@ALBUM: Misc 1976-1992 (Note: several of the following songs were not transcribed from any official source. There may be errors in cases where ambiguity is possible. If you locate any errors in these songs, please bring them to my attention. Also, if you can add to this list, please feel free. Thank you. (bodohd@rpi.edu) ) ################################################# @SONG: Pinball Wizard - Pete Townshend (released in 1976) Ever since I was a young boy I played the silver ball From Soho down to Brighton I must have played them all But I ain't seen nothing like him in any amusement hall That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball He stands like a statue, becomes part of the machine Feeling all the bumpers, always playing clean Plays by intuition, the digit counters fall That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball He's a pinball wizard, there has to be a twist A pinball wizard's got such a supple wrist How do you think he does it? I don't know What makes him so good? Ain't got no distractions, can't hear no buzzes or bells Don't see lights a-flashing, plays by sense of smell Always gets a replay, never seen him fall That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball I thought I was the Bally table king But I just handed my pinball crown to him Even on my favourite table, he can beat my best His disciples lean him in and he just does the rest He's got crazy flipper fingers, never seen him fall That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball ################################################# @SONG: Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Ann Orson/Carte Blanche (released in 1976) Don't go breaking my heart I couldn't if I tried Honey if I get restless Baby you're not that kind Don't go breaking my heart You take the weight off me Honey when you knock on my door I gave you my key Nobody knows it When I was down I was your clown Nobody knows it Right from the start I gave you my heart I gave you my heart So don't go breaking my heart I won't go breaking your heart Don't go breaking my heart And nobody told us 'Cause nobody showed us And now it's up to us babe I think we can make it So don't misunderstand me You put the light in my life You put the sparks to the flame I've got your heart in my sights ################################################# @SONG: Ego - Elton John/Bernie Taupin (released in 1978) Take a look at me now and take a taste of the money I'm not in it for the bread I'm in it for the gravy, honey Step on the thin ice lightly And check out the show twice nightly 'Cause I'm on the stage tonight and If the price is right I will amaze before the light I crave the light Blinding white I need the light tonight Take a look at me now and take a look at my billing I'm not in it as an extra, I'm in it for the killing Inflate my ego gently, tell them heaven sent me 'Cause I'm so expressive and I'm so obsessed with my ego My ego and it's message Oh inform the press, invite the guests I need the press tonight Do you remember acting out your youth A Romeo resplendent on an orange case Do you remember how I would recite And how I'd blow my lines and hide my face Well maybe it was childish, foolish, before schoolish Immaturish, lose your coolish But I had to grow and prove my ego Take a look at me now and take a taste of the money I'm not in it for the bread I'm in it for the gravy, honey Inflate my ego gently, tell them heaven sent me Oh 'cause I'm so expressive and I'm so obsessed with my ego My ego and it's message Oh inform the press, invite the guests I need the press tonight ################################################# @SONG: Are You Ready For Love - Thom Bell/Leroy Bell/Casey James (released in 1979) Catch a star if you can Wish for something special Let it be me My love is free Sing a song to yourself Think of someone listening One melody You're all for me I'll write a symphony Just for you and me If you let me love you I'll paint a masterpiece Just for you to see If you let me love you Let me love you Are you ready, are you ready for love Yes I am Are you, are you ready, are you ready for love Yes I am Are you, are you ready, are you ready for love You're the one Like the sun Shine your love around me You'll always be The one for me Say the word And I'll be there Loving you forever Don't let me go Just say it's so We'll hear the music ring From the mountain tops To the valley below us We'll serenade the world With a lullaby so the angels will know us Angels will know us ################################################# @SONG: Three Way Love Affair - Leroy Bell/Casey James (released in 1979) Loving you was easy Your love captured my heart You were always pleasing Till you tore us apart Said you needed both of us How could you be so unkind Then you traded love for lust But sooner or later I'm gonna get you Look out girl 'cause I'm gonna fix you I'm gonna shake it up This time I'm gonna break it up There won't be any making up I'm shaking this three-way love affair I'm gonna shake it up This time I'm gonna break it up There won't be any making up I'm shaking this three-way love affair Sneaking out on Sunday You thought I didn't know Well early morning Monday Once more you didn't show Alibis and selfish lies Oh I've had my fill of them all You can dry your crying eyes I know your're faking, there's no mistaking Look out girl your heart might be breaking ################################################# @SONG: Mama Can't Buy You Love - Leroy Bell/Casey James (released in 1979) Baby, so they give you anything Darling, all the joy money can bring Baby, do they bring you happiness Darling, you're no different from the rest Can't you see that it's love you really need Take my hand and I'll show what a love could be Before it's too late Mama don't want you, daddy don't want you Give it up baby, baby mama can't buy you love Mama don't want you, daddy don't need you Give it up baby, baby mama can't buy you love Baby, fancy friends show when you smile Darling, rich relations for a while Baby, I can only give you love Darling, this old heart should be enough All I need is a chance to make you mine Let me in, I'll change the way you feel inside Before it's too late ################################################# @SONG: Strangers - Elton John/Gary Osborne (released in 1979) Two people caught on a string A high-wire act above the center ring While the audience is wondering If we'll make it back Two people up on a wire Overhead and under fire While the audience enquire If it's just a knack Strangers, after all, we find we're strangers After all this time We've made the long and the lonely climb And now we've reached the part Where we find we're strangers We were strangers from the start Two people caught in the tide On the edge of love and pride And both afraid to approach the side And fall again Two people playing the part But which is life and which is art And isn't it a little late To start it all again? ################################################# @SONG: You Gotta Love Someone - Elton John/Bernie Taupin (released in 1990) You can win the fight, you can grab a piece of the sky You can break the rules but before you try You gotta love someone You gotta love someone You can stop the world, steal the face from the moon You can beat the clock, but before high noon You gotta love someone You gotta love someone You've got one life with a reason You need two hearts on one side When you stand alone and there's no one there To share the way it feels inside and baby You can cheat the devil and slice a piece of the sun Burn up the highway but before you run You gotta love someone You gotta love someone When you're gonna play with fire You let someone share the heat When you're on your own and there's no one there To cool the flames beneath your feet and baby You can win the fight, you can grab a piece of the sky You can break the rules but before you try You gotta love someone You gotta love someone You gotta love someone You gotta love someone ################################################# @SONG: Easier To Walk Away - Elton John/Bernie Taupin (released in 1990) Every time you turn around You wear another face Every time I look away I find a hiding place If you knew me like you knew him You would know just how I feel Slipping through someone's fingers Falling under someone's wheels It's easier to walk away Better off to face the facts When love holds you up for ransom Walk away and don't look back Never seen you looking back through Smiling eyes and tears Never knew you holding on to Memories and fears Just release me I can't take it Can't you see a change has come Strangled by infatuation Buried under someone's thumb It's easier to walk away Cover and fade to black When love scars and leaves you branded Walk away and don't look back Every time you turn around You wear another face Every time I look away I find a hiding place ################################################# @SONG: I Swear I Heard The Night Talking - Elton John/Bernie Taupin (released in 1990) In the nicotine glare of a cold naked light I drag my body from the covers and down forty flights I run out the front door into the center of the street I scream out your name as the steam just swells around my feet I hear you after midnight from the inner city As every Cinderella turns to drop dead pretty We were built out of the darkness into this West Side Story We came together in the shadows but the moon just steals our glory Well this is my battleground baby This is my plaything The only thing I've ever known Outside of a wedding ring And I swear I heard the night talking Cursing me for being a little more than hopeless Telling me we're running lonely, loose and broken Stronger now on passion but haven't we really spoken And all we ever do is listen to the night talking On the burden of insanity we can't find the cause On a flatbed truck well the home girl she paints her claws There's a coward who gets his courage undercover of the dark And it's a strange breed of devil freeze at night to go walking in the park ################################################# @SONG: Suit Of Wolves - Elton John/Bernie Taupin (released in 1992) Looking back in anger On this dirty little town It stained your dress carved up my face Put a wedge between our state of grace Somethings so young and pretty Should never be released We place our bets we take our pick They wind up in the belly of the beast And when you can't get what you want You take anything you can So I wear this suit of wolves at night I slip it on how come it feels so right I get a hungry man When I can't get what I want I take anything I can I wear a suit of wolves Just across from Friday The weekend circus rolls I cross my heart turn on the charm I say my prayers between two hungry arms There's a string of dangerous flowers All around my bed There's some want rings and some just want And those who'd like to see me dead ################################################# @SONG: Fat Boys And Ugly Girls - Elton John/Bernie Taupin (released in 1992) Fat boys cry When ugly girls sing About the way the world would be If they were thin And ugly girls turn their heads When fat boys laugh About the handsome kid next door Who broke their heart Who broke their heart Broke their heart And fat boys lie When ugly girls ask About the size an apple pie looks Through a magnifying glass And ugly girls dream At night when fat boys sleep About the way the mirrors lie When beauty's only skin deep Beauty's only skin deep Skin deep But it's the fat boy's world for an ugly girl And ugly girls love that fat boy joy Who needs the worries of a perfect world Hear the early birds make that spring time come When a fat boy falls in love with an ugly girl When a fat boy falls in love with an ugly girl Fat boys dance When ugly girls shout That a waltz is not the dance for the boy who's stout And ugly girls dream At night when fat boys sleep About the way the mirrors lie When beauty's only skin deep Beauty's only skin deep Skin deep Fat boys And ugly girls #################################################