“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.
@Luke68 Thank God somebody got a very literal aspect of this song. In one sense it's obviouly about a gay kept lover. How do people miss that? It's not that oblique.
@Luke68 Thank God somebody got a very literal aspect of this song. In one sense it's obviouly about a gay kept lover. How do people miss that? It's not that oblique.
“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.
@Luke68 Thank God somebody got a very literal aspect of this song. In one sense it's obviouly about a gay kept lover. How do people miss that? It's not that oblique.
@Luke68 Thank God somebody got a very literal aspect of this song. In one sense it's obviouly about a gay kept lover. How do people miss that? It's not that oblique.