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Elton John Songs Illustrated
HONKY CHATEAU
Hercules
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1972
WV1913/2024
"As far as my eyes can see
There are shadows approaching me
And to those I left behind, I wanted you to know
You've always shared my deepest thoughts
You follow where I go
And oh, when I'm old and wise
Bitter words mean little to me
Autumn winds will blow right through me
And someday in the mist of time
When they asked me if I knew you
I'd smile and say you were a friend of mine..."
OLD AND WISE - The Alan Parsons Project, 1982
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Pink Floyd Songs Illustrated
WISH YOU WERE HERE
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Have A Cigar
Music & lyrics by Pink Floyd, Roger Waters 1975
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Come in here, Dear boy, have a cigar.
You're gonna go far,
You're gonna fly high,
You're never gonna die,
You're gonna make it, if you try;
They're gonna love you.
Well I've always had a deep respect,
And I mean that most sincerely.
The band is just fantastic,
that is really what I think.
Oh by the way, which one's Pink?
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
We call it Riding the Gravy Train.
We're just knocked out.
We heard about the sell-out.
You gotta get an album out.
You owe it to the people.
We're so happy we can hardly count.
Everybody else is just green,
Have you seen the chart?
It's a hell of a start,
It could be made into a monster
If we all pull together as a team.
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
We call it Riding the Gravy Train.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Elton John Songs Illustrated
VICTIM OF LOVE
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Born Bad
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Pete Bellotte 1979
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You've been crying
And there ain't no use denying
It was me
Who put you through this misery
And I'd like to say I'm sorry
But I can't, no I can't
Nothing's gonna change me
Baby, that's the way I am
I was born bad
Always been the same, yes I was born bad
Never gonna change 'cause I was born bad
Only me to blame 'cause I was born bad
Yes I was born bad
Always been my habit, I was born bad
Just can't seem to help it, I was born bad
Always gonna happen, I was born bad
'Cause I was born bad
I mistreat you
And you know I always cheat you
But that's me
And that's the it's always been
And I'd like to say I'm sorry
But I can't, no I can't
Nothing's gonna change me
Baby, that's the way I am
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
"In search for Peter Pan..."
Kate Bush Songs Illustrated
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WOW
Music & lyrics by Kate Bush
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We're all alone on the stage tonight
We've been told we're not afraid of you
We know all our lines so well, ah-ha
We've said them so many times
Time and time again
Line and line again
"Ooh yeah, you're amazing
We think you're incredible"
You say we're fantastic
But still we don't head the bill
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow
Unbelievable
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow
Unbelievable
When the actor reaches his death
You know it's not for real, he just holds his breath
But he always dives too soon
Too fast to save himself
He'll never make the screen
He'll never make "The Sweeney"
Be that movie queen
He's too busy hitting the Vaseline
"Ooh yeah you're amazing
We think you are really cool
We'd give you a part my love
But you'd have to play the fool"
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow
Unbelievable
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow
Unbelievable
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow
Unbelievable
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow
Unbelievable
We’re all alone on the stage tonight
We’re all alone on the stage tonight
Old76 Music-inspired DArt
Original coloured pencils on paper and digital BW reworked...
"Oh - thinking about all our younger years
There was only you and me
We were young and wild and free..."
("Heaven", Bryan Adams 1984)
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
"Everytime I see her face
On the street in the hollow of on the hill
Another time and another place
I feel her in my heart still
Everytime I see her face
On the street in the hollow in the bend
I see her in my mind and then
I go down the road not taken...again "
(Bruce Hornsby & The range, 1988)
WV306
1996
"Hey old friends, it has been such a long long time..."
Coloured pencil on Steinbach paper...
Old76 Music-inspired 2013
Neil Diamond Songs Illustrated
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SWEET CAROLINE
Music & lyrics by Neil Diamond 1969
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Where it began
I can't begin to knowin'
But then I know it's growin' strong
Was in the spring
And spring became a summer
Who'd have believed you'd come along
Hands, touchin' hands
Reachin' out
Touchin' me
Touchin' you
Sweet Caroline
Good times never seemed so good
I've been inclined
To believe they never would
But now I
Look at the night
And it don't seem so lonely
We fill it up with only two
And when I hurt
Hurtin' runs off my shoulders
How can I hurt when holdin' you
Warm, touchin' warm
Reachin' out
Touchin' me
Touchin' you
Sweet Caroline
Good times never seemed so good
I've been inclined
To believe they never would
Oh,Lord, no
Sweet Caroline
Good times never seemed so good
Sweet Caroline
I believed they never could
Sweet Caroline
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
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
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
Elton John Songs Illustrated
RARE MASTERS
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Planes
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1975
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Oh Jessie I'd like to be
One of those men upon the screen
With an elegant lady and a cafe in Paris
Serving Pernot and Kalua with cream
You can see it I know
All the doors have been closed in my face
And the drinks at the Casbah
Run a mile or more from this place
And oh Jessie won't you look at the planes
Tell me, oh Jessie, is it true what they say
That there's a capital G in the name of the game
And the runway's a home for my silver-grey planes
And won't you look at the planes
Riding down the skyway
Jessie ain't those wings just fine
Don't it make you want to fly someday
Why friend am I so still
Tied to my job with time to kill
Do I still bear the traces of old Don Quixote
Tilting giants on imaginary hills
WV1659
2010
"Are we really happy with
This lonely game we play
Looking for the right words to say
Searching but not finding
Understanding anyway
We're lost in this masquerade..."
(Leon Russell lyrics)
Coloured pencil and ink on $teinbach paper
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Part 2 of the "Wonderful Tonight" saga...
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WONDERFUL TONIGHT
Music & lyrics by Eric Clapton 1977
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It's late in the evening; she's wondering what clothes to wear.
She puts on her make-up and brushes her long black hair.
And then she asks me, "Do I look all right?"
And I say, "Yes, you look wonderful tonight."
We go to a party and everyone turns to see
This beautiful lady that's walking around with me.
And then she asks me, "Do you feel all right?"
And I say, "Yes, I feel wonderful tonight."
I feel wonderful because I see
The love light in your eyes.
And the wonder of it all
Is that you just don't realize how much I love you.
It's time to go home now and I've got an aching head,
So I give her the car keys and she helps me to bed.
And then I tell her, as I turn out the light,
I say, "My darling, you were wonderful tonight.
Oh my darling, you were wonderful tonight."
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2011
Elton John Songs Illustrated
DON'T SHOOT ME, I'M ONLY THE PIANO PLAYER
Midnight Creeper
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1972
"Walk a mile in my tennis shoes..."
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2014
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I CAN'T TELL YOU WHY
The Eagles 1979
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Look at us baby, up all night, tearing our love apart
Weren't we the same two people who lived through years in the dark? Oh, oh
Every time I try to walk away,
Something makes me turn around and stay
And I can't tell you why
When we get crazy, it just ain't right
(Got to keep your head, little girl)
Girl, I get lonely too
You don't have to worry, just hold on tight
(Don't get caught in your little world)
'Cause I love you
Nothing's wrong as far as I can see
We make it harder than it has to be
And I can't tell you why
No, baby, I can't tell you why
I can't tell you why
Every time I try to walk away,
Something makes me turn around and stay
And I can't tell you why
No baby, I can't tell you why
I can't tell you why
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
Elton John Songs Illustrated
A SINGLE MAN
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Shine On Through
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Gary Osborne 1978
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Oh my love
I have cursed the stars above
That lead my heart to you
But as hard as I try
Still my love will not die
And the stars still shine on through
And the stars still shine on through
Oh my dear
Now this ship's too hard to steer
The tide has turned, turned on you
I have been through the lies
That I've seen in your eyes
But the truth still shines on through
But the truth it still shines, shines on through
So shine, shine on through the days we have to fill
Though we took our love so daringly
And gave it up uncaringly
There are feelings left not even we can kill
Oh my friend
So at last we reach the end
The lights go down on cue
I have wasted my time
But it tasted oh so fine
That my love still shines, shines on through
And my love still shines, shines on you
WV303
1996
"Hey, that's her, and she's mine
Look don't touch 'cause lookin' I don't mind
See that girl lookin' so fine?
Ya that's her, and she's mine!"
(Little Feat lyrics)
Coloured pencil on Steinbach paper
WV745
2004
Tara
Coloured pencil on Steinbach paper inspired by the cover of "Avalon" by Roxy Music 1982.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Pink Floyd Songs Illustrated
THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
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Brain Damage
Music & lyrics by Pink Floyd, Roger Waters 1973
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The lunatic is on the grass.
The lunatic is on the grass.
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs.
Got to keep the loonies on the path.
The lunatic is in the hall.
The lunatics are in my hall.
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more.
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
The lunatic is in my head.
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane.
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There's someone in my head but it's not me.
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear.
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
Elton John Songs Illustrated
BLUE MOVES
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Someone's Final Song
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1976
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He died when the house was empty
When the maid had gone
He put a pen to paper for one final song
He wrote -
Oh babe, it's the only way
I know it's wrong but I can't stand
To go on living, to go on living, living life this way
And I don't know what the time is
Or what the next line is
Or how you're going to take the news
But if I had my life again
I wouldn't change a thing
I'd let nobody, I'd let nobody
Stand inside my shoes
Something's gotten hold of me
This home is not the home it used to be
I've gathered dust like the dying flowers
And I've drunk myself sober
After hours and hours
After hours and hours
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
"Must have found a secret place
Hiding in our own world
Must have counted every smile on your sweet, sweet lips
Every single sound we heard...
Every month means a little something
But OCTOBER is the month that cares"
Lyrics Bernie Taupin "January" 1997
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
Elton John Songs Illustrated
LADY SAMANTHA & Co.
Lady Samantha
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1968
Old76 Music-inspired DArt 2012
Elton John Songs Illustrated
THE CAPTAIN AND THE KID
Blues Never Fade Away
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 2006
WV2036/2025
Coloured pencils faber-castell and ink on Steinbach paper.
".... the Sisters of the Cross
Seek the shadows that they have lost
In the walls where their lives
Are protected by God
But the feeling of love
Is somewhere in your bones
Your body is wasted
When it should have been owned....."
SISTERS OF THE CROSS - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1971.
WV1117
2008
AZ
"He died when the house was empty
When the maid had gone
He put a pen to paper for one final song..."
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin, Blue Moves 1976)
Coloured pencil on $teinbach paper
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Elton John Songs Illustrated
SLEEPING WITH THE PAST
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Amazes Me
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1989
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You're a cool little one
My dark southern breeze
Sweeps through my fingers
And it amazes me
Dixie shadowland
Your envy shelters me
Lay down your burden
Mystery of ebony
And it amazes me
Oh it amazes me
Maybe the heat babe could be this tune
It amazes me
It amazes me
What drives me crazy is that big fat yellow moon
Look up that pale light
Well she's waking the trees
I'm drifting in your hoodoo
And it amazes me
That magnolia state
Got a hold on me
I got no blues to preach
Just Mississippi company
Ain't no magic potion
No gri-gri on her side
She's bound to my salvation
Sweet little mama
Take me down by the river tonight
And it amazes me
WV813
2005
... With Julia
"Julia, Julia, oceanchild, calls me
So I sing a song of love, Julia.
Julia, seashell eyes, windy smile, calls me
So I sing a song of love, Julia..."
(The Beatles, 1968)
Coloured pencil on Steinbach paper
WV1245
2008
AZ
"I'm a light world away
From the people who make me stay
Surfing on the BAD SIDE OF THE MOON"
Coloured pencil on $teinbach
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Leon Russell Songs Illustrated
CARNY
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This Masquerade
Music & lyrics by Leon Russell 1976
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Are we really happy
With this lonely game we play?
Looking for words to say
Searching but not finding
Understanding anywhere
We're lost in this masquerade
Both afraid to say
We're just to far away
From being close together
From the start
We tried to talk it over
But the words got in the way
We're lost inside
This lonely game we play
Thoughts of weeping
Disappear every time
I see your eyes
No matter how hard I try
To understand the reasons
That we carry on this way
We're lost in a masquerade
We could just start over
But it's oh so, hard to do
When you're lost in a masquerade