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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
by Elton John
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Overall Rating:
3.5214
Avg. Critic Score:
3.6260
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Lyrics
Lyrics
Disc
Track
Title
- Music by Elton John
- Available on the album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- [Instrumental]
- Goodbye Norma Jean
- Though I never knew you at all
- You had the grace to hold yourself
- While those around you crawled
- They crawled out of the woodwork
- And they whispered into your brain
- They set you on the treadmill
- And they made you change your name
- And it seems to me you lived your life
- Like a candle in the wind
- Never knowing who to cling to
- When the rain set in
- And I would have liked to have known you
- But I was just a kid
- Your candle burned out long before
- Your legend ever did
- Loneliness was tough
- The toughest role you ever played
- Hollywood created a superstar
- And pain was the price you paid
- Even when you died
- Oh the press still hounded you
- All the papers had to say
- Was that Marilyn was found in the nude
- Goodbye Norma Jean
- From the young man in the 22nd row
- Who sees you as something as more than sexual
- More than just our Marilyn Monroe
- 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
- 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 forever
- I didn't sign up with you
- I'm not a present for your friends to open
- This boy's too young to be singing the blues
- So goodbye yellow brick road
- Where the dogs of society howl
- You can't plant me in your penthouse
- I'm going back to my plough
- Back to the howling old owl in the woods
- Hunting the horny back toad
- Oh I've finally decided my future lies
- Beyond the yellow brick road
- What do you think you'll do then
- I bet that'll shoot down your plane
- It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
- To set you on your feet again
- Maybe you'll get a replacement
- There's plenty like me to be found
- Mongrels who ain't got a penny
- Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground
- Tune me in to the wild side of life
- I'm an innocent young child sharp as a knife
- Take me to the garretts where the artists have died
- Show me the courtrooms where the judges have lied
- Let me drink deeply from the water and the wine
- Light coloured candles in dark dreary mines
- Look in the mirror and stare at myself
- And wonder if that's really me on the shelf
- And each day I learn just a little bit more
- I don't know why but I do know what for
- If we're all going somewhere let's get there soon
- Oh this song's got no title just words and a tune
- Take me down alleys where the murders are done
- In a vast high powered rocket to the core of the sun
- Want to read books in the studies of men
- Born on the breeze and die on the wind
- If I was an artist who paints with his eyes
- I'd study my subject and silently cry
- Cry for my darkness to come down on me
- For confusion to carry on turning the wheel
- 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 the sun
- But not as bright in life as the real one
- It's never quite the same as the real one
- And tell me grey seal
- How does it feel
- To be so wise
- To see through eyes
- That only see what's real
- Tell me grey seal
- I never learned why meteors were formed
- I only farmed in schools that were so warn and torn
- If anyone can cry then so can I
- I read books and draw life from the eye
- All my life is drawings from the eye
- Your mission bells were wrought by ancient men
- The roots were formed by twisted roots
- Your roots were twisted then
- I was re-born before all life could die
- The Phoenix bird will leave this world to fly
- If the Phoenix bird can fly then so can I
- When she gets up in the morning
- It's enough to wake the dead
- Oh she turning on the radio
- And dancing on my head
- It's no good living in the sun
- Playing guitar all day
- Boogalooing with my friends
- In that erotic way
- Come on Jamaica
- In Jamaica all day
- Dancing with your darling
- Do Jamaica jerk-off that way
- Come on Jamaica
- Everybody say
- We're all happy in Jamaica
- Do Jamaica Jerk-off that way
- Let the ladies and the gentlemen
- Be as rude as they like
- On the beaches, oh in the jungle
- Where the people feel alright
- So do it Jamaica
- Got plenty for you and me
- Honky tonking with my baby
- In that deep blue sea
- I can see by your eyes you must be lying
- When you think I don't have a clue
- Baby you're crazy
- If you think that you can fool me
- Because I've seen that movie too
- The one where the players are acting surprised
- Saying love's just a four letter word
- Between forcing smiles, with the knives in their eyes
- Well their actions become so absurd
- So keep your auditions for somebody
- Who hasn't got so much to lose
- `Cause you can tell by the lines I'm reciting
- That I've seen that movie too
- It's a habit I have, I don't get pushed around
- Stop twinkling your star like you do
- I'm not the blue print for all of your B films
- Because I've seen that movie too
- I'm back on dry land once again
- Opportunity awaits me like a rat in the drain
- We're all hunting honey with money to burn
- Just a short time to show you the tricks that we've learned
- If the boys all behave themselves here
- Well there's pretty young ladies and beer in the rear
- You won't need a gutter to sleep in tonight
- Oh the prices I charge here will see you alright
- So she lays down beside me again
- My sweet painted lady, the one with no name
- Many have used her and many still do
- There's a place in the world for a woman like you
- Oh sweet painted lady
- Seems it's always been the same
- Getting paid for being laid
- Guess that's the name of the game
- Forget us we'll have gone very soon
- Just forget we ever slept in your rooms
- And we'll leave the smell of the sea in your beds
- Where love's just a job and nothing is said
- I've seen a lot of women who haven't had much luck
- I've seen you looking like you've been run down by a truck
- That ain't nice to say sometimes I guess I'm really hard
- But I'm gonna put buckshots in your pants if you step into my yard
- When I watch the police come by and move you on
- Well I sometimes wonder what's beneath the mess you've become
- Well you may have been a pioneer in the trade of women's wear
- But all you got was a mop up job washing other people's stairs
- I'm gonna tell the world, you're a dirty little girl
- Someone grab that bitch by the ears
- Rub her down scrub her back
- And turn her inside out
- `Cause I bet she hasn't had a bath in years
- Here's my own belief about all the dirty girls
- That you have to clean the oyster to find the pearl
- And like rags that belong to you I belong to myself
- So don't show up around here till your social worker's helped
- Raised to be a lady by the golden rule
- Alice was the spawn of a public school
- With a double barrel name in the back of her brain
- And a simple case of Mummy-doesn't-love-me blues
- Reality it seems was just a dream
- She couldn't get it on with the boys on the scene
- But what do you expect from a chick who's just sixteen
- And hey, hey, hey, you know what I mean
- All the young girls love Alice
- Tender young Alice they say
- Come over and see me
- Come over and please me
- Alice it's my turn today
- All the young girls love Alice
- Tender young Alice they say
- If I give you my number
- Will you promise to call me
- Wait till my husband's away
- Poor little darling with a chip out of her heart
- It's like acting in a movie when you got the wrong part
- Getting your kicks in another girl's bed
- And it was only last Tuesday they found you in the subway dead
- And who could you call your friends down in Soho
- One or two middle-aged dykes in a Go-Go
- And what do you expect from a sixteen year old yo-yo
- And hey, hey, hey, oh don't you know
- It's getting late have you seen my mates
- Ma tell me when the boys get here
- It's seven o'clock and I want to rock
- Want to get a belly full of beer
- My old man's drunker than a barrel full of monkeys
- And my old lady she don't care
- My sister looks cute in her braces and boots
- A handful of grease in her hair
- Don't give us none of your aggravation
- We had it with your discipline
- Saturday night's alright for fighting
- Get a little action in
- Get about as oiled as a diesel train
- Gonna set this dance alight
- `Cause Saturday night's the night I like
- Saturday night's alright alright alright
- Well they're packed pretty tight in here tonight
- I'm looking for a dolly who'll see me right
- I may use a little muscle to get what I need
- I may sink a little drink and shout out "She's with me!"
- A couple of the sound that I really like
- Are the sounds of a switchblade and a motorbike
- I'm a juvenile product of the working class
- Whose best friend floats in the bottom of a glass
- Music by Elton John
- Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
- Available on the album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Sometimes you dream, sometimes it seems
- There's nothing there at all
- You just seem older than yesterday
- And you're waiting for tomorrow to call
- You draw to the curtain and one thing's for certain
- You're cozy in your little room
- The carpet's all paid for, God bless the TV
- Let's go shoot a hole in the moon
- And Roy Rogers is riding tonight
- Returning to our silver screens
- Comic book characters never grow old
- Evergreen heroes whose stories were told
- Oh the great sequin cowboy who sings of the plains
- Of roundups and rustlers and home on the range
- Turn on the T.V., shut out the lights
- Roy Rogers is riding tonight
- Nine o'clock mornings, five o'clock evenings
- I'd liven the pace if I could
- Oh I'd rather have a ham in my sandwich than cheese
- But complaining wouldn't do any good
- Lay back in my armchair, close eyes and think clear
- I can hear hoofbeats ahead
- Roy and Trigger have just hit the hilltop
- While the wife and the kids are in bed
- My bulldog is barking in the backyard
- Enough to raise a dead man from his grave
- And I can't concentrate on what I'm doing
- Disturbance going to crucify my days
- And the days they get longer and longer
- And the nighttime is a time of little use
- For I just get ugly and older
- I get juiced on Mateus and just hang loose
- And I get bombed for breakfast in the morning
- I get bombed for dinner time and tea
- I dress in rags, smell a lot, and have a real good time
- I'm a genuine example of a social disease
- My landlady lives in a caravan
- Well that is when she isn't in my arms
- And it seems I pay the rent in human kindness
- But my liquor also helps to grease her palms
- And the ladies are all getting wrinkles
- And they're falling apart at the seams
- Well I just get high on tequila
- And see visions of vineyards in my dreams
- 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 only place you thought to go
- Am I the only man you ever had
- Or am I just the last surviving friend that you know
- Harmony and me
- We're pretty good company
- Looking for an island
- In our boat upon the sea
- Harmony, gee I really love you
- And I want to love you forever
- And dream of the never, never, never leaving harmony
- Hello, baby hello
- Open up your heart and let your feelings flow
- You're not unlucky knowing me
- Keeping the speed real slow
- In any case I set my own pace
- By stealing the show, say hello, hello
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