| Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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“I’d always choose someone younger. I wanted to smother them with love. I’d take them around the world, try to educate them. One after another they got a Cartier watch, a Versace outfit, maybe a sports car. They didn’t have jobs. They were reliant on me. I did this repeatedly. In six months they were bored and hated my guts because I’d taken their lives and self-worth away. I hadn’t intended to." These are Elton's words. As a middle aged gay man I tried to buy the affections of several young lovers. This song breaks my heart now. You know you can't hold me forever Speaks to the futility of attraction to youth especially since nobody can stay young forever I'm not a present for your friends to open A younger beautiful boyfriend can be like a trophy wife. In a darker sense a sugar baby can get shared around You can't plant me in your penthouse I don't want to be kept, bought, trapped in your lonely wealthy world Maybe you'll get a replacement There's plenty like me to be found Mongrels who ain't got a penny Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground This verse really hurts, EJ wrote his young lovers hated him after six months. I feel so much pain and shame when I remember trying to buy poor boys, looking for love, winding up with pain and regret. It's hard to see oneself as a tidbit on the ground, but I guess that's what being a sugar daddy really is like. |
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| Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[esotericsoul23:7554] “I’d always choose someone younger. I wanted to smother them with love. I’d take them around the world, try to educate them. One after another they got a Cartier watch, a Versace outfit, maybe a sports car. They didn’t have jobs. They were reliant on me. I did this repeatedly. In six months they were bored and hated my guts because I’d taken their lives and self-worth away. I hadn’t intended to.” Let on said this in an interview a few years back. I could relate. I tried to buy the love several much younger men and they ended up hating me. I cried when I thought about the song in this way. I feel deep shame, pain and regret at the lyrics You know you can't hold me forever I'm not a present for your friends to open You can't plant me in your penthouse But especially Maybe you'll get a replacement There's plenty like me to be found Mongrels who ain't got a penny Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground In searching for love I have preyed on the poverty of beautiful young men and tried to own them with tragic results. If that's not what the song is about, it definitely fits that interpretation |
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