Approaching Armageddon
Bernie Taupin

On a foreign runway delayed by the rain

I looked back on the last ten years

And how my life has changed

Aviator glasses protecting my eyes

Reflecting my emotions on seeing so many die


Death from either life or love

Strung out on a limb

I've seen 'em turn from beer and pills

To scotch and heroin


Never learned to turn the soil

Though I should have done

Daddy was a farmer and we were farmer's sons

But I had plans to plough the streets


A long way from the land

Leaving pool halls full of blood

To the sounds of acoustic bands

Razor blades and common trade


Throats cut on the working man

I've walked through life on broken glass

And I never gave a damn


For its harvest home and the church of England sings

When your approaching Armageddon

Let your baptism and penance


Be the only Lucifer to light your sins

When you've chosen the hard ride

Livin' on God's good side

Approaching Armageddon once again


Bolts of lightning shook me with the price of fame


Rock and roll affected me but country kept me sane

Universal gossip seared my wings

I always rode the roundabouts


But I never tried the swings

Married young and with my guns

I blew her out of my life

It's easy to hold on to time

But it's hard to keep a wife


I only learned to play three chords

My fingers weren't that long

I never wrapped my arms around the neck of someone strong

Moves of blue that strangled me drying up my pen


Til I was left to live my life on a scale from one to ten

Wasted days and endless nights

See the drunkard with the even tan

I was just about to leave the rails

When someone gave a damn


It's two years down and counting the couple on the wire

I've lived and lost and paid the cost

Of fighting fire with fire

Traces of the onetime sometimes cross my mind


But when there's little left you're cruel to be kind

I don't regret a single day

You see, some of it was fun

Ten years on I'm wiser

But I'm still a farmer's son


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