John Elton - Planes-Elton John Bernie Taupin Lyrics

(demo song from 1975 recorded for Rod Stewart)





Oh Jessie I'd like to be

One of those men upon the screen

With American ladies and a cafe in Paris

Serving Pernot and Kalua with cream



You can see it I know

All the doors have been closed in my face

And the drinks at the cashbar

Run a mile or more from this place



And oh Jessie won't you look at the planes

Tell me, oh Jessie, is it true what they

That there's a capital G in the name of the game

And the runway's a home for my silver-red plane



And won't you look at the planes

Riding down the skyway

Jessie ain't those wings just fine

Don't it make you want to fly someday



Why friend am I so still

Tied to my job with time to kill

Do I still bear the traces of old Don Quixote

Killing giants on imaginary hills

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