Post by BiteUrLip on Feb 20, 2018 17:15:33 GMT
Music: Elton John
Lyrics: Bernie Taupin
Piano and vocals: Elton John, Leon Russell
Drums and Percussion: Jim Keltner, Jay Bellerose
Tambourine: Mike Piersante
Acoustic bass: Dennis Crouch
Guitar: Marc Ribot
Electric Guitar: T Bone Burnett
Keyboard: Keefus Ciancia
Backing vocals: Tanya Balam, Bill Cantos, Alfie Silas Durio, Judith Hill, Kellye Huff, Perry Morgan, Tiffany Smith, Rose Stone, Tata Vega, Jean Witherspoon
It's a constant struggle getting up that hill
There's a change of guard every day
When you're clinging onto a driftwood boat
You pray a great white whale might come your way
No freeway traffic in the frozen North
Just a chain link fence full of birds
And when the harpoon's loaded in the cannon bay
You'll be rolling through the pages lost for words
chorus:
Hey Ahab can you tell me where
I can catch a ride out of here
Hey Ahab hoist that sail
You've gotta stand up straight
When you ride that whale
In a crumbling city we were trapped for days
With a broken sun above the clouds
Caught like Jonah forty fathoms down
And a sign on the wall says, "Hope Allowed"
All the cryptic symbols carved on bone
A far cry from a tattooed rose
And when the boys in the rigging catch the wind
We'll all weigh anchor and it's westward ho
(repeat chorus)
(repeat chorus)
(repeat chorus)
Lyrics: Bernie Taupin
Piano and vocals: Elton John, Leon Russell
Drums and Percussion: Jim Keltner, Jay Bellerose
Tambourine: Mike Piersante
Acoustic bass: Dennis Crouch
Guitar: Marc Ribot
Electric Guitar: T Bone Burnett
Keyboard: Keefus Ciancia
Backing vocals: Tanya Balam, Bill Cantos, Alfie Silas Durio, Judith Hill, Kellye Huff, Perry Morgan, Tiffany Smith, Rose Stone, Tata Vega, Jean Witherspoon
It's a constant struggle getting up that hill
There's a change of guard every day
When you're clinging onto a driftwood boat
You pray a great white whale might come your way
No freeway traffic in the frozen North
Just a chain link fence full of birds
And when the harpoon's loaded in the cannon bay
You'll be rolling through the pages lost for words
chorus:
Hey Ahab can you tell me where
I can catch a ride out of here
Hey Ahab hoist that sail
You've gotta stand up straight
When you ride that whale
In a crumbling city we were trapped for days
With a broken sun above the clouds
Caught like Jonah forty fathoms down
And a sign on the wall says, "Hope Allowed"
All the cryptic symbols carved on bone
A far cry from a tattooed rose
And when the boys in the rigging catch the wind
We'll all weigh anchor and it's westward ho
(repeat chorus)
(repeat chorus)
(repeat chorus)
