Elderberry Wine
Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Available on the album Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player
There's a fly in the window
A dog in the yard
And a year since I saw you
There's a trunk in the corner
I keep all my letters
My bills and demands I keep too
Well I can't help thinking
About the times
You were a wife of mine
You aimed to please me
Cooked black-eyed peas-me
Made elderberry wine
Drunk all the time
Feeling fine on elderberry wine
Those were the days
We'd lay in the haze
Forget depressive times
How can I ever get it together
Without a wife in line
To pick the crop and get me hot
On elderberry wine
Round a tree in the summer
A fire in the fall
Flat out when they couldn't stand
The bottle went round
Like a woman down south
Passed on from hand to hand
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those hours... those memories
the feelings that we shared
loyalty has become meaningless
in relation to what you've dared
in relation to what you've dared!
i needed someone to talk to
someone who had faith in me
now there's no one i can turn to
without risking my integrity
you got no soul
no respect for the other
you never cared
so why should i bother?
why should i bother?
i gave you all i had to give
couldn't give you all you needed
you cut me open
watched me as i bleeded
it's easy to forgive
but it's so hard to forget
it's easier
the feelings that we shared
loyalty has become meaningless
in relation to what you've dared
in relation to what you've dared!
i needed someone to talk to
someone who had faith in me
now there's no one i can turn to
without risking my integrity
you got no soul
no respect for the other
you never cared
so why should i bother?
why should i bother?
i gave you all i had to give
couldn't give you all you needed
you cut me open
watched me as i bleeded
it's easy to forgive
but it's so hard to forget
it's easier