ATF: Twofers 3

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Elton John]

Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding

Elton John

The roses in the window box

Have tilted to one side

Everything about this house

Was born to grow and die

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-n-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

And love lies bleeding in my hand

Oh it kills me to think of you with another man

I was playing rock-n-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

And love lies bleeding in my hand

Oh it kills me to think of you with another man

I was playing rock-n-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

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

Whoa

Oh

Oh

Oh

Love lies bleeding in my hands

Link: [The Guess Who]

No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature

The Guess Who

Lonely feelin'

Deep inside

Find a corner

Where I can hide

Silent footsteps

Crowdin' me

Sudden darkness

But I can see

No sugar tonight in my coffee

No sugar tonight in my tea

No sugar to stand beside me

No sugar to run with me

Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow

Da-un-do-dow dow no no

Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow

Da-un-do-dow dow

In the silence

Of her mind

Quiet movements

Well I can find

Grabbin' for me

With her eyes

Now I'm fallin'

From her skies

No sugar tonight in my coffee

No sugar tonight in my tea

No sugar to stand beside me

No sugar to run with me

Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow

Da-un-do-dow dow un-dow-dow

Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow

Da-un-do-dow dow

Jocko says yes and I believe him

When we talk about the things I say

She hasn't got the faith or the guts to leave him

When they're standin' in each other's way

You're driven back now to places you've been to

You're wonderin' what you're gonna find

You know you've been wrong but it won't be long

Before you leave 'em all far behind

'Cause it's the new Mother Nature takin' over

It's the new splendid lady come to call

It's the new Mother Nature takin' over

She's gettin' us all

She's gettin' us all

Jocko said no when I came back last time

It's lookin' like I lost a friend

No use callin' 'cause the sky is fallin'

And I'm gettin' pretty near the end

A smoke-filled room in a corner basement

The situation must be right

A bag o' goodies and a bottle o' wine

We're gonna get it on right tonight

'Cause it's the new Mother Nature takin' over

It's the new splendid lady come to call

It's the new Mother Nature takin' over

She's gettin' us all

She's gettin' us all

Lonely feelin'

Jocko says yes and I believe him

Deep inside

When we talk about the things I say

Find a corner

She hasn't got the faith or the guts to leave him

Where I can hide

When they're standin' in each other's way

Silent footsteps

You're driven back now to places you've been to

Crowdin' me

You're wonderin' what you're gonna find

Sudden darkness

You know you've been wrong and it won't be long

But I can see

Before you leave 'em all far behind

'Cause it's the new Mother Nature takin' over

It's the new splendid lady come to call

It's the new Mother Nature takin' over

She's gettin' us all

She's gettin' us all

Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow

Da-un-do-dow dow no no

Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow

Da-un-do-dow dow

Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow

Da-un-do-dow dow no no

Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow

Da-un-do-dow dow…

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ATF: Levon Rigby

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions that you might dare to make.  I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Elton John]

Levon

Elton John

Levon wears his war wound like a crown

He calls his child Jesus

'Cause he likes the name

And he sends him to the finest school in town

Levon

Levon likes his money

He makes a lot they say

Spend his days counting

In a garage by the motorway

He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day

When the New York Times said God is dead

And the war's begun

Alvin Tostig has a son today

And he shall be Levon

And he shall be a good man

And he shall be Levon

In tradition with the family plan

And he shall be Levon

And he shall be a good man

He shall be Levon

Levon sells cartoon balloons in town

His family business thrives

Jesus blows up balloons all day

Sits on the porch swing watching them fly

And Jesus

He wants to go to Venus

Leaving Levon far behind

Take a balloon and go sailing

While Levon

Levon slowly dies

He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day

When the New York Times said God is dead

And the war's begun

Alvin Tostig has a son today

And he shall be Levon

And he shall be a good man

And he shall be Levon

In tradition with the family plan

And he shall be Levon

And he shall be a good man

He shall be Levon

And he shall be Levon

And he shall be a good man

And he shall be Levon

In tradition with the family plan

And he shall be Levon

And he shall be a good man

He shall be Levon

He shall be Levon

Levon

Levon

He shall be Levon

He shall be Levon

He shall be Levon

Link: [The Beatles]

Eleanor Rigby

The Beatles

Ah

Look at all the lonely people

Ah

Look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby

Picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been

Lives in a dream

Waits at the window

Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door

Who is it for

All the lonely people

Where do they all come from

All the lonely people

Where do they all belong

Father McKenzie

Writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear

No one comes near

Look at him working

Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there

What does he care

All the lonely people

Where do they all come from

All the lonely people

Where do they all belong

Ah

Look at all the lonely people

Ah

Look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby

Died in the church and was buried along with her name

Nobody came

Father McKenzie

Wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave

No one was saved

All the lonely people

Ah look at all the lonely people

Where do they all come from

All the lonely people

Ah look at all the lonely people

Where do they all belong

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Elton John vs. Chris Daughtry

Link: [Elton John]

Rocket Man

Elton John

She packed my bags last night pre-flight

 Zero hour

Nine a.m.

 And I'm gonna be high

As a kite by then

 I miss the earth so much

I miss my wife

 It's lonely out in space

 On such a timeless flight

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

 ‘Til touch down brings me around again to find

 I'm not the man they think I am at home

 Oh no no no

I'm a rocket man

 Rocket man

Burning out his fuse up here alone

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

 ‘Til touch down brings me around again to find

 I'm not the man they think I am at home

 Oh no no no

I'm a rocket man

 Rocket man

Burning out his fuse up here alone

Mars ain't the kind of place

To raise your kids

 In fact it's cold as hell

 And there's no one there to raise them

If you did

 And all this science

I don't understand

 It's just my job five days a week

 A rocket man

A rocket man

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

 ‘Til touch down brings me around again to find

 I'm not the man they think I am at home

 Oh no no no

I'm a rocket man

 Rocket man

Burning out his fuse up here alone

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

 ‘Til touch down brings me around again to find

 I'm not the man they think I am at home

 Oh no no no

I'm a rocket man

 Rocket man

Burning out his fuse up here alone

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

Link: [Chris Daughtry]

Rocket Man

Chris Daughtry

She packed my bags last night pre-flight

 Zero hour

Nine a.m.

 And I'm gonna be high

As a kite by then

 I miss the earth so much

I miss my wife

 It's lonely out in space

 On such a timeless flight

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

 ‘Til touch down brings me around again to find

 I'm not the man they think I am at home

 Oh no no no

I'm a rocket man

 Rocket man

Burning out his fuse up here alone

Mars ain't the kind of place

To raise your kids

 In fact it's cold as hell

 And there's no one there to raise them

If you did

 And all this science

I don't understand

 It's just my job

Five days a week

 Rocket man

Rocket man

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

 ‘Til touch down brings me around again to find

 I'm not the man they think I am at home

 Oh no no no

I'm a rocket man

 Rocket man

Burning out his fuse up here alone

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

And I think it's gonna be a long long time

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