The Captain And The Kid Songtext / Lyric

(Ah, hey, ah, yeah, yeah)

(Ah, hey, ah, yeah)

(Ah, hey, ah, yeah, yeah)

(Ah, hey, ah, yeah)



I've been out on this road some

Can't help feeling I've been showing my friends around

I've seen it growing from next to nothing

Into a giant eating up your town



Called up the tealeaves and the tarots

Asked the gypsy what she sees in the palm of our hands

She saw a mountain and wild deer running

A crazy kid becoming a better man






But we stuck around for the fireworks

(Waiting to explode)

Shaped our futures, you a Tumbleweed

(And me on a Yellow Brick Road)

Pleasing the people some of the time

(For better or for worse)

An urban soul in a fine silk suit

And a heart out west in a Wrangler shirt



And you can't go back

And if you try it fails, oh yeah, yeah

Looking up ahead I see a rusty nail, oh yeah, yeah

A sign hanging from it saying "Truth for sale"

And that's what we did

No lies at all just one more tale

About the Captain and the... (Kid!)



(Ah, hey, ah, yeah, yeah)

(Ah, hey, ah, yeah)

(Ah, hey, ah, yeah, yeah)

(Ah, hey, ah, yeah)



We've been missing at times in action

Can't imagine what he said he might do for you

The devil got to come to the party sometimes

But he never got to wear our shoes



Oh we've conjured up what we created

Way back then when I was standing up in six-inch heels

Now you're riding off into the sunset

And I'm still spinning like a Catherine wheel



But we stuck around for the battle

(Waiting for a plan)

To turn you into the Brown Dirt Cowboy

(And me into a Rocket Man)

It pleases the people some of the time

(Digging into our roots)

But I got a brand new pair of shoes

And you're on a horse in your old cowboy boots



And you can't go back

And if you try it fails, oh yeah, yeah

Looking up ahead I see a rusty nail, oh yeah, yeah

A sign hanging from it saying "Truth for sale"

And that's what we did

No lies at all just one more tale

About the Captain and the... (Kid!)



An Empty Sky, Elton John

Tumbleweed Connection, 17-11-70

Madman Across the Water, Honky Chateau

Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Caribou, Here and There

Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

Rock of the Westies, Blue Moves, a Single Man

Victim of Love, 21 at 33, Jump Up!

Too Low for Zero, Breaking Hearts, Ice on Fire

Leather Jackets, Live in Australia

With the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Reg Strikes Back

Sleeping with the Past, The One, Made in England

The Big Picture, One Night Only the Greatest Hits

Songs from the West Coast, Peachtree Road

About the Captain and the... (Kid!)



(Ah, hey, ah, yeah, yeah)

(Ah, hey, ah, yeah)

(Ah, hey, ah, yeah, yeah)

(Ah, hey, ah, yeah)



No, you can't go back

And if you try it fails, oh yeah, yeah

Looking up ahead I see a rusty nail, oh yeah, yeah

A sign hanging from it saying "Truth for sale"

And that's what we did

No lies at all just one more tale

About the Captain and the... (Kid!)