The Wide-eyed And Laughing

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2011

Original watercolour and ink on Steinbach paper, digital reworked...

 

Elton John Songs Illustrated

BLUE MOVES

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The Wide-eyed And Laughing

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1976

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Are you still in control of the boat that you row

Or do you still cling to me when its sinking

I never condemned you, I only consoled you

When candlelight made me a King

 

 

For the wide-eyed and laughing

Passed like a season

Erasing a passion to sin

For no one knew better than the tealeaves and the tarots

That the wide-eyed and laughing

Were just one step ahead of the wind

 

 

And the hearts that you played on the porch swing for me

Was a song that I'd heard in the past

For I had an audience somewhere inside you

That applauded whenever you laughed

 

 

Gone is a word that I now rarely use

Though sometime in the course of a day

I go racing back like a man possessed

By the wide-eyed and laughing daughters of some different age

Done