Elton John
Crazy Water lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1976
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 5:43
On a bench, on the beach just before the sun had gone
I tried to reach you, plain faced and falling fast
You looked so vacant like an empty shell
Whose life had passed upon the ocean
Before light shook the sky
Down by the docks I saw the masts unfolding
Don't turn away, please understand, it's a life and a living
And a way to keep the wolves away
From hungry hands, from hungry hands
Crazy water takes my fishing boat on Monday morning
Dangerous dreaming
If we all believe in the things you believe you're seeing
Oh, we'd never drop our nets in the crazy water, crazy water
Tangled lives, lonely wives
Shoreline widows pray for the souls of missing whalers
Endless nights on an endless sea where nothing lives between us
Just the breakers on the ocean
Separating you and me, ooh, separating you and me
Crazy water takes my fishing boat on Monday morning
Dangerous dreaming
If we all believe in the things you believe you're seeing
No, we'd never drop our nets in the crazy water, crazy water
Crazy water takes my fishing boat on Monday morning
Dangerous dreaming
If we all believe in the things you believe you're seeing
And we'd never drop our nets in the crazy water, crazy water
Crazy water
Crazy water
Crazy water
Crazy water
Crazy water
Crazy water
Crazy water
Crazy water
In the crazy, crazy water
In the crazy, crazy, crazy water
Crazy, oh, crazy, crazy water
Crazy, crazy, crazy water
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Key vocabulary
- bench
- long seatC1
- beach
- sand by the seaA1
- widows
- women whose husbands diedC1
- before
- earlier thanA1
- faced
- met something directlyA1
- gone
- not here; finishedA1
- reach
- get to; touchA2
- plain
- not fancy; simpleB2
- falling
- moving downwardB2
- vacant
- empty; not in use
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About this song
Elton John is an English singer-songwriter and pianist known for his role in pop rock and piano-driven glam rock. He became famous for the songwriting partnership with Bernie Taupin and for a career that produced major chart hits and award-winning performances.