I've been out on this road some
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Can't help feeling I've been showing my friends around
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I've seen it growing from next to nothing
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Into a giant eating up your town
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Called up the tealeaves and the tarots
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Asked the gypsy what she sees in the palm of our hands
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She saw a mountain and wild deer running
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A crazy kid becoming a better man
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But we stuck around for the fireworks
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Waiting to explode
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Shaped our futures, you a tumbleweed
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And me on a yellow brick road
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Pleasing the people some of the time
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For better or for worse
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An urban soul in a fine silk Suit
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And a heart out west in a Wrangler shirt
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[Chorus:]
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And you can't go back and if you try it fails
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Looking up ahead I see a rusty nail
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A sign hanging from it saying "Truth for sale"
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And that's what we did
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No lies at all just one more tale
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About the Captain and the Kid
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We've been missing at times in action
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Can't imagine what he said he might do for you
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The devil got to come to the party sometimes
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But he never got to wear our shoes
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Oh we've conjured up what we created
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Way back then when I was standing up in six-inch heels
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Now you're riding off into the sunset
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And I'm still spinning like a Catherine wheel
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But we stuck around for the battle
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Waiting for a plan
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To turn you into the Brown Dirt Cowboy
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And me into a rocket man
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It pleases the people some of the time
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Digging into our roots
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But I got a brand new pair of shoes
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And you're on a horse in old cowboy boots
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[Chorus 2x]
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The Captain and The Kid
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| Elton John |
