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Written by elton john
Released as a uk b-side in 1980

[instrumental]

Music by elton john
Never released

[instrumental]

Written by reg dwight and nicky james
Never released

Dada dum-da dadada dum-da
Where it's at
Dada dum-da dadada dum-da
Where it's at

He's a man who knows most everything
Of anything at all
Tells a story of psychology
And his story never falls
He's a man who wears a portobello yellow bill-bob hat
He's a man who knows exactly where it's at


He's a man who draws illusions
And he carves them on a tree
Including all the love he found
He gives to you and me
And i don't even know his name
But i surely promise that
He's a man who knows exactly where it's at


Roaming around from place to place
He takes in all that he sees
He notices the good things that please him
He watches all the bad things that grieve him
But he loves everybody and he knows just where it's at


He was born of gypsy parenthood
And he's always lived the land
And if people who would talk to him
Just cannot understand
But no matter what they say of him
They'll always tell you that
He's a man who knows exactly where it's at

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

Turn to me, turn to me when you're lonely
Brush them aside, gather your pride
Baby turn to me
Turn to me, turn to me when you're lonely
Brush them aside, gather your pride
Baby turn to me
Don't listen to the people
Who spread lies about your name
I know it hurts
But baby i've had it too


I've learned to live with their abuse
I've learned to live with those who choose
To disregard my emptiness and lose me


Your laughter has died in the heat of the night
The people they pretend that company is bright
But brighter you'll wait by the phone that has died
Don't bury your hopes, there's nothing that's left for you to confide in


But you seem to be happy just for now to go on
Try to see through them baby, can't you see what is wrong
You're hurting yourself more that you'll ever know
You're pushing the people to tell you to go

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

Take every ray of sunshine from the sky
Let the rain fall, i don't care if the flowers die
The night lights can forget me
The stars will never glow
The days just seem so worthless
The hours, they come and go

Reminds me of you
Reminds me of you
The things we used to say
The things we used to do
All these happy hours are now just empty days
And i can't bear the strain to pass the time away
Reminds me of you


I see couples walking down the street
I watch them here
With tear filled eyes there's nothing left for me
For i just think about the times
That you and i were two
And still these things remind me of you
Oh they do

With dionne warwick, gladys knight and stevie wonder
Written by bacharach
Released as a uk single in 1985

And i never thought i'd feel this way
And as far as i'm concerned
I'm glad i got the chance to say
That i do believe i love you

And if i should ever go away
Well then close your eyes and try
To feel the way we do today
And then if you can remember


Keep smiling, keep shining
Knowing you can always count on me, for sure
That's what friends are for
For good times and bad times
I'll be on your side forever more
That's what friends are for


Well you came in loving me
And now there's so much more i see
And so by the way i thank you


Oh and then for the times when we're apart
Well then close your eyes and know
The words are coming from my heart
And then if you can remember

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the french album sol en si

There's a chance we may lose it all
All those hollow souls
Can't hope to hold that wall

What i breathe used to be my life
How come a good thing dies
And the evil still survive


Oh i've got to paint it red
Wake up and colour all the pieces
Don't sleep without your faces, and
Oh i've got to paint it red
Put your eyes back in your head
And oh paint it red


Where's the dance they may never dance
All those open hands
Can't hope to have a chance


What i see used to be a smile
How come your lips are sealed
And your spirit never flies


Cash on delivery
That's all they ever said
Grey tones can't be trusted
I say paint it red

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in 1980

White man danger
He's come to stay
Red man, it's all over
You're in the way

White man danger
Time on his side
Red man, you don't know it
But your world just died


Let's hear it for the white man
He feels no pain
Let's hear it for the white man
He feels no shame


White man danger
His day has come
Red man got two chances
Slim chance and none


White man danger
He's come to stay
Red man, it's all over
You're in the way

Written by william monk and h.f. lyte
Arranged by dave hartley
Available on the collection carnival!

Abide with me, fast falls the eventide
The darkness deepens, lord abide with me
When other helpers fail and comforts flee
Help of the helpless, o abide with me

I fear no foe, with thee at hand to bless
Ills have no weight and tears no bitterness
Where is death's sting, where, grave, that victory
I triumph still if thou abide with me


Hold thou thy cross before my closen eyes
Shine throught the gloom and point me to the skies
Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee


In life, in death, o lord abide with me
In life, in death, o lord abide with me

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

They're barring the doors at the back of the hall
It's cold in the winter, some freeze in the fall
The banquet's the supper that's set for the swine
If you're not at the gathering, and you've gone down the line

You're the last to arrive, you're the first one to leave
You don't give us the time, you don't drop us a line
Well a dime in the phone is the best way i know
You're the last to arrive, my friend you're the first one to go


The truck picks you up on your front porch at night
And you're back before sundown if you don't get blind
We're not chaining you down to your castle tonight
We're just trying to make you see some sort of light


They'll all drink your health out of pewter and wood
Get drunk in the hayloft playing dirty and good
There's ten pounds of oxen were skewered on spit
There'll not be an ounce if you don't make it quick

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

The grass in ashfield park is dying
Where everybody dreams of deeds of crime
And the tartan coloured lady walks
Behind the water colours of my mind
And the tartan coloured lady she is mine

People speak of willow trees in autumn
And my _____ doesn't fit her anymore
And the tartan coloured lady that i wanted
Talked of this place an hour or so before
And the tartan coloured lady lost her _____


So if your crystal window isn't broken
And they've taken all the dust bins from your door
Take yourself the tartan coloured lady
And smell the grass in ashfield park once more
See the trees in ashfield park once more


So i guess i'll read the comic books you've left me
And play marbles on the floor
And if the tartan coloured lady calls me
Just tell her i won't be home till four
Or just tell her i won't be home no more

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the soundtrack the muse

When i can't find words and wisdom in my life
And barriers abound
Should i feel blinded by the light
Knee deep up to my neck in heavy water
I conjure up my muse
She's my means to achieve a simple quota

When it's make or break
Make no mistake
She appears like lightening in a bottle
I catch the spark
Oh she lights the dark
The knot's undone the ideas come
Like two hands on a throttle


There's a place of one way streets and doubt
No red lights ever change
We wind up with no exit out
Facts are facts and stumbling blocks delay the mind
That's when my muse arrives
To sew loose ends up in time

Music by elton john
Lyrics by tim rice
Elton's solo version is unreleased


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 always on his mind
He's not thinking what i'm thinking, always half a beat behind
Always half a beat behind

I'm in every kind of trouble, can't you tell, just look at me
Half ecstatic, half dejected, all in all i'm all at sea
Easy turns i thought i wanted, fill me now with chilling dread
You can never know the chaos, of a life turned on it's head
Of a life turned on it's head


Take a little time to panic, shake off your complacent state
I know all i ever wished to, of a life destroyed by fate
It's so strange you never notice anything but where you are
Step outside your gleaming prison, or is that a step too far
Or is that a step too far

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

Ice thaws the sun when autumn comes
And bristol trips and bugy rides are over
And the nucleus of everyone has disappeared
As winter holds my shoulder

So put on your make-up
Make up to me now
Kick off your sand-shoes
Throw them in the sea now
It's the season of the rain


You wear your big hat
I'll wear my check cap
Throw up your string bags
Into the old trap
It's the season of the rain
And i gotta get home
I wanna go home again


Castles in the country
See the maids of air
Rambling fires and canopies contain us
And the waters of the countryside
Wash away our cares
Leave the city lights behind us

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in 1984

I'd like to make this song so simple
Don't want to hide my feeling under
Drawn up words in shades of many colours
How can i make them think i am clever
By merely saying that i miss you

It's just a state they claim i'm going through
Don't want you to think that i am weakening
Although you know i'm always dreaming
Someday you'll be coming home to me


Tortured, i've been so tortured by you so many times
But you always love the ones that hurt you
And i guess those are the ties that bind
Tortured by you


If i had taken parting easy
It might have been a better lesson
For all concerned in wars of love and hate
How can you swear through words and music
The heart you crave and how to move it


It's just a beach you washed my body onto
Don't want you to know that i an crying
Although your friends can see i'm dying
Slowly from the knife you left in me


Tortured by you
Tortured by you
Tortured by you so many times

Music by elton john
Lyrics by tim rice
Elton's solo version is unreleased

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 over and die

All i have to do is to forget how much i love him
All i have to do is put my longing to one side
Tell myself that love's an ever-changing situation
Passion would have cooled and all the magic would have died


It's easy, it's easy


Until i think about him as he was when i last saw him
And how he would have been were i to be with him today
Tender in his manner _____ consolation
All i ever wanted and i'm throwing it away


It's easy, easy as life


All i have to do is to pretend i never knew him
On those very rare occasions when he steals into my heart
Better to have lost him when the ties were barely binding
Better the contempt of the familiar cannot start


It's easy, it's easy


Until i think about him as he was when i last touched him
And how he would have been were i to be with him today
Those very rare occasions don't let up, they keep on coming
All i ever wanted and i'm throwing it away


It's easy, it's easy as life


And then i see the faces of a worn defeated people
A father and a nation who won't let a coward run
Is this how the gods reward the faithful through the ages
Forcing us to prove that all the hardest things we've done


Are easy, so easy


And though i'll think about him until the earth draws in around me
And though i choose to leave him for another kind of love
This is no denial, no betrayal, but redemption
Redeemed in my own eyes and in the pantheon above


It's easy, it's easy, it's easy as life

Music by ??
Produced by chris thomas
Recorded 1969 at emi studios, abbey road
Never released (the bread and beer band)


[instrumental]

Written by randy newman
Available on randy newman's album faust

In two long wars, my country bled
To save the world for everyone
As through the years, the fight we've led
Too long, we stood alone, too long alone
And when at last, the battle won
We asked for no reward
An empire gone
Two generations turned to blood and dust
Only the best were lost
Only the best

And now the years have passed
The times have changed
The foe is risen up
He stands astride the world
His dreams of conquest all fulfilled


Little island, little island
Glory lost in the mists of time
They will pay for what was done
To those of us who died so young
They will pay for what was done
Little island, little island
Little island

Written by christine mcvie
Available on the tribute album legacy: a tribute to fleetwood mac's rumours

If you wake up and don't want to smile
If it takes just a little while
Open your eyes and look at the day
You'll see things in a different way

Don't stop thinking about tomorrow
Don't stop, it'll soon be here
It'll be here, better than before
Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone


Why not think about the times to come
And not about the things that you've done
If your life was bad to you
Just think what tomorrow will do


All i want is to see you smile
If it takes just a little while
I know you don't believe that it's true
I never meant any harm to you


Don't you look back
Don't you look back

Music by elton john
Lyrics by gary osborne
Never released
Demo version of "lonely boy"


Lonely man, get up and fly
Come on dance, get up and try
Everyone knows you got what it takes
All you need is one or two good breaks

Lonely man, this is your time
Come on dance, you're on the line
This just could be the only throw you got
Get on up and give it your best shot


You gotta make it lonely man
You can take it lonely man
Oh do da do da day
You gotta do it lonely man
Get to it lonely man
Oh take it all the way


Lonely man, you are the one
So come on dance, your chance has come
Destiny gonna put you to the test
Face the music and disregard the rest

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

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 life with joy
Oh the miracles the morning brings
The dark cannot destroy


You may find if he's there
It eases your mind
And besides he's so kind
It makes you feel fine
In the morning


Through my window comes a light
Like none that i have known
Well the night has passed between us
And the love has grown and grown


Like a river through a valley
Where the waters never end
Spinning down and always onward
As he come to me again

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released


It makes a lot of difference
It takes a lot of time
To call it quits, and let it slide
And leave someone behind

It's hard not to think of her
In terms of causing pain
I see her now for what she's worth
She takes my love in vain


And wild love is dangerous play
And now she cuts you time and time again
Cuts the rough with the smooth
Cuts the heart out of you
Now you're taking my love in vain
Yes wild love is dangerous play
And feel you and touch you
And cut you time and time again


Can't always blame a woman
I should have read her mind
I cut the deck too low i guess
I walked a fine thin line


It's like they say so often
The calm before the scream
The days that passed in silence
Were so few and far between

Never released

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 __________
And this child is on his way to indian land
My indian maiden


Got an indian maiden
I've got my hopi charms in hand
And i'm tracking down her footprints in the sand of indian lands
My indian maiden


Shake it loose, i have no use for city living
Turn my back on the back-slap jacks
And the madcap women, women


Got an indian maiden
I've got a photograph of you
And i'm hanging on to every little clue about you
My indian maiden

Music by elton john
Never released


Timothy
Why are you following me
Why don't you take a few chances
While you got time on your side

Timothy
How can i make you see
Somebody's got all the answers
But it sure ain't me


You know that love's a game
And i played it once or twice
Oh you're asking for advice
That i can't give you


'cause it just don't feel the same
If you haven't paid the price
It's something that you're just gonna
Have to live through


Timothy
Why are you following me


Timothy
I'm not the person to tell you
What you should do with your life


Timothy
The joke's on me
You got yourself more to handle
Than i will ever be


You know that love's a game
You can guarantee to win
Love has always been a game of learning


'cause it just don't feel the same
When you're outside looking in
And it's still the same old question keeps returning


Timothy
Why are you following me


Well you know that love's a game
You play the best you can
It's hard to understand
Though we keep trying


'cause it just don't feel the same
When you lose the master plan
I sometimes have to laugh
To keep from crying

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

Have you heard about the love sensation
That someone in the submarine
Love what you take
Love what you want
Love is the steam about
My whole adventure

Got what you want
Got what you need
Got what you want
I want my love adventure


Got a lot of love
Got a lot of dreams
______________
About my soul adventure


________________....

Written by reg dwight
Released as a single by bluesology in february, 1966

When you hold me, when you thrill me
My heart just sets on fire
When you love me, when you hold me
I'm just filled with desire

You know that i love you baby
But your kind of loving just drives me crazy
When you hold me, when you kiss me
Mr. frantic, mr. frantic


When you tell me that i'm your only
I feel on top of the world
If you'd only say you will
Then you'll be my only girl


We could be such a happy pair
And i promise to do my share
When you hold me, when you kiss me
Mr. frantic, mr. frantic


You know that i have loved you since
The day we met in the rain
And if you were to go away now
My heart couldn't stand the pain

Music by ??
Produced by chris thomas
Recorded 1969 at emi studios, abbey road
Never released (the bread and beer band)

[instrumental]

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the south park album chef aid

Got this bug-eyed girl
Cold hand on my knee
Frozen teeth, chitter chatter
She's dresed up like a cemetary, like a cemetary

Snow-bound all winter
Blue lips on my cheek
Little tongue's prattlin', rattlin'
Talking 'bout them hometown geeks, them home-town geeks


Wake up wendy, smell the coffee
Help me into your custom kitchen
Gimme a cup of that old black magic
I wanna get me some of that old home cookin'


Can you feel it
It's chilly and a-freezin'
Wake up wendy, moods are changing
I got a reason, you got a feeling
Wake up wendy, love's in season


Feels like a steam clean
When she washes me
Valves a-bustin', pumps a-hissin'
Just peel me off the ceiling, off the ceiling


Chill-eyed, bug-eyed girl
Zap me into cinders
Pop the thermal mumbo jumbo
Melt me with your little fingers, with your little fingers

Music by ??
Produced by chris thomas
Recorded 1969 at emi studios, abbey road
Never released (the bread and beer band)


[instrumental]

mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Man maira bohot behlatee hay

Choras
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay

Jab bhee main dukhee hota hoon
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Phir jab main kaaam par jata hoon
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay

Choras
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay

Phir jab main ghar say aata hoon

Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay
Mairi gay charan ko jatee hay


Hasta la vista baby

Written by george and ira gershwin
Available on the soundtrack four weddings and a funeral

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 play could guarantee

I was a fool to fall and get that way
Heigh ho, alas, and also lack-a-day
Although i can't dismiss the memory of her kiss
I guess she's not for me


It all began so well, but what an end
This is the time a feller needs a friend
When every happy plot ends with a marriage knot
And there's no knot for me

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

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 miles south of the city
Way on a windy hill
The whistling branches of the angel tree
Are calm at the evening still


Magical ___________________
As the leaves are _______________
And strange things happen to people
Who go on to the windy hill


__________down here
Had gone up to there
And rested underneath her bough
They slept long, what is wrong
They never woke up again

Music by elton john
Lyrics by tim rice
Elton's solo version is unreleased

In life one has to face a huge assortment
Of nauseating fads and good advice
There's health and fitness, diet and deportment
And other pointless forms of sacrifice

Conversation, wit, i am a doubter
Manners, charm, they're no way to impress
So forget the inner me, observe the outer
I am what i wear and how i dress


Overwear, underwear, anytime, anywhere
Overwear, underwear, anytime, anywhere
Overwear, underwear, anytime, anywhere, ooh
Overwear, underwear, anytime, anywhere
Overwear, underwear, anytime, anywhere
Overwear, underwear, anytime, anywhere, ooh


Now i believe in looking like my time on earth is cooking
Whether polka-dotted stripes or even checks
With some glamour guaranteeing every fiber of my being
Is displayed to quite remarkable effects
From your cradle via trousseau to your death bed you're on view so
Never compromise accept no substitute
I would rather wear a barrel than conservative apparel
A dress has always been my strongest suit


Staying in or hitting townwards, from the top and working downwards
I ensure that every stitch is stitched in time
Whether wig or hat or turban, whether clad boudoir or urban
Not to strut your stuff outrageously's a crime
And the few who are invited to my wardrobe are delighted
As they wander through my things to find en route
That in negligee or formal i am anything but normal
A dress has always been my strongest suit


Now you don't need a recital of the reasons why its vital
That tonight i simply have to look my best
That from coronet to sandal no one else is worth a candle
That i couldn't make more impact if i'm dressed
So bring me out my finest, most audacious, my divinest
Most revealing, most expensive and to boot
Most arresting, most heart-stopping, most free-flowing, most eye-popping
A dress has always been my strongest suit

Music by elton john
Lyrics by tim rice
Elton's solo version is unreleased

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
I don't want to live like that
Seems quite unbelievable to me
I don't want to love like that
I just want our time to be slower and gentler, wiser, free


We all live in extravagant times
Playing games we can't all win
Unintended emotional crimes
Take some out, take others in


I'm so tired of all we're going through
I don't want to live like that
I'm so tired of all we're going through
I don't want to love like that
I just want to be with you now and forever, peaceful, true


I wish i had the courage
To tell you face to face
But i could wait forever
For the perfect time and place


We all live such elaborate lives
We don't know whose words are true
Strangers, lovers, husbands, wives
Hard to know whose loving who


Too many choices tear us apart
I don't want to live like that
Too many choices tear us apart
I don't want to love like that
I just want to touch your heart, may this confession be the start

Written by elton john
Released as a uk b-side in 1978

Please don't talk about the flintstone boy
He's alright with me
Please don't talk about the flintstone boy
He's alright with me
Please don't worry about the flintstone boy
He got trouble but he ain't got joy
Please don't talk about the flintstone boy
Please don't talk about the flintstone boy
Don't you worry, he's alright with me, oh yeah, oh yeah

Please don't worry about the flintstone boy
He's alright with me
Please don't worry about the flintstone boy
He's alright with me
Please don't talk about the flintstone boy
He got trouble and he ain't got joy
Please don't worry about the flintstone boy
Please don't worry about the flintstone boy
Don't you worry, he's alright with me, oh yeah, oh yeah


Well joey had a lover but he had to run for cover
When someone told a lie
Jo jo his lover, he'd been cheating on him
Shouldn't he know why
Joey had a lover but he had to run for cover
When someone let him down
Jo jo his lover, he'd been cheating on him
He'd been messing around

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

Can you hear the floorboards crying
In a room on the second floor
That used to be owned by someone who's no one
But he don't live there anymore

Only rebecca clasping her head in her knees
Trying to work out what it's about
And why someone had to leave


But dry up your tears
Stop counting the years
Don't worry what's coming
Forget all your fears


And the tide will turn for rebecca
And the tide will turn for rebecca
Her life will change
Her hopes rearrange
Into something that might really matter


She's all alone in a world of her own
With a key that fits her lonely world
You won't need a crowd to shout out aloud
What she says deserves to be heard

Music by elton john
Lyrics by gary osborne
Released as a uk b-side in 1981

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 back the hands of time
I've come so far, i have to see it through
The trouble is that i still find
I can't get over getting over losing you


I hardly ever think of you
Except in the morning and then in the evening, again in the afternoon
I guess it's true, i'm over the worst
But living's the one thing that ain't rehearsed


But i know that's all behind me now
I'm learning how to live my life anew
And as soon as i discover how
Then i'll get over getting over losing you


I hardly ever think of you, i roll with the punches
I'm taking it easy, i don't play hunches like i used to do
I'm over you now
Still tying to forget you but i don't know how


But at least i'm over losing you
There's only one thing left for me to do
Oh my eyes are red, my heart is blue
I draw the lone on you and me, forget how fine it used to be
And i'll get over getting over losing you
And i'll get over getting over losing you

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in 1982

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 sitting pretty in a chicken little town

His textured skin, like leather in the sun
Fingers beating hard upon a native drum
He picks his teeth with a splintered back rib bone
Papa legba bears his fangs and lays alone


Hey papa legba, hoo-boo-be-do
Hey papa legba, no one gonna bother you
Hey papa legba, hoo-boo-be-do
Shake papa legba, no one's gonna bother you tonight, alright


He was free to dance alone where the spirits run
His almond eyes would twinkle on a hundred sons
His champagne toast and white meat on a spit
Papa legba's drunken with a smile upon his lips

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

There's a picture in the nursery of a well known soldier man
And he wants to be like father when he grows up if he can
His eyes survey the floorboards with his soldiers around him
But fear not for the future, you will climb the highest mountain

So regimental sergeant zippo
Stand up to attention will you
Hear the bugle sounding in the morning call up rising
So your cowboy castle is standing
You're the one who is commanding
Watch them march along the landing down the stairs


Just a small boy in a small boy's world
And small boys do strange things
He likes to see the match sticks fly
And hear the cannons ring
For his eider down, his battle field
And in his dreams his fights are real
Until the field is won, aim, fire the guns

Music by elton john
Lyrics by gary osborne
Released as a uk b-side in 1980

Steal away child into your dreams
Where nothing is ever the way that it seems
I gave you your life, you gave me your trust
I've no wish to hurt you but hurt you i must
Steal away child, turn down your light
Steal away into the night

Steal away child to the land of the lies
Where love lasts forever and hope never dies
Sit safe for a place peaceful and calm
Where no one and nothing can harm you


Steal away child, you'll be alright
Steal away into the night
Once more goodnight, one last goodbye
Trying hard not to show how i'm making what it's taking not to cry


Steal away child, sleeping so still
Our love is too precious for distance to kill
But when you awake, morning has come
I won't be the one you turn to
I'll do what i must before it gets light
I'll steal away into the night


Steal away child
Steal away into the night

Written by elton john
Released as a uk charity single in 1977


We are the goaldiggers, we are the goaldiggers
And we'd like you to help us if you can
We would like your cooperation
To help our organization
Provide football pitches throughout the land

If you were a kid, oh what would you say
If you found out there was just nowhere to play
If i were a kid, oh i would feel abused
If the energy that i had couldn't be used


We are the goaldiggers, we are the goaldiggers
So help us to start the ball to roll
Spread the word from man to man
Give us anything you can
Help us to achieve our goal


Goaldigger, goaldigger
I'm a goaldigger, he's a goaldigger
Goaldigger, goaldigger
I'm a goaldigger

Music by elton john
Lyrics by gary osborne
Released as a uk b-side in 1984

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 the feeling
That the journey's end is near
But i prefer to die with my head held high
Than to live my life in fear


I'm a simple man from a time gone by
Growing cold and old alone
There's a time to run and a time to hide
And a time to head for home


To forgive and be forgiven
If it's the last thing i can do
Then in death's release i may find the peace
That in life i never knew


'cause i'm a simple man with a simple dream
I may never see come true

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

There is still a little love left for me in your heart
Even though it seems to you that we are far apart
You can turn your eyes to other guys, ignore me on the street
But don't forget it's bound to show if we should ever meet

And there is still a little love left for me in your heart
You can use a little love to make a brand new start
For no matter how you try
You just cannot deny
There is still a little love in your heart


But you're far too proud to say what's on your mind
I can read you like a story book, do you think i'm blind
For every place i seem to be, you seem to be there too
Standing in the wings of love and waiting for your cue

Written by elton john
Never released, recorded for versace fashion show, paris 1995


And then there were uniforms

We're marching in milan


We're marching in milan

Written by elton john and caleb quaye
Never released

I said from the start that you'd be mine
But now it just seems i'm just wasting your time
If only you knew the hurt i've been through
You'll be sorry to see me go
You'll be sorry to see me go

I've always done the best that i could
To make you happy like i should
If only you knew what i've heard about you
You'll be sorry to see me go
You'll be sorry to see me go


I could have been mistreated if i'd been bad
But people tell me i'm the best that you've had
So there's something i want you to know
I think you'll be sorry to see me go
You'll be sorry to see me go


You said from the start that you'd be mine
But now it just seems i'm just wasting your time
If only you knew the hurt i've been through
You'll be sorry to see me go
You'll be sorry to see me go

Written by ??
Never released

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 piece real cheap
Those sunday sermons, gotta start learning
How to look before the lion leaps

Oh i'd be santa clause in something more
Than a honeymoon in san moritz
Ducktail jiver, nine to fiver
I'd like to buy a _____ that fits


Overloaded, railroaded
On the border of a spanish town
Adios amigos, me got to go
Before they cut this poor boy down


So i'd like to buy a drink for someone
A pitcher and a glass
My circuit's run down, my fuse is blown
My childhood came at last


Sun-soaked, rain-choked
I need to get this battery charged
Miles behind my parents' time
Living in the world's back yard

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in 1988

I don't make the rules around here
A tear starts at the edge
It takes two hands to rip it
It takes a lot more than either one of us has said

But i come from indecision
A place you ain't never been
Living in the state of confusion
On a map that runs like the veins under your skin


We got miss communication kicking out the stool
We got mass determination making up the rules
But saving us is something that we can't do
And it's easier sometimes to throw a rope around a fool


And love is just another means
By which we hang ourselves
It takes two to execute
One to leave with innocence and one to leave with guilt


But i just see no reality
Just shades drawn on remorse
We've whipped this beast beyond the limit
Staggered out of breath along this course


It's easier to lose a rope around a fool
Easier sometimes to throw a rope around a fool
A ring of your indifference thrown anywhere you choose
Easier sometimes to throw a rope around a fool
Rope around a fool

Music by elton john
Lyrics by tim rice
Elton's solo version is unreleased

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 prospect above all i find distressful
Is having to give up the soldier's life
If anything i'm rather too successful
They made me hand my sword in for a wife


For just because i've triumphed as a slaver
Brought booty back to egypt by the ton
Of this and every month, i'm now the flavor
And scheduled to do things i've never done


And why should i tell you this, a stranger i just met
A woman who in hours from now i'll certainly forget
Anonymous and undemanding
Enchantment passing through
My secrets and my confidence are safe enough with you


My days out on the field are all but ended
They'll put me out to grass which means the throne
Bedecked and bejeweled alongside my intended
I feel as though my heart is set in stone


But maybe i am being far too gloomy
Yes, maybe i'll make waves in pastures new
Find goverment and politics come to me
As naturally as i now talk to you


For just because i've triumphed as a slaver
Brought booty back to egypt by the ton
Of this and every month, i'm now the flavor
And scheduled to do things i've never done


And why should i tell you this, a stranger i just met
A woman who in hours from now i'll certainly forget
Anonymous and undemanding
Enchantment passing through
My secret lack of confidence is safe enough with you


Why should i tell you this, a stranger i just met
A woman who in hours from now i'll certainly forget
Anonymous and undemanding
Enchantment passing through
My secret lack of confidence is safe enough with you

Music by ??
Produced by chris thomas
Recorded 1969 at emi studios, abbey road
Never released (the bread and beer band)

[instrumental]

Written by george and ira gershwin
Available on the tribute album the glory of gershwin

It's very clear our love is here to stay
Not for a year but ever and a day
The radio and the telephone and the movies that we know
May just be passing fancies, and in time may go

But, oh my dear, our love is here to stay
Together we're going a long, long way
In time the rockies may crumble
Gibraltar may tumble
They're only made of clay
But our love is here to stay
But, oh my dear, our love is here to stay


Together we're going a long, long way
In time the rockies may crumble
Gibraltar may tumble
They're only made of clay
But our love is here to stay
Our love is here to stay

Music by reg dwight, caleb quaye, bernie calvert, and roger pope
Released as a b-side by the bread and beer band in february, 1969

[instrumental]

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Never released

I'm very low but not too dim
I can still see the faces of you and him
I remember well how it used to be
You remember too obviously

Remember when, remember when i was tealby abbey then
It was not so long ago maybe a hundred years or so
When i was tealby abbey
That's a long long time ago
When i was tealby abbey
That's a long long time ago


When the clock stopped and the rocks dropped
And the gravel started giving away
I can still recall when we were small
But oh what a fateful day


In younger times, children climb
Up and down your walls
And a curse on the day the fates will say
When tealby abbey falls

Music by elton john
Lyrics by tim rice
Elton's solo version is unreleased

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 like heading for his box
At the risk of seeming pushy
We must plan for future shocks

According to the hawk god horus
Our most regal invalid
Is not that much longer for us
Build another pyramid


Build it, build it
Another pyramid
Build it, build it


Though all doctors and physicians
Have been summoned to his bed
It'll soon be top morticians
We'll be calling for instead
With each wheeze the nation's humming
Egypt shakes with every cough
No two ways about what's coming
No discussion, bets are off


Soon our monarch will have filled the tomb
Just like his fathers did
Summon egypt's greatest builder
Re: another pyramid


Build it, build it
Another pyramid
Build it, build it


We hate to depress the nation
But our leader has been told
He should scrub his next vacation
Even put tonight on hold
This is where his loyal priesthood
Has the chance to do him proud
Holy leaders at the least should
See him happy to his shroud


He must have a vault that's grand by
Any standards floor to lid
Put five thousand slaves on standby
Build another pyramid

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in 1978

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 it has no reason

Then someone shot through the tyre swing
The dogs barked and bayed in the winter and spring
And the ivy that hung now sadly clings
To a dying season


And i cry at night when the lights go out
And the green eyes fuse and the full moon shouts
From road maps and red lines to lipstick lies
And when the lights go out it's tought to survive


This man holds a hand that shows a tremble
This man that i live in bears his faults
He has a heart and a well worn soul
Ten years a slave to rock and roll
But he has to tremble


For the yellow grass on the sun burnt lawn
Sleeps in her seeds from the sunset to dawn
And just like your love that's come and gone
It goes on breathing

Written by jean-paul dreau
Released as a b-side in 1983, and on the french album the fox

J'ai trop r

Music by elton john
Lyrics by gary osborne
Released as a uk b-side in 1980

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 evening
And we try to go on believing
Two different worlds can still be one
You and me, you and me, you and me, we can conquer the sun


The night we met, we knew
What love would soon be leading us to do
And so it goes, and now
When wanting turns to needing, i turn to you


And it's hard to go on deceiving
But we have to go on believing
That someday our love will overcome
You and me, you and me, you and me, we can conquer the sun


As i lie here and feel you breathing
It's not hard to keep on believing
That someday our love will overcome
You and me, you and me, you and me, we can conquer the sun

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in 1998

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 ocean

I'm not the man i was
I guess the dark side lost and the sun broke through
I thought i knew it all
I was the next big thing until i thought about you


Oh i was reaching for the stars
When i wasn't even touching you
I was lying to myself, i needed no one's help
Thought i was living proof


When there's one set of footsteps
No one's gonna fill your shoes
Now i'm looking in the mirror
At a big man in a little suit


I'm a big man in a little suit
It's tight on me, hard on you
It's a short cut but it's a long way home
When you think you can make it on you own


You think you're bulletproof
But what you really are
Is a big man in a little suit


I was part of the chain
A face with no name in a place with no soul
By a thief in the night
I was robbed of the light and left nothing, nothing to hold


I've turned my back on a world like that
I want to get back to loving you
Give me one more chance
Won't you warm the hands of this cold headed fool

Written by elton john
Released as a uk b-side in 1983

[instrumental]

Written by adrien avon and demon spiro
Never released

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
And from now on i'll never be the same

Annabella umberella
Standing on the corner when the rain comes down
That's the way i'll always think of you
When i first met you
Annabella umberella, child


I wanna get to know you better
Get to know your name
And yet i know to me you'll always be the same


Sunshine sunshine go away
Come again another day
Raindrops fall, us both together
How i love the rainy weather

Music by ??
Produced by chris thomas
Recorded 1969 at emi studios, abbey road
Never released (the bread and beer band)


[instrumental]

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a b-side in 1997

I wake up and i look at the clock
In the middle of the night my heart stops
When i see you in the moonlight
I know why i'm in love

Peace will come i promise you
I wish you success in all you do
And when i think about the rest
I know why i'm in love


It's hard to find the kind of thing
You've searched for all your life
Someone bright and crazy
With a little soul inside
And looking at you fast asleep
I thank the stars above


And what more can i say
I've said it all in different ways
The bottom line, the simple facts are true
I know why i'm in love with you
I only hope you know i love you too


I kiss you and i melt inside
What you mean to me i can't describe
And if seeing is believing
You'd know why i'm in love

Written by alan menken
Available on the soundtrack rocky v

These battered hand are all you own
This broken heart has turned to stone
Go hang your glory on the wall
There comes a time when castles fall
And all that's left is shifting in the sand

You're out of time, you're out of place
Look at your face
That's the measure of a man


This coat that fits you like a glove
These dirty streets you learned to love
So welcome back my long lost friend
You've been to hell and back again
God alone knows how you crossed that span


Back on the beat, back to the start
Trust in your heart
That's the measure of a man


It's the fire in the eyes, the lines on the hand
It's the things you understand
Permanent ties from which you once ran
That's the measure of a man


You've come full cirlce, now you're home
Without the gold, without the chrome
And this is where you've always been
You had to lose so you could win
And rise above your troubles while you can


Now you can love, now you can lose
Now you can choose
That's the measure of a man

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in 1981


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 plugged on overload

So crisp and new
Well it had to be
I guess he needs a change
From the likes of me
If he should lose some color
When he leaves the sun
I'm sure a little braggi
Wouldn't hurt no one


'cause when the fool's in fashion
He's attracting everyone
He'll be the head of your list
He'll be your dinner guest
If he's the center of attention
Looks like the fool's in fashion


You had your pound of flesh
You got the driver's seat
Well you can keep the car
But i'd like the meat
'cause there must be plenty
Down in the cutting room
It's so tough to suffer
When you want the moon

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Released as a uk b-side in 1986

Nothing looks as bad
After staying up all night
And the cruel words that cut you down
I never meant to write
And what came out as anger
Oh was a lack of self control
Billy won't you hold me
Once before you go

Clever lies keep coming
Some men never change
I'm a hand that's raised in anger
The blow that causes pain
But i just can't be trusted
With a bottle and a child
Billy it's no wonder
You say i've never tried


Oh so leave me now
Oh don't turn around
It's the best thing you ever did
But it's hard for me to say goodbye
To billy and the kids

Music by elton john
Lyrics by tim rice
Elton's solo version is unreleased

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 witnessed our abduction which possibly explains

How i know you
How i know you


Before that fateful morning my family enjoyed
A privileged existence, for my father was employed
As advisor to the king, no less, which surely rings a bell
For as you are his daughter, you probably can tell


How i know you
How i know you


Enough of reminiscence, and such happy memories
The reason why i know you well is really none of these
It's just you reek of royalty, you ooze uncommon grace
I'd know you were a princess, in any time and place


Yes i know you
How i know you
Yes i know you
How i know you

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Performed at princess diana's funeral, saturday september 6, 1997.

Goodbye england's rose
May you ever grow in our hearts
You were the grace that placed itself
Where lives were torn apart
You called out to our country
And you whispered to those in pain
Now you belong to heaven
And the stars spell out your name

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never fading with the sunset
When the rain set in
And your footsteps will always fall here
Along england's greenest hills
Your candle's burned out long before
Your legend ever will


Loveliness we've lost
These empty days without your smile
This torch we'll always carry
For our nation's golden child
And even though we try
The truth brings us to tears
All our words cannot express
The joy you brought us through the years


And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never fading with the sunset
When the rain set in
And your footsteps will always fall here
Along england's greenest hills
Your candle's burned our long before
Your legend ever will


Goodbye england's rose
May you ever grow in our hearts
You were the grace that placed itself
Where lives were torn apart
Goodbye england's rose
From a country lost without your soul
Who'll miss the wings of your compassion
More than you'll ever know


And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never fading with the sunset
When the rain set in
And you footsteps will always fall here
Along england's greenest hills
Your candle's burned out long before
Your legend ever will

Music by elton john
Lyrics by gary osborne
Never released

Everybody loves to love
The local girl made good
Surely i'd find peace of mind
If anybody could

Still at times i find myself
Wishing they were right
If everybody loves me
Where are they tonight


Everybody loves to love
The sweetheart on parade
Out there on the stage tonight
The girl who's got it made


But after the applause is gone
I sometimes wish i knew
Why everybody loves me
And i love only you


Haven't i got all the things
Success alone can give
Wouldn't everybody love
To lead the life i live
All i need is someone i can share it with


But how they love to love
The golden girl next door
Up there with her name in lights
Now who could ask for more


Still i can't help wondering
Why it should be true
That everybody loves me
Everyone but you

Music by elton john
Lyrics by tim rice
Elton's solo version is unreleased

Like father, like son
Like father, like son
Like father, like son

Don't come on so cocksure boy, you can't escape your genes
No point in feeling purer boy, your background intervenes
Listen good and listen straight, you're not the master of your fate
To this you must be reconciled, you'll always be your father's child
At times acclaimed, at times reviled
You'll wind up doing just what i've done
Like father, like son
Like father, like son


Don't assume your vices get handed down the line
That a parent's blood suffices to condemn the child's design
I've done wrong, i can't deny, but at least i know that i
Shouldn't blame that on my stock, this may come as quite a shock
But i'm no chip off any block, i wouldn't wish those words on anyone
Like father, like son
Like father, like son


Son, you're nervous, take my hand
All is settled, all is planned
You've got the world at your command
I don't think you understand


Just have the slave if you must, and be done with her
Don't ever speak of her like that again


I appreciate too well, the squalor at which you excel
It isn't very hard to tell, evil's a distinctive smell


From this day on i choose my own way
If i choose to be with aida, then i will be
And no one, not you, not even the gods can stop me


He's lost all sense of reason, and why? some foreign slut
Not only is that treason, some doors are slamming shut
Just like me, he's found that flesh can excite but will enmesh
Watch me rid him of this blight, once the harlot's out of sight
Then i think he will see the light
He won't walk back to daddy, he will run
Like father, like son
Like father, like son
Like father, like son
Like father, like son

Duet with kiki dee written by stevie wonder and ivy hunter
Released as a uk single in 1981


I remember yet before we met
That every night and day
I had to live the life of a lonely woman

I remember meeting you
Discovering love can be so true
When it's shared by two instead of one


When you said you love me (when you said you love me)
We could not be parted (we could not be parted)
And i built my world around you (i built my world around you)
I'm so thankful that i found you


And loving you is sweeter than ever
(i ain't never felt like this before)
Loving you has made my life sweeter than ever, sweeter than ever


Each night i pray we'd never part
For the love within my heart grows stronger
From day to day


As best i can, and how i try
To reassure and satisfy
'cause i'd be lost if you went away


'cause i really need you (really really need you)
And i need for you to need me too
(if you don't go breaking my heart)
I have built my world around you
(i have built my world around you)
Baby i'm so thankful that i've found you


And loving you has made my life sweeter than ever before
(i ain't never felt like this before)
And loving you has made my life sweeter than ever
So much sweeter


That's what loving you (loving you)


'cause i really love (really really love you)
And i'm thankful that you love me too
(thankful that you love me too)
I have built my world around you
(i have built my world around you)
I am truly glad, i am truly glad
That loving you has made my life sweeter than ever
(you don't know how much this means to me)
When i'm loving you
Me, you, us


Sweeter than ever (tell me about it)
Loving you has made my life sweeter than ever
(you don't know how much this means to me)
I'm loving you, you made my life sweeter than ever
(you're sweeter than ever baby)
Sweeter than ever (sweeter than ever)
So much sweeter (sweeter than ever)


Loving you
Loving you is sweeter than ever...

Written by elton john and caleb quaye
Never released

Oh pity me
I'm so alone and so blue
My friends have all gone away
Their friendliness too

It was i on my own
With no need to be alone
And i wanted to die
That's when you came along


And thank you for all of your loving
Thank you for all of your tears
Thank you for all of your kindness
Thank you for being here


What a difference it makes
My life has started again
And if you go away
It just won't be the same


It's hard to say what i feel
When i'm by your side
You're there when i'm worried
All my troubles in you i confide

Music by ??
Produced by chris thomas
Recorded 1969 at emi studios, abbey road
Never released (the bread and beer band)


[instrumental]