My Quicksand

[BiteUrLip]

Music: Elton John

Lyrics: Bernie Taupin

I put my life on hold and took you home

Good sense shot down, I placed you on a throne

Where was the wheel that kept me on the road

The force of nature preventing overload


Say don't you know I've been dressed to kill

If you got the tools be careful what you build

When the arrow's in the bullseye every time

It's hard assuming that the archer's blind


chorus:


My quicksand

Let me introduce you to my final stand

I went to Paris once

I thought I had a plan

I woke up with an accent

I wound up in quicksand

My quicksand


I was full of foreign notions at the start

There was never once when I was off my guard

For any ghost of every poet in the ground

There's one like me to buy the guys a round


(repeat chorus)


I'm going down

You and me together going down

It's not what I'd been told about this town

That when you least expect it you can drown

In quicksand

My quicksand


(repeat chorus)

[BiteUrLip]

Great song from a great album! I used to almost hate this song, before really starting to appreciate it. 5 stars.

[latitude]

This is the type of song that has to grow on you. It did me to some degree. I would have given it about 2 before. Now I can give it a 4.

[Commodore Orpington]

I'm sure it'll grow on me more.

[newloneranger]

I think this song has grown on me too, Its really not my favorite style of music but it has great lyrics and it fits in good with the rest of the album.

4 1/2 stars

[rocketman]

Jun 26, 2018 14:28:16 GMT latitude said:

This is the type of song that has to grow on you. It did me to some degree. I would have given it about 2 before. Now I can give it a 4.

4 stars...My sentiments exactly. I like the song now, but was not crazy about it at all initially. It took a while. It's still not one of the better songs on the record, but I do think it's a good song. 

[nix]

3
well... not sure what to think about it. It's weird and OK. Sounds like leftover from Lestat.