En annan underbar Elton John låt.....och några till... :-)

Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters heter den här låten. Kollade runt på Youtube på Elton John låtar. Den här är en av mina favoriter med Elton John. Men här är det Heart som gjort en cover på den. Och dom gör den riktigt bra! Deras röster gifter sig verkligen med varandra!
Det kommer säkert dyka upp fler Elton John låtar här på bloggen för jag är inne i en Elton John-period nu igen.:-) Lyssna och njut!

Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters

Music by Elton John

Lyrics by Bernie Taupin

vailable on the album Honky Château

And now I knowSpanish Harlem are not just pretty words to say

I thought I knew

But now I know that rose trees never grow in New York City

Until you've seen this trash can dream come true

You stand at the edge while people run you through

And I thank the Lord there's people out there like you

I thank the Lord there's people out there like you

While Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters

Sons of bankers, sons of lawyers

Turn around and say good morning to the night

For unless they see the sky

But they can't and that is why

They know not if it's dark outside or light

This Broadway's got

It's got a lot of songs to sing

If I knew the tunes I might join in

I'll go my way alone

Grow my own, my own seeds shall be sown in New York City

Subway's no way for a good man to go down

Rich man can ride and the hobo he can drown

And I thank the Lord for the people I have found

I thank the Lord for the people I have found

Snubblade över denna goding oxå.:-)

Ego

Music by Elton John

Lyrics by Bernie Taupin

Released as a UK single in March, 1978

Take a look at me now and take a taste of the money

I'm not in it for the bread I'm in it for the gravy, honey

Step on the thin ice lightly

And check out the show twice nightly

'Cause I'm on the stage tonight

And if the price is right

I will amaze before the light I crave the light

Blinding white I need the light tonight

Take a look at me now and take a look at my billing

I'm not in it as an extra, I'm in it for the killing

Inflate my ego gently, tell them heaven sent me

'Cause I'm so expressive and I'm so obsessed with my ego

My ego and it's message

Oh inform the press, invite the guests

I need the press tonight

Do you remember acting out your youth

A Romeo resplendent on an orange case

Do you remember how I would recite

And how I'd blow my lines and hide my face

Well maybe it was childish, foolish, before schoolish

Immaturish, lose your coolish

But I had to grow and prove my ego

Take a look at me now and take a taste of the money

I'm not in it for the bread I'm in it for the gravy, honey

Inflate my ego gently, tell them heaven sent me

Oh 'cause I'm so expressive and I'm so obsessed with my ego

My ego and it's message

Oh inform the press, invite the guests

I need the press tonight

Den här låten har jag sjungit många gånger när jag varit förbannad. Om ni lyssnar (eller läser) på en viss del av texten så förstår ni nog varför...;-)

Better off dead

Music by Elton John

Lyrics by Bernie Taupin

Available on the album Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy

There was a face on a hoarding that someone had drawn on

And just enough time for the night to pass by without warning

Away in the distance there's a blue flashing light

Someone's in trouble somewhere tonight

As the flickering neon stands ready to fuse

The wind blows away all of yesterday's news

Well they've locked up their daughters and they battened the hatches

They always could find us but they never could catch us

Through the grease streaked windows of an all night cafe

We watched the arrested get taken away

And that cigarette haze has ecology beat

As the whores and the drunks filed in from the street

'Cause the steam's in the boiler the coal's in the fire

If you ask how I am then I'll just say inspired

If the thorn of a rose is the thorn in your side

Then you're better off dead if you haven't yet died

Better off dead ...

Det här är nog den vackraste låten Bernie Taupin och Elton John någonsin gjort tillsammans.
Jag blir alltid tårögd när jag hör den. Kan inte låta bli att tänka på mina barn och min egen lillebror.:-)

The greatest discovery

Music by Elton John

Lyrics by Bernie Taupin

Available on the album Elton John

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