We all lead such elaborate lives Wild ambitions in our sights How an affair of the heart survives Days apart and hurried nights Seems quite unbelievable to me ...

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 We...

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,...

Oh Emerald I didn't mean to act this way I feel numb and dum And oh so overcome by the things we say Oh Emerald I am not your little boy Times are tough enough...

The church bells ring out morning glory When summer bends to the winter's rage Emily walks through the cemetery Passed a dog in an unmarked grave The old girl h...

What happened here As the New York sunset disappeared I found an empty garden among the flagstones there Who lived here He must have been a gardener that cared ...

I'm not a rat to be spat on locked up in this room Those bars that look towards the sun at night look towards the moon Everyday the swallows play in the clouds ...

A few more days and we'll be home in glory Already they'll be getting out the flags With Memphis high _______ dormitory For me, I only see a lot of snags The p...

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...

I read about how you're slow with the truth Like any old Aesop's Fable But when you're turtlesque, I'm a hare's breath Into payment under the table But some jou...

Don't close the shades I'm scared of the darkness I'm cold as a razor blade Inches from madness Don't let me sleep here They're all trying to kill me I've seen...

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 wom...

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 say...

Please don't talk about the Flinstone boy He's alright with me Please don't talk about the Flinstone boy He's alright with me Please don't worry about the Flin...

He's so sophisticated In a critic's eye He needs a change of habit But then so do I He's all Zefferelli In cool loose clothes He needs to be rewired He's plugge...

Lyrics by Bernie Taupin Me and you we're not that pretty Me and you could use a lift I'm out here on the corner crying I got ribbons but I got no gift Me and ...

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 travellers to go Makin...

Written by francis lai and hal sharper Released as a us single in 1970 Issued on "the games" soundtrack If I say goodbye it'll grieve you Denver means the whol...

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 ...

When it's springtime down in Georgia It's winter time up in Maine You can go from snow to sunshine If you board a southbound train You get used to taking orders...

Jo-Jo was a man who thought he was a loner But he knew it couldn't last Jo-Jo left his home in Tuscon, Arizona For some California grass Get back, get back Get...

You've been crying, and I'm crazy about you I've been lying, and hanging you up, 'cause I'm deep on the inside, but flash on the outside I am the thunder, and y...

It's so hard to say goodbye When there's nothing left to give When this house is just a hill of bones Where you and I once lived If we put it back together By t...

Luther left at first light Friday morning 
Little Dan and Becky wave good-bye 
They're gonna have to share the weight together 
Idle hands will see a good farm ...

When are you gonna come down? When are you going to land? I should have stayed on the farm I should have listened to my old man You know you can't hold me fore...

Good morning world, it's a brand new day I'm packing my bags and I'm going away I'm moving my legs and my city tired bones I gotta get away from the busy man's ...

And now that it's all over The birds can nest again I'll only snow when the sun comes out I'll shine only when it starts to rain And if you want a drink Just s...

I can hound you if I need to Sip your brandy from a crystal shoe In the corner, in the corner While the others climb reaching dizzy heights The world's in front...

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 a sun But not as bright in life as th...

As I lay dreaming in my bed Across the great divide I thought I heard the trawler boats Returning on the tide And in this vision of my home The shingle beach di...

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...

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 ...

Gulliver's gone to the final command of his master His watery eyes had washed all the hills with his laughter And the seasons can change all the light from the ...

You win again, you gypsy heart I count the days that we're apart I sleep alone when you're away No sense in saying 'I wish you'd stay' It's all the same, you ne...

Sometimes I think I'm going crazy Staring at the same four walls Waiting for the working day to end Then I get home so wasted, worn out I curse at you and tell ...

Hello, baby hello Haven't seen your face for a while Have you quit doing time for me Or are you still the same spoiled child Hello, I said hello Is this the on...

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 moth...

I never dreamed I could cry so hard That ain't like a man I could fly like a bird some days Had a place where I could land I could have sworn we were all locke...

I've got a good by-line They all know my name The queen of the sly line I feed on your fame But I got my heart in the right place It's all in the game If you'r...

Well I'm running away From this house on the hill There's a devil inside sitting on the window Sill And it's a wild Friday night And I'm all on my own I knocked...

Shakey wake up thirsty from a night in the bar And snake hips Joe is Mr Cool Out on the boulevard The pimp from the Jack of Diamonds Just got another Jane Doe S...

Just like a broken marriage, when two people just don't care Like when the cupboard is empty or there's no food in the Frigidaire I'm a page from the end of the...

Feet are feeling light Head on up to see the sights Ain't life a many splendor thing? Ducking up and down All those crazy sights and sounds Bounce around like ...

Ooh I got a busted wing and a hornet sting Like an out of tune guitar Ooh she got Hercules on her side And Diana in her eyes Some men like the Chinese life Som...

It's a little bit funny this feeling 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 ...

Like I said baby If you go astray Well then go on Go your own sweet way I thought you knew by now You do just what you please And here's to the next time Here's...

It's a constant struggle getting up that hill There's a change of guard every day When you're clinging onto a driftwood boat You pray a great white whale might ...

Hey armadillo what you doing in the garden Slumbering and spherical, you're always hanging around Leather on the outside but a delicate interior Very like a lot...

He would recount the stories he had learned so well Fourteen years is a long time in one cell When the pipe is passed the opium does its rounds Papa Legba sitti...

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 wris...

Sitting here on Christmas Eve with a brandy in my hand Oh I've had a few too many and it's getting hard to stand I keep hearing noises from my fireplace I must ...

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 th...

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 ...

Do you want to drive to ride mount on your pony Loosen up my tie to help me breathe Insisting that I pay my alimony Each and every day is the same old scene Co...

When I look back boy I must have been green Bopping in the country, fishing in a stream Looking for an answer trying to find a sign Until I saw your city lights...

She's a honky tonk women Give me, give me, give me the honky tonk blues I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis, She tried to take me upstairs for a ride...

You say that all you want are the simple things Long walks on lonely beaches, guitars with nylon strings But underneath you'd rather leap through a hoop of fire...

I'm just sitting counting all the cobwebs And wondering just when you'll come along You said that you'd be here an hour ago But an hour ago is hours ago from th...

This is my house This is where I live That is the winter Those are the trees I can hear them breathe This is my bed This is where I sleep That was the dark Thos...

I hear tell some playboy has kidnapped your heart With his plane and his plans for games after dark Just a pain in his pocket, and the price of a room Where the...

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 witne...

She chose the soft centre 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 o...

I've been beaming aboard her for a light year From a strange craft She's got a subtle touch on the silver key To a clockwork heart I am your robot, I am your r...

I believe in love It's all we've got Love has no boundaries, costs nothing to touch War makes money, cancer sleeps Curled up in my father And that means someth...

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...

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 ...

I got feet sticking out of my shoes I got heat more than I can use I got love, I got all I need I got soles that are wearing thin I got holes where the rain get...

I've always said that one's enough to love Now I hear you're bragging one is not enough Well, someone tells me you're not satisfied You got plans to make me one...

Without you I no longer swim upstream Where are you when I try to fill the spaces in between The red letter days and all the pain And while I remain shipwrecked...

Music by elton john Lyrics by bernie taupin Available on the album rock of the westies Like a corn in a field i cut you down I threw the last punch too hard Af...

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 'Ca...

Lyrics by bernie taupin Available on the album too low for zero Don't wish it away Don't look at it like it's forever Between you and me I could honestly say T...

Ooh, I bet you're wondering how I knew About you're plans to make me blue With some other guy that you knew before Between the two of us guys You know I love yo...

Lyrics by tim rice Available on the soundtrack the lion king Way behind the water hole A little down the line The jungle and the plains and peaks Are scheduled...

How have I come to this How did I slip and fall How did I throw half a lifetime away Without any thought at all This should've been my time It's over, it never...

"I meant to do my work today The brown bird sang in the apple tree I know that's why And a butterfly flittered accross the field And all the leaves were calling...

I'm no longer counting I'm not keeping score I could say my list of lovers doesn't matter anymore But some are always in my heart And some I'm not so sure Eithe...

You're not a ship to carry my life You are nailed to my love in many lonely nights I've strayed from the cottages and found myself here For I need your love you...

Well she swept through the church Like a sweet Sunday prayer While the choir sang Son of Heaven And the groom just walked on air I was killing time with Jesus ...

I heard a prophesy all around And Emily they come and go The shadows and the distant sounds But Emily don't be afraid When the weight of angels weighs you down...

Are you standing outside? Looking up at the sky Cursing a wondering star Well If I were you I'd throw rocks at the moon I'd say damn you wherever you are I don'...

Lyrics by Bernie Taupin We are still all right We took it on the chin But in the thirteenth hour No one ever wins But we're strong enough Like traffic all tied...

In the nicotine glare of a cold naked light I drag my body from the covers and down forty flights I run out the front door into the center of the street I screa...

Duet with P M Dawn Written by Attrel Cordes Available on the album Duets Holding all the pictures that my life draw I never find a missing love Remembering all...

I'm getting bored Being part of mankind There's not a lot to do no more This race is a waste of time People rushing everywhere Swarming 'round like flies Think...

I want love, but it's impossible A man like me, so irresponsible A man like me is dead in places Other men feel liberated I can't love, shot full of holes Don'...

Well there's slim times when my words won't rhyme And the hills I face are a long hard clim I just sit cross legged with my old guitar It kind of makes me feel ...

You could never know what it's like Your blood like winter freezes just like ice And there's a cold lonely light that shines from you You'll wind up like the wr...

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 wa...

Pull the string and I'll wink at you, I'm your puppet I'll do funny things if you want me to, I'm your puppet I'm yours to have and to hold Darling you've got ...

I didn't mean to hurt you You know it's just my way Those things that I said yesterday Were things I shouldn't say Although you're blue Just one thing I want yo...

He was a light star Tripping on a high wire Bulldog stubborn, born uneven A classless creature, a man for all seasons But don't bet them They can't take him To ...

I knew from the first night I met you That something just wasn't quite right You looked like an innocent stranger But something was just out of sight How could...

I don't know what to say I don't know where the light shines It's a grey dawn rising on a green hill And there's so much behind us I don't know where we go I s...

If you were me And I was you If you had to play my part out What would you do Two crazy stories Two different views If you were me And I was you If you were me...

Lipstick and lashes, the traces of stardom Lit up on a billboard so everyone sees them in neon Behind the counter she stares out the window Up at the billboard ...

In the morning there's a feeling As I free my eyes of sleep And think only of him running To the promise he must keep Such a love I've never known It fills my ...

In the summertime when the weather is high You can stretch right up and touch the sky When the weather's fine You got women, you got women on your mind Have a d...

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 _____...

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 a...