Simple Life

Music by elton john
Lyrics by bernie taupin
Available on the album the one

Theres a breakdown on the runway
And the timeless flights are gone
Im a year ahead of myself these days
And Im locomotive strong
My city spread like cannon fire
In a yellow nervous state
I cant cut the ties that bind me
To horoscopes and fate

And I wont break and I wont bend
But someday soon well sail away
To innocence and the bitter end
And I wont break and I wont bend
And with the last breath we ever take
Were gonna get back to the simple life again

When we break out of this blindfold
Im gonna take you from this place
Until were free from this ball and chain
Im still hard behind the eight
My city beats like hammered steel
On a shallow cruel rock
If we could walk proud after midnight
Wed never have to stop