Elton John
The Wide‐Eyed and Laughing lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1976
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:28
Are you still in control of the boat that you row?
Or do you still cling to me when it's sinking?
I never condemned you, I only consoled you
When candlelight made me a king
For the wide-eyed and laughing
Passed like a season
Erasing a passion to sin
For no one knew better than the tealeaves and the tarots
That the wide-eyed and laughing
Were just one step ahead of the wind
And the hearts that you played on the porch swing for me
Was a song that I'd heard in the past
For I had an audience somewhere inside you
That applauded whenever you laughed
For the wide-eyed and laughing
Passed like a season
Erasing a passion to sing
For no one knew better than the tealeaves and the tarots
That the wide-eyed and laughing
Were just one step ahead of the wind
Ooh, ahead of the wind
Gone is a word that I now rarely use
Though sometime in the course of a day
I go racing back like a man possessed
By the wide-eyed and laughing daughters
Of some different age
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Key vocabulary
- ahead
- in frontB1
- i'd
- I would (I’d)B2
- knew
- past of know
- tealeaves
- tea leaves
- tarots
- cards for divination
- wind
- move air around
- porch
- covered area outside door
- word
- single spoken unitA1
- better
- more good; improvedA1
- boat
- small ship on waterA1
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.