Elton John - Others Lyrics

In open arms we put our trust they put us on a big red bus 
Twin spirits soaking up a dream
Fuel to feed the press machine
After years that were long and lean 
We're finally on our way 

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And Richard Nixon's on his knees he's sent so many overseas 
He'd like to know if you and me could help him in some way 
A little camouflage and glue to mask the evil that men do 
A small diversion caused by two, pale kids come to play 
And we heard Richard Nixon say "welcome to the USA" 

Neither of us understood the way things ticked in Hollywood 
We just loaded in and grabbed the bat 
With little room to swing a cat 
And pretty soon we were where it's at 
Or so the papers say 

And all around us suntanned teens, beauty like we'd never seen 
Our heroes led us by the hand 
Through Brian Wilson's promised land 
Where Disney's God and he commands 
Both mice and men to stay 

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In a bright red Porsche on Sunset I saw Steve McQueen 
I guess he's just about the coolest guy I've ever seen 
And for you and me that speeding car is how it's going to be 
I see no brakes just open road and lots of gasoline 

Oh we heard Richard Nixon say, welcome to the USA 
The common sense I sometimes lack 
Has opened up a seismic crack 
We've fallen in and I can't pull back

Pale kids come to play 
And we heard Richard Nixon say, I've gotta go but you can stay

Turned up our collars to the chill of the wind 
Caught an innocent smile from a taxi at the lights 
Not something you'd see on a New York street 
It's such an uncommon sight 

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But I wouldn't have it any other way 
This city's got a thing about it, don't try to understand it 
New York City I'd really like to stay 
New York City I wouldn't have you 
I wouldn't have you any other way 

Oh the subway rumbled underneath 
Italian lights where Joey Gallo died 
And the man on the door down at 54's 
Letting only the pretty inside 

I'd wake with a stranger under the covers 
Late in the day and longing for the night 
Just like the snowfall there's so many bodies 
But somehow it feels so right 

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Oh the TVs on and the colors really hurt my head 
If I could think straight I'd wish I was dead 
Or curled up naked in my lover's bed 
Instead I'm hanging over Hell suspended by a single thread 

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And I don't recall who said it at this time 
That your enemies grow strong on what you leave behind 
I built it up and the wolf he came around 
He huffed and puffed and the house fell down 

With a rolled up note I'm hovering on that line 
Three days on a diet of cocaine and wine 
And a little weed just to level me sometime 
I put the clock in the drawer 'cause I've cancelled out the time 

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So don't knock on my door, don't try to call 
I'm holed up in this room talking to the wall 
When you're high as this you think you know it all 
When you're this deep in there's no place else to fall 

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And still that saying gets inside my mind 
That your enemies grow strong on what you leave behind 
I built it up and the wolf he came around 
He huffed and puffed and the house fell down

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And every one of us has to face that day 
Do you cross the bridge or do you fade away 
And every one of us that ever came to play 
Has to cross the bridge or fade away 

Standing on the bridge looking at the waves 
Seen so many jump, never seen one saved 
On a distant beach your song can die 
On a bitter wind, on a cruel tide 

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And the bridge it shines
Oh cold hard iron 
Saying come and risk it all 
Or die trying
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Don't often do this 
We never really get the chance 
Nearly froze to death on Oxford Street 
Now we're sitting in the South of France 

Talking through the evening 
It's good to shoot the breeze 
Just you and me on a balcony 
And cicadas singing in the trees 

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Old '67 what a time it was 
What a time of innocence, what a time we've lost 
Raise a glass and have a laugh, have a laugh or two 
Here's to old '67 and an older me and you 

Sentimental twilight 
Conversing on those virgin days 
Laughing about how the two of us sound 
Like a Tennessee Williams play 
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Honest, it's amazing 
That we can get together at all 
For in between the saddle and the grand piano 
We can read the writing on the wall 

Talking through the evening 
Sitting here side by side 
Just you and me on a balcony 
It's a little bit funny this feeling inside 

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Italiano promotion men
Chomping a big cigar 
Slapping backs and making cracks 
About the fags in the bar 
Radio boss dipping his nose in a little white packet 
You put it out son and we'll all back it 
Yea it's just like Noah's ark 

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And the waves are crashing round us 
But we're ready for the flood 
And we don't need a sign like an olive branch 
In the beak of a snow white dove 
We're not as dumb as we might look 
You can't keep us in the dark 
With me and you it's two by two just like Noah's ark 

These four walls have seen 
The Cockettes and the Casters 
From San Francisco to Ohio 
I've seen beauty and disaster 
Cocky young roosters and little chicks 
Flashing smiles, shaking them hips 
Trying to hook it up for the late night shift 
Here in Noah's ark 

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And we wrote it as we saw it from the centre of the stage 
All access to the liars who claim they wrote a page 
But for every tiny dancer there's a dog that's had its day 
The truth is never quite the same as what the papers say 

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Well he got us spooked anyway 
We'd been running hot up until today 
But a wind of change blew across our sales 
We were coasting on a winning streak 
We were kings until the power failed 

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We've been living in a tinderbox 
And two sparks can set the whole thing off
Rubbing up together around the clock 
Lately we've been getting more roll than rock 
You and me together in a tinderbox 
Two sparks can set the whole thing off 
Rubbing up together around the clock 
Lately we've been getting more roll than rock 
You and me together in a tinderbox 

Godzilla came in disguise 
Tore the building down right before our eyes 
Kept the needle out of the red balloon 
Was he worried we might go too far 
Maybe wind up rhyming moon and June 

The sun descends down in Mexico 
While a fancy car back on Savile Row 
Shows the price of fame leads to overkill 
Things are gonna have to change 
Some holes along the road get filled 

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Pressure's gonna cook us if we don't unlock it 
Guns going off if we don't uncock it 
We've gotta climb out of the other one's pocket 
Or we're gonna burn, out on this beautiful rocket 

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She was twenty one with her life ahead 
You don't need to know her name 
She breathed her last on the cold stone floor of a Hollywood arcade 
But fate's right hand isn't always just 
Puts a lot of pressure on your faith and trust 
She was just a little girl ain't that enough 
To rage against the day 

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And how did we get so lucky? 
Targets on the rifle range 
Who makes the call and who gets to choose? 
Who gets to win and who gets to lose? 
It's like a rolling dice in the belly of the blues 
And blues never fade away 
Hey hey the colors run when the rain falls 
But blues never fade away

He shone so bright with a lust for life 
Like the Sun King that he was 
His passions hung upon his walls and were printed onto cloth 
And for reasons I never understood 
About the choices made between the bad and good 
I've tried to figure out but 
The pain never goes away 

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And there's marble markers and little white crosses 
Along the beaten path 
And I've spread their ashes on the wind 
And I miss John Lennon's laugh
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But we stuck around for the fireworks 
Waiting to explode 
Shaped our futures, you a tumbleweed 
And me on a yellow brick road 
Pleasing the people some of the time 
For better or for worse 
An urban soul in a fine silk Suit 
And a heart out west in a Wrangler shirt 

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And you can't go back and if you try it fails 
Looking up ahead I see a rusty nail 
A sign hanging from it saying "Truth for sale" 
And that's what we did 
No lies at all just one more tale 
About the Captain and the Kid 

We've been missing at times in action 
Can't imagine what he said he might do for you 
The devil got to come to the party sometimes 
But he never got to wear our shoes 

Oh we've conjured up what we created 
Way back then when I was standing up in six-inch heels 
Now you're riding off into the sunset 
And I'm still spinning like a Catherine wheel 

But we stuck around for the battle
Waiting for a plan 
To turn you into the Brown Dirt Cowboy
And me into a rocket man
It pleases the people some of the time
Digging into our roots 
But I got a brand new pair of shoes 
And you're on a horse in old cowboy boots 

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