My Kind Of Hell

[BiteUrLip]

Music: Elton John

Lyrics: Bernie Taupin

Piano and vocals: Elton John, Leon Russell

Drums and Percussion: Jim Keltner, Jay Bellerose

Acoustic bass: Dennis Crouch

Guitar: Marc Ribot

Keyboard: Keefus Ciancia

Trumpet: Darrell Leonard

Saxophone: Jim Thompson, Joseph Sublett and Thomas Peterson

Backing vocals: Bill Cantos, Alfie Silas Durio, Judith Hill, Tata Vega

Your hot coffee and my black tea

I don't know about that

I guess we choose to disagree

But I like your pork pie hat

Well your sister always came between us

Claiming she knew best

But she hitched her wagon to a diplomat

And she moved to Bucharest

While we just go around and round

Like a dull thud in a bell


chorus:


Oh I can't say I ever liked you much

But you're my kind of hell

Oh I can't say I ever liked you much

But you're my kind of hell


Peddlers filled the New York streets

Selling watches from a tray

The thief in you said it's no sin

Hell they stole them anyway

We were living cheap in an old hotel

Eating rice and beans

Staying up late talking politics

With a couple of Times Square queens

But we just turned the heat up on

The stories we could tell


(repeat chorus)


An island somewhere in the sun

Was always on my mind

But you tanned from the inside out

Driking cocoa butter wine

While you sold your past like Baptist fire

I was making plans to leave

But you trapped me as that ball just fell

On another New Year's Eve

So I gave it up for what it's worth

And crawled into your shell


(repeat chorus)

[BiteUrLip]

I've been never very impressed of this song. It's probably my least favorite of the sessions, while funnily, "Mandalay Again" is the favorite.

4 stars.

[nix]

3.5
decent... weaker version of 'Wake Up Wendy'. 

[Commodore Orpington]

I LOVE it. One of the best on Union.

[newloneranger]

Pretty good, better than some of the other songs on the album.

4 1/2 stars