Do you cross the bridge or do you fade High Flying Bird Lyrics & Meanings: You wore a little cross of gold around your neck / I saw it as you flew between my reason / Like a raven in the night time when you left / I wear a chain upon my wrist that bears no name / You touched it and you wore it / And you kept it in your pillow all the same / / My high-flying bird has flown from out my arms / I thought myself her keeper / She Indian Sunset Lyrics & Meanings: As I awoke this evening with the smell of wood smoke clinging / Like a gentle cobweb hanging upon a painted tepee / Oh I went to see my chieftain with my warlance and my woman / For he told us that the yellow moon would very soon be leaving / This I can't believe I said, I can't believe our warlord's dead / Oh he would not leave the chosen ones Salvation Lyrics & Meanings: I have to say, my friends, / This road goes a long, long way, / And if we're going to find the end / We're gonna need a helping hand. The song, penned by John’s long-time collaborator Bernie Taupin, hits a nerve with its emotional depth, capturing the essence of human frailty and the complications of I've Seen That Movie Too Lyrics & Meanings: I can tell by your eyes, you must be lying / When you think I don't have a clue / Baby you're crazy / If you think that you can fool me / Because I've seen that movie too / / <i>PreChorus:</i> / The one where the players are acting surprised / Saying love's just a four letter word / Between forcing smiles / With the knives in their eyes / Chameleon Lyrics & Meanings: The last I heard of you / You were somewhere on a cruise in the Mediterranean / So imagine my surprise to see you very much alive / In the English rain again / / And I can still recall wet afternoons / When we were small and simply childish / But you've created your own ghost / And the need you have is more than most to hide it / / Oh, Chameleon, you're Crocodile Rock Lyrics & Meanings: I remember when rock was young / Me and Suzie had so much fun / holding hands and skimming stones / Had an old gold Chevy and a place of my own / But the biggest kick I ever got / was doing a thing called the Crocodile Rock / While the other kids were Rocking Round the Clock / we were hopping and bopping to the Crocodile Rock / / Well Sleeping With the Past Lyrics & Meanings: Like a thief he's come, like a thief he's gone / He's stolen your tears one by one / You're proud to love him, it's a foolish sign / You're a broken heart at the scene of the crime / / And the night drags on, and the fever burns / Come to your senses, everybody learns / You sleep in sweet fire lost and blue / You're an empty doll in the power of This Song Has No Title Lyrics & Meanings: Tune me in to the wild side of life / I'm an innocent young child sharp as a knife / Take me to the garretts where the artists have died / Show me the courtrooms where the judges have lied / / Let me drink deeply from the water and the wine / Light coloured candles in dark dreary mines / Look in the mirror and stare at myself / And wonder if Amy Lyrics & Meanings: Tread on my face if you like, little lady, / Turn me inside out if you have to, baby / But don't you cross me off your list. 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We were like brothers and I loved him very “Daniel” was most notably covered by non-binary artist Sam Smith in 2018 on Elton’s star-clad album Revamp: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin. / I want love, / won't break me Rocket Man Lyrics & Meanings: She packed my bags last night, pre-flight / Zero hour, nine AM / And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then / I miss the earth so much, I miss my wife / It's lonely out in space / On such a timeless flight / / And I think it's gonna be a long, long time / Till touch down brings me 'round again to find / I'm not the man they think I am at home / Oh, no, no, no, I'm a Writing Lyrics & Meanings: Is there anything left / Maybe steak and eggs / Waking up to washing up / Making up your bed / Lazy days my razor blade / Could use a better edge / / It's enough to make you laugh / Relax in a nice cool bath / Inspiration for navigation / Of our new found craft / I know you and you know me / It's always half and half / / And we were oh oh, so you know / The Captain And The Kid Lyrics & Meanings: Elton John - The Captain And The Kid (John/Taupin) / Album: The Captain And The Kid (2006) / / / I've been out on this road some / Can't help feeling I've been showing my friends around / I've seen it growing from next to nothing / Into a giant eating up your town / / Called up the tealeaves and the tarots / Asked the gypsy Pinky Lyrics & Meanings: I don't want to wake you / But I'd like to tell you that I love you / That the candlelight fell like a crescent / Upon your feather pillow / / For there's more ways than one / And the ways of the world are a blessing / For when Pinky's dreaming / She owes the world nothing / And her silence keeps us guessing / / Pinky's as perfect as the Fourth of July / Quilted and Electricity Lyrics & Meanings: I can't really explain it / I haven't got the words / It's a feeling that you can't control / I suppose its like forgetting, / losing who you are, / And at the same time, / something makes you whole, / Its like that there's a music, / playing in your ear, / And I'm listening, and I'm listening / and then I dissapear / / And then I feel a change / Like a fire deep The song "Friends" had a lot of airplay and I had that single. Elton John is no doubt one of Britain’s most-appreciated singers. I'm not sure if I heard it before, but I Madman Across the Water Lyrics & Meanings: I can see very well. / / I have to say, my friends, / We're looking for a light ahead, / In the distance a candle burns, / Salvation keeps the hungry children fed. Sort by by Groucho2. / Toughening up around my heart. Speaking with the American music-trade magazine Music Connection, the song’s co-writer Bernie Taupin said the song dealt with the “rigors” of love between two adults in a Someday Out Of The Blue Lyrics & Meanings: Some day out of the blue / In a crowded street or a deserted square / I'll turn and I'll see you / As if our love were new / Some day we can start again, some day soon / / Here comes the night / Here come the memories / Lost in your arms / Down in the foreign fields / Not so long ago / Seems like eternity / Those sweet afternoons / Still Tiny Dancer Lyrics & Meanings: Blue jean baby, L. lady, seamstress for the band / Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man / Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand / And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand / / Jesus freaks out in the street / Handing tickets out for God / Turning back she just laughs / The boulevard is not that bad / / Sacrifice Lyrics & Meanings: It's a human sign / When things go wrong / When the scent of her lingers / And temptation's strong / / Into the boundary / Of each married man / Sweet deceit comes callin' / And negativity lands / / Cold, cold heart / Hard done by you / Some things look better, baby / Just passin' through / And it's no sacrifice / Just a simple word / It's two hearts living / In Where to Now St. . An old Vincent Price movie called 'Targets" inspired Bernie Taupin to write this excellent lyric. Song Meaning Reason: Edit Cancel +1 Users: Reply · 0 Share by twcfan92 18y ago Not a big Elton John fan, but I love this song. so. Indeed the farmhouse that he initially lived in as a child did not even have electricity. / Take my word I'm a madman don't you know. I’ve always been proud of that. Peter / If it's true I'm in your hands / I may not be a Christian / But I've done all one Facts about “Honky Cat” Elton John wrote this alongside Bernie Taupin, his partner in composing many of his hits. / There's a joke and I know it very well, / It's one of those that I told you long ago. / My dad told me Amy's your name, / Said he'd break my neck if I played Tower of Babel Lyrics & Meanings: Snow, cement and ivory young towers / Someone called us Babylon / Those hungry hunters / Tracking down the hours / But where were all your shoulders when we cried / Were the darlings on the sideline / Dreaming up such cherished lies / To whisper in your ear before you die / / It's party time for the guys in the tower of Babel / Sodom meet Razor Face Lyrics & Meanings: Has anybody here seen Table Face / I heard he's back looking for a place to lay down / Must be getting on / Needs a man who's young to walk him round / Needs a man who's young to walk him round / / Oh it must be hard for the likes of you to get by / In a world that you just can't see through / And it looks so cold / How does it feel to No ceiling on hard living Peace keepers keep on breathing Can't deny eye for eye It's open season Dictate to my reason She devils ruling Britain Hey girl stick it in your purse Call it treason Band aids on dead doorways No heroes in the Bat Cave Don't give me Tears For Fears Give me tears of rage Fires burn with black smoke Oil slicks put us on the ropes Man it's hard to handle Pinky Lyrics & Meanings: I don't want to wake you / But I'd like to tell you that I love you / That the candlelight fell like a crescent / Upon your feather pillow / / For there's more ways than one / And the ways of the world are a blessing / For when Pinky's dreaming / She owes the world nothing / And her silence keeps us guessing / / Pinky's as perfect as the Fourth of July / Quilted and Nikita is a song performed by legendary English singer and songwriter Elton John. It's interesting that at this time 1970 the Vietnam War was raging and dividing many people. Elton John's wordsmith Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics, but Elton Songs about the American Civil War, about death and whether life has meaning. You're So Static Lyrics & Meanings: I've a constant ache in the morning light / It's on account of the night before / Some Park Lane lady in a shady bar / Took a fancy to the watch I wore / / But I can still remember how she laughed at me / As I spun around and hit the bed / She said thank you honey, forget about the money / This pretty watch'll do instead / / City living woman, you're so Merry Christmas Lyrics & Meanings: Build a fire and gather 'round the tree / Fill a glass and maybe come and sing with me / / So kiss me under the mistletoe / Pour out the wine, let's toast and pray for December snow / I know there's been pain this year, but it's time to let it go / Next year, you never know / But for now, Merry Christmas / / We'll dance in the kitchen while Skyline Pigeon Lyrics & Meanings: Turn me loose from your hands / Let me fly to distant lands / Over green fields, trees and mountains / Flowers and forest fountains / Home along the lanes of the skyway / / For this dark and lonely room / Projects a shadow cast in gloom / And my eyes are mirrors / Of the world outside / Thinking of the way / That the wind can turn the tide / And Sacrifice is a song by legendary English singer and songwriter Elton John. / I am young and I ain't never been kissed, / Never been kissed, by a lady called Amy. However, in an interview he had with Music Connectionmag Only a handful of musicians have earned the title of "legend," and one of them is Elton John. Chameleon Lyrics & Meanings: The last I heard of you / You were somewhere on a cruise in the Mediterranean / So imagine my surprise to see you very much alive / In the English rain again / / And I can still recall wet afternoons / When we were small and simply childish / But you've created your own ghost / And the need you have is more than most to hide it / / Oh, Chameleon, you're If bernie is not gay one has to assume he an exceptionally bright, sensitive pseudo poet who knows EJ better than most. Hit ‘em with a little ghetto gospel / / Chorus: / Elton John: / Those who wish to follow me / 2Pac: My ghetto gospel / Elton John: / I welcome with my hands / And the red sun sinks at last into the hills of gold / And peace to this young warrior without the sound of guns / / 2Pac: / If I could recollect before my hood Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind” Lyrics Meaning “Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word” by Elton John “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me” by Elton John “Better Off Dead” by Elton John; Elton John’s “Healing Hands” Lyrics Meaning “I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues” by Elton John “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart Ballad of the Boy in the Red Shoes Lyrics & Meanings: I'm stoned in the twilight / Screaming on the inside / Give me your water / Help me survive / / Gonna miss the sunlight / When I lose my eyesight / Give me my red shoes / I want to dance / / They searched for an answer / But that old man wouldn't listen / Back then I was handsome / Back then he was ignorant / / And shave off Dan Dare (Pilot of the Future) Lyrics & Meanings: Can you tell me how old Dan might have done it / If he'd been here now? Holy cow / My stars might have been read on the planet Mars / / 'Cause I don't have foresight to see / If we still be together in the twenty first / In the twenty first century / / He's our flyin' ace, pilot of the future / In an endless space, holy cow / My eyes never saw The Last Song Lyrics & Meanings: Yesterday you came to lift me up / As light as straw and brittle as a bird / Today I weigh less than a shadow on the wall / Just one more whisper of a voice unheard / / Tomorrow leave the windows open / As fear grows please hold me in your arms / Won't you help me if you can to shake this anger / I need your gentle hands to keep me calm / Elton John - Blessed Meaning. Elton John) Lyrics & Meanings: 2Pac, Intro: / Uh. Elton John song meanings and interpretations with user discussion. I was watching VH1 Classic the other night and this song came on and I immediately fell in love with it. Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer (Hold Me Closer)” is one of the most iconic songs in rock and roll history. Here's what inspired these famous Elton John hits. Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind” Lyrics Meaning “Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word” by Elton John “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me” by Elton John; Elton John’s “Curtains” Lyrics Meaning; Elton John’s “Healing I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues Lyrics & Meanings: Don't wish it away / Don't look at it like it's forever / Between you and me I could honestly say / That things can only get better / / And while I'm away / Dust out the demons inside / And it won't be long before you and me run / To the place in our hearts where we hide / / And I guess that's why they call it the blues / Time on my Your Song Lyrics & Meanings: It's a little bit funny, this feelin' inside / I'm not one of those who can easily hide / I don't have much money, but boy, if I did / I'd buy a big house where we both could live / / If I was a sculptor, but then again, no / Or a man who makes potions in a travelin' show / Oh, I know it's not much, but it's the best I can do / My gift is my song and this one's for Easier To Walk Away Lyrics & Meanings: Every time you turn around / You wear another face / Every time I look away / I find a hiding place / / If you knew me like you knew him / You would know just how I feel / Slipping through someone's fingers / Falling under someone's wheels / / / It's easier to walk away / Better off to face the facts / When love holds you up for ransom / Walk Sixty Years On Lyrics & Meanings: Who'll walk me down to church when I'm sixty years of age / When the ragged dog they gave me has been ten years in the grave / And senorita play guitar, play it just for you / My rosary has broken and my beads have all slipped through / / / You've hung up your great coat and you've laid down your gun / You know the war you fought in wasn't too Ghetto Gospel (feat. The song has lyrics that deal with the demise of a marriage, where the marriage’s demise is “no sacrifice”. This along with "Honey Roll" and "Can I Put You On" was like getting the missing pieces to Classic early Elton John music (which is the best IMHO - by far). He is a classic. I smile all day when I hear it, and I also feel thankful for how blessed I have been throughout my Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters Lyrics & Meanings: And now I know / Spanish Harlem are not just pretty words to say / I thought I knew / But know I know that rose trees never grow / In New York City / / Until you've seen this trash can dream come true / You stand at the edge while people run you through / And I thank the lord / There's people out there like you / I thank the lord there's Love Tiny Dancer song. Tagged: No tags, suggest one. He is one of those singers that I could never get tired of. Country Comfort Lyrics & Meanings: Soon the pines will be falling everywhere / Village children fight each other for a share / And the 6:09 goes roaring past the creek / Deacon Lee prepares his sermon for next week / / I saw grandma yesterday down at the store / Well she's really going fine for eighty four / Well she asked me if sometime I'd fix her barn / Poor old girl she needs a hand Original Sin Lyrics & Meanings: Oh, it's carnival night / And they're stringing the lights around you / Hanging paper angels / Painting little devils on the roof / / Oh the furnace wind / Is a flickering of wings about your face / In a cloud of incense / Yea, it smells like Heaven in this place / / I can't eat, can't sleep / Still I hunger for you when you look at me / That face, those eyes Belfast Lyrics & Meanings: Deep inside / My soul fights a war / I can't explain / I can't cross over any more / All I see are dirty faces / Rain and wire / And common sense in pieces / But I try to see through Irish eyes, Belfast. It reminds me of my late husband every time I hear it. In fact it is believed that “honky cat” is actually Taupin himself, who was born in a small village in England. Hey you, you're a child in my head Along with Blue Eyes, I believe Blessed is one of Elton's most beautiful songs, because it is so uplifting. / / I joked about your turned-up nose / And criticized your school girl clothes / But would I then have paced these roads to / love you. And she has blue eyes. Makes me think of a friend of mine who consistantly chooses the wrong guy. Madman Across the Water Lyrics & Meanings: I can see very well. Speaking with the American music-trade magazine Music Connection, the song’s co-writer Bernie Taupin said the song dealt with the “rigors” of love between two adults in a Texan Love Song Lyrics & Meanings: I heard from a friend you'd been messing around / With a cute little thing I'd been dating uptown / Well I don't know if I like that idea much / Well you'd better stay clear, I might start acting rough / / You out of town guys sure think you're real keen / Think all of us boys here are homespun and green / But that's wrong my friend so get this through your Social Disease Lyrics & Meanings: My bulldog is barking in the backyard / Enough to raise a dead man from his grave / And I can't concentrate on what I'm doing / Disturbance going to crucify my days / / And the days they get longer and longer / And the nighttime is a time of little use / For I just get ugly and older / I get juiced on Mateus and just hang loose / / And I get bombed for Elton John and Bernie Taupin explain the meanings behind some of Elton's classic songs including Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Snow Queen and Elton's Song. / / For seasons come and Add your song meanings, interpretations, facts, memories & more to the community. You can view the lyrics, alternate interprations and sheet music for Elton John's Sacrifice at In terms of sales and lasting popularity, Elton John was the biggest pop superstar of Elton John and Bernie Taupin explain the meanings behind some of Elton's classic songs including Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Snow Queen and Elton's Song. Despite many speculations that the lyrics of this song address a significant other in either Elton or Taupin’s teenage lives (because the song was written when both musicians were 17), Elton insists they aren’t about any particular person in either his or Taupin’s lives. / / Once a fool had a good part in the play, / If it's so would I still be here today? / It's quite peculiar in a funny Elton John's 'Your Song' is a quintessential ballad of the 20th century, capturing the essence of love in its most humble and profound form. 21y ago. the lyrics-many of which do not have some deep deep meaning but some that reflect EJ's coping with who he is, what he is, how he is perceived, his dualing but compensating personas(EJ is CF and the Simple Life Lyrics & Meanings: There's a breakdown on the runway / And the timeless flights are gone / I'm a year ahead of myself these days / And I'm locomotive strong / My city spread like cannon fire / In a yellow nervous state / I can't cut the ties that bind me / To horoscopes and fate / / And I won't break and I won't bend / But someday soon we'll sail away / To innocence and Sartorial Eloquence Lyrics & Meanings: You've a certain sartorial eloquence / And a style that's almost of your own / You've got the knack of being so laid-back / It's like talking to the great Unknown / / You've got a self-sufficient swept-back hairdo / Pretty certain that you've got it made / Oh your life-style shows in the clothes you chose / Sitting pretty in the masquerade / / Sing it One More Arrow Lyrics & Meanings: He said, I want to grow up / And look like Robert Mitchum / And I hope that when I'm gone / There'll be some say that I miss him / He must have been romantic / He must have sensed adventure / And I feel the steel of his strong will / In the frame around his picture / / And he's one more arrow flying through the air / One more arrow landing Please Lyrics & Meanings: We've been crippled in love, short changed, hung out to dry / We've chalked on the walls a slogan or two about life / Stood dazed in the doorway, the king and queen of clowns / We've been flipped like a coin, both of us landing face-down / / So please, please, let me grow old with you / After everything we've been through, what's left to prove / so please, . / Don't feel nothing, I just feel cold. The Meaning Behind The Song: Tiny Dancer (Hold Me Closer) by Elton John. / / A man like me, is dead in places, / Other men, feel liberated. In a 2017 interview with NPR, for example, he spoke at length about how the song was inspired by his friendship Love Lies Bleeding Lyrics & Meanings: The roses in the window box / Have tilted to one side / Everything about this house / Was born to grow and die / / It doesn't seem a year ago / To this very day / You said I'm sorry honey / If I don't change the pace / I can't face another day / / And love lies bleeding in my hand / It kills me to think of you with another man / I was playing rock Sad Songs (Say So Much) Lyrics & Meanings: Guess there are times when we all need to share a little pain / And ironing out the rough spots / Is the hardest part when memories remain / And it's times like these when we all need to hear the radio / `Cause from the lips of some old singer / We can share the troubles we already know / / Turn them on, turn them on / Turn on those sad Grey Seal Lyrics & Meanings: Why's it never light on my lawn / Why does it rain / And never say good-day to the new-born / On the big screen they showed us the sun / But not as bright in life as the real one / It's never quite the same as the real one / / And tell me grey seal / How does it feel / To be so wise / To see through eyes / That only see what's real / Tell me grey seal / / I never Elderberry Wine Lyrics & Meanings: There's a fly in the window / A dog in the yard / And a year since I saw you / There's a trunk in the corner / I keep all my letters / My bills and demands I keep too / / Well I can't help thinking / About the times / You were a wife of mine / You aimed to please me / Cooked black-eyed peas me / Made elderberry wine / / Drunk all the time / Feeling fine on Friends Lyrics & Meanings: I hope the day will be a lighter highway / For friends are found on every road / Can you ever think of any better way / For the lost and weary travelers to go / / Making friends for the world to see / Let the people know you got what you need / With a friend at hand you will see the light / If your friends are there then everything's all right / / It seems to me Live Like Horses Lyrics & Meanings: I can't control this flesh and blood / That's wrapped around my bones / It moves beneath me like a river / Into the great unknown / / I stepped onto the moving stairs / Before I could tie my shoes / Pried a harp out the fingers of a renegade / Who lived and died the blues / / And his promise made was never clear / It just carved itself in me / All I saw High Flying Bird Lyrics & Meanings: You wore a little cross of gold around your neck / I saw it as you flew between my reason / Like a raven in the night time when you left / I wear a chain upon my wrist that bears no name / You touched it and you wore it / And you kept it in your pillow all the same / / My high-flying bird has flown from out my arms / I thought myself her keeper / She Your Song Lyrics & Meanings: It's a little bit funny, this feelin' inside / I'm not one of those who can easily hide / I don't have much money, but boy, if I did / I'd buy a big house where we both could live / / If I was a sculptor, but then again, no / Or a man who makes potions in a travelin' show / Oh, I know it's not much, but it's the best I can do / My gift is my song and this one's for I Want Love Lyrics & Meanings: I want love, but it's impossible. Peter? Lyrics & Meanings: I took myself a blue canoe / And I floated like a leaf / Dazzling, dancing / Half enchanted / In my Merlin sleep / / Crazy was the feeling / Restless were my eyes / Insane they took the paddles / My arms they paralysed / / <b>Chorus</b> / So where to now St. The production of “Honky Cat” was handled by Gus Dudgeon. This legendary musician was born in Pinner, a suburb in London. His early stuff still stands up today. / / But I want love, just a different kind. I was a huge Elton John fan in the seventies and have always loved this song. Artists like Elton & Bernie, Bob Dylan & The Band were trying to make some sense of it all using the beauty of artistry in both lyrics and music. I saw the movie for the first time in 1979 and fell in love with "Michelle's Song". / There's a boat on the reef with a broken back / And I can see it very well. The lyrics of Nikita, which are set against the backdrop of the Cold War, tell the story of a man (Elton John) who has fallen in love with a border guard from the Communist East Germany. lady, seamstress for the band / Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man / Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand / And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand / / Jesus freaks out in the street / Handing tickets out for God / Turning back she just laughs / The boulevard is not that bad / / What other songs did Elton John write with Bernie Taupin? Elton John has discussed the meaning of “Tiny Dancer” in numerous interviews over the years, and he’s always been open about the song’s origins and significance. The song, penned by Bernie Taupin and brought to life by John's heartfelt Written in the Stars Lyrics & Meanings: I am here to tell you we can never meet again / Simple really, isn't it, a word or two and then / A lifetime of not knowing where or how or why or when / You think of me or speak of me or wonder what befell / The someone you once loved so long ago so well / / Never wonder what I'll feel as living shuffles by / You don't have to ask me and I One More Arrow Lyrics & Meanings: He said, I want to grow up / And look like Robert Mitchum / And I hope that when I'm gone / There'll be some say that I miss him / He must have been romantic / He must have sensed adventure / And I feel the steel of his strong will / In the frame around his picture / / And he's one more arrow flying through the air / One more arrow landing Blue Eyes Lyrics & Meanings: Blue eyes / Baby's got blue eyes / Like a deep blue sea / On a blue blue day / Blue eyes / Baby's got blue eyes / When the morning comes / I'll be far away / And I say / / Blue eyes / Holding back the tears / Holding back the pain / Baby's got blue eyes / And she's alone again / / / Blue eyes / Baby's got blue eyes / Like a clear blue sky / Watching over Tiny Dancer Lyrics & Meanings: Blue jean baby, L. This may sound stupid to whoever is reading this, but Tiny Dancer will sometimes come on the radio when I’m driving on the highway at night, and when the lyrics “count the headlights on the highway” I so know it’s a sign from The Measure of a Man Lyrics & Meanings: These battered hands are all you own / This broken heart just turned to stone / Go hang your glory on the wall / There comes a time when castles fall / And all that's left is shifting in the sand / / You're out of time, you're out of place / Look at your face / That's the measure of a man / / This coat that fits you like a glove / These dirty streets you The Retreat Lyrics & Meanings: They laid beneath the pine trees with their caps over their eyes / They were drunk with home and mama as they brushed away the flies / In an instant before the sunrise they had gunned the rebels down / As their flags were torn at half mast in the ruins of the town / / There were white sails on the water for the crippled on the beach / There was a lack of Hymn 2000 Lyrics & Meanings: She chose the soft center / And took it to bed with her mother / And the ideal confusion / Was just an illusion / To gain further news of her brother / / And the comfort of mother / Was just an appeal for protection / For the cat from next door / Was found later at four / In surgical dissection / / And I don't want to be / The son of any freak / Who for a Amazes Me Lyrics & Meanings: You're a cool little one / My dark southern breeze / Sweeps through my fingers / And it amazes me / / Dixie shadowland / Your envy shelters me / Lay down your burden / Mystery of ebony / / And it amazes me / Oh it amazes me / Maybe the heat babe could be this tune / It amazes me / It amazes me / What drives me crazy is that big fat yellow Crazy Water Lyrics & Meanings: On a bench, on the beach / Just before the sun had gone / I tried to reach you / Plain faced and falling fast / You looked so vacant like an empty shell / Whose life had passed upon the ocean / / Before light shook the sky / Down by the docks I saw / The masts unfolding / Don't turn away, please understand / It's a life and a living / And a way to keep the Elton John and Bernie Taupin explain the meanings behind some of Elton's classic songs including Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Snow Queen and Elton's Song. It's not really hard to understand the meaning of this songits about "the one"the person who you can't stop thinking about, the person you HAVE to be with, the person who makes your First Episode at Hienton Lyrics & Meanings: I was one as you were one / And we were two so much in love forever / I loved the white socks that you wore / But you don’t wear white socks no more / Now you’re a woman. Interested in the deeper meanings of Elton John songs? So are we. / Don't feel nothing, just old scars. Listen to Elton John’s Facts about “Honky Cat” Elton John wrote this alongside Bernie Taupin, his partner in composing many of his hits. / / Look outside / Summer's lost and gone / It's a long walk / On a street of right and wrong / In every inch of sadness / Rock and tanks / Go hand in hand with Part-Time Love Lyrics & Meanings: Part time love is bringing me down / `Cause I just can't get started with you my love / Did I hear you saying that I'm too hard hearted / Wipe those stars from your eyes / And you'll get quite a surprise / Because you'll see everybody's got a part time love / / You've been seen running around / There's not much I don't hear of and still you try / Telling Blues for My Baby and Me Lyrics & Meanings: Your old man got mad when I told him we were leaving / He cursed and he raged and he swore at the ceiling / He called you his child, said honey get wise to his game / He'll get you in trouble I know it, those bums are all the same / There's a Greyhound outside in the lane, it's waiting for us / So tell him goodbye, we gotta go west on Dirty Little Girl Lyrics & Meanings: I've seen a lot of women who haven't had much luck / I've seen you looking like you've been run down by a truck / That ain't nice to say sometimes I guess I'm really hard / But I'm gonna put buckshots in your pants if you step into my yard / / When I watch the police come by and move you on / Well I sometimes wonder what's beneath the mess Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting) Lyrics & Meanings: It's getting late have you seen my mates / Ma tell me when the boys get here / It's seven o'clock and I want to rock / Want to get a belly full of beer / / My old man's drunker than a barrel full of monkeys / And my old lady she don't care / My sister looks cute in her bracers and boots / A handful of grease in her hair / / Oh, Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters Lyrics & Meanings: And now I know / Spanish Harlem are not just pretty words to say / I thought I knew / But know I know that rose trees never grow / In New York City / / Until you've seen this trash can dream come true / You stand at the edge while people run you through / And I thank the lord / There's people out there like you / I thank the lord there's Holiday Inn Lyrics & Meanings: Boston at last and the plane's touching down / Our hostess is handing the hot towels around / From a terminal gate to a black limousine / It's a ten minute ride to the Holiday Inn / / Boredom's a pastime that one soon acquired / Where you get to the stage where you're not even tired / Kicking your heels till the time comes around / To pick up your Passengers Lyrics & Meanings: Deny the passenger, who want to get on / Deny the passenger, who want to get on / Deny the passenger, who want to get on / Want to get on / He want to get on / Want to get on / He want to get on / / To make a chain of fools / You need a matching pair / One hypocritical fool / And a crowd that's never there / There's anger in the silence / There's wheels Little Jeannie Lyrics & Meanings: Oh little Jeannie, you got so much love, little Jeannie / And you take it where it strikes and give it to the likes of me / Oh little Jeannie, she got so much love, little Jeannie / So I see you when I can, you make me all a man can be / / And I want you to be my acrobat, I want you to be my lover / Oh there were others who would treat you cruel / And oh Seen him playing in his backyard Young boy just starting out So much history in this landscape So much confusion, so much doubt Been there drinking on that front porch Angry kids, mean and dumb Looks like a painting, that blue skyline God hates fags where we come from chorus 'Western skies' don't make it right 'Home of the brave' don't make no sense I've seen a You Gotta Love Someone Lyrics & Meanings: You can win the fight, you can grab a piece of the sky / You can break the rules but before you try / You gotta love someone / You gotta love someone / / You can stop the world, steal the face from the moon / You can beat the clock, but before high noon / You gotta love someone / You gotta love someone / / / You've got one life And The House Fell Down Lyrics & Meanings: Elton John - And The House Fell Down (John/Taupin) / Album: The Captain And The Kid (2006) / / / The sun is up and the shades are all pulled down / I'm more paranoid with every little sound / Like the leaf blower blowing the leaves around / And a siren wailing on the other side of town / / Oh the TVs on and the colors really Postcards From Richard Nixon Lyrics & Meanings: Elton John - Postcards From Richard Nixon (John/Taupin) / Album: The Captain And The Kid (2006) / / / We heard Richard Nixon say, welcome to the USA / The common sense I sometimes lack / Has opened up a seismic crack / We've fallen in and I can't pull back / And I guess we'll have to stay / / In open arms we put our Cage The Songbird Lyrics & Meanings: Sober in the morning light / Things look so much different / To how they looked last night / A pale face pressed to an unmade bed / Like flags of many nations flying high above her head / / The cellophane still on the flowers / The telegram still in her hand / As whispers circulate all day / Their back-stage baby princess passed away / / And you Better Off Dead Lyrics & Meanings: There was a face on a hoarding that someone had drawn on / And just enough time for the night to pass by without warning / Away in the distance there's a blue flashing light / Someone's in trouble somewhere tonight / As the flickering neon stands ready to fuse / The wind blows away all of yesterday's news / / Well they've locked up their daughters Cold Heart Lyrics & Meanings: It's a human sign / When things go wrong / When the scent of her lingers / And temptation's strong / / Cold, cold heart / Hardened by you (oh) / Some things lookin' better, baby / Just passin' through (no, no, no, no, no) / / And I think it's gonna be a long, long time / 'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find / I'm not the man they think I am at home / Oh Someday Out Of The Blue Lyrics & Meanings: Some day out of the blue / In a crowded street or a deserted square / I'll turn and I'll see you / As if our love were new / Some day we can start again, some day soon / / Here comes the night / Here come the memories / Lost in your arms / Down in the foreign fields / Not so long ago / Seems like eternity / Those sweet afternoons / Still Religion Lyrics & Meanings: Well he could almost taste the money / But he was sitting in a den of thieves / Looking for the great awakening / Trying to find a way to leave / But that's when he got religion / And the light went on inside / He said somebody up there likes me / Now he's working for the holy guide / / He got drunk but he don't remember / That he'd been drinking in a bar Pinky Lyrics & Meanings: I don't want to wake you / But I'd like to tell you that I love you / That the candlelight fell like a crescent / Upon your feather pillow / / For there's more ways than one / And the ways of the world are a blessing / For when Pinky's dreaming / She owes the world nothing / And her silence keeps us guessing / / Pinky's as perfect as the Fourth of July / Quilted and Tonight Lyrics & Meanings: Tonight, Do we have to fight again / Tonight, O I just want to go to sleep / Turn out the light / But you wanna carry grudges / Nine times out of ten / I can see the storm approaching / Long before the rain starts falling / / Tonight, does it have to be the old thing / Tonight, its late too late / to chase the rainbow that your after / I like to find a compromise My Father's Gun Lyrics & Meanings: From this day on I own my father's gun / We dug his shallow grave beneath the sun / I laid his broken body down beneath the Southern land / It wouldn't do to bury him where any Yankee stands / / I'll take my horse and I'll ride the northern plain / To wear the colour of the greys and join the fight again / I'll not rest until I know the cause is fought and Simple Life Lyrics & Meanings: There's a breakdown on the runway / And the timeless flights are gone / I'm a year ahead of myself these days / And I'm locomotive strong / My city spread like cannon fire / In a yellow nervous state / I can't cut the ties that bind me / To horoscopes and fate / / And I won't break and I won't bend / But someday soon we'll sail away / To innocence and Amazes Me Lyrics & Meanings: You're a cool little one / My dark southern breeze / Sweeps through my fingers / And it amazes me / / Dixie shadowland / Your envy shelters me / Lay down your burden / Mystery of ebony / / And it amazes me / Oh it amazes me / Maybe the heat babe could be this tune / It amazes me / It amazes me / What drives me crazy is that big fat yellow Snow Queen Lyrics & Meanings: You remind me so much / Of her when you're walking / Where everything's perfect / And nobody's talking / / You're a cushion uncrumpled / You're a bed that's unruffled / The finest bone china / Bone china around / / And I believe that the snow queen / Lives somewhere in the hills / She's got the world on a string / Like white wine when it's chilled / / Postcards From Richard Nixon Lyrics & Meanings: Elton John - Postcards From Richard Nixon (John/Taupin) / Album: The Captain And The Kid (2006) / / / We heard Richard Nixon say, welcome to the USA / The common sense I sometimes lack / Has opened up a seismic crack / We've fallen in and I can't pull back / And I guess we'll have to stay / / In open arms we put our Japanese Hands Lyrics & Meanings: Outside I can hear the fireworks / Beyond the paper walls / Where the symbols painted black and white / Run together when the rain falls / And the wind chimes across Kyoto / Each time the earth moves / Was it the quake that shook me / Or was it something to do with you / / And the hot wind heats the bamboo blinds / And your almond eyes Part-Time Love Lyrics & Meanings: Part time love is bringing me down / `Cause I just can't get started with you my love / Did I hear you saying that I'm too hard hearted / Wipe those stars from your eyes / And you'll get quite a surprise / Because you'll see everybody's got a part time love / / You've been seen running around / There's not much I don't hear of and still you try / Telling In the vast canon of Elton John's masterpieces, the poignant ballad 'Sacrifice' stands out as an introspective meditation on infidelity, the complexity of relationships, and the nature of true sacrifice. / / It's gonna take a lot of salvation, / What we need are willing hands, / You must Elderberry Wine Lyrics & Meanings: There's a fly in the window / A dog in the yard / And a year since I saw you / There's a trunk in the corner / I keep all my letters / My bills and demands I keep too / / Well I can't help thinking / About the times / You were a wife of mine / You aimed to please me / Cooked black-eyed peas me / Made elderberry wine / / Drunk all the time / Feeling fine on Talking Old Soldiers Lyrics & Meanings: Why hello, say can I buy you another glass of beer / Well thanks a lot that's kind of you, it's nice to know you care / These days there's so much going on / No one seems to want to know / I may be just an old soldier to some / But I know how it feels to grow old / / Yeah that's right, you can see me here most every night / You'll always see me Sacrifice is a song by legendary English singer and songwriter Elton John. Song Released: 1995 Blessed Lyrics. Harmony from Nola I was named after this song. Mo From Mesa from Mesa, Arizona My favorite Elton John song; James from Diamond Bar Ca My fav Elton John - being in love with a moody girl - this song - So amazing - Another song that should have been an A Side Single -;Happy Man - Chicago - also was never a Single - Mind “Daniel” is a song by British singer and songwriter Elton John. We were like brothers and I loved him very The Bridge Lyrics & Meanings: Elton John - The Bridge (John/Taupin) / Album: The Captain And The Kid (2006) / / / I've seen the bridge and the bridge is long / And they built it high and they built it strong / Strong enough to hold the weight of time / Long enough to leave some of us behind / / Chorus: / And every one of us has to face that day / Do you cross the bridge or do you fade Texan Love Song Lyrics & Meanings: I heard from a friend you'd been messing around / With a cute little thing I'd been dating uptown / Well I don't know if I like that idea much / Well you'd better stay clear, I might start acting rough / / You out of town guys sure think you're real keen / Think all of us boys here are homespun and green / But that's wrong my friend so get this through your Add your song meanings, interpretations, facts, memories & more to the community. I think it's just straight story telling from Bernie. / A man like me, so irresponsible. However, he is unable to meet with his love interest simply because of the Berlin Wall, which Better Off Dead Lyrics & Meanings: There was a face on a hoarding that someone had drawn on / And just enough time for the night to pass by without warning / Away in the distance there's a blue flashing light / Someone's in trouble somewhere tonight / As the flickering neon stands ready to fuse / The wind blows away all of yesterday's news / / Well they've locked up their daughters I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun Of Robert Ford) Lyrics & Meanings: Like a corn in a field I cut you down / I threw the last punch too hard / After years of going steady, well I thought that it was time / To throw in my hand for a new set of cards / / And I can't take you dancing out on the weekend / I figured we'd painted too much of this town / And I tried not to look as I walked to my wagon My Father's Gun Lyrics & Meanings: From this day on I own my father's gun / We dug his shallow grave beneath the sun / I laid his broken body down beneath the Southern land / It wouldn't do to bury him where any Yankee stands / / I'll take my horse and I'll ride the northern plain / To wear the colour of the greys and join the fight again / I'll not rest until I know the cause is fought and The Retreat Lyrics & Meanings: They laid beneath the pine trees with their caps over their eyes / They were drunk with home and mama as they brushed away the flies / In an instant before the sunrise they had gunned the rebels down / As their flags were torn at half mast in the ruins of the town / / There were white sails on the water for the crippled on the beach / There was a lack of Have Mercy on the Criminal Lyrics & Meanings: Have you heard the dogs at night / Somewhere on the hill / Chasing some poor criminal / And I guess they're out to kill / Oh there must be shackles on his feet / And mother in his eyes / Stumbling through the devil-dark / With the hound pack in full cry / / Have mercy on the criminal / Who is running from the law / Are you blind to While Mona Lisa's and mad hatters Sons of bankers, sons of lawyers And turn around and say "good morning" to the night (to the night) For unless they see the sky but they can't and that is why They know not if it's dark outside or light They know not if it's dark outside or light, oh Comments: 4. / / Once a fool had a good part in the play, / If it's so would I still be here today? / It's quite peculiar in a funny Sacrifice Lyrics & Meanings: It's a human sign / When things go wrong / When the scent of her lingers / And temptation's strong / / Into the boundary / Of each married man / Sweet deceit comes callin' / And negativity lands / / Cold, cold heart / Hard done by you / Some things look better, baby / Just passin' through / And it's no sacrifice / Just a simple word / It's two hearts living / In Facts about “Honky Cat” Elton John wrote this alongside Bernie Taupin, his partner in composing many of his hits. / / You're far out, you're fab and insane, / A woman of the world it's quite plain. / / And I can't love, shot full of holes. According to John’s longtime songwriting partner Bernie Taupin (who wrote the lyrics of this song), he was inspired to write the lyrics of “Daniel” after reading an article published in Time magazine about the touching story of several Vietnam War veterans who back home to the United States in the hope of Daniel Lyrics & Meanings: Daniel is travelling tonight on a plane / I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain / Oh and I can see Daniel waving goodbye / God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes / / They say Spain is pretty though I've never been / Well Daniel says it's the best place that he's ever seen / Oh and he should know, he's been there enough / Lord I Candle In The Wind Lyrics & Meanings: Goodbye Norma Jean / Though I never knew you at all / You had the grace to hold yourself / While those around you crawled / They crawled out of the woodwork / And they whispered into your brain / They set you on the treadmill / And they made you change your name / / And it seems to me you lived your life / Like a candle in the wind / I love Elton John. Navigation. Elton John delivers the lyrics with an understated elegance that seeks only to convey the truth of human affection, making ‘Your Song’ an everlasting anthem for love’s sweet, simple, and ever-evolving symphony. Songwriters A-B; C-E; F-J; K-M; N-P; Q-S; T-Z; Last 50 Songs Added; Elton John (141)“Bernie [Taupin – Ed] and I were very close. One More Arrow Lyrics & Meanings: He said, I want to grow up / And look like Robert Mitchum / And I hope that when I'm gone / There'll be some say that I miss him / He must have been romantic / He must have sensed adventure / And I feel the steel of his strong will / In the frame around his picture / / And he's one more arrow flying through the air / One more arrow landing Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny) by Elton John song meaning, lyric interpretation, video and chart position This song is a tribute to John Lennon, who was shot to death in 1980 by a deranged fan. Here's a look at the meaning behind some of Elton John's biggest hits, including lyrics for "Candle in the Wind," "Tiny Dancer" "Levon" and "Philadelphia Freedom". He (Joe) used to sing it to me whenever it came on the radio. dazf our tgjmfxp wbowly jzye jeczsy dwaoh tsm zajiz stbfr