LYRICS

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All The Girls Love Alice (1973) 
All The Nasties (1971)
Act Of War (1985)
Amoreena (1971)
All Across The Havens (1968)
All Quiet On The Western Front (1981)


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All The Girls Love Alice
(Elton John - Bernie Taupin - 1973)

Raised to be a  lady by the golden rule
Alice was the spawn of a public school
With  a double barrel name in the back of her brain
And a simple case of  Mummy-doesn't-love-me blues

Reality it seems was just a dream
She  couldn't get it on with the boys on the scene
But what do you expect  from a chick who's just sixteen
And hey, hey, hey, you know what I  mean

All the young girls love Alice
Tender young Alice they  say
Come over and see me
Come over and please me
Alice it's my  turn today

All the young girls love Alice
Tender young Alice  they say
If I give you my number
Will you promise to call me
Wait  till my husband's away

Poor little darling with a chip out of  her heart
It's like acting in a movie when you got the wrong part
Getting  your kicks in another girl's bed
And it was only last Tuesday they  found you in the subway dead

And who could you call your friends  down in Soho
One or two middle-aged dykes in a Go-Go
And what do  you expect from a sixteen year old yo-yo
And hey, hey, hey, oh don't  you know

All The Nasties 
(Elton John - Bernie Taupin - 1971)

If it came to pass that  they should ask
What could I tell them
Would they criticize behind  my back
Maybe I should let them
Oh if only then and only then
They  would understand
They'd turn a full-blooded city boy
Into a  full-blooded city man

If they could face it
I could take it in  their eyes
Oh I know I'd make it
Their tiny minds
And sacred  cows just fake it
If only then and only then
They would understand
They'd  turn a full-blooded city boy
Into a full-blooded city man

But  I know the way they want me
In the way they publicize
If they  could turn their focus off
To the image in their eyes

Maybe it  would help them, help them understand
Maybe it would help them, help  them understand
Maybe it would help them, help them understand
That  a full-blooded city boy
Is now a full-blooded city man

Oh my soul
Oh my soul
Oh my soul

Act Of War
(Elton John And Bernie Taupin - 1985)

This ain't no battle honey,  this ain't no fight
How come you take it so hard when I stay out all  night
If I take a drink, is that against the law
And if I have a  good time, do you call that an act of war

Well you better believe  it boy, this house is your home
I didn't build it up for you to live  here on my own
And if you think it's easy to forget about me
You'd  better think twice, you'd better believe it's an act of war

We're  living on the front line you and me
Fighting on this battleground of  misery
Oh go ahead bring on your artillery
And we'll make this an  act of war
Give it all you've got `cause I'm all dug in
Keep the  punches coming I can take them on the chin
Winner takes all, let the  best man win
And we call it an act of war

Well I'm a man of  convenience I work a long hard day
After twelve long hours ain't I  got the right to play
If living together is getting in the way
Then  I call that an act of war

Well if that's your game then honey  two can play
I'm going on the town tonight and have some fun my way
Ain't  no way baby this girl's gonna stay
I call it, I call it an act of  war

And it looks like time ain't been on our side
If we could  turn the clock back
We might survive this act of war

Amoreena
(Elton John - Bernie Taupin - 1971)

Lately I've been thinking how  much I miss my lady
Amoreena's in the cornfield brightening the  daybreak
Living like a lusty flower, running through the grass for  hours
Rolling through the hay like a puppy child

And when it  rains the rain falls down
Washing out the cattle town
And she's  far away somewhere in her eiderdown
And she dreams of crystal streams
Of  days gone by when we would lean
Laughing fit to burst upon each  other

I can see you sitting eating apples in the evening
The  fruit juice flowing slowly, slowly, slowly
Down the bronze of your  body
Living like a lusty flower, running through the grass for hours
Rolling  through the hay like a puppy child

Oh if only I could nestle in  the cradle of your cabin
My arms around your shoulders the windows  wide and open
While the swallow and the sycamore are playing in the  valley
Oh I miss you Amoreena like a king bee misses honey

Lately  I've been thinking how much I miss my lady
Amoreena's in the  cornfield brightening the daybreak
Living like a lusty flower,  running through the grass for hours
Rolling through the hay like a  puppy child

 
All Across The Havens
(Elton John - Bernie Taupin - 1968)

The sister of sunlight
Comes to my lonely life
Bearing the crosses I hung
I hung on my lonely wife
And the anchor told me
If I prayed by the river
That the sweet sound of water
Would always go with her
 
All across the havens to the waterfall
They told me I would meet her there
Inside those icy walls
But how on earth in this universe
Can they forgive me of my pains
For all across the havens
I must stumble locked in chains

Then the mother of mercy
Showed me her stable
And told me you would be safe
Safe in her cradle
And the waterfall opened
And the water withdrew
Leaving me standing
On a road leading through
 
All Quiet On The Western Front
(Elton John - Bernie Taupin - 1981)
 
All quiet on  the Western Front, nobody saw
A youth asleep in the foreign soil,  planted by the war
Feel the pulse of human blood pouring forth
See  the stems of Europe bend under force
 
All quiet
All  quiet
All quiet on the Western Front
   

So  tired of this garden's grief, nobody cares
Old kin kiss the small  white cross, their only souvenir
See the Prussian offense fly,  weren't we grand
To place the feel of cold sharp steel in their hands
 
It's gone all quiet on the Western Front, male angels  sigh
Ghosts float in a flooded trench as Germany dies
Fever reaps  the flowers of France, fair-haired boys
String the harps to Victory's  voice, joyous noise

  Are You Ready For Love
(Thom Bell, Leroy Bell And Casey James - 1979)
 
Catch a star if you can
Wish for something special
Let it be me, my love is free
Sing a song to yourself
Think of someone listening
One melody, you're all for me

I'll write a symphony just for you and me
If you let me love you, I'll paint a masterpiece
Just for you to see
If you let me love you, let me love you

Are you ready, are you ready for love
Yes I am
Are you, are you ready, are you ready for love
Yes I am
Are you, are you ready, are you ready for love

You're the one like the sun
Shine your love around me
You'll always be the one for me
Say the word and I'll be there
Loving you forever
Don't let me go
Just say it's so

We'll hear the music ring from the mountain tops
To the valley below us
We'll serenade the world
With a lullaby so the angels will know us
Angels will know us