| Elton John – I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun Of Robert Ford) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This is actually probably more about Bernie's failed relationship with Maxine. | |
| Elton John – Ego Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Elton has said that this was really about the 'ugly' side of rock n' roll and how people can become obsessed with fame, glory and ego. It was made to point out the ugly side of those that the two (EJ & BT) had met but turned out to be more autobiographical than expected. It never really made it though, sadly. |
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| Elton John – No Shoe Strings on Louise Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| It seems to be a sort of touch and go, much too young for their own good, always throwing love away for no reason... But yet everyone loves Louise? Always naive and never-knowing the truth, but yet knowing too much for a young'un. | |
| Elton John – All The Nasties Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| It's also about criticism as well. If you think about it, everyone tries to change you... the way you are. Media, friends, family, acquaintances, everyone basically, but you have destiny in your hands. This is your life. And screw 'em if they don't like it. | |
| Elton John – All The Nasties Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think people should look beyond what they see before their eyes, and think with their heart instead. | |
| Elton John – The Bridge Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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In an interview Elton and Bernie both said along the lines that it was about making it in the music industry and how you have to cross the bridge to reach fame or fall over like so many and simply return to a boring life. It can also be applied in general though, as silverprod said, to anything in life where there is a big challenge to face and crossing the bridge results in glory and failing to cross the bridge means being forgotten, fading away. This song is quite inspirational and means a lot to many people, I'm sure and certain. |
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| Elton John – Sweet Painted Lady Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I've listened to this song and I've noticed there's a second meaning besides the one everyone knows it for. Seeing as Bernie is a painter, this would actually make a lot of sense. I always thought that Sweet Painted Lady could also be about a woman who an artist paints on to canvas and how she's sold to buyers at auction houses. How the artist sells away what he/she has created. "Opportunity awaits me like a rat in the drain We're all hunting honey with money to burn Just a short time to show you the tricks that we've learned" Opportunity awaits the artist as they sell the painting and the buyers are all vying for it ("with money to burn"). "If the boys all behave themselves here Well there's pretty young ladies and beer in the rear You won't need a gutter to sleep in tonight Oh the prices I charge here will see you alright" The "boys" could refer to the buyers at the auction house and their dodgy deals in the past. The pretty young ladies could be a metaphor for the paintings being sold. "You won't need a gutter to sleep in tonight" as in the painting won't have to be stored away in a gutter and can be sold. And the prices could be just that-- the prices the buyers pay. "So she lays down beside me again My sweet painted lady, the one with no name Many have used her and many still do There's a place in the world for a woman like you" "The one with no name" as in the painting doesn't have a name and the artist lays beside her as the painting is hung in his/her room. Many have used the canvas and many still continue to. And art is still around, so there's a place in the world for paintings. "Oh sweet painted lady Seems it's always been the same Getting paid for being laid (to paper in art) Guess that's the name of the game" The way paintings have sold have always been the same, always been sold to people in auction places, etc... The artist gets paid for painting the lady to a canvas and the buyers then buy it and "that's the name of the game". Anyways, my interpretation. |
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