 Genius Lyrics
|
|
Elton John – The Bitch Is Back
|
|
[Verse 1] / I was justified when I was five / Raising Cain, I spit in your eye / Times are changing, now the poor get fat / But the fever's gonna catch you when the bitch gets back
|
|
Tina Turner – The Bitch Is Back
|
|
With her powerful voice and stage presence, Tina Turner had a knack for creating great covers of songs that were already great in their original version. Here, she covers “The
|
|
Elton John – Tiny Dancer
|
|
For pretty much all of Elton John’s greatest songs, the words were written by Bernie Taupin. The result is that sometimes Elton is singing words that are actually intensely
|
|
Elton John – I'm Still Standing
|
|
‘I’m Still Standing’ is the second single and song from Elton John’s ‘Too Low For Zero’.
Russel Mulcahy, video director of the videoclip, told us ‘I Want My MTV!’:
Elton John’s
|
|
Elton John – Home Again
|
|
Home Again is the first single released from Elton John’s 2013 album The Diving Board.
http://youtu.be/bdRUQWVGENo
http://youtu.be/koOZoqBhPLM?start=38&end=94&version=3
|
|
Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
|
|
The fourth track on Elton John’s 1973 double album of the same name, and the second single from the album. Written by Elton and his co-songwriter Bernie Taupin, “Goodbye Yellow
|
|
Elton John – Honky Cat
|
|
[Verse 1] / When I look back, boy, I must have been green / Bopping in the country, fishing in a stream / Looking for an answer, trying to find a sign / Until I saw your city
|
|
Elton John – Come Back Baby
|
|
Come back baby / Come back to me yeah / And you will see yeah / How I've changed / 'Cause you're the only love that I ever had / You're the only love that I ever had / Come back to
|
|
Elton John – Looking Up
|
|
The seventh track of Elton John’s upcoming February 2016 album Wonderful Crazy Night, and the first single released from the album. Written by Elton and longtime co-songwriter
|
|
Walt Disney Records (Ft. Ernie Sabella, Joseph Williams, Kristle Edwards, Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane & Sally Dworsky) – Can You Feel the Love Tonight
|
|
During “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” Timon and Pumbaa mourn for their diminishing friendship with Simba while off-screen vocals sing about the romance in the air. Simba and Nala
|
|
Elton John – Oscar Wilde Gets Out
|
|
The lyrics to Oscar Wilde Gets Out are written by Bernie Taupin, Elton John’s longtime collaborator. It is typical of the lyricist’s rich narrative style that draws from art and
|
|
Elton John – Weight Of The World
|
|
[Verse 1] / I'm weary and I'm staying up late / And the rain hits my roof so hard / You know I'm no longer thirty / These days I'm happy to play / One or two hands of cards / I
|
|
Elton John – Easier to Walk Away
|
|
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
|
|
Elton John – Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going to Be a Long, Long Time)
|
|
Following “Space Oddity”, by the same producer, Elton John sings the tale of an astronaut, for whom space exploration is just his daily job. Bernie Taupin wrote the song inspired
|
|
Elton John – Whenever You're Ready (We'll Go Steady Again)
|
|
I lived in a tenement six floors above / I lent you my records and I lent you my love / But you left me on the weekend without a by-your-leave / That's a dirty and a low-down trick
|
|
Lita Ford – The Bitch Is Back
|
|
I was justified when I was five / Raising Cain, I spit in your eye / Times are changing, now the poor get fat / But the fever's gonna catch you when the bitch gets back / Eat meat
|
|
Elton John – Burn Down the Mission (including "My Baby Left Me" & "Get Back")
|
|
This 18-minute version of “Burn Down the Mission” was performed in New York at A&R Recording Studios on November 17, 1970. The song was not intended to be that long, but John
|
|
Bluesology (Ft. Elton John) – Come Back Baby
|
|
Come back baby / Come back to me yeah / And you will see yeah / How I've changed / 'Cause you're the only love that I ever had / You're the only love that I ever had / Come back to
|
|
|
Elton John – The Bitch Is Back Covers
|
|
See all of “The Bitch Is Back” by Elton John’s covers
|
|
Elton John – Suit of Wolves
|
|
“Suit of Wolves” was originally the b-side of the single of the title track of Elton’s 1992 album The One. It appears on the album on a few selected reissues and some unofficial
|
|
Elton John – Simple Life
|
|
[Verse 1] / There's a breakdown on the runway / And the timeless flights are gone / I'm a year ahead of myself these days / And I'm locomotive strong / My city spread like cannon
|
|
Pet Shop Boys (Ft. Elton John) – Alone Again, Naturally
|
|
[Verse 1: Neil Tennant] / Oh in a little while from now / If I'm not feeling any less sour / I promise myself / To treat myself / And visit a nearby tower / And climbing to the top
|
|
Elton John & Taron Egerton – (I'm Gonna) Love Me Again
|
|
[Verse 1: Elton John] / Oh, the joke was never hard to tell / Threw my spare change in the wishing well / The dream alone is always in your hands / If that don't fill the boy and
|
|
Elton John – The Cage
|
|
[Chorus] / Have you ever lived in a cage / Where you live to be whipped and be tamed? / For I've never loved in a cage / Or talked to a friend or just waved / Ah-ah-ooh-ooh, ah-ah-
|
|
Elton John – Leather Jackets
|
|
[Verse 1] / Do you pray to someone new / When you're locked up in the rock / Is the golden age dead and gone / Are the hands stuck on the clock / Can you talk to Buddy's bones
|
|
|
Elton John – Voyeur
|
|
[Verse] / I'm looking, I'm looking back / I'm trying to imagine this and that / The simple mathematics making up the map / Insurance of protection from immediate collapse / I'm
|
|
Young Thug (Ft. Elton John) – High
|
|
“High” is Young Thug’s official remix of Elton John’s 1972 track, “Rocket Man.” This song marks the first collaboration between the two.
A collaboration between the two has been
|
|
|
Elton John – Border Song
|
|
This was Elton John’s first single from his self-titled second album. It’s a gospel-inspired piece that got little attention at the time.
Although Elton John says Taupin wrote the
|
|
Elton John – You Can Make History (Young Again)
|
|
[Verse 1] / I can feel the time closing in / I can feel the years crawling through my skin / And if I doubt myself I can count on the rain / To cover the tears of this ageing game
|
|
Elton John – Medicine Man
|
|
Music by elton john / Released as a uk b-side in 1990 / We look at the table / And we look at the time / We see a short fuse burning / We're standing on a land mine / You look at
|
|
Elton John & Olly Alexander – It’s a sin (global reach mix)
|
|
[Verse 1: Olly Alexander] / When I look back upon my life / It's always with a sense of shame / I've always been the one to blame / For everything I long to do / No matter when or
|
|
Bright Light Bright Light (Ft. Bridget Barkan, Elton John & Xavier) – Running Back To You
|
|
[Verse 1] / You figured it out, the trick to the game / You made the fires bloom and got me so drawn to the flames that I changed / It’s true, midnight and you, you’re the same
|
|
Elton John – Madman Across the Water
|
|
“Madman Across the Water” is a song with dark themes and influence from Leon Russell. Bernie Taupin made up the story about a lunatic ranting on visiting day at the asylum
|
|
Elton John – Wonderful Crazy Night
|
|
[Verse 1] / Ice cubes on the back of your neck / Warm wind blowing through the parking lot / A radio humming in every car / And it feel like the clocks have stopped / Calypso moon
|
|
Elton John – Sleeping With the Past
|
|
[Verse 1] / Like a thief he's come, like a thief he's gone / He's stolen your tears one by one / You're proud to love him, it's a foolish sign / You're a broken heart at the scene
|
|
Jennifer Rush (Ft. Elton John) – Flames of Paradise
|
|
[Intro: Elton John & Jennifer Rush] / You're walkin', talkin', like a flame, baby / You're walkin', talkin', like a flame, baby / You're walkin', talkin', like a flame, baby / (You
|
|
Elton John – Chameleon
|
|
[Verse 1] / The last I heard of you / You were somewhere on a cruise in the Mediterranean / So imagine my surprise / To see you very much alive in the English rain again / [Pre-
|
|
|
Elton John – England and America
|
|
[Verse 1] / Had some good times / Jumping ship / And showing up on shore / Just pocket change to get us by / A little bit of grease to help us slide / Give us a nickel and take
|
|
Elton John – Trust Me
|
|
Looking back it makes me shiver / Don't be scared to kick the past / Selling lovers down the river / Nothing built for speed will last overnight / All those years of desolation
|
|
Ed Sheeran & Elton John – Merry Christmas
|
|
“Merry Christmas” serves as Ed Sheeran’s first Christmas song, and serves as Elton John’s second Christmas single, following the release of 1973’s “Step Into Christmas.”
In an
|
|
Miley Cyrus – The Bitch Is Back
|
|
[Intro] / (Moo sound) / Uh, uh, uh / Uh, uh, uh / C'mon / [Verse 1] / I was justified when I was five / Raising Cain, I spit in your eye / Times are changing, now the poor get fat
|
|
|
Elton John – Tambourine
|
|
It feels like I'm flying / When I see your face / I'm charged with a power / Of amazing grace / I flip the switch signal / On the permanent dream / Like the palm of my hand / On a
|
|
Elton John & Kiki Dee – Don't Go Breaking My Heart
|
|
In the book 1000 UK #1 Hits, Kiki Dee talked about the idea behind this song:
“Both Elton and I were big fans of those duets on Motown by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell and there
|
|
Elton John – Japanese Hands
|
|
[Verse 1] / Outside I can hear the fireworks / Beyond the paper walls / Where the symbols painted black and white / Run together when the rain falls / And the wind chimes across
|
|
Elton John – I Don't Wanna Go on with You Like That
|
|
[Verse 1] / I've always said that one's enough to love / Now I hear you're braggin' one is not enough / Well, somethin' tells me you're not satisfied / You got plans to make me one
|
|
Elton John – Never Too Late
|
|
[Intro] / Qinisa / Qinisa mfana nge gazi lemvana / Sonke sithande ngo / Qinisa, qinisa / Qinisa nge gazilemvana / [Verse 1] / It's never too late to turn things around / Recover
|
|
Elton John – Don't Stop
|
|
[Verse 1] / 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 / [Chorus] / Don't
|
|
Billy Joel – We Didn't Start the Fire
|
|
This monster hit of a song was created in 1989, when Joel turned 40. The idea spawned from a conversation he had with a friend of Sean Lennon. The friend just turned 21 and was
|
|
Elton John (Ft. Hugh Panaro) – Sail Me Away
|
|
[Lestat] / When stars are born / Are they cast out / To wander cold and lonely, lost in space? / A loveless point of light / That can't return / Forever fixed within one place
|
