Mandalay Again

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2010

Elton John/Leon Russell Songs Illustrated

THE UNION

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Mandalay Again

Music & lyrics by Elton John, Leon Russell & Bernie Taupin 2010

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Rules and regulations

And real estate are things I've left behind

Flights are always leaving

Silver wings unfolding on a dime

But I won't forget to tell you

If I could reconnect the line

I never really knew you

But come back I'd like to find the time

 

 

Drugs and consequences

And ferris wheels just took us up and down

Fights were always brewing

Two perfect understudies for a clown

If I could piece it all together

Or maybe find you through a friend

Last I heard it was St. Louis

But I wish that it was Mandalay again

 

Come back I'd like to find the time

Plant a seed and raise a little Cain

Come back we'll throw a rope around the moon

And pretend that we're in Mandalay again

 

 

Fuel and information

Are Siamese twins who poison everything

Lies that left us drowning

Rumor that burned like gasoline

I could have read you like a book

But instead I acted dumb and blind

I was younger then and foolish

Come back I'd like to find the time

 

 

If it wasn't in the afterglow of wine

Or the chatter of some European girl

I'd have understood that after all these years

There were those who chose to separate our worlds

Separate our worlds

Done