1. _ Empty Garden (hey Hey Johnny)
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album jump up
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 a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
And now it all looks strange
It's funny how one insect can damage so much grain
And what's it for
This little empty garden by the brownstone door
And in the cracks along the sidewalk nothing grows no more
Who lived here
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
And we are so amazed we're crippled and we're dazed
A gardener like that one no one can replace
And i've been knocking but no one answers
And i've been knocking most all the day
Oh and i've been calling oh hey hey johnny
Can't you come out to play
And through their tears
Some say he farmed his best in younger years
But he'd have said that roots grow stronger if only he could hear
Who lived there
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
Now we pray for rain, and with every drop that falls
We hear, we hear your name
Johnny can't you come out to play in your empty garden
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2. _ Ego
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in march, 1978
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 show twice nightly
'cause i'm on the stage tonight
And if the price is right
I will amaze before the light i crave the light
Blinding white i need the light tonight
Take a look at me now and take a look at my billing
I'm not in it as an extra, i'm in it for the killing
Inflate my ego gently, tell them heaven sent me
'cause i'm so expressive and i'm so obsessed with my ego
My ego and it's message
Oh inform the press, invite the guests
I need the press tonight
Do you remember acting out your youth
A romeo resplendent on an orange case
Do you remember how i would recite
And how i'd blow my lines and hide my face
Well maybe it was childish, foolish, before schoolish
Immaturish, lose your coolish
But i had to grow and prove my ego
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
Inflate my ego gently, tell them heaven sent me
Oh 'cause i'm so expressive and i'm so obsessed with my ego
My ego and it's message
Oh inform the press, invite the guests
I need the press tonight
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3. _ Friends
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the soundtrack friends
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
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 a crime that we should age
These fragile times should never slip us by
A time you never can or shall erase
As friends together watch their childhood fly
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4. _ Island Girl
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album rock of the westies
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
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5. _ Nobody Wins
Written by jean-paul dreau and gary osborne
Available on the album the fox
They must have loved each other once
But that was many years ago
And by the time i came along
Things were already going wrong
I felt the pain in their pretence
The side they tried hard not to show
But through the simple eyes of youth
It wasn't hard to see the truth
And in the end nobody wins
When love begins to fall apart
And it's the innocent who pay
When broken dreams get in the way
The game begins, the game nobody wins
They must have loved each other once
Before the magic slipped away
And as their life became a lie
What love remained began to die
I used to hide beneath the sheets
I prayed that time would find a way
But with the passing of the years
I watched as laughter turned to tears
We used to love each other once
With all the passion we possessed
But people change as time goes by
Some feelings grow while others die
But if we learn from what we see
And face the truth while we still can
Then though the passion may be gone
Some kind of love can still live on
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6. _ Empty Sky
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album empty sky
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 of love
Make me wish that i had wings take me high above
And i looked high and saw the empty sky
If i could only, i could only fly
I'd drift with them in endless space
But no man flies from this place
At night i lay upon my bench and stare towards the stars
The cold night air comes creeping in and home seems oh so far
If only i could swing upon those twinkling dots above
I'd look down from the heavens upon the ones i love
Hey the lucky locket hangs around your precious neck
Some luck i ever got with you and i wouldn't like to bet
That sooner or later you'll own just one half of this land
By shining your eyes on the wealth of every man
Just send up my love ain't seen nothing but tears
Now i've got myself in this room for years
I don't see no one, i never see anyone
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7. _ Tiny Dancer
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album madman across the water
Blue jean baby, l.a. 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
Piano man he makes his stand
In the auditorium
Looking on she sings the songs
The words she knows, the tune she hums
But oh how it feels so real
Lying here with no one near
Only you and you can hear me
When i say softly, slowly
Hold me closer tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today
Blue jean baby, l.a. 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
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8. _ Lady What's Tomorrow
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album empty sky
Look up little brother
Can you see the clover
No not over there
A little bit left and over there
Now look and see the lilac tree
The lily pond, the skylark's song
The open air but no one cares
If branches live and die out there
Remember when you were nine
And i was ten
We would run into the woods
No we never will again
And lady, what's tomorrow
What's tomorrow anyway
If it's not the same as now
It's the same as yesterday
Yes lady, what's tomorrow
Will it be the same as now
Will the farmer push the pen
Will the writer pull the plough
Look up little brother
Can you see the clover
Oh sorry but it's over
Now there's concrete and no clover
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9. _ Where To Now St. Peter?
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album tumbleweed connection
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
So where to now st. peter
If it's true i'm in your hands
I may not be a christian
But i've done all one man can
I understand i'm on the road
Where all that was is gone
So where to now st. peter
Show me which road i'm on
Which road i'm on
It took a sweet young foreign gun
This lazy life is short
Something for nothing always ending
With a bad report
Dirty was the daybreak
Sudden was the change
In such a silent place as this
Beyond the rifle range
I took myself a blue canoe
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10. _ Crazy Water
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album blue moves
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 wolves away
From hungry hands, from hungry hands
Crazy water
Takes my fishing boat on monday morning
Dangerous dreaming
If we all believe in the things you believe you're seeing
Oh we'd never drop our nets in the crazy water, crazy water
Tangled lives, lonely wives
Shoreline widows pray
For the souls of missing whalers
Endless nights on an endless sea
Where nothing lives between us
Just the breakers on the ocean
Separating you and me
Separating you and me
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11. _ Wrap Her Up
Duet with george michael
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album ice on fire
There are ladies, illegal x's
Mona lisa's, well connected
They may be shady, english roses
Blue blooded, turned up noses
Money talks, see what it catches
Postage paid, no strings attached
She's a honey, she's a tramp
Roaring twenties, molls and vamps
Wrap her up, i'll take her home with me
Wrap her up, she is all i need
Wrap her up, i only get one chance
Beasts and beauties, but they all can dance
Wrap her up, i'll taker her home with me
Wrap her up, she is all i need
Wrap her up
Give her to me, wrap her up
Is she foreign, legs eleven
Italian girls, take me to heaven
You pretty babies, from paris, france
Crazy horses, love to dance
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12. _ Shooting Star
Music by elton john
Lyrics by gary osborne
Available on the album a single man
I'm still in love with you oh shooting star
And when i start to wonder where you are
There you are, there you are, shooting star
You may have seen me at the early show
I sat and watched you from the second row
Oh you were mine long ago way back when
Even then we both knew you'd go far oh shooting star
And with the spotlight shining in your eyes
It's sometimes hard to find your way
But maybe some night you might
Think of me, shooting star
And when that moment comes at last
And you remember who you are
Here i'll be, shooting star, shooting star
Here i'll be, shooting star, shooting star, shooting star
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13. _ Texan Love Song
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album don't shoot me i'm only the piano player
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 are homespun and green
But that's wrong my friend so get this through your head
We're tough and we're texan with necks good and red
So it's ki yi yippie yi yi
You long hairs are sure gonna die
Our american home was clean till you came
And kids still respected the president's name
And the eagle still flew in the sky
Hearts filled with national pride
Then you came along with your drug-crazy songs
Goddamit you're all gonna die
How dare you sit there and drink all our beer
Oh it's made for us workers who sweat spit and swear
The minds of our daughters are poisoned by you
With your communistic politics and them negro blues
Well i'm gonna quit talking and take action now
Run all of you fairies clean out of this town
Oh i'm dog tired of watching you mess up our lives
Spending the summertime naturally high
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14. _ Just Like Belgium
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album the fox
Remember belgium and the brussels museum
Where we piled on the front steps like stray cavaliers
Our code of living meant little to others
The few francs we saved bought some cheap souvenirs
But the red lights where the catfights make it just like belgium
See us face down on the floor of another cheap barroom
Streetwalkers sweet talk you out of your spare change
And your sweet madame makes it seem just like belgium
Just like a hustler when they look attractive
It's nothing more than a slap on the back
The price tag of being just a little bit different
The first rule to learn is to keep your own distance
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15. _ All Quiet On The Western Front
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album jump up
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 europe bend under force
All quiet
All quiet
All quiet on the western front
So tired of this garden's grief, nobody cares
Old kin kiss the small white cross, their only souvenir
See the prussian offense fly, weren't we grand
To place the feel of cold sharp steel in their hands
It's gone all quiet on the western front, male angels sigh
Ghosts float in a flooded trench as germany dies
Fever reaps the flowers of france, fair-haired boys
String the harps to victory's voice, joyous noise
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16. _ Who Wears These Shoes
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album breaking hearts
There's a light on in your window
There's a shadow on the street
Two silhouettes tell me it's over
The shadow knows the shadow's me
I won't crawl or cause you trouble
Well that's the last thing i'll ever do
But before i leave your life completely
Tell me who wears these shoes, darling
Lord knows the days just get longer
The nights grow cold with you on my mind
And i feel like an old jukebox
Playing the same song all the time
If these crazy dreams don't kill me
It's more than i can take from you
Not knowing where or when i'll see you
Not knowing darling who wears these shoes
My friends all say don't got to pieces
I say that's fine but if i lose
I want to know who's in my foot steps
I want to know who wears these shoes
My friends all think i must be crazy
I see the facts but if it's true
I want to know who's in my footsteps
I want to know who wears these shoes, darling
Oh and it's a chilling feeling
When i can't see him
What do i do
When i face the two of you
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