In the 70's there was a shooting at Olean (NY) High School - supposedly the shooter listened to this song - some of it applied to him (as it does to a lot of us). Just a rumor, but it made the song "risky" to listen to.
Do any of you idiots really think, that of any artist, Elton would put down a certain race. How about when he says a Negro waiter, Do you really think he is a racist. Damn, please.
I agree the piano piece is superb. This song really gets you thinking in many different directions about our purpose. My question is why don't they ever play it on the radio in America...I think it scares too many people and its says negro in it. Is that censorship or are we in N. Korea or China.
This song brings to mind my brother's suicide, an impulsive act without meaning that destroyed the lives of every member of my family. It's a song that brings tears to my eyes, and to the eyes of my sister, and that also proves to me the worth of true art. Art makes us remember, it helps us to cope, and it helps us to find beauty in horror. Thank you, Elton, for this.
OMG! Please get off your soap box with the "gook" crap. Don't listen if you don't like it. Seems that you now what "gook" means. It is a creative form of expression and it was the '70's.....A wonderful song telling a great STORY with lyrics about a Disturbed boy. Duuh ...understand? I bet you never have seen any porn...
OMG! Please get off your soap box with the "gook" crap. Don't listen if you don't like it. Seems that you now what "gook" means. It is a creative form of expression and it was the '70's.....A wonderful song telling a great story about a Disturbed boy. Duuh ...
Classic, epic song no doubt but i hate the racist term "gook". I guess Bernie and Elton think that is an appropriate word for an Asian person. No it is not and was not when this was written.
an incredible song this. one of his very best. and it's powerful lyrics serve as a lesson for many. I used to play it at full volume on an old LP player mid 1970's..... the mellotron .......
This song is incredible it is as prevalant today as it was in 1974. Yeah it does bring memories of Columbine. But it's a shame tat this has come to pass. do you think that as a society, we have failed so poorly. We have seemed to forget about our kids. There are parents out there that don't take responsibility for our actions. We get far too high. With parents chasing the pipe, or the needle. No wonder our kids are so troubled. We sent all family wage jobs overseas. Wake up people.
Agree with other posts. This song blew me away, troubled me and I loved it. Great music should stir the emotions, even if it is only fun. EJ and his music have done this way more than most.
I remember the first time I ever listened to this at 14yo but chills me even more now that I am 50+ and a mother of a young man "who'd never held a gun" ... Bernie Taupin and EJ pure genius
As an 'old dude' I've always loved this song. @dtpac: you need to read up a bit on 'mass murder'...it is not just a modern phenom ... been going on for centuries.
As much as I loved this album when it first came out, I have to say "Worst cover photo ever!!" LOL
My opinion, I dont think a JD would dare play this song today, its far too relevant. Can you imagine, playing this song on the Radio today? The call-ins the station would get.
How dare you, My Father, My Brother, My Sister, My Aunt, my distant cousin twice removed died like this. Many people know someone.
Elton John/Bernie Taupin: What can you say?...Elton's musical and songwriting talents are second to none...let us never forget the words of Bernie Taupin---incredible
Elton and Bernie at their haunting best! This song still gives me chills every time I listen to it. Elton's frenetic piano and pleading vocals; Bernie's precise and piercing poetry. "Hear it... Hear it... Ticking! Ticking!"
This song was not meant to be prophetic. I t was written in the early 70's when the Vietnam War was still going on and young people all across the free world were caught in the middle. Sometimes they chose the wrong way to express themselves. Armed hostage situations like the one portrayed here were not uncommon. Bernie Taupin wasn't imagining a situation like this when he wrote this song; he was reacting to one.
@kitricia Bernie n Elton were not meant to be prophetic, they were meant to be professional. To sing and talk about ne subject. Just as Wolfie and William should have been. But decades seperated them and as usual the words came first. Knee bing by la?
This song wasn't meant to be prophetic. It was written in the early 70's when the Vietnam war was still going on and there was a tremendous amount of turbulence in the world especially for people in their late teens and early 20's. Gun fueled hostage situations were not uncommon then. The major difference was that the ones weilding the guns weren't school children.
This song is very haunting. A great piec from Bernie and Elton...It is sad when people get so crazy and they snap.Like Colubine,Virginia Tech and what happened in Tucson earlier this month...extremely disturbing..
Can't get this out of my head, since yesterday. Our prayers go out to Rep. Giffords and her family, and the families of those killed in Tucson 1/8/11.
Everyone has known a person at some time or another that you think, "wow, they're like this far away from climbing to the top of a clock tower with a gun." I call them tower people.
It is without doubt the best song They ever wrote, the best piano, the best lyrics, and i don't even give god, or the devil, a capital letter...................
This song is awesome!! Taupin is one of the greatest rock and roll songwriters. There is pure genius in his work, and it shows in this song. I was lucky enough to hear Elton perform it live back in 1982 in San Francisco. What a show!!!!!!!!!!
It strikes me this would make an interesting pair with American Triangle, aspects of painful individual and social problems, both still very relevant. It's a powerful haunting song.
I remember my older brother and sister had this, and when they were gone, I'd listen very carefully to songs on Caribou like this. The lyrics were in the album sleeve. I was really young, like 5-6 and would spend hours in the room downstairs listening and re-listening to these songs. At the same time, the church introduced God to me. I immediately recognized that as tradition, and these songs as real.
(contined...) I'm 42 now, and the song still gives me the chills. I think it would have an even greater impact if there was only Elton singing, instead of backup, because to me, that would give the listener more of a sense of the boy character's isolation. Anyway, killer song. He never sings it at concerts, though.
The theme to this song reminds me "Jeremy" by Pearl Jam.
This song used to scare the SHIT outa me back when I was about 11-12 years old, having gotten 'Caribou.' I tried to avoid listening to it as a result of that fear, but would play it on occasion in morbid fascination.
It seems that all of Elton John's music takes me back...timeless!! One of his many,many great songs ever written! What an ear for music..along with the lyrics of Bernie Taupin...just amazing!
I wish that I could write songs like this. I have been trying to since my 14 year old days of closed eyes pretending on the side of my bed listening to my new beaut hmv stereo. Thanks Elcie.
Incredible... haven't heard the song in over 20 years and up it popped.... and every lyric and nuance on the piano all came flooding back. Amazing tune. And let's give credit where credit is due ! Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics.
This, and 'The Ballad Of Danny Bailey' from 'Yellowbrick Road' are among my very favorite EJ songs...There was a magic in the FM rock of the 70's, and this man sat high upon that throne...From 'Empty Sky' to 'Rock Of The Westies', I was a fanatic...After that, I lost interest, for that magic seemed to be lost : (
i bought this album when i was a teen, and could absolutely relate to the lyrics. it's just so very sad that this sort of damage occurs to the human psyche. teens seem to be particularly vulnerable. i don't think they feel more than "adults"; they just don't know how to numb themselves.....
Ticking...great song...Caribou...great album...Caribou...One of my favorite EJ albums. I listened to this album so many times during my freshman year of college...It's definitely a Winter season album for me...but it's true - you never hear much about this album.
that this song is prophetic cannot be denied. look at what's come since 1973 or '74, whichever year Caribou was released. I forget, been too long. Mass murders galore by troubled young people are no longer surprising these days. I can see this song pre-dating Columbine and Virginia Tech...
@dtpac i never looked at this song that way...I listened to it as a loss to loving parents.... but yes, you are so right. this song was prophetic. troubled youth, shootings, gang fights...these days, what's new? ( I was 14 then...50 now).
@dtpac sad, but true... actually saw him perform this live once... no one around me knew the song... at that moment I knew I was a true Elton John fan.
@crazytribefan you know I read a review of Caribou many years ago, which claimed the album was one great song (Don't Let The Sun Go Down on Me) plus a bunch of useless filler. That reviewer was a moron, and, unlike you, NOT a true Elton fan...
@dtpac yeah, I don't much like "sun going down" and from what i've read elton didn't think it much good himself, yet it's caught on. so many much better songs by elton.
@dtpac You know I mentioned Columbine the other day to my niece and her 12 year old friend, and they had no idea what I was talking about. I hopped online and showed them pics and they were horrified, much like I was watching it fold out on tv that day. I remember having tears streaming down my face, and being disgusted at the indifference of my 17 year old sisters.
@dtpac Hardly prophetic since it was a song based on an incident in the UKwhere a grown man shot a few people where he worked -- the true prophet was Bob Geldoff with his "I don't Like Mondays."
I have been listening to this song since the 70s in Oyster bay,long Island and it still gives me chillies, The story and the music and the piano are flawless.And only a few people ever even heard this song.Vincent (spoons58)Scimeca
In the 70's there was a shooting at Olean (NY) High School - supposedly the shooter listened to this song - some of it applied to him (as it does to a lot of us). Just a rumor, but it made the song "risky" to listen to.
CyndiWinter 5 days ago
elton you are diferent the all
josetmiranda 1 week ago
The word negro is not racist . . . otherwise they wouldn't be able to seel black beans in the supermarket.
macbeth870 2 weeks ago
For my sister Jackie, the Best Elton John Fan Ever. Miss you Sister, Sister!
TheCynthia1963 2 weeks ago
Haunting piano , lyrics and arrangement. This song has always given me chills.
midtownjohn 4 weeks ago
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hudshsoft 1 month ago
Do any of you idiots really think, that of any artist, Elton would put down a certain race. How about when he says a Negro waiter, Do you really think he is a racist. Damn, please.
bretthejet60 1 month ago
I agree the piano piece is superb. This song really gets you thinking in many different directions about our purpose. My question is why don't they ever play it on the radio in America...I think it scares too many people and its says negro in it. Is that censorship or are we in N. Korea or China.
shawnearth9 2 months ago
Such an emotional song!
lyonslaforet 2 months ago
Extremely emotional piano work. Simply brilliant.
Berthagertrude 3 months ago
aint no one that can play like Reggie can! this whole album is awesome and a classic that none can compare to!
dawnlauffer 3 months ago 2
This song brings to mind my brother's suicide, an impulsive act without meaning that destroyed the lives of every member of my family. It's a song that brings tears to my eyes, and to the eyes of my sister, and that also proves to me the worth of true art. Art makes us remember, it helps us to cope, and it helps us to find beauty in horror. Thank you, Elton, for this.
sonic1971va 3 months ago 4
OMG! Please get off your soap box with the "gook" crap. Don't listen if you don't like it. Seems that you now what "gook" means. It is a creative form of expression and it was the '70's.....A wonderful song telling a great STORY with lyrics about a Disturbed boy. Duuh ...understand? I bet you never have seen any porn...
:)
abeartrap 3 months ago
OMG! Please get off your soap box with the "gook" crap. Don't listen if you don't like it. Seems that you now what "gook" means. It is a creative form of expression and it was the '70's.....A wonderful song telling a great story about a Disturbed boy. Duuh ...
abeartrap 3 months ago
Classic, epic song no doubt but i hate the racist term "gook". I guess Bernie and Elton think that is an appropriate word for an Asian person. No it is not and was not when this was written.
shire2005 3 months ago
an incredible song this. one of his very best. and it's powerful lyrics serve as a lesson for many. I used to play it at full volume on an old LP player mid 1970's..... the mellotron .......
fransam1961 3 months ago 2
An absolute fucking masterpiece!
TIMOTHYSAARINEN 4 months ago 16
Well my Father Loved this song so much (I guess) because he named me after it...
rickcranfill 4 months ago
@rickcranfill He named you 'TICKHEAD'?.... id kill him!
leonakita 3 months ago
YES. WAKE UP PEOPLE
Andy1Emcee 4 months ago
This song is incredible it is as prevalant today as it was in 1974. Yeah it does bring memories of Columbine. But it's a shame tat this has come to pass. do you think that as a society, we have failed so poorly. We have seemed to forget about our kids. There are parents out there that don't take responsibility for our actions. We get far too high. With parents chasing the pipe, or the needle. No wonder our kids are so troubled. We sent all family wage jobs overseas. Wake up people.
guitarman82656 5 months ago
and to think this was written in 1974....
LaBelleMichele 5 months ago
Powerful tragic EPIC song
davgabe 5 months ago 2
@davgabe yes and you use the word EPIC as it should be. Thank you.
092AC 5 months ago 2
Agree with other posts. This song blew me away, troubled me and I loved it. Great music should stir the emotions, even if it is only fun. EJ and his music have done this way more than most.
whoboy62 6 months ago
"...with tearful eyes, you killed"
coffeecoffee25 6 months ago
I remember the first time I ever listened to this at 14yo but chills me even more now that I am 50+ and a mother of a young man "who'd never held a gun" ... Bernie Taupin and EJ pure genius
092AC 6 months ago
This song stunned me as a teenager, and as a adult it never fails to grab my attention and make me cry. Mozart couldnt do any better.
heathenwolf1 6 months ago
"Now you'll never get to Heaven - Mama Said. Remember Mama Said....."
This is a meloncholy masterpiece.
I knew it when I was 10 years old and now to hear it as an adult is just beautiful.
barbarakroon 6 months ago 2
I died. This song is the best. I knowed in 1974.
guille0162 7 months ago
This would be a great Spinal Tap song
THESOUNDCONSTRUCT 7 months ago
As an 'old dude' I've always loved this song. @dtpac: you need to read up a bit on 'mass murder'...it is not just a modern phenom ... been going on for centuries.
As much as I loved this album when it first came out, I have to say "Worst cover photo ever!!" LOL
gbyrnes51 7 months ago
I love this song so much. Amazing he can make a character like that sympathetic.
coffeecoffee25 7 months ago
Awesome song, 7:49 of magic, thanks for loading *****
rithas777 7 months ago
The best piano improvision and lyrical mix I have ever heard, ever in my meaniingful/less life.
jdg48439 7 months ago
"You crazy boy you'll only wind up with strange notions in yer head, Ticking Ticking.
Like the Oracle in The Matrix after Neo broke the vase.. "Would you have still done it if I hadnt said so?"
rumblewolfne 7 months ago
A "One of a kind" song.
rumblewolfne 7 months ago
My opinion, I dont think a JD would dare play this song today, its far too relevant. Can you imagine, playing this song on the Radio today? The call-ins the station would get.
How dare you, My Father, My Brother, My Sister, My Aunt, my distant cousin twice removed died like this. Many people know someone.
rumblewolfne 7 months ago
Hands down one of my all time favorite songs, Period!
ShnapkrakklePop 7 months ago
My goodness. That's a hard one to swallow. Bernie and Elton. The writer and the player.Of all their tunes,this is my favorite.
zmznzbzvzmznzb 7 months ago
do we all know that bernie taupin wrote these words and elton messed it all
up by truning guy
MrWilliammorris33 8 months ago
@MrWilliammorris33 Well, aren't you a bright boy? (not)
gbyrnes51 7 months ago
This song is genius. Pure genius. How does he do it??????
flurdalee 8 months ago
Oh, you danced in DEATH like a marienett - on the vengence of the law! -- powerful lyrics
goefursewf 9 months ago 2
Reminds me of my life, on the brink, at all times.
gr8wazoo 9 months ago
Elton John/Bernie Taupin: What can you say?...Elton's musical and songwriting talents are second to none...let us never forget the words of Bernie Taupin---incredible
Digger2527 9 months ago 4
Elton and Bernie at their haunting best! This song still gives me chills every time I listen to it. Elton's frenetic piano and pleading vocals; Bernie's precise and piercing poetry. "Hear it... Hear it... Ticking! Ticking!"
blindichi 10 months ago 3
@blindichi EXACTLY!!! I almost envy them their extreme talent. The music, his piano playing with the lyrics, it"s incredible!!
flurdalee 8 months ago
May not agree with his life style but he sure can play a piano. I think this song shows just how good he is on the keys.
rickcw14 10 months ago
Someone called the police....
Ferguccio 11 months ago
Can this guy play piano or what? Wha t a musician.
lugags 11 months ago 3
This song was not meant to be prophetic. I t was written in the early 70's when the Vietnam War was still going on and young people all across the free world were caught in the middle. Sometimes they chose the wrong way to express themselves. Armed hostage situations like the one portrayed here were not uncommon. Bernie Taupin wasn't imagining a situation like this when he wrote this song; he was reacting to one.
kitricia 1 year ago 4
@kitricia Bernie n Elton were not meant to be prophetic, they were meant to be professional. To sing and talk about ne subject. Just as Wolfie and William should have been. But decades seperated them and as usual the words came first. Knee bing by la?
tsardooka 11 months ago 3
This song wasn't meant to be prophetic. It was written in the early 70's when the Vietnam war was still going on and there was a tremendous amount of turbulence in the world especially for people in their late teens and early 20's. Gun fueled hostage situations were not uncommon then. The major difference was that the ones weilding the guns weren't school children.
kitricia 1 year ago 2
crazy boy you will only wind up with strange notions in your head........hello!
tsardooka 1 year ago
This song is very haunting. A great piec from Bernie and Elton...It is sad when people get so crazy and they snap.Like Colubine,Virginia Tech and what happened in Tucson earlier this month...extremely disturbing..
LBjim 1 year ago
O my gosh, this song is driving me insane. I'm trying to learn it so bad, but it's so hard and it won't get out of my head
Smitt96Productions 1 year ago
Can't get this out of my head, since yesterday. Our prayers go out to Rep. Giffords and her family, and the families of those killed in Tucson 1/8/11.
rkevinhill 1 year ago
when i heard this song, i thought of charles whitman and mark essex. this is one of elton john's most underrated songs.
owg59 1 year ago
,,,, no doubt. Elton / Bernie at their absolute best.
A tremendous lyric..... a tremendous piano piece.
A tremendous part of music history.......
aonechicago 1 year ago 12
Everyone has known a person at some time or another that you think, "wow, they're like this far away from climbing to the top of a clock tower with a gun." I call them tower people.
IronCladLady8 1 year ago 2
Love this song. People should pay attention.
IronCladLady8 1 year ago 3
Elton's second-best album -- second to Captain Fantastic, the greatest album ever released.
joeypolanski 1 year ago 6
@joeypolanski yep
kuzaliwa 10 months ago
@joeypolanski
No way! They made the thing in just 9 days! This album is not as good as most of the Elton John albums from the 70s. This song is classic though.
shire2005 3 months ago
"Screaming for a priest"....
muskokan59 1 year ago
This song plus Country Comfort nails Taupin and Elton as good as anyone.
Dradoc 1 year ago
It is without doubt the best song They ever wrote, the best piano, the best lyrics, and i don't even give god, or the devil, a capital letter...................
tsardooka 1 year ago
This song is awesome!! Taupin is one of the greatest rock and roll songwriters. There is pure genius in his work, and it shows in this song. I was lucky enough to hear Elton perform it live back in 1982 in San Francisco. What a show!!!!!!!!!!
sld4907 1 year ago
Bernie Taupin... one of the best lyricists EVER. Elton was at his best w/Bernie writing for/with him.
juniper709 1 year ago 2
This album I played every morning before going to work in Hollywood, Touched all feelings and every avenue............
sirwolfgang 1 year ago 2
It strikes me this would make an interesting pair with American Triangle, aspects of painful individual and social problems, both still very relevant. It's a powerful haunting song.
mizofan 1 year ago
I remember my older brother and sister had this, and when they were gone, I'd listen very carefully to songs on Caribou like this. The lyrics were in the album sleeve. I was really young, like 5-6 and would spend hours in the room downstairs listening and re-listening to these songs. At the same time, the church introduced God to me. I immediately recognized that as tradition, and these songs as real.
mariojragucci2 1 year ago
i listen to this one over and over, so much to hear, so much to miss in only one listen
tattoofthesun 1 year ago
Ive been sreamin for a priest all my life, they mean to do you harm.
Don't ever ride on the devils knee, mama said....
Bernie .....
tsardooka 1 year ago 4
"You've slept too long in silence, Mama said..."
composer333 1 year ago 2
Goosebumps... I got goosebumps during the chorus. Ticking, ticking......
vveq 1 year ago
(contined...) I'm 42 now, and the song still gives me the chills. I think it would have an even greater impact if there was only Elton singing, instead of backup, because to me, that would give the listener more of a sense of the boy character's isolation. Anyway, killer song. He never sings it at concerts, though.
The theme to this song reminds me "Jeremy" by Pearl Jam.
rem2267 1 year ago
@rem2267 It's very difficult to play and, in my opinion, it's the piano masterpiece of Elton John the strength of this song.
matteodinenno 1 year ago 3
This song used to scare the SHIT outa me back when I was about 11-12 years old, having gotten 'Caribou.' I tried to avoid listening to it as a result of that fear, but would play it on occasion in morbid fascination.
p.s.: I LIVE in Queens!
rem2267 1 year ago 3
It seems that all of Elton John's music takes me back...timeless!! One of his many,many great songs ever written! What an ear for music..along with the lyrics of Bernie Taupin...just amazing!
mkismet87 1 year ago
Freakin' Awesome.......'nuf said!
kreebers 1 year ago 2
I wish that I could write songs like this. I have been trying to since my 14 year old days of closed eyes pretending on the side of my bed listening to my new beaut hmv stereo. Thanks Elcie.
tsardooka 1 year ago
elton john is one of the best things that ever happened to music. period.
thelooperz44 1 year ago 35
amazing song right up there with tiny dancer Daniel levon your song mona lisas and mad hatters ( of you haven't hears it you need to)
grey seal
jbell0243 1 year ago
amazing song
up there with tiny dancer, daniel,Levon,your song, Mina lisas and mad hatters( if
jbell0243 1 year ago
Oh you danced in death like a marionette on the vengeance of the law.....
Opalwitley 1 year ago 2
Incredible... haven't heard the song in over 20 years and up it popped.... and every lyric and nuance on the piano all came flooding back. Amazing tune. And let's give credit where credit is due ! Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics.
TacomaPaul 1 year ago 2
It's such a great song, isn't it?
Opalwitley 1 year ago
This, and 'The Ballad Of Danny Bailey' from 'Yellowbrick Road' are among my very favorite EJ songs...There was a magic in the FM rock of the 70's, and this man sat high upon that throne...From 'Empty Sky' to 'Rock Of The Westies', I was a fanatic...After that, I lost interest, for that magic seemed to be lost : (
wisterlane58 1 year ago
More and More of this crap is happening.
People are losing it, they are broke, tired,
life has given them nothing. We have to care for everyone.
bubbette1 2 years ago 2
WOW What descriptive words
mindguy46 2 years ago
story of my life
tsardooka 2 years ago
its surprising how many people have never heard this song , one of EJ best glad to see it on youtube , thanks for posting
jimmydoit 2 years ago
i bought this album when i was a teen, and could absolutely relate to the lyrics. it's just so very sad that this sort of damage occurs to the human psyche. teens seem to be particularly vulnerable. i don't think they feel more than "adults"; they just don't know how to numb themselves.....
flipt193 2 years ago 2
that's very good, good way of putting it, probably sad but true
kristoferfer 2 years ago
Ticking...great song...Caribou...great album...Caribou...One of my favorite EJ albums. I listened to this album so many times during my freshman year of college...It's definitely a Winter season album for me...but it's true - you never hear much about this album.
TjKU 2 years ago
This is without a doubt one of the best !!
Prophetic ,without a doubt.
muskokan59 2 years ago
1st time hearing the recorded version if i recall...this totally cud've been a hit!
Iruotnem 2 years ago
that this song is prophetic cannot be denied. look at what's come since 1973 or '74, whichever year Caribou was released. I forget, been too long. Mass murders galore by troubled young people are no longer surprising these days. I can see this song pre-dating Columbine and Virginia Tech...
dtpac 2 years ago 13
@dtpac i never looked at this song that way...I listened to it as a loss to loving parents.... but yes, you are so right. this song was prophetic. troubled youth, shootings, gang fights...these days, what's new? ( I was 14 then...50 now).
thordoggie 1 year ago
@thordoggie Thanks, thordoggie. Intentional or not, this "filler" song on Caribou carries extreme foresight.
dtpac 1 year ago
@dtpac sad, but true... actually saw him perform this live once... no one around me knew the song... at that moment I knew I was a true Elton John fan.
crazytribefan 1 year ago 3
@crazytribefan you know I read a review of Caribou many years ago, which claimed the album was one great song (Don't Let The Sun Go Down on Me) plus a bunch of useless filler. That reviewer was a moron, and, unlike you, NOT a true Elton fan...
dtpac 1 year ago
@dtpac definately a moron, this was a great album... so many great songs!
crazytribefan 1 year ago
@dtpac yeah, I don't much like "sun going down" and from what i've read elton didn't think it much good himself, yet it's caught on. so many much better songs by elton.
chapaev36 1 year ago
@dtpac You know I mentioned Columbine the other day to my niece and her 12 year old friend, and they had no idea what I was talking about. I hopped online and showed them pics and they were horrified, much like I was watching it fold out on tv that day. I remember having tears streaming down my face, and being disgusted at the indifference of my 17 year old sisters.
IronCladLady8 1 year ago
@dtpac Hardly prophetic since it was a song based on an incident in the UKwhere a grown man shot a few people where he worked -- the true prophet was Bob Geldoff with his "I don't Like Mondays."
goomaGracie 1 year ago 2
@dtpac I can`t write it off as "troubled" Whoever would go on a well thought out murder spree deserves a bullet in the spine
LordGandor3 9 months ago
@dtpac You got it perfectly!!
samson3ful 4 months ago
Love this!!!
wireless6 2 years ago
My Fave. Artist
Saxonire 2 years ago
This is Elton Johns Greattess song ever,
toatally under rated without a question.
This song gives me chilles everytime I
hear it,still for 35 year.....
TheSpoons58 2 years ago 2
I have been listening to this song since the 70s in Oyster bay,long Island and it still gives me chillies, The story and the music and the piano are flawless.And only a few people ever even heard this song.Vincent (spoons58)Scimeca
TheSpoons58 2 years ago 2
Awesome... Thanks!
N4CFoursquare 2 years ago 3