Elton John (62,13 %)
Elton John (66,33 %)
Released: 1970-04-10
Type: Studio
Type: Studio
Ranking:
Artist:
3
Year (1970):
34
Decade (1970's):
266
Overall:
1222
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1.
Your Song
 04:04
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2.
I Need You to Turn To
 02:33
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3.
Take Me to the Pilot
 03:47
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4.
No Shoe Strings on Louise
 03:32
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5.
First Episode at Hienton
 04:48
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6.
Sixty Years On
 04:35
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7.
Border Song
03:22
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8.
The Greatest Discovery
04:13
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9.
The Cage
03:28
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10.
The King Must Die
05:21
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Album length:
39:43
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Lyrics |
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1.
Your Song
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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 could live If I was a sculptor but then again no Or a man who makes potions in a traveling show Oh I know it's not much but it's the best I can do My gift is my song And this one's for you And you can tell everybody this is your song It may be quite simple but now that it's done I hope you don't mind I hope you don't mind That I put down in words How wonderful life is while you're in the world I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss Well a few of the verses well they've got me quite cross But the sun's been quite kind While I wrote this song It's for people like you that Keep it turned on So excuse me forgetting But these things I do You see I've forgotten If they're green or they're blue Anyway the thing is what I really mean Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen And you can tell everybody this is your song It may be quite simple but Now that it's done I hope you don't mind I hope you don't mind That I put down in words How wonderful life is while you're in the world I hope you don't mind I hope you don't mind That I put down in words How wonderful life is while you're in the world |
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2.
I Need You to Turn To
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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 your love protects my fears And I wonder sometimes and I know I'm unkind But I need you to turn to when I act so blind And I need you to turn to when I lose control You're my guardian angel who keeps out the cold Did you paint your smile on, well I said I knew That my reason for living was for loving you We're related in feeling but you're high above You're pure and you're gentle with the grace of a dove |
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3.
Take Me to the Pilot
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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 Na na na, na na na, na na na na na na na na Na na na, na na na, na na na na na na na na Well I know he's not old And I'm told, and I'm told he's a virgin For he may be she What I'm told; and I'm never, never for certain 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 Na na na, na na na, na na na na na na na na Na na na, na na na, na na na na na na na na |
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4.
No Shoe Strings on Louise
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Lady love rides a big red Cadillac Buys the hoedown show salt and beans Goes to church to pray for Lucifer She milked the male population clean So ride in line, shake yourself by the hand Live your life inside a paper can But you'll never get to pick and choose She's bought you and sold you There ain't no shoestrings on Louise Come on down, come on down from the ladder Henry, get your head, get your head out of them clouds What she wants is to go kissing on a swineherd You might as well kiss the boss man's cow All those city women want to make us poor men And this land's got the worse for the worrying I got married at the early age of fourteen And I've been worrying about the way you'll be loving them |
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5.
First Episode at Hienton
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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 woman I joked about your turned-up nose And criticized your school-girl clothes But would I then have paced these roads to love you For seasons come and seasons go Bring forth the rain the sun and snow Make Valerie a woman And Valerie is lonely No more to roam on the snow hills of Hinton Undecided with the guardians of the older generation A doormat was a sign of welcome In the winter months to come And in the summer laughing Through the castle ruins we'd run For the quadrangle sang to the sun And the grace of our feeling And the candle burned low as we talked of the future Underneath the ceiling There were tears in the sky And the clouds in your eyes were just cover For your thighs were the cushions Of my love and yours for each other The songs still are sung It was fun to be young But please, don't be sad where 'ere you are I am who I am You are who you are Now Valerie's a woman Now Valerie's a woman Now Valerie's a woman |
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6.
Sixty Years On
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Who'll walk me down to church when I'm sixty years of age When the ragged dog they gave me has been ten years in the grave And senorita play guitar, play it just for you My rosary has broken and my beads have all slipped through You've hung up your great coat and you've laid down your gun You know the war you fought in wasn't too much fun And the future you're giving me holds nothing for a gun I've no wish to be living sixty years on Yes I'll sit with you and talk let your eyes relive again I know my vintage prayers would be very much the same And Magdelena plays the organ, plays it just for you Your choral lamp that burns so low when you are passing through And the future you're giving me holds nothing for a gun I've no wish to be living sixty years on |
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7.
Border Song
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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 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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8.
The Greatest Discovery
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Peering out of tiny eyes The grubby hands that gripped the rail Wiped the window clean of frost As the morning air laid on the latch A whistle awakened someone there Next door to the nursery just down the hall A strange new sound you never heard before A strange new sound that makes boys explore Tread neat so small those little feet Amid the morning his small heart beats So much excitement yesterday That must be rewarded must be displayed Large hands lift him through the air Excited eyes contain him there The eyes of those he loves and knows But what's this extra bed just here His puzzled head tipped to one side Amazement swims in those bright green eyes Glancing down upon this thing That make strange sounds, strange sounds that sing In those silent happy seconds That surround the sound of this event A parent smile is made in moments They have made for you a friend And all you ever learned from them Until you grew much older Did not compare with when they said This is your brand new brother This is your brand new brother This is your brand new brother |
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9.
The Cage
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Have you ever lived in a cage Where you live to be whipped and be tamed For I've never loved in a cage Or talked to a friend or just waved Well I walk while they talk about virtue Just raised on my back legs and snarled Watched you kiss your old daddy with passion And tell dirty jokes as he died But I'm damned when I really care there For the cellar's the room in your lives Where you lace yourself with bad whiskey And close the cage doors on your life Well I pray while you bathe in bad water Sing songs that I learnt as a boy Then break all the bones in my body On the bars you can never destroy |
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10.
The King Must Die
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No man's a jester playing Shakespeare Round your throne room floor While the juggler's act is danced upon The crown that you once wore And sooner or later Everybody's kingdom must end And I'm so afraid your courtiers Cannot be called best friends Caesar's had your troubles Widows had to cry While mercenaries in cloisters sing And the king must die Some men are better staying sailors Take my word and go But tell the ostler that his name was The very first they chose And if my hands are stained forever And the altar should refuse me Would you let me in, would you let me in, would you let me in Should I cry sanctuary No man's a jester playing Shakespeare Round your throne room floor While the juggler's act is danced upon The crown that you once wore The king is dead, the king is dead The king is dead, the king is dead Long live the king |