▲"Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways/ And, oh, the change is gonna do me good" från albumet "Honky Château".

▲"I remember when rock was young/ Me and Suzie had so much fun/ Holding hands and skimming stones" från albumet "Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player".

▲“Hold me closer tiny dancer/ Count the headlights on the highway/ Lay me down in sheets of linen" från albumet "Madman Across the Water".

▲"They say Spain is pretty, though I've never been/ Well Daniel says it's the best place that he's ever seen" från albumet "Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player".

▲"It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside/ I'm not one of those who can easily hide" från albumet "Elton John".

▲"And I think it's gonna be a long long time/ 'Till touch down brings me round again to find/ I'm not the man they think I am at home/ Oh no no no I'm a rocket man" från albumet "Honky Château".

▲"I was made in England like a blue Cortina/ But a Yankee summer had a way about her" från albumet "Made in England".

▲"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" från albumet "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road".

▲"Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet/ Uh but they're so spaced out, B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets/ Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful" från albumet "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road".

▲"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" från albumet "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road".

▲"Too late to save myself from falling/ I took a chance and changed your way of life" från albumet "Caribou".

▲"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" från albumet "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road".

▲"Sweet freedom whispered in my ear/ You're a butterfly/ And butterflies are free to fly/ Fly away, high away bye bye" från albumet "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy".

▲"What have I got to do to make you want me/ What have I got to do to be heard/ What do I say when it's all over?" från albumet "Blue Moves".

▲"And she wrap herself around you like a well-worn tire/ You feel her nail scratch your back just like a rake, oh oh" från albumet "Rock of the Westies".

▲"Blue eyes/ Baby's got blue eyes/ When the morning comes/ I'll be far away/ And I say" från albumet "Jump Up!"

▲"I entertain by picking brains/ Sell my soul, by dropping names/ I don't like those! My God, what's that!" från albumet "Caribou".

▲"Don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did/ Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid" från albumet "Too Low for Zero".

▲"And while I'm away/ Dust out the demons inside/ And it won't be long before you and me run/ To the place in our hearts where we hide" från albumet "Too Low for Zero".

▲"Cold, cold heart/ Hard done by you/ Some things look better, baby/ Just passing through" från albumet "Sleeping with the Past".

▲"And if there comes a time/ Guns and gates no longer hold you in/ And if you're free to make a choice/ Just look towards the west and find a friend" från albumet "Ice on Fire".

▲"Well she looked a peach in the dress she made/ When she was still her mama's little girl/ And when she walked down the aisle everybody smiled" från albumet "Too Low for Zero".

▲"In the instant that you love someone/ In the second that the hammer hits/ Reality runs up your spine/ And the pieces finally fit" från albumet "The One".

▲"Turn 'em on, turn 'em on/ Turn on those sad songs/ When all hope is gone/ Why don't you tune in and turn them on" från albumet "Breaking Hearts".

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"All the things I've said in songs/ All the purple prose you bought from me/ Reality's just black and white" från albumet "Songs from the West Coast".

▲"After everything I've ever learned/ Me, I carry too much baggage/ Oh man I've seen so much traffic" från albumet "Songs from the West Coast".

▲"There's a time for everyone, if they only learn/ That the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn" från "The Lion King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack".

▲"With your smile/ You pull the deepest secrets from my heart/ In all honesty/ I'm speechless and I don't know where to start" från albumet "The Big Picture".

▲"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" från "The Lion King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack".

▲"Churches and dictators, politics and papers/ Everything crumbles sooner or later/ But love, I believe in love" från albumet "Made in England".

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Elton John har sålt över 300 miljoner skivor och har mer än femtio topp 40-hits på meritlistan. Sir Elton har onekligen bjudit våra öron att höra ett stort antal musikaliska godbitar. Klicka vidare i det här galleriet för att se vilka som hör till hans bästa!

Elton Johns lyriska liv

Livet i låttexter med Sir Elton John

26/03/25 por StarsInsider

MUSIK Elton john

Elton John har sålt över 300 miljoner skivor och har mer än femtio topp 40-hits på meritlistan. Sir Elton har onekligen bjudit våra öron att höra ett stort antal musikaliska godbitar. Klicka vidare i det här galleriet för att se vilka som hör till hans bästa!