High Flying Bird

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2011

Elton John Songs Illustrated

DON'T SHOOT ME I'M ONLY THE PIANO PLAYER

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High Flying Bird

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1972

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You wore a little cross of gold around your neck

I saw it as you flew between my reason

Like a raven in the night time when you left

I wear a chain upon my wrist that bears no name

You touched it and you wore it

And you kept it in your pillow all the same

 

My high-flying bird has flown from out my arms

I thought myself her keeper

She thought I meant her harm

She thought I was the archer

A weather man of words

But I could never shoot down

My high-flying bird

 

The white walls of your dressing room are stained in scarlet red

You bled upon the cold stone like a young man

In the foreign field of death

Wouldn't it be wonderful is all I heard you say

You never closed your eyes at night and learned to love daylight

Instead you moved away

Done