Writing

Album: Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975)
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  • Is there anything left
    Maybe steak and eggs
    Waking up to washing up
    Making up your bed
    Lazy days, my razor blade
    Could use a better edge

    It's enough to make you laugh
    Relax in a nice cool bath
    Inspiration for navigation
    Of our new found craft
    I know you and you know me
    It's always half and half

    And we were oh oh, so you know
    Not the kind to dawdle
    Will the things we wrote today
    Sound as good tomorrow
    We will still be writing
    In approaching years
    Stifling yawns on Sundays
    As the weekends disappear

    We could stretch our legs if we'd half a mind
    But don't disturb us if you hear us trying
    To instigate the structure of another line or two
    'Cause writing's lighting up
    And I like life enough, to see it through

    And we were oh oh, so you know
    Not the kind to dawdle
    Will the things we wrote today
    Sound as good tomorrow
    We will still be writing
    In approaching years
    Stifling yawns on Sundays
    As the weekends disappear

    We could stretch our legs if we'd half a mind
    But don't disturb us if you hear us trying
    To instigate the structure of another line or two
    'Cause writing's lighting up
    And I like life enough, to see it through
    'Cause writing's lighting up
    And I like life enough, to see it through Writer/s: BERNIE TAUPIN, ELTON JOHN
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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  • Ricardo from México CityOne of my favourite song from EJ. Fantastic album
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