Elton John
Your Song
i don’t have a sugar daddy, but love, if i did
i’d buy a big house where
we all could live
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
“And after the races he’ll take me to dinner and dancing again, and on Thursday to the tennis matches, and on Sunday to the country. What a waste of time, dear Jacques. What a hopeless waste of time.”
”He’s attractive, and he’s nice, and I’d like to warn him, but he wouldn’t understand, that I can’t feel anything he might be interested in because I’m surrounded by a wall, an invisible wall made of memories I can’t lose.”
”Amie qui me ressembles
Tu est le seul miroir
Où je peux contempler ma jeunesse
Bonjour tristesse”
”Wait! Let’s smell the day!”
”What makes you think it’s a ‘he’?”
”Why else would she run?”
”To live you must be drunk on something. Love, money, success, failure, even whiskey, but something.”
”But it’s summer, Raymond, and I am as suspicious of summer as I am of you.”
”So here I am, surrounded by my wall of memory. I try to stop remembering, but I can’t. And so often I wonder when he’s alone, is he remembering too? I hope not.”
”My smile is void of laughter
My kiss has no caress
I'm faithful to my lover
My bitter-sweet tristesse”
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Sleeping At Last
One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, You Are Enough
Of all the ways I could be better, in my mind
A mess of a story I'm ashamed to tell
lost my balance when I needed it most
the blurry photograph
Of what I’m not sure, feels like truth
As if I could earn God's favour given time
My greatest failures with an asterisk, utterly worthy of love
I want to watch the universe expand
already brave enough to let go
I want to be here
Truly. Be. Here
Even the darkest of nights
there will be light
waiting behind
As if I could let myself be seen
A sanctuary I was made
When everything feels heavy, I've learned to travel light
I will love you without a single string attached
do not call me a victim
you have not-
i am no less a victim than you are
you cannot-
i have broke at far worse
i have broke at far worse
do not call me a victim
you have never-
you will never-