Empty Sky lyrics

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

The seadogs have all sailed their ships
Into the docks of dawn
While the sirens sit and comb their hair
And twiddle with their thumbs

Oh Thor above the mountain
Look down upon your children
This is their heaven where they're told
To bring their galleons

Seek you find your place with me
Men of iron, men of steel
Only the brave hear the hammers ring

It's hard to feel what's in your head
Where the gas lamps grow
And the garbage blows
Around the paper stands

And a baby cried
And I saw a light
And I wondered where
And I wondered why
There'd be a loss of life
Down here tonight

Down on Western Ford Gateway
That's a place where the dead say
That a man lives no more
Than his fair share of days
Down on Western Ford Gateway

She chose the soft centre
And took it to bed with her mother
And the ideal confusion
Was just an illusion
To gain further news of her brother

And the comfort of mother
Was just an appeal for protection
For the cat from next door
Was found later at four
In surgical dissection

And I don't want to be
The son of any freak
Who for a chocolate centre
Can take you off the street

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

I viewed in my presence
My hand on my forehead
And sighting the liners
Of mad merchant seamen
In search of the living
Or the spices of China

Lucy walked gently
Between the damp barrels
And shut out my eyes
With the width of her fingers
Said she'd guessed the number
Of bales in the back room

While the seagulls were screaming
Lucy was eating
Then we hauled up our colors

In Orient where wise I was
To please the way I live
Come give the beggar chance at hand
His life is on his lip

Three score a thousand times
Where once in Amazon
Where Eldorado holds the key
No keeper holds my hand

Unchain the gate of solitude
The ruler says you run
Run hard unto the scaffold high
Your chance to jump the gun

Oh how high the scaffold grows

Music by Elton John

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

Music by Elton John

Released as a UK single in January, 1969

When the shrill winds are screaming
And the evening is still
Lady Samantha glides over the hill
In a long satin dress that she wears every day
Her home is the hillside, her bed is the grave

Lady Samantha glides like a tiger
Over the hills with no one beside her
No one comes near
They all live in fear

The sister of sunlight
Comes to my lonely life
Bearing the crosses I hung
I hung on my lonely wife
And the anchor told me
If I prayed by the river
That the sweet sound of water
Would always go with her

All across the havens to the waterfall
They told me I would meet her there
Inside those icy walls
But how on earth in this universe
Can they forgive me of my pains

Music by Elton John

Released as a UK single in May, 1969

Hey there
Look in the mirror
Are you afraid you might see me looking at you
Waiting, waiting at windows
Oh it's me that you need
Yes it's me and I'm waiting for you

But I remain silent
Oh I won't say a word
I leave you to realise I'm the light in your world
And it's me, yes it's me, yes it's me, yes it's me
That you're needing

Music by Elton John

Released as a UK B-side in May, 1969

I looked up from my glass into the sky
There's no one in my comic book to buy
Calendar swung on the wall held by a rusty nail
Down came the strange rain and washed my thoughts away

So stop in the sky and tell me why
You're changing your colours before my eyes
Yellow, blue, green and grey
Settled on the window pane

From "Empty Sky"

Gulliver's gone to the final command of his master
His watery eyes had washed all the hills with his laughter
And the seasons can change all the light from the grey to the dim
But the light in his eyes will see no more bright
As the sheep that he locked in the pen

There's four feet of ground in front of the barn
That's sun baked and rain soaked and part of the farm

You can win the fight, you can grab a piece of the sky
You can break the rules but before you try
You gotta love someone
You gotta love someone
You can stop the world, steal the face from the moon
You can beat the clock, but before high noon
You gotta love someone
You gotta love someone

You've got one life with a reason
You need two hearts on one side

Wrap Her Up
Elton John
(Elton Jonn/Bernie Taupin)

There are ladies, illegal X's
Mona Lisa's, well connected

They may be shady, English roses
Blue blooded, turn 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

chorus
Wrap her up, I'll take her home with me

Looking back in anger
On this dirty little town
It stained your dress carved up my face
Put a wedge between our state of grace

Somethings so young and pretty
Should never be released
We place our bets we take our pick
They wind up in the belly of the beast

And when you can't get what you want
You take anything you can
So I wear this suit of wolves at night

No more Valentine's Day
No more Christmas cards
I've thrown them all away
No more sequined stars
No birthday wishes
No more surprises
Who needs them anyway
No reason to get excited

Yes I gave you everything
I gave you earth and sky
And everything in between
That walks or crawls or flies
No Easter mornings
It's your cross now
Keep it all for yourself
It's overrated anyhow

Yesterday you came to lift me up
As light as straw and brittle as a bird
Today I weigh less than a shadow on the wall
Just one more whisper of a voice unheard

Tomorrow leave the windows open
As fear grows please hold me in your arms
Won't you help me if you can to shake this anger
I need your gentle hands to keep me calm

'Cause I never thought I'd lose
I only thought I'd win

Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Tim Rice
Available on the soundtrack The Lion King

Way behind the water hole
A little down the line
The jungle and the plains and peaks
Are scheduled to be mine

I'm gonna be the ruler
Of most everything around
From the grandest of the mountains
To the humble common ground
My reign will be a super awesome thing
Oh, I just can't wait to be king

The roses in the window box
Have tilted to one side,
Everything about this house
Was born to grow and die.

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,
It kills me to think of you with another man.
I was playing rock-n-roll and you were just a fan,

Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Gary Osborne

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

From the day we arrive on the planet
And blinking, step into the sun
There's more to be seen than can ever be seen
More to do than can ever be done

Some say eat or be eaten
Some say live and let live
But all are agreed as they join the stampede
You should never take more than you give

In the circle of life
It's the wheel of fortune
It's the leap of faith
It's the band of hope

Written by Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry
From Four Weddings and a Funeral soundtrack

Spring is here, the sky is blue
Birds will sing as if they knew
Today's the day, we'll say "I do"
And we'll never be lonely any more

Because we're going to the chapel
And we're gonna to get married
Going to the chapel
And we're gonna get married
Gee I really love you

Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Gary Osborne

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

Written by George and Ira Gershwin
from Four Weddings and a Funeral soundtrack

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

Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin

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

Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin

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

Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin

Time goes by, it seems so long
But it was only days ago when things were going wrong
What happened to the love, to the love we knew
The days we shared were so short and so few

And baby I miss you
Baby I miss you
Remember when it didn't rain
Will I ever see the sun again
And baby I miss you
Baby I miss you

Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin

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 ???

Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin

I came down here just to waste some time
To get a little rest and to ease my mind
I didn't calculate it when I walked in the door
I only thought I'd stay for a minute or more

First I saw the lights on the ceiling dim
The stale perfume yeah, and ???
My first impression was to get outside
But then I saw you crying, crying by the fireside

Abide with me, fast forth 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 closed eyes

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album captain fantastic and the brown dirt cowboy

I can hound you if I need to
Sip your brandy from a crystal shoe
In the corner, in the corner
While the others climb reaching dizzy heights
The worldâs in front of me in black and white
Iâm on the bottom line, Iâm on the bottom line

Empty spaces, what are we living for
Abandoned places, I guess we know the score
On and on
Does anybody know what we are looking for

Another hero, another mindless crime
Behind the curtain in the pantomime
Hold the line
Does anybody want to take it anymore

The show must go on
The show must go on
Inside my heart is breaking
My makeup may be flaking
But my smile still stays on

Guess there are times when we all need to share a little pain
And ironing out the rough spots
Is the hardest part when memories remain
And it's times like these when we all need to hear the radio
Cause from the lips of some old singer
We can share the troubles we already know

Turn them on, turn them on
Turn on those sad songs
When all hope is gone
Why don't you tune in and turn them on

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
Always see it on T.V.
Read it in the magazines
Celebrities who want sympathy
all they do is piss and moan
inside the Rolling Stone
talking about how hard life can be

I'd like to see them spend the week
living life out on the street
I don't think they would survive
if they could spend a day or two
walking in someone else's shoes

Raised to be a lady,
by the golden rule;
Alice was the spawn,
of a public school.
With a double-barrel'd name,
in the back of her brain;
and a simple case of "Mummy doesn't love me blues."

Reality it seemed,
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;
but hey, hey, hey (hey, hey, hey),

Music by Elton JohnAvailable on the album Empty Sky[Instrumental]

Many a tear has to fall
But it's all in the game
All in the wonderful game
That we know has love

You have words with him
And your future's looking kind of dim
But these things
Your heart can rise above

Once in a while he won't call
Oh but it's all in the game
Soon he'll be there at your side
With a sweet "OK"

And he'll kiss your lips
And caress your waiting fingertips

Have you ever had a good time turn bad

When the leaves turn brown

And the shattered glass just splinters

It's days like this that you can't resist

A long tall drink

And a big yellow sun in the winter

And you can go dancing

You can go dancing

You can go dancing

Dancing in the end zone

Did you ever pray you could stay away

Company excluded

See my eyes and I see my arms

The seagulls say you've gone

It was just a game of let's pretend

And I whistle to the waves that lend me tears

Purple clouds, golden rain

Yesterday has gone

And a dandelion dies in the wind

If you're quick enough to rise

With the sleep still in your eyes

You'll see the shadow of the sun above my mind

I know that only you can help me now

When the day is done

Down to Earth then sinks the sun

Along with everything that was lost and won

When the day is done

When the day is done

Hope so much your race will be all run

Then you find you jumped the gun

Have to go back where you begun

When the day is done

When the night is cold

Some get by but some get old

Just to show life's not made of gold

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

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

Duet with France Gall
Written by Michel Berger and Bernie Taupin
Released as a French B-side in February, 1981

We're no handy silver lining
We're no crime to make the headline news
If it's a matter for decision
You and I can be the ones to choose

Je te donne mes espoirs caches
Je te donne me incertitudes
Je te donne mes plus grands secrets

Steamboat waiting by the waterside

Sunlight shining on the morning tide

Got my ticket in my hand

Got some celebrating planned

Can't remember when I felt so fine

I've been waiting such a long long time

Just to hear those engines hum

Look out dreamboat here I come

And I say dream on dreamboat, let my love light ride

Steam on steamboat to the other side

Every time you turn around
You wear another face
Every time I look away
I find a hiding place

If you knew me like you knew him
You would know just how I feel
Slipping through someone's fingers
Falling under someone's wheels

It's easier to walk away
Better off to face the facts
When love holds you up for ransom
Walk away and don't look back

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

Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)
Elton John
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

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
But now it all looks strange, it's funny how one insect
Can damage so much grain

Amd what's it for?

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

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

Fat boys cry when ugly girls sing

About the way the world would be if they were thin

And ugly girls turn their heads when fat boys laugh

About the handsome kid next door who broke their heart

Who broke their heart

Broke their heart

And fat boys lie when ugly girls ask

About the size an apple pie looks through a magnifying glass

And ugly girls dream at night when fat boys sleep

You're walking, talking like a flame, baby

You're walking, talking like a flame, baby

Never knew what my heart would be facing

Guess I must have been blind saying goodbye yo you, baby

Close my eyes at night I can taste it

I'm running back in the fire where I once had you, baby

You said don't ever leave me

But I say that's something I won't ever do

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

I watch the raindrops falling on my window pane

All the bloomed forget-me-nots won't falter in the rain

Electric light bulbs cannot replace the sun

And picture postcards can't reveal all the things we've done

And the flowers will never ever die

And the flowers will never die

And autumn in the country cannot withhold the sky

And the flowers will never die

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

If I say goodbye it'll grieve you

Denver means the whole world to you

Girl it breaks me up just to leave you

But I got things that I gotta do

Got to take my guitar

With one break I'm a star

Girl I'll love you forever more

But today I've got to make my way

From Denver to L.A.

Girl I know that you'll make me stay

But today I've got to make my way

From Denver to L.A.

And it's yours, go out and get it

Don't get wet, please keep dry

Think about the people who made you cry

I believe in the ___ of every man

Where ___ take notice of ___

If you see the road turning straight ahead

Got to run on down, never never be afraid

I know a man, well he's six feet tall

Buckskin jacket ____

From the Boston town, yeah, is educated well

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