someone saved my life tonight

[oregonia]

Saved in time, thank God my music's still alive

Инстаграм принес мне песню Джорджа, которую я никогда  не слышала.
1994 год! как так вышло, что запись концерта есть  только такого качества, с монитора на сцене?

Great song- как справедливо заметили в начале.

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 Весь день в голове, Fly away, high away, bye bye. Даже посмотрела, ради того, чтобы ее услышать "Милю лунного света" (кто-то в комментарии написал, что она там есть, но ее нет,  только в трейлере, но есть Song to a siren))

Оказывается, это тоже слова Bernie Taupin'a.  (Tonight, Idol, Don't let the sun go down on me)  Этот Берни пишет такие интересные вещи- вот как здесь: ничего не понятно, но  красиво. Мне кажется, в таком стиле песни писали только в 70х. Длинные, образные,  я это для себя называю "запутываться в словах".

В этот период у Элтона в голосе появилась глубина, или тембр изменился,  таким он мне нравится больше, чем в молодости. Похоже на эпоху Короля-льва. Джордж его подтягивает в fly away, high away и уступает  Bye Bye )

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Someone saved my life tonight

When I think of those East End lights, Muggy nights
The curtains drawn in the little room downstairs
Prima donna Lord you really should have been there
Sitting like a princess perched in her electric chair
And it's one more beer
And I don't hear you anymore
We've all gone crazy lately
My friends out there rolling round the basement floor

And someone saved my life tonight sugar bear
You almost had your hooks in me didn't you dear
You nearly had me roped and tied
Altar-bound, hypnotized
Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
You're a butterfly
And butterflies are free to fly
Fly away, high away bye bye

I never realized the passing hours
Of evening showers
A slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams
I'm strangled by your haunted social scene
Just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen
It's four o'clock in the morning
Damn it listen to me good
I'm sleeping with myself tonight
Saved in time, thank God my music's still alive

And someone saved my life tonight sugar bear
You almost had your hooks in me didn't you dear
You nearly had me roped and tied
Altar-bound, hypnotized
Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
You're a butterfly
And butterflies are free to fly
Fly away, high away bye bye

And I would have walked head on into the deep end the river
Clinging to your stocks and bonds
Paying your H.P. demands forever
They're coming in the morning with a truck to take me home
Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight
Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight
Someone saved my life tonight
So save your strength and run the field you play alone

And someone saved my life tonight sugar bear
You almost had your hooks in me didn't you dear
You nearly had me roped and tied
Altar-bound, hypnotized
Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
You're a butterfly
And butterflies are free to fly
Fly away, high away bye bye