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Elton John – Where to Now St. Peter? Lyrics 14 years ago
Also, it seems he's being executed for murder committed with a "sweet young foreign gun," taking something for nothing like that ends with a bad report, a conviction.

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Elton John – Where to Now St. Peter? Lyrics 14 years ago
I think it's about someone being executed by lethal injection and slipping off into death. The blue canoe is the gurney. They "took the paddles" because they're killing him, they "paralyzed his arms" because they're strapping him down. The change from day-to-day life in the prison to the silence of the execution chamber (away from the rifle range of the guards) is so sudden.

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