Been thinking on this before commenting… because, seriously, I feel like I could have written this post. I too remember getting this album, discovering this song, and feeling as if it was talking directly to me. I can see/feel my 13-year-old self wrestling with the lyrics and the emotions, all Ami g the background of a childhood of a broken family, step-father issues, loneliness… and so many times playing this song over and over, followed by flipping the disc to Caribou and listening to Ticking… and hoping, wishing, there was another kid out there, like me, wanting these darker Elton songs to make sense of the world, my world, my day. And then getting through it, growing up, learning that these songs could be about hope if that’s what you wanted.
So thank you for unknowingly taking that journey with me so many years ago - and for articulating it so well all these years later.
Been thinking on this before commenting… because, seriously, I feel like I could have written this post. I too remember getting this album, discovering this song, and feeling as if it was talking directly to me. I can see/feel my 13-year-old self wrestling with the lyrics and the emotions, all Ami g the background of a childhood of a broken family, step-father issues, loneliness… and so many times playing this song over and over, followed by flipping the disc to Caribou and listening to Ticking… and hoping, wishing, there was another kid out there, like me, wanting these darker Elton songs to make sense of the world, my world, my day. And then getting through it, growing up, learning that these songs could be about hope if that’s what you wanted.
So thank you for unknowingly taking that journey with me so many years ago - and for articulating it so well all these years later.