Elton John – Song for Guy

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  Song Meaning:According to Wikipedia:
  
  Elton said this in the sleeve notes of the 7" single:"...As I was writing this song one Sunday, I imagined myself floating into space and looking down at my own body. I was imagining myself dying. Morbidly obsessed with these thoughts, I wrote this song about death. The next day I was told that Guy (Burchett), our 17 year-old messenger boy, had been tragically killed on his motorcycle the day before. Guy died on the day I wrote this song."

  Flag pearjuiceon April 16, 2012   Link

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  Song Meaning:i read in a few places (including an Elton John Biography) that this song is based on a situation in Elton's record company of old. I believe it was Rocket Records. In the office, they had a delivery boy. He was delivering stuff for the label on his bike and was hit and killed by a car. Elton made a song in his memory.
  
  I am not convinced that the lyrics listed here are correct, but maybe they are.

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  General Comment:I don't know what this means.....but now Elton's keyboardist Guy Babylon died, and he is saying Life isn't Everything. So now it should be a tribute song for Guy

  Flag bthree123on June 29, 2010   Link

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