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Have tilted to one side
Everything about this house
Was born to grow and die
Oh, it doesn't seem a year ago
To this very day
You said I'm sorry honey
If I don't change the pace
I can't face another day
And love lies bleeding in my hand
Oh, it kills me to think of you with another man
I was playing rock and roll and you were just a fan
But my guitar couldn't hold you so I split the band
Love lies bleeding in my hands
I wonder if those changes
Have left a scar on you
Like all the burning hoops of fire
That you and I passed through
You're a bluebird on a telegraph line
I hope you're happy now
Well, if the wind of change
Comes down your way girl
You'll make it back somehow
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Great description!
Certainly a candidate for one of the all-time great rock epic intros to a brilliant song.
So VERY VERY TRUE!!!! Remember seeing Sir Elton in concert (along with Biliie Joel) back in 2002 and this was the highlight for the concert IMO
Sorry Elton, my mum likes you, so I am duty bound not to. Ever, has it been, so shall it remain.
grow up, you're not 16 any more
Bombastic and Elton John pulls it off so masterfully.
Frankly, this is one of the great progressive rock songs from the period.
Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding -- Candle in the Wind -- Bennie and the Jets
Cannot remember how many times I played that side.
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I just turned up my volume
This was really good right up until he started singing.
Just go back to your Kanye on mainstream radio. RP is for grown ups.
Great artwork inside and out to go along with the Fantastic music.
EPIC Double Album from an era when that was possible.
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A Clockwork Orange at the beginning ?
The only similarity I hear to any music from "A Clockwork Orange" is that the intro to this song prominently features a synthesizer - an instrument which was also used by Walter/Wendy Carlos when recording arrangements of several classical music pieces for the film.
Bernie Taupin (only 22 at the time) wrote the lyrics in under three weeks, with Elton John composing most of the music in three days. Still listening to this album some 48 years later. A true classic.
If you'd said in under three hours I might have been even vaguely impressed.
There are a few bars where I hear the Who.
Or am I imaging things?
The Who? Absolutely. But then, this song has many links, to many other bands. At the core though: very Elton John.
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I know ... you are fed up i'am right all the time ... sorry ...
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Brillant Philippe !!! Bravo
Elton at his finest.
(funny, I never noticed the castanets before)...
MORE CASTANETS!!!
The beginning looks like in the film a Clockwork Orangin 1972. No ?
I know ... you are fed up i'am right all the time ... sorry ...
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Look in the mirror much?
Agree with being pompous bombastic. Some songs from the past should be cherished, others buried deep.
(funny, I never noticed the castanets before)...
Pompous and bombastic, like some of the prog and heavy rock from the period.
Look in the mirror much?
Musically epoch
and epochal. and epic
Wow. I had forgotten about this song. Used to listen to it full blast via 8-track on the stereo growing up. Always gave me chills.
This was one of the first 8-track cassettes that I had. Used to play it endlessly, and this song is burned into my brain -- the orchestral opening and the rock'n'roll finish. Superb.
overplayed and no where near as good as funeral for a friend
I have requested this be played at my eulogy. Testament to a lifetime passion for music.
c.
Thank you RP!!! Stopping work to enjoy this beauty...
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Yes, a trifle heavy-handed and syrupy as well, but that was the style back then. Anyhow, good tune.
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What does a deranged astronaut see is but feet.
Windage, brother, windage!
I'm not an audiophile, but I sensed that he was, for a very short period, doing a soft-shoe around someone else's signature, but purposively — by extension, consciously — as though to suggest it was something he could do because he'd already amply demonstrated his own chops, or was doing so in those very bars.
OMG!!
It was wonderful.
Graham (somewhere in Kuwait)
THEY are geniuses. Don't forget Bernie!
Oh pleeez, leave the hyperbole to President Trump.
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I remember my math teacher borrowed it and recorded onto Reel-to-Reel.
Their was so much tape in their it started to drag and finally eviscerated itself.
Or am I imaging things?
So do I. And I thought I was imagining it.
Ditto.. Thanks so much for playing! It's been awhile..
Or am I imaging things?
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I saw him in concert in Toronto. He opened with this song. God like. He had the audience from the first note.
Graham
somewhere in Kuwait.
I don't know. Elton John as a religion...
Nope and nope.
What does a deranged astronaut see is but feet.
Great story!
I remember being a post-high-school party with some friends and we were all getting drunk. The guy who was hosting the party while his parents were away sat down at the piano and began playing the solo part to this song. Perfectly. Passionately. I had absolutely no idea that he knew how to play, but he'd clearly had years of training. Mind-blowing.
Agreed!
Also strongly agree. This kind of programming and seque is why RP is my main listen even after over 10 years.
Well put. It was hugely popular and deservedly so. Holds up reasonably well all these years later too.
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Keeps me happy when they arrive.
Today it was the Apple Festival in Glastonbury.
Lots of fun, and I looked forward to it for weeks.
Next: I'm hoping to add the day that Bill adds "0" to the rating scale.
This song deserves it.
Agreed!
No and no..
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I listened patiently - most because of the many positive comments!
I cannot join you - a TERRIBLE song! As terrible as the whole person!
Just ridiculous!
I think your bias is getting in the way. I don't particularly like 'the person' either, but this song is pure freakin' genius.To say it's "terrible" tells me you don't know have an ounce of musical aptitude, nor appreciation.
I'm finding this hard to rate.
I listened patiently - most because of the many positive comments!
I cannot join you - a TERRIBLE song! As terrible as the whole person!
Just ridiculous!
so very wrong on so many levels!
and yet that's what's great about RP - we all have our own tastes and ideals and get to hear each others' - sometimes with surprising results, sometimes just reinforcing what we already felt....
Actually, the best thing to follow is the Fugue that goes with it - they're two halves of one piece of music.
Just out of curiosity, why don't you play any more? I have zero talent for anything musical and am so envious of people who do.