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-We All Fall in Love Sometimes

-Curtains

-Medley (Yell Help, Wednesday Night, Ugly)

-Dan Dare (Pilot Of The Future)

-Island Girl

-Grow Some Funk Of Your Own

-Billy Bones And The White Bird

Bitter Fingers
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

"I'm going on the circuit
I'm doing all the clubs,
And I really need a song boys
To stir those workers up,
And get their wives to sing it with me
Just like in the pubs.
When I worked the good old pubs in Stepney."

"Oh could you knock a line or two
Together for a friend?
Sentimental, tear inducing with a happy end.
And we need a tune to open
Our summer season at Southend.
Can you help us?"

It's hard to write a song with bitter fingers,
So much to prove, so few to tell you why,
Those old die-hearts in Denmark Street start laughing.
At the keyboard player's hollow haunted eyes.
It seems a change is really needed
I'm sick of a tra la las and la de das.
No more long days hocking hunks of garbage
Bitter fingers never swung on swinging stars.

I like the warm blew flame
The hazy heat it brings,
It loosens up the muscles
And forces you to sing.
You know it's just another hit and run
From the tin pan alley twins.

"And there's a chance that one day
You might write a standard lads.
So churn'em out thick and fast
And we'll still pat your backs.
Cause we need what we can get
To launch another dozen acts.
Are you working?"

Tell Me When the Whistle Blows
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

There's dusty old gutter he's lying in now.
He's blind and he's old
And there's a bottle that rolls dow the road.
Me I'm young and I'm so wild,
And I'm still feel the need of your apron strings ones in awhile.
For there's taxi cabs hootin'
And I can't be foot loose forever.
My suitcase it's a cheap one
My darling she's a dear one,
My head's feelin' light as a feather.

Take my ears and tell me when the whistle blows.
Wake me up and tell me when the whistle blows
Long lost and lonely boy
You're just a black sheep going home.
I want to feel your wheels of steel
Underneath my itchin' heels.
Take my money
And tell me when the whistle blows.

Part of me asked the young man for the time,
With a cold vacant stare of undue concern
He said "Nine."
It's not so bad but I really do love the land,
And rather all these than those dimonte lovers
In Hide Park holding hands.
Blowing heat through my fingers
Trying to heel off this cold.
Will the street kids remember
Can I still shoot a fast cue,
Has this country hid still got his soul.

Someone Saved My Life Tonight
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

When I think of those East End lights
Muggy nights,
The curtains drawn in the little room downstairs.
Prima Donna lord you really should have been there,
Sitting like a princess perched in here electric chair,
And it's one more beer,
And I don't hear you anymore.
We've all gone crazy lately,
My friends out there rolling round the basement floor.

And someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear.
You almost had your hooks in me didn't you dear.
You nearly had me roped and tied,
Altar-bound, hypnotized,
Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
You're a butterfly,
And butterflies are free to fly,
Fly away, high away bye bye.

I never realized the passing hours
Of evening showers,
A slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams.
I'm strangled by your haunted social scene
Just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen.
It's four-o-clock in the morning
Damn it !
Listen to me good.
I'm sleeping with myself tonight
Saved in time, thank God my music's still alive.

And I would have walked head on into the deep end of the river,
Clinging to your stocks and bonds
Paying your H.P. demands forever.
They're coming in the morning with a truck to take me home,
Someone saved my life tonight, Someone saved my life tonight,
Someone saved my life tonight, Someone saved my life tonight,
Someone saved my life tonight.
So save your strength and run the field you play alone.

(Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

I can hound you if I need too
Sip your brandy from a crystal shoe
In the corner, in the corner.
While others climb reaching dizzy heights,
The world's around me in black and white,
I'm on the bottom line, I'm on the bottom line.

I'd have a cardiac if I had such luck.
Lucky loosers, lucky loosers landing on skid row,
Landing on skid row.
While the Diamond Jims
And the Kings road pimps
Breath heavy in their brand new clothes
I'm on the bottom line, I'm on the bottom line.

And I gotta get a meal ticket
To survive you need a meal ticket,
To stay alive you need a meal ticket.
Feel no pain, no pain,
No regret, no regret
When the lines been signed
You're someone else.
Do yourself a favor and the meal ticket does the rest.

Shake a hand if you have to
Trust in us and we will love you
Anyway, anyway.
Don't leave us stranded in the jungle
With fifty per cent that's hard to handle,
Ain't that so, ain't that so.

Better Off Dead
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

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
And battened the hatches.
They always could find us but they never could catch us.
Through the grease streaked window
Of an all night cafe
We watched the arrested get taken away.
And the cigarette haze has ecology beat
As the whores and the drunks filed in from the street.

'Cause the steams in the boiler the coals in the fire
If you ask how I am then I'll just say inspired.
If the torn of a rose is a torn in your side
Then you're better off dead if you haven't yet died.

Writing
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

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
Not the kind to doddle,
Will the things we wrote today
Sound as good tomorrow.
Will we still be writing?
In approaching years,
Stifling yawns on Sundays
As the weekend disappear.

We could stretch our legs if we'd half a mind
But don't disturb us if you hear us trying,
To instigate the structure of another line or two.
Cause writing's lightin' up,
And I like life enough to see it through.

We All Fall in Love Sometimes
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

Wise men say
It looks like rain today.
It crackled on the speakers
And trickled down the sleepy subway trains.
For heavy eyes could hardly hold us,
Aching legs that often told us
It's all worth it
We all fall in love sometimes.

The full moon's bright
And starlight filled the evening.
We wrote it and I played it,
Something happened it's so strange these feeling.
Naive notions that were childish
Simple tunes that tried to hide it,
But when it comes
We all fall in love sometimes.

Did we, didn't we, should we couldn't we
I'm not sure 'cause sometimes we're so blind.
Strugglingthrough the day
When even your best friend says,
Don't you find
We all fall in love sometimes.

And only passing time
Could kill the boredom we acquired
Running with the loosers for awhile.
But owr Empty Sky was filled with laughter
Just before the flood,
Painting worried faces with a smile.

Curtains
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

I used to know this old scarecrow
He was my song
My joy and sorrow,
Cast alone between the furrows
Of a field no longer sown by anyone.
I held a dandelion
That said the time had come
To leave upon the wind
Not ot return,
When summer burned the earth again.

Cultivate the freshest flower
This garden ever grew,
Beneath these branches
I one wrote such childish words for you.
But that's okay.
There's treasure children always seek to find,
And just like us
You must have had
A Ones Upon A Time.
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
(Lennon/McCartney)-bonus track

Picture yourself in a boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,
And she's gone.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmellow pies,
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers,
That grow so incredibly high.
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore,
Waiting to take you away.
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds,
And you're gone.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Picture yourself on a train in a station,
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties,
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle,
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes.

Medley (Yell Help, Wednesday Night, Ugly)
Elton John - Bernie Taupin - Davey Johnstone

Yell help, too many cooks and a bird in the bush, yell help
Yell help, if your mirror busts and your cat gets cussed, yell help
'Cause down the road you find someone else who's looking
Down the road you find another sweet lady cooking
So I gotta yell help

Yell help, some shelter from the storm like the travel agent warned
Yell help, if you can help your superstitions they gonna keep you warm
'Cause down the road you find someone else who's looking
Down the road you seen another sweet lady cooking
So I gotta yell help

I wish tonight wasn't Wednesday night
I wish it wasn't the thirteenth of July, yell help
And you're looking at the guy whose eyes can't deny
That he wishes he were somewhere else tonight

Well I met this woman down in New Orleans
Lord she built just like a dream
Even wore stockings that had seams
And she was ugly

Now hell I don't mind women of her kind
I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly

She built like a steamroller
Just the kind to mow you over anytime
Hey the moment might arrive

On bourbon street
Well the ugliest woman you'll ever meet
But she's mine all mine and she's ugly

So I better yell help

Dan Dare (Pilot Of The Future)
Elton John - Bernie Taupin

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
Because I don't have foresight to see
If we still be together in the twenty first, in the twenty first century

He's our flying ace, pilot of the future
In an endless space holy cow
My eyes never saw a rocket that was quite that size
Because I don't have the energy
To be cat and mouse for the champions, for the champions of destiny

So long captain Dan
I fail to see what motivates your hands
Goodbye restless night
You know I loved Dan Dare, but I couldn't make his flight
So long, so long

Dan Dare doesn't know it
He doesn't know it
He doesn't know it
But I liked the Mekon

Island Girl
Elton John - Bernie Taupin

I see your teeth flash, Jamaican honey so sweet
Down where Lexington cross 47th Street
She's a big girl, she's standing six foot three
Turning tricks for the dudes in the big city

Island girl
What you wanting with the white man's world
Island girl
Black boy want you in his island world
He want to take you from the racket boss
He want to save you but the cause is lost
Island girl, island girl, island girl
Tell me what you wanting with the white man's world

She's black as coal but she burn like a fire
And she wrap herself around you like a well worn tire
You feel her nail scratch your back just like a rake
He one more gone, he one more John who make the mistake

Grow Some Funk Of Your Own
Elton John - Bernie Taupin

Yeah I looked at my watch and it said a quarter to five
The headlines screamed that I was still alive
I couldn't understand it
I thought I died last night

Oh I dreamed I'd been in a border town
In a little cantina that the boys had found
I was desperate to dance
Just to dig the local sounds

When along came a senorita
She looked so good that I had to meet her
I was ready to approach her with my English charm
When her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me my the arm

And he said grow some funk of your own amigo
Grow some funk of your own
We no like to with the gringo fight
But there might be a death in Mexico tonight
If you can't grow some funk of your own amigo
Grow some funk of your own
Take my advice, take the next flight
And grow your funk, grow your funk at home

Well I looked for support from the rest of my friends
For their vanishing trick they get ten out of ten
I knelt to pray
Just to see if he would comprehend

Billy Bones And The White Bird
Elton John - Bernie Taupin

Take the wheel I hear the timbers creaking
Take the wheel I think this ship is sinking
Jamaica seems so far and I've been thinking
Old Billy Bones has gone to sea and quit his dockside drinking

Check it out, check it out, check it out

And when I'm dead who'll fly the White Bird home
I'm not the ancient mariner your children know
And the sea's the field these old jack tars have sown
'Cause Billy Bones just wants to know who'll fly the White Bird home

Oh your majesty, your majesty
I heard the bosun cry
Old Billy Bones has washed ashore
Upon a foreign tide

-Bitter Fingers

-Tell Me When the Whistle Blows

-Someone Saved My Life Tonight

-(Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket

-Better Off Dead

-Writing

 

 

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