Lyric discussion by Sapphiredemon 

there's this story by ray bradbusry called rocket man. its about and astronaut and his family and about how much he wants to stay home with his family but he can't pull himself away from space but he promises it will be his last time going up but his ship crashes into the sun. "I miss the earth so much I miss my wife " the relationship he has with his wife...very distant she know she coudl die so she pretends he's already dead. "I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh no no no I'm a rocket man " family thinks highly of him but he's not a good father or husband because he keeps leaving. "Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone " dies by flying into the sun..burning up alone. "Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids" he tells his son never to be like him because of how the life is and how he can't tear himself away. "And I think it's gonna be a long long time" he dies out there so he's never coming back. maybe there's a corelation aside from coinsidence

Absolutely correct! Congratulations!!! I read this story some time ago but I guess I could not to explain this song meaning as well as you did because I am not a English native speaker :) :) I am brazilian!

Interesting compilations... and most are probably correct in their own candid percentaged regard. However, in my opinion based upon facts, after Elton's semi-supportive family childhood, he was married, but not devoted to settling down. He was and still is a one-man band of selfishness and instant gratifications. His dumped wife, like most women, refused to learn and apply the physical concept of the mutually submissive marriage bed duties. Admittedly, women are wired to be selfish b-itches usually around their period cycles, and their dreamy idea of settling down after their plastic baby-doll and buggy-pushing childhood pasts transforms their visions into...

@Sapphiredemon another shot story/chapter by ray bradbury, Zero Hour may be refranced in the begining of the song. i am not sure if i am streaching the referances here, but it is possible.

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