See my eyes and I see my arms The seagulls say you've gone It was just a game of let's pretend And I whistle to the waves that lend me tears Purple clouds, gol...

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 t...

It's so strange he doesn't show me more affection than he needs Almost formal, too respectful, never takes romantic leads There are times when I imagine I'm not...

Where have you been are you still on my side Is that love or regret that I see in your eyes How many years have we played out this game Every time we come close...

I don't know why I just know I do I just can't explain In this language that I use Something leaves me speechless Each time that you approach Each time you glid...

Abide with me, fast forth the eventide The darkness deepens, Lord abide with me When other helpers fail and comforts flee Help of the helpless, O abide with me ...

This ain't no battle honey this ain't no fight How come you take it so hard when I stay out all night If I take a drink is that against the law And if I have a ...

Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby Ain't nothing like the real thing Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby Ain't nothing like the real thing I got your ...

The sister of sunlight Comes to my lonely life Bearing the crosses I hung I hung on my lonely wife And the anchor told me If I prayed by the river That the swee...

Raised to be a lady, by the golden rule; Alice was the spawn, of a public school With a double-barrel'd name, in the back of her brain; and a simple case of "Mu...

All quiet on the Western Front, nobody saw A youth asleep in the foreign soil, planted by the war Feel the pulse of human blood pouring forth See the stems of E...

And breaking down never seems to be that hard Falling short is always in the cards I'm on the road, sun rising at my back Lost it all somewhere between the crac...

Raised to be a lady by the golden rule Alice was the spawn of a public school With a double barrel name in the back of her brain And a simple case of Mummy-does...

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 wo...

You know it, it is only true That you could be the best of you How I wonder miles away Tying horshoes by the bay As we know, maybe faster All the way down to E...

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...

Elton John and the Sounds of Blackness Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen See the little baby Wrapped in a manger On Christmas Morning Amen, Amen, Amen See him in...

Seen him playing in his backyard Young boy just starting out So much history in this landscape So much confusion, so much doubt I've been there drinking on tha...

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 ...

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...

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 I am young and I ain't never been kissed Ne...

I came down here just to waste some time To get a little rest and to ease my mind I didn't calculate it when I walked in the door I only thought I'd stay for a ...

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 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 mil...

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 An...

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 lik...

Lyrics by Bernie Taupin Well they say that it's a fact If you watch the sky at night And if you stare into the darkness You might see celestial light And if y...

Catch a star if you can Wish for something special Let it be me, my love is free Sing a song to yourself Think of someone listening One melody, you're all for m...

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

It seems as though I've lived my life On the bad side of the moon To stir your dregs in sickness still Without the rustic spoon Common people live with me Wher...

Lyrics by bernie taupin Available on the album tumbleweed connection I pulled out my stage coach times And I read the latest news I tapped my feet in dumb surpr...

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 s...

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...

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 flash...

Now I saw you talking to a cute little slip of a sailor And it looked at first like the whole thing would end as a failure He had a thing about a quarter to fou...

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

There's some things I don't have now Some things I don't talk about These things are between myself and I In my thick skull the joker hides There's consequenc...

Lyrics by bernie taupin Available on the album blue moves She slid down to the city limits Monkey time in fifteen minutes Bite your lip, get up, get up and dan...

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...

It's the same song as " Love Lies Bleeding" Music by Elton John Lyrics by Bernie Taupin The roses in the window box Have tilted to one side Everything about th...

I gotta quit this habit It's like some drug for you You've been my sweet sweet addict I've been your little white boy blue You've got the same obsession We ain...

Lyrics by bernie taupin Available on the album blue moves Crime in the streets I read about it everyday in the papers Justice needs and justice wants But just ...

Holy Moses I have been removed I have seen the spectre he has been here too Distant cousin from down the line Brand of people who ain't my kind Holy Moses I hav...

You've been crying And there ain't no use denying It was me Who put you through this misery And I'd like to say I'm sorry But I can't, no I can't Nothing's gonn...

Born to lose I've lived my life in vain Every dream has only brought me pain All my life I've always been so blue Born to lose And now I'm losing you Born to l...

I recall how it used to be In my younger days I built a wall all around my heart To keep the pain away I built it tall and I built it wide I left no room for do...

You tell me there's an angel in your tree Did he say he'd come to call on me For things are getting desperate in our home Living in the parish of the restless f...

It used to be a sweet sensation No price too high for love Now I pay for this bitter taste And the price is not enough Such cruel sport for your kicks Such har...

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 p...

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 hi...

On a hill long ago, on a cold winter's night In a land far away, three kings saw a light And from heaven it shone like God's, God's own crown And it guided thre...

I work for the foundry for a penny and a half a day Like a blind street musician I never see those who pay It's dirty work in Birmingham Better deal for a Sheff...

There's a calm surrender to the rush of day When the heat of a rolling wind can be turned away An enchanted moment and it sees me through It's enough for this r...

I can't keep this from you I've held it in so long It's time to tell the truth Keeping it from you is wrong I can't keep this from you It's so simple I'm afraid...

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 wh...

Well I'm keeping off the streets since you came to town Since you claimed my heart from the lost and found I have said goodbye to my fooling around Now you and ...

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...

If your life is dull and dreary And you're feeling rather weary Of the mundane things that clutter up one's life Drive your roller up to Bond Street Where royal...

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 c...

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...

I built a wall in China, I sank an ocean liner I've wrecked homes, I've burned thrones, chasing the crown I've put thorns in your feet, I spread plague in the s...

How come you're so understanding When I tell you all my lies And pretending to believe them See through all my alibis And I need you more than ever And I want y...

From the day we arrive on the planet And blinking, step into the sun There's more to be seen than can ever be seen More to do than can ever be done Some say ea...

When the shades are drawn And the light of the moon is banned And the stars up above Walk the heavens hand in hand There's a shady place At the end of the worki...

You don't love him any more He threw your rag doll out the door I kept my distance I held my breath Love always ends up Hanging by a thread Love hurts so much ...

We still sit at separate tables And we sleep at different times And the warm wind in the palm trees Hasn't helped to change our minds It was the lure of the tr...

Your life stepped lightly out our hands When no one's looking out you understand Your world was a wheel but the cog ceased to turn The bottom fell out and our f...

You don't love him anymore He threw your ragdoll out the door I kept my distance I held my breath Love always ends up hangin by a thread Love hurts so much Love...

Come back baby Come back to me yeah And you will see yeah How I've changed `Cause you're the only love that I ever had You're the only love that I ever had Come...

In the quiet silent seconds I turned off the light switch And I came down to meet you in the half light the moon left While a cluster of night jars sang some so...

The night we met, we stood Divided by defenses as old as time But love has found a way To bring me to your senses and you to mine So we meet in the cloak of ev...

When I was a little bitty baby My Momma done rocked me in the cradle In them old cottonfields back home It was back in Louisiana Just about a mile from Texarka...

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 ...

Suzie walks her dog but it don't solve All the mysteries Hanging with the guys, making with the guys Playing hard to please Back in '63, she was made for me We...

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 ...

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...

I found a black beret On the street today It was lying in the gutter all torn There's a white flag flying On a tall building But the kids just watch the storm ...

We're caught up in a web, you and I Since Crystal came between us The knots of friendship seem to be untied And it hurts me most to cheat and that's no lie She ...

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 ...

Music by elton john Lyrics by bernie taupin Available on the album rock of the westies Can you tell me how old dan might have done it If he'd been here now, ho...

Have you ever had a good time turn bad When the leaves turn brown And the shattered glass just splinters It's days like this that you can't resist A long tall d...

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...

Daniel is traveling tonight on a plane I can see the red taillights heading for Spain Oh, and I can see Daniel waving goodbye God, it looks like Daniel, must be...

Oh, I'm a dark diamond I've turned hard and cold Once was a jewel with fire in my soul There's two sides of a mirror One I couldn't break through Stayed trapped...

When the day is done Down to Earth then sinks the sun Along with everything that was lost and won When the day is done When the day is done Hope so much your r...

Dear God, are you there Can you hear me, do you care Dear God, here are we Less than perfect, far from free Oh we take what we get and we don't take no more Bu...

Sling your hook in with him baby He's a real sharp-shooter now If he's out there hiding in the tall grass Tell him I said he was a coward This ain't any old we...

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 reall...

Showboat coming up the river See her lanterns flicker in the gentle breeze I can hear the crickets singing in the evening Old Dixie Lily moving past the cypress...

Don't go breaking my heart I couldn't if I tried Honey if I get restless Baby you're not that kind Don't go breaking my heart You take the weight off me Honey ...

I can't light no more of your darkness All my pictures seem to fade to black and white Im growing tired and time stands still before me Frozen here on the ladde...

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 fin...

Loose lips keep him rolling on his whitewall tires Burning out his diesel now, looking like a forest fire Ducktail jiver, common pearl diver Let you have a piec...

Look at you, could I have been so foolish and so green A face that smiled at every passing scene Look at you, you're lost behind the web of woven time When each...

I won't see you `till Christmas I breathe coal dust, I get blisters But the foreman he don't worry He say work boy there's no hurry Don't that big red sun Look ...

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 S...

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 ...

Take a look at me now and take a taste of the money I'm not in it for the bread I'm in it for the gravy, honey Step on the thin ice lightly And check out the sh...

You had your grand illusion and wrestled with your fate The winter of your discontent came twenty years too late If it was love and I was there I've forgotten w...

Our glorious city Was build by the divinities by Gods Who saw fit to bestow The gift of a pardise Peaceful and harmonious upon Us mere mortals below And made E...