…or…
Everything I needed to learn, I learned through Elton John songs (or, perhaps more precisely, through Bernie Taupin lyrics).
- No man’s a jester playing Shakespeare
- Friends are found on every road
- The boulevard is not that bad
- Country comfort’s in a truck that’s going back home
- There are women and women and some hold you tight, while some leave you counting the stars in the night
- When it rains, the rain falls down
- You ain’t seen nothing till you’ve been in a motel baby like a Holiday Inn
- It’s like trying to drink whiskey from a bottle of wine
- Mars ain’t no kind of place to raise your kids
- Spanish Harlem aren’t just pretty words to say
- Rose trees never grow in New York City
- Spain is pretty (though I’ve never been)
- Saturday night’s alright for fighting
- The fever’s gonna catch you when the bitch gets back
- We all fall in love sometimes
- Breaking up is sometimes like breaking the law
- Sorry seems to be the hardest word
- Where there is one room, you’ll always find another
- There’s a word in Spanish
- That’s why they call it the blues
- Breaking hearts ain’t what it used to be
- Everybody’s looking for something that just ain’t there
- Sad songs say so much
- It’s as cold as Christmas in the middle of the year
- Nikita is the other side of any given line in time
- Slow rivers run cold
- Don’t need an extra eye to see that the fire spreads faster in a breeze
- Flesh on silk looks different than on a cotton sheet back home
- Mona Lisa’s getting older
- There’s a light where the darkness ends
- Some things look better just passing through
- There’s a North in us all
- There’s something about distance that gets to us all
- Love’s got a lot to answer for
- January is the month that cares
- When the wall’s built, and the heart hardens, you get a dark diamond
- Western skies don’t make it right
- A dream will fly the moment that you open up your eyes
- Birds don’t fall from the sky when they die
- There’s a wonder in this weakness, it’s so beautiful sometimes
- We all get what we’re delivered
- Too many tears have been cried
- Two sparks can set the whole thing off
- Blues never fade away
- Every one of us that ever came to play has to cross the bridge or fade away
- You can’t go back, and if you try, it fails
- You’ve gotta stand up straight when you ride that whale
- When the arrow’s in the bullseye every time, it’s hard assuming that the archer’s blind
- If the heart becomes a prisoner, your soul will turn you loose
- Every breath is a prayer of some kind
- Nowadays I’m thinking that time is wasted looking back
I could go on (oh, you know I could), but I’ll leave it at that. Besides, I’m thinking there might be a Part Deux to this post, just from a slightly different perspective. 🙂
Ok, so it was a little bit funny, wouldn’t you say?
The Captain and the Kim 