Across The River Thames

[BiteUrLip]

Music: Elton John

Lyrics: Bernie Taupin

Good taste at times I've sometimes lacked

I won't deny the truth

I got dressed up as Donald Duck

Making up for my repressed youth

Disco balls and spandex pants

On questionable friends

Disco died but how the fog still rolled across the River Thames


Snarling they just came along

And cut us to the quick

Called us a bunch of dinosaurs

And gave us a load of sticks

Told us that the times was changing

And all good things must end

But I'm still here and the fog still rolls across the River Thames


chorus:


Nelson's on his column

Ravens are in the Tower

Big Ben never lost his voice

Chimes on every hour

And the fog still rolls off the River Thames

The forecast calls for rain

London Bridge ain't falling down

And some things never change


The black-faced boys were holding tight

And Thatcher's in a noose

Hair got teased beyond belief

In the age of the golden goose

The new romantics claimed the throne

And we were wondering when

But they lost their crown and the fog still rolled across the River Thames


(repeat chorus)


Big bold letters screaming out

A scandal in the house

Dogs without their vocal chords

Careers going south

What the eye can't see the eye invents

The truth was meant to bend

But nothing changed and the fog still rolled across the River Thames


(repeat chorus)

[BiteUrLip]

A nice outtake, but just like "House Of Cards" from CF, nothing special.

4 stars.

[dougs]

"Across the River Thames" - an outtake from THE CAPTAIN AND THE KID:

An upbeat outtake from the sessions for THE CAPTAIN AND THE KID from 2006.  It has a nice intro supported by backing vocals but the verses come off a bit of a mechanically.  Davey adds a brief guitar solo late in the song.  Understandably an outtake. Bernie's lyrics nicely capture he and EJ's travels through fame and the inevitable decline including times where "good taste at times...sometimes lacked."  The lyric confidently states that that, despite everything, both EJ & Bernie are still here doing their thing. 

Rating: 3 1/2 to 4 stars

Doug

[Commodore Orpington]

Better than what's on the album. Not as important as The Bridge, but I get more feeling out of this one than anything on C&K.

[newloneranger]

Its a catchy tune, gets in my head sometimes after listening to it.

4 1/2 stars

[nix]

4.5
I would like to see that song on the album instead of Noah's Ark.