Genius Meanings
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Elton John – Better Off Dead
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Elton John – Your Song
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The song was composed and performed by Elton John but the lyrics were written by Bernie Taupin. It originally appeared in his self titled and second album.
Elton John hadn’t come
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Elton John – Levon
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This song appears to be about family expectations. Mention of “the finest school in town”, the “tradition with the family plan”, and “family business” all lead one to believe
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Elton John – Someone Saved My Life Tonight
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“Someone Saved My Life Tonight” was the only major hit single from Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. It entered the top 25 on the UK singles chart, and narrowly missed
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Elton John & Dua Lipa – Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)
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The first single off of legendary singer Elton John’s 32nd studio album, The Lockdown Sessions, “Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)” reworks some of Elton’s classics alongside vocals from
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Kanye West – All of the Lights
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“All of the Lights” is the 4th single from Kanye West’s 5th studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
The song is about Kanye’s qualms living as a celebrity with personal
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Elton John – House of Cards
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I hear tell some playboy has kidnapped your heart / With his plane and his plans for games after dark / Just a pain in his pocket, and the price of a room / Where the second hand
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Elton John – Writing
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“Writing” is an account of Bernie Taupin and Elton John’s songwriting process. This song (indeed the entire album) takes place between 1967, when Taupin and John were introduced
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Elton John – Tower of Babel
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[Verse 1] / Snow, cement / And ivory young towers / Someone called us Babylon / Those hungry hunters tracking down the hours / [Pre-Chorus 1] / But where were all your shoulders
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Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
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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
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Elton John – Tiny Dancer
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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
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Elton John – One Day (at a Time)
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[Verse 1] / You are my weakness / You are my friend / Nothing I have in the world / Makes better sense / 'Cause I'm the fish and you're the sea / When we're together / Or when we'
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Elton John – All the Girls Love Alice
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Here’s one of those songs where the subject of the song is obvious once you’re told it, but many people won’t get it at first because it’s not the sort of thing that lots of pop
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2Pac – Ghetto Gospel
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2Pac’s part was recorded in 1992 and was supposed to be featured on A Very Special Christmas 2 (check out the original version here)— however, due to legal trouble later in the
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Elton John – Curtains
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“Curtains” is the second part of “We All Fall In Love Sometimes.” It was played as a single track and then cut in two for the album, and it is usually played together live.
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Elton John – Social Disease
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This entire song is something of a pun, as the term “social disease” is an older euphemism for a venereal disease, or STD. Here, Taupin has turned it to mean an alcoholic layabout
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Elton John – Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
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This song is about Elton John, characterized as “Captain Fantastic,” and his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin is “The Brown Dirt Cowboy.” It is interesting that John and Taupin
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Elton John – Philadelphia Freedom
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An Elton John/Bernie Taupin composition, produced by Gus Dudgeon, “Philadelphia Freedom” was released as a single February 24, 1975.
Written as a favour to John’s friend, tennis
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Elton John – Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going to Be a Long, Long Time)
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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
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Elton John – Crocodile Rock
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Likely inspired by the song Daddy Cool’s “Eagle Rock” and Neil Sedaka’s “Oh! Carol,” “Crocodile Rock” comments on rock’s evolution over time using metaphors.
Elton John actually
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