Ballad of the Boy in the Red Shoes

Album: Songs from the West Coast (2001)
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  • I'm stoned in the twilight
    Screaming on the inside
    Give me your water, help me survive
    Gonna miss the sunlight
    When I lose my eyesight

    Give me my red shoes, I want to dance
    They search for an answer
    But that old man wouldn't listen
    Back then I was handsome
    Back then he was ignorant

    And shave off the years now, it's all inside my head
    The boy in the red shoes is dancing by my bed
    Put them in a box somewhere, put them in a drawer
    Take my red shoes, I can't wear them anymore

    Had garlands in the wings back then
    All the pretty little things back then
    Calling out my name, oh what fame brings
    After curtain calls and bows
    I can't see the front row now
    Hand me my red shoes just one more time

    They pushed aside our presence
    They refused to go the distance
    Back then I was Sigmund
    Back then he wouldn't listen Writer/s: BERNARD J.P. TAUPIN, BERNIE TAUPIN, ELTON JOHN
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Robin from Milford, NjI've always adored this song! Still makes me cry when I hear it.
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