1. _ Rocket Man (i Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time)
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2. _ Love Song
Music and lyrics by leslie duncan
Available on the album tumbleweed connection
The words i have to say
May well be simple but they're true
Until you give your love
There's nothing 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 there's no other way
And now it's really up to you
Love is the key we must turn
Truth is the flame we must burn
Freedom the lesson we must learn
Do you know what i mean
Have your eyes really seen
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3. _ Get Back
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4. _ Sixty Years On
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5. _ Honky Cat
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6. _ Honky Tonk Women
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7. _ My Baby Left Me
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8. _ Bennie And The Jets
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album goodbye yellow brick road
Hey kids, shake it loose together
The spotlight's hitting something
That's been known to change the weather
We'll kill the fatted calf tonight
So stick around
You're gonna hear electric music
Solid walls of sound
Say, candy and ronnie, have you seen them yet
But they're so spaced out, bennie and the jets
Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful
Oh bennie she's really keen
She's got electric boots a mohair suit
You know i read it in a magazine
Bennie and the jets
Hey kids, plug into the faithless
Maybe they're blinded
But bennie makes them ageless
We shall survive, let us take ourselves along
Where we fight our parents out in the streets
To find who's right and who's wrong
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9. _ Border Song
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin (last verse by elton john)
Available on the album elton john
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 have been removed
Holy moses i have been deceived
Now the wind has changed direction and i'll have to leave
Won't you please excuse my frankness but it's not my cup of tea
Holy moses i have been deceived
I'm going back to the border
Where my affairs, my affairs ain't abused
I can't take any more bad water
I've been poisoned from my head down to my shoes
Holy moses i have been deceived
Holy moses let us live in peace
Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease
There's a man over there what's his colour i don't care
He's my brother let us live in peace
He's my brother let us live in peace
He's my brother let us live in peace
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10. _ Skyline Pigeon
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album empty sky
Released as a uk b-side in january, 1973
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 these shadows turn
From purple into grey
For just a skyline pigeon
Dreaming of the open
Waiting for the day
He can spread his wings
And fly away again
Fly away skyline pigeon fly
Towards the dreams
You've left so very far behind
Just let me wake up in the morning
To the smell of new mown hay
To laugh and cry, to live and die
In the brightness of my day
I want to hear the pealing bells
Of distant churches sing
But most of all please free me
From this aching metal ring
And open out this cage towards the sun
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11. _ Love Lies Bleeding
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album goodbye yellow brick road
The roses in the window box
Have tilted to one side
Everything about this house
Was born to grow and die
Oh 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
Oh it kills me to think of you with another man
I was playing rock and roll and you were just a fan
But my guitar couldn't hold you
So i split the band
Love lies bleeding in my hands
I wonder if those changes
Have left a scar on you
Like all the burning hoops of fire
That you and i passed through
You're a bluebird on a telegraph line
I hope you're happy now
Well if the wind of change comes down your way girl
You'll make it back somehow
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12. _ Take Me To The Pilot
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album elton john
If you feel that it's real i'm on trial
And i'm here in your prison
Like a coin in your mint
I am dented and i'm spent with high treason
Through a glass eye your throne
Is the one danger zone
Take me to the pilot for control
Take me to the pilot of your soul
Take me to the pilot
Lead me through the chamber
Take me to the pilot
I am but a stranger
Take me to the pilot
Lead me through the chamber
Take me to the pilot
I am but a stranger
Well i know he's not old
And i'm told he's a virgin
For he may be she
But what i'm told is never for certain
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13. _ Funeral For A Friend
Music by elton john
Available on the album goodbye yellow brick road
[instrumental]
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14. _ Can I Put You On
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the soundtrack friends
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 sheffield man
If he can rivet then his kids can buy
Candy from the candy man
And the van that comes around weekends
Selling fancy city things
Sold by the man with the trilby hat
And the whiskers spread like wings
You can hear him sing
Oh you can hear him sing
Can i put you on, people can i put you on
Tell you that i love you people
Sing a salesman's song and put you on
And a second cousin works in the pits in newcastle on tyne
And he don't care if it rains outside, there's coal dust on his mind
It's dirty work in manchester
But the crew gets paid its gelt
Bang on the bell on friday
You buys a little something for yourself
And the van that comes around weekends
Selling fancy city things
Sold by the man in the trilby hat
And the whiskers spread like wings
You can hear him sing
Oh you can hear him sing
Can i put you on, people can i put you on
Tell you that i love you people
Sing a salesman's song and put you on
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15. _ Crocodile Rock
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album don't shoot me i'm only the piano player
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 crocodile rocking is something shocking
When your feet just can't keep still
I never knew me a better time and i guess i never will
Oh lawdy mama those friday nights
When suzie wore her dresses tight
And the crocodile rocking was out of sight
But the years went by and the rock just died
Suzie went and left us for some foreign guy
Long nights crying by the record machine
Dreaming of my chevy and my old blue jeans
But they'll never kill the thrills we've got
Burning up to the crocodile rock
Learning fast as the weeks went past
We really thought the crocodile rock would last
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16. _ Burn Down The Mission
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album tumbleweed connection
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 folks i know
Everybody now bring your family down to the riverside
Look to the east to see where the fat stock hide
Behind four walls of stone the rich man sleeps
It's time we put the flame torch to their keep
Burn down the mission
If we're gonna stay alive
Watch the black smoke fly to heaven
See the red flame light the sky
Burn down the mission
Burn it down to stay alive
It's our only chance of living
Take all you need to live inside
Deep in the woods the squirrels are out today
My wife cried when they came to take me away
But what more could i do just to keep her warm
Than burn burn burn burn down the mission walls
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17. _ Bad Side Of The Moon
Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in march, 1970
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
Where the light has never shone
And the hermits flock like hummingbirds
To speak in a foreign tongue
I'm a light world away
From the people who make me stay
Sitting on the bad side of the moon
There ain't no need for watchdogs here
To justify our ways
We live our life in manacles
The main cause of our stay
Exiled here from other worlds
My sentence comes too soon
Why should i be made to pay
On the bad side of the moon
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