Elton John at the BBC

# All right, all right Saturday night's all right

# All right, all right!

# Ooh, ooh, ooh. #

# It's a little bit funny

# This feeling inside

# I'm not one of those who can easily hide

# I don't have much money

# But, boy, if I did

# I'd buy a big house where we both could live

# If I was sculptor

# Then again no

# Or a man who makes potions

# In the travelling show

# I know it's not much but it's the best I can do

# My gift is my song and this one's for you

# And you can tell everybody

# This is your song

# It may be quite simple

# But now that it's done

# I hope you don't mind I hope you don't mind

# That I put down in words

# How wonderful life is while you're in the world

# I sat on the roof

# And kicked off the moss Well, a few

# Of the verses Well, they got me

# Quite cross

# But the sun's been quite kind

# While I wrote this song

# It's for people like you that

# Keep it turned on

# So excuse me forgetting

# But these things I do

# You see, I've forgotten

# If they're green or they're blue

# Anyway, the thing is

# What I really mean

# Yours are the sweetest eyes

# I've ever seen... #

It's often said that the live theatre is struggling for survival,

but at the Shaw Theatre in the Euston Road,

stuck between the Eliza Doolittle pub and St Pancras station,

there's no doubt whatever about the enthusiasm.

It's not caused by the current production of Romeo And Juliet

on this occasion. It's caused by something very different.

# When I look back

# Boy, I must have been green... #

Elton John, excuse me interrupting your rehearsal, but why have you

decided to support the National Youth Theatre?

My solicitor Mr Mike Oliver is the chairman of the National Youth Theatre,

and I suggested to him that I did some charity things early this year.

So we decided to do two concerts on two consecutive Sundays

and charge quite exorbitant prices really,

in the hope that people would buy it and we'd be able to raise a couple

of thousand pounds or so for the youth theatre.

# Levon wears his war wound like a crown

# He calls his child Jesus

# Cos he likes the name

# And he sends him to the finest school in town

# Levon, Levon likes his money

# He makes a lot, they say

# Spends his days counting

# In the garage by the motorway

# He was a born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day

# When the New York Times said God is dead

# And the war's begun

# Alvin Tostig has a son today

# And he shall be Levon

# And he shall be a good man

# And he shall be Levon

# In tradition with the family plan

# And he shall be Levon

# And he shall be a good man

# He shall be Levon... #

Good evening to you from the Palladium Theatre in London.

We welcome now a young English singer who's travelled from the West Coast of America

to be here tonight with his group, Elton John.

This next one is a song about all the rock 'n' roll records of the 1960s

and it's a song called Crocodile Rock.

# I remember when rock was young

# Me and Susie had so much fun

# Holding hands and skimming stones

# Had an old gold Chevy and a place of my own

# But the biggest kick I ever got

# Was doing a thing called the crocodile rock

# While the other kids were rocking round the clock

# We were hopping and bopping to the crocodile rock

# Oh, well, crocodile rocking is something shocking

# When your feet just can't keep still

# I never knew me a better time and I guess I never will

# Oh, lawdy, mama Those Friday nights

# When Susie wore her dresses tight

# And crocodile rocking was out of sight

# Laaaaa, la, la, la, la, la She's so yummy

# La, la, la, la, la

# La, la, la, la, la

# I remember when rock was young

# Me and Susie had so much

# Holding hands and skimming stones

# Had an old gold Chevy and a place of my own

# But the biggest kick I ever got

# Was doing a thing called the crocodile rock

# While the other kids were rocking round the clock

# We were hopping and bopping to the crocodile rock

# Oh, well, crocodile rocking is something shocking

# When your feet just can't keep still

# I never knew me a better time and I guess I never will

# Ooh, lawdy, mama Those Friday nights

# When Susie wore her dresses tight

# The crocodile rocking was out of sight

# Laaaaa, la, la, la, la, la

# La, la, la, la, la

# La, la, la, la, la

# La, la, la, la, la. #

APPLAUSE

A new record label has just started operations, the launch of which

I've been looking forward to very, very much indeed.

One of the gentlemen involved in the running of the label is with us tonight,

-so may I welcome Elton John.

-How are you?

Many people say that they are inhibited by record labels

and just the amount of time, for example...

No, that's the reason why we set it up. The whole reason for starting

a record label was to get away from

the you must record an album in 15 hours type syndrome,

and also most of our artists get at least 10% record royalties,

which is very, very high.

Have you had many problems setting it up yourself?

Finding offices, for example, was a huge problem.

I mean, it doesn't really happen overnight. We had about

12 sites that were great and 12 sites that fell through,

because they didn't want to lease it to a rock 'n' roll record company.

The point of starting the record company was to encourage people who've got that spark of potential,

to sort of encourage them onwards. I needed that when I started off

and I really didn't get it half the time.

# Daniel is travelling tonight on a plane

# I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain

# Oh, and I can see Daniel waving goodbye

# Oh, it looks like Daniel

# Must be the clouds in my eyes

# They say Spain is pretty though I've never been

# And Daniel says it's the best place he's ever seen

# Oh, and he should know He's been there enough

# Oh, I'll miss Daniel

# Oh, I'll miss him so much

# Oh, oh, oh

# Daniel, my brother

# You are older than me

# Do you still feel the pain?

# Of the scars that won't heal?

# Your eyes have died

# But you see more than I

# Daniel, you're a star

# In the face of the sky... #

What does this result mean to you, getting to the third round?

We don't know until Monday, do we?

It's great to get to the third round, obviously, but judging by our past draws in the Cup this year,

we'll probably be drawn to Plymouth or somewhere like that.

# Lucy in the sky with diamonds

# Lucy in the sky with diamonds

# Lucy in the sky with diamonds

# Oh

# Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain

# Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies... #

You seem to have really enjoyed the things you did with Elton.

Oh, yeah.

Well, Elton and I are very close.

It was just, "I'm doing a song - you want to come?" "All right."

Did the live thing that you did with Elton

prompt you to start thinking about going on the road again?

No, me quote was, when I came off,

"I enjoyed it a lot, but I wouldn't like to do it for a living."

Whoa, Saturday!

Saturday night's all right! Let me hear you sing it now.

One, two, three, four.

-CROWD:

-# Saturday, Saturday Saturday

# Saturday, Saturday, Saturday

# Saturday, Saturday Saturday night's all right

# Saturday, Saturday, Saturday

# Saturday, Saturday, Saturday

# Saturday, Saturday Saturday night's all right

# Saturday, Saturday, Saturday

# Saturday, Saturday, Saturday

# Saturday, Saturday Saturday night's all right... #

Woo!

Oh, yeah!

Ow!

LAUGHTER

# What have I got to do to make you love me?

# What have I got to do to make you care?

# What do I do when lightning strikes me

# And I wake to find that you're not there?

# What do I do to make you want me?

# What have I got to do to be heard?

# What do I say when it's all over

# And sorry seems to be the hardest word?

# It's sad, so sad

# It's a sad, sad situation

# And it's getting more and more absurd

# It's sad, so sad

# Why can't we talk it over?

# Oh, it seems to me

# That sorry seems to be the hardest word... #

Ladies and gentlemen, Elton John!

APPLAUSE

When in fact did you first start to play piano?

-Can you remember the first time you played?

-I was about three and a half to four.

I played The Skaters' Waltz by ear,

much to the delight of my parents, who grabbed me and said, "We could make a fortune here."

Did they really?

No.

In fact, your father wasn't too keen on you going into pop music, was he?

No, he hated me going into pop music.

He wrote me a letter when I was 16 saying,

"I think you're an idiot and you're better off in Barclays Bank,

"because this thing you're doing is stupid and you'll turn out to be a wide boy."

I was already about 16 stone, so I was a wide boy already.

You also played piano in a pub as well.

-Yes.

-What kind of training was that?

Fantastic.

I used to play every Thursday, Friday and Saturday and Sunday for a year

at the Northwood Hills Hotel.

First of all, I started off just playing piano and not singing,

and then I earned a little bit of money,

so I saved up and bought myself a little amplifier and a microphone

and I started to sing, and it was all Jim Reeves songs in those days and Cliff Richard.

So I was going... # I love you because you understand me. #

I went down a storm.

Did you feel or think that you were going to end up a kind of middle-aged ex-rock star, or what?

God forbid, no.

I've hopefully got two or three years left where I can have a good time.

As long as you're having a good time, you're OK, and I am.

-We've got a request.

-What?

-A request.

-Maybe... Maybe It's Because I'm A Londoner.

ALL: # Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner

# That I love London so

# Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner

# That I think of her wherever I go

# I get a funny feeling inside of me

# Just walking up and down

# Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner

# That I love London town. #

# Don't go breaking my heart

# I couldn't if I tried

# Oh, honey, if I get restless

# Baby, you're not that kind

# Don't go breaking my heart

# You take the weight off of me

# Oh, honey When you knock on my door

# Ooh, I gave you my key

# Ooh-hoo

# Nobody knows it

# But when I was down

# I was your clown

# Ooh-hoo

# Nobody knows it

# Nobody knows it

# Right from the start

# I gave you my heart

# Oh, oh

# I gave you my heart

# So don't go breaking my heart

# I won't go breaking your heart

# Don't go breaking my heart. #

# Oh, my love

# I have cursed the stars above

# That led

# My heart to you

# But as hard as I try

# Still my love will not die

# And the stars still shine on through

# And the stars still shine on through

# Oh, my dear

# Now the ship's too hard to steer

# The tide

# Has turned, turned on you

# I have been through the lies

# That I see in your eyes

# But the truth still shines on through. #

That's what I was going to sing on The Morecambe And Wise Show.

It's a good job you didn't.

HE LAUGHS

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

# She packed my bags last night pre-flight

# Zero hour nine AM

# And I'm gonna be high

# As a kite by then

# I miss the earth so much

# I miss my wife

# It's lonely out in space

# On such a timeless flight

# And I think it's gonna be a long, long time

# Till touch down brings me round again to find

# I'm not the man they think I am at home

# Oh, no, no, no, I'm a rocket man

# Rocket man

# Burning out his fuse up here alone

# And I think it's gonna be a long, long time

# Till touch down brings me round again to find

# I'm not the man they think I am at home

# Oh, no, no, no, I'm a rocket man

# Rocket man

# Burning out his fuse up here alone

# Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids

# In fact, it's cold as hell

# And there's no-one there to raise them

# If you did

# And all this science I don't understand

# It's just my job five days a week

# A rocket man

# A rocket man

# And I think it's gonna be a long, long time

# Till touch down brings me round again to find

# I'm not the man they think I am at home

# Oh, no, no, no, I'm a rocket man

# Rocket man

# Burning out his fuse up here alone... #

I always wanted to do a kind of instrumental,

and it's called Song For Guy.

It's a song about death, um...

Really? In what circumstance?

Well, I wrote it, it's very strange, on a Sunday,

and my heart stood still, da-do-ron-ron-ron, da-do-ron-ron!

And I knew what it was about, it was about a song about when you're dying

and your spirit leaving your body, right at the end of the song.

I'm fascinated by death,

I've written a thing called Funeral For A Friend and things,

but I didn't know what to call it. On the Monday morning, we found out

the office boy had been killed on his motorbike the very same day,

and his name was Guy, and that's why it's called Song For Guy.

It wasn't written after we found out he'd died,

it was unfortunately written more or less the same day that he had this unfortunate accident.

Tragic, really, but it was perfect for what I wanted to sum up.

# Life isn't everything

# Isn't everything

# Isn't everything

# Life isn't everything

# Isn't everything

# Isn't everything

# Life isn't everything

# Isn't everything

# Isn't everything

# Life

# Life

# Life

# Life

# Life

# Life

# Life... #

APPLAUSE

We've news of something which caused quite a stir last night.

It was actually at an auction and it was donated by Elton John,

and he was trying to help raise funds for the Royal Opera House,

and it was Elton John's bike!

-HORN TOOTS

-Way!

Well, this bike was specially built

for Elton John's stage act in America five years ago,

and I can bet you there isn't another bike like this in the world.

CHEERING

# I was justified when I was five

# Raising Cain, I spit in your eye

# Times are changing Now the poor get fat

# But the fever's gonna catch you when the bitch gets back

# I eat meat on a Friday That's all right

# I even like steak on a Saturday night

# I can bitch the best at your social dos

# I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue

# I'm a bitch, I'm a bitch The bitch is back

# Stone-cold sober As a matter of fact

# I can bitch, I can bitch I'm better than you

# It's the way that I move The things that I do

# I entertain by picking brains

# Sell my soul by dropping names

# I don't like those My God, what's that?

# Oh, there's a lot of nasty habits when the bitch gets back, whoa

# I'm a bitch, I'm a bitch The bitch is back

# Stone-cold sober As a matter of fact

# I can bitch, I can bitch I'm better than you

# It's the way that I move The things that I do, whoa

# All right

# I'm a bitch, I'm a bitch The bitch is back

# Stone-cold sober As a matter of fact

# I can bitch, I can bitch I'm better than you

# It's the way that I move The things that I do, whoa. #

It's great for Top Of The Pops when a real megastar comes to do it live.

Look at Elton John, and here's his hit.

# Blue eyes

# Baby's got blue eyes

# Like the deep blue sea

# On a blue, blue day

# Blue eyes

# Baby's got blue eyes

# When the morning comes

# I'll be far away

# And I say

# Blue eyes holdin' back the tears

# Holding back the pain

# Baby's got blue eyes

# And she's alone

# Again... #

Now, you've had 11 hits in the British top ten

and lots more in the States,

-what do you think makes a hit?

-I really don't know.

If you knew what was going to make a hit,

you could write them all the time.

I'm not that sort of songwriter -

I just write...twice a year.

What is your method when you write a song?

Well, it depends which way I'm writing. If I'm writing to lyrics,

then I just get the lyrics and then write the song,

the melody, to the lyrics.

And if I write the melody first, I can contribute some of my own lyrics,

cos I'm not very good on lyrics.

Then someone will finish off a couple of my ideas.

So that's quite handy. I work both ways.

Do you do one song, when you're inspired, straight through?

Oh, yes, I don't usually take more than half an hour when I write a song.

I don't really write that much,

I don't go around with a piano all the time, as it's impossible anyway.

Just thinking of melodies.

So if I starve myself when writing, I find I can write better.

# Time on my hands

# Could be time spent with you

# Laughing like children

# Living like lovers

# Rolling like thunder

# Under the covers

# And I guess that's why they call it the blues... #

At Wembley, Everton won the FA Cup for the fourth time in their history

when they beat Watford, making their first appearance in the final,

by two goals to nil.

Sherwood didn't collect! The goal is given!

# ..And I guess that's why they call it the blues. #

# Don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did

# Looking like a true survivor

# Feeling like a little kid

# I'm still standing

# After all this time

# Picking up the pieces of my life

# Without you on my mind

# I'm still standing Yeah, yeah, yeah... #

Hello. Pleased to meet you.

What an amazing place!

-Thank you.

-Gorgeous garden.

-A bit different from our Blue Peter garden.

-A little bit bigger.

-Percy Thrower might have a problem here. I'll show you round?

-OK.

Elton uses the latest electric vehicles to get around his gardens.

We started by passing his other fleet of cars,

quite a bit bigger.

-Amazing collection of cars!

-Yeah.

-How many have you got?

-About 12.

And this is what his success is all about -

the corridor of platinum, gold and silver discs,

just hundreds of them from all over the world.

His albums alone have sold up to 18 million worldwide,

a far cry from when he was a young, unknown musician called Reg Dwight.

And this is where all those songs are written.

Hi. Amazing collection of antiques you have here.

-It's like being in a museum.

-With me as the oldest object, probably.

As a kid...

Well, I always spent my pocket money on collecting things as a child,

and when you start collecting things, no matter what value they are,

you increase your knowledge.

What would you say to someone starting off in the business?

If you have 100% belief and faith and you create your own luck,

and you only create your own luck by being positive in life,

then I think something will happen for you.

-Michael! You want a lift?

-Yep. OK.

OK, let's watch the video.

Elton John's having his 38th solo British hit single at the moment,

the highest record to come into the chart this week,

this is Nikita.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Hey, Nikita, is it cold

# In your little corner of the world?

# You could roll around the globe

# And never find a warmer soul to know

# Oh, I saw you by the wall

# Ten of your tin soldiers in a row

# With eyes that looked like ice on fire

# The human heart a captive in the snow

# Oh, Nikita, you will never know

# Anything about my home

# I'll never know how good it feels to hold you

# Hold you

# Nikita, I need you so... #

Do you remember when...?

-Will we ever forget that very first show?

-No.

And somebody sabotaged my talk with you.

Let's have a quick look at it, just to remind ourselves of all...

Anything could have happened.

Anything. Do you remember?

Came on...

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Honestly. Every time I see that...

Anything could have happened,

I could have fallen forward into the piano, done a Mike Gatting.

-You were supposed to fall into my arms, darling.

-I might at the end.

But as a memento of that... LAUGHTER

..we've had London's top jewellers...

LAUGHTER

..Fyffes...

make you this fabulous award,

and I just want you to keep it as a great memento of that first evening.

I shall wear it always. Thank you.

# Goodbye, Norma Jean

# Though I never knew you at all

# You had the grace to hold yourself

# While those around you crawled

# They crawled out of the woodwork

# And they whispered into your brain

# They set you on the treadmill

# And they made you change your name

# It seems to me you lived your life

# Like a candle in the wind

# Never knowing who to cling to

# When the rain set in

# I would have liked to have known you

# But I was just a kid

# Your candle burned out long before

# Your legend ever did

# Loneliness was tough

# The toughest role you ever played

# Hollywood created a superstar

# And pain was the price you paid

# Even when you died

# Oh, the press still hounded you

# All the papers had to say

# Was that Marilyn

# Was found in the nude

# It seems to me you lived your life

# Like a candle in the wind

# Never knowing who to cling to

# When the rain set in

# I would have liked to have known you

# But I was just a kid

# Your candle burned out long before

# Your legend ever did... #

Elton John, the singer-songwriter

famous for his outrageous spectacles,

platform boots and love of Watford Football Club,

has put his huge collection of pop and art memorabilia up for auction.

2,000 items will be going under the hammer at Sotheby's next month.

And Elton is expected to make more than £3 million.

There are some lovely things here

and some things that people have a giggle at, which is great.

I don't mind that, because I always put myself out there to be giggled at anyway.

It's the end of an era.

It marks the end, I'm not going to do that any more, I said that publicly,

because you get to a point where you think you're too old

and you look ridiculous. I can't do that any more.

For somebody with such a monstrous amount of talent,

and for somebody's who's been churning out such quality songs for such a long time,

it's incredible to think this is Elton's first ever number one!

# And it's no sacrifice

# Just a simple word

# It's two hearts living

# In two separate worlds

# But it's no sacrifice

# No sacrifice

# It's no sacrifice at all

# Mutual misunderstanding

# After the fact

# Sensitivity builds a prison

# In the final act

# We lose direction

# No stone unturned

# No tears to damn you

# When jealousy burns

# Cold, cold heart

# Hard done by you

# Some things look better, baby

# Just passing through

# And it's no sacrifice

# Just a simple word

# It's two hearts living

# In two separate worlds... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

With his hit song from The Lion King, the one, the only Elton John!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# From the day we arrive on the planet

# And blinking, step into the sun

# There's more to be seen

# Than can ever be seen

# More to do than can ever be done

# Some say eat or be eaten

# Some say live and let live

# But all are agreed

# As they join the stampede

# You should never take more than you give

# In the circle of life

# It's the wheel of fortune

# It's the leap of faith

# It's the band of hope

# Till we find our place

# On the path unwinding

# In the circle

# The circle of life... #

# Goodbye, England's rose May you ever grow in our hearts

# You were the grace that placed itself

# Where lives were torn apart

# You called out... #

A recording of Candle In The Wind, Elton John's tribute

to Diana, Princess Of Wales, today sold out within hours of going on sale.

People queued from the early hours to ensure they got a copy,

and many stores had to limit the number customers could buy.

# ..And it seems to me you lived your life

# Like a candle in the wind

# Never fading with the sunset when the rain set in... #

When people talk about me,

it's either about the hair,

the flowers, my sexuality,

The Lion King, the football club...

-Let me cross these off one by one.

-Right.

LAUGHTER

They never talk about the bloody records any more!

In 20 months, you spent £40 million...

-AUDIENCE MEMBER:

-Fabulous!

-Plus...

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

Plus £293,000 on flowers in that same 20 months.

-Mm-hm.

-Now, you must like flowers an awful lot.

I love them, yes. It'll be on my gravestone - "He liked flowers."

People said, "Aren't you ashamed? It's disgraceful."

I said, "I pay my taxes, I've always lived here. How I spend my money's irrelevant, really."

But yes, I did spend that amount of money and am I ashamed of it?

No, I'm not, so...

APPLAUSE

# I want love but it's impossible

# A man like me so irresponsible

# A man like me is dead in places

# Other men feel liberated

# And I can't love shot full of holes

# Don't feel nothing I just feel cold

# Don't feel nothing Just old scars

# Toughening up around my heart

# But I want love Just a different kind

# I want love Won't break me down

# Won't brick me up Won't fence me in

# I want a love that don't mean a thing

# That's the love I want I want love... #

He's played Wembley, Madison Square Garden, even Buckingham Palace.

This afternoon, Sir Elton John was centre stage again,

but this time before an audience at the US Senate.

This is the government of the richest nation in history,

and I'm here asking you for more money to stop the worst epidemic in history.

If the United States says, "We have a moral obligation to act,"

then other major nations will follow.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-During his long and distinguished career,

Elton has performed with some of the biggest stars in the business -

George Michael, Aretha Franklin, some Irish fella, I can't remember his name - anyway...

but here he is now performing with the newly crowned kings of pop,

Sir Elton John!

SCREAMING AND CHEERING

# What have I got to do to make you love me?

# What I got to do to make you care? #

SPEECH INAUDIBLE

# What do I do when lightning strikes me

# And I wake to find that you're not there? Mm-mm

# What have I got to do to make you want me?

-# What I got to do to be heard?

-Oh-oh-oh-oh

-# What do I say when it's all over?

-Yeah

# Sorry seems to be the hardest word

# It's sad, so sad It's a sad, sad situation

# And it's getting more and more absurd

-# It's sad, so sad

-Why can't we talk it over?

# Always seems to me

# That sorry seems to be the hardest word... #

-Don't go! Don't go!

-Get off me.

I wanted you, because I wanted the best.

-The Beatles were the best, and you're the best.

-Get off me!

-The best piano player?!

-Yes.

-Have you seen the fingers on him?

Oh, don't. You've got lovely hands, haven't you, Elton?

You've got fingers like me - ten Porkinson's bangers, haven't we?

Darling, at least mine are chipolatas. I never liked you.

-But I've auctioned your clothes for AIDS.

-But I was wearing them!

-Oh!

-Hi.

-Ah.

I think I knew you when you were a man.

And I knew you when you had hair.

-I've always had hair, bitch.

-Oh.

# And can you feel the love tonight?

# It is where we are

# It's enough for this wide-eyed wanderer

# That we got this far... #

In recognition of all the incredible work you do in support of people with AIDS and HIV,

it gives us all on Blue Peter a real pleasure to award you with the programme's highest accolade -

-the gold Blue Peter badge.

-Wow!

-And I'd love to pin it on you.

-Forget the knighthood!

-Yeah.

-No, we don't need... Forget the knighthood.

-There you go. What do you think of that?

-Fabulous. There you go.

That's great. Thank you so much. Thank you, Blue Peter. Thank you.

Um...I'm overwhelmed. And over here!

31 years ago, we released Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy,

which was a benchmark album for us in many ways,

because it was autobiographical

and it told the story of how, when Bernie and I first got together,

how we struggled to make it,

and it goes right up to the point before we went to America in 1970,

and it was an album really having to do with failure and disappointments.

This is one of the songs, one of my all-time favourite songs that we've written -

Someone Saved My Life Tonight.

# When I think of those East End lights, muggy nights

# The curtains drawn in the little room downstairs

# Prima Donna Lord You really should have been there

# Sitting like a princess perched in her electric chair

# And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more

# We've all gone crazy lately

# My friends out there rolling round the basement floor

# Woo-ooh-ooh

# And someone saved my life tonight Sugar bear

# You almost had your hooks in me Didn't you, dear?

# You nearly had me roped and tied Altar-bound, hypnotised

# Sweet freedom whispered in my ear You're a butterfly

# And butterflies are free to fly Fly away

# High away, bye-bye

# Oooh-oooh-oooh

# And I would have walked head on into the deep end of the river

# Clinging to your stocks and bonds Paying your HP demands forever

# They're coming in the morning with a truck to take me home

# Someone saved my life tonight Someone saved my life tonight

# Someone saved my life tonight Someone saved my life tonight

# Someone saved my life tonight

# So save your strength and run the field you play alone

# And someone saved my life tonight Sugar bear

# Sugar bear

# You almost had your hooks in me Didn't you, dear?

# You nearly had me roped and tied Altar-bound, hypnotised

# Sweet freedom whispered in my ear You're a butterfly

# And butterflies are free to fly Fly away

# High away, bye-bye

# Oh, yeah. #

Thank you. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

APPLAUSE DROWNS SPEECH