All The Nasties

Album: Madman Across The Water (1971)
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  • If it came to pass that they should ask
    What could I tell them
    Would they criticize behind my back
    Maybe I should let them
    Oh if only then and only then
    They would understand
    They'd turn a full-blooded city boy
    Into a full-blooded city man

    If they could face it
    I could take it in their eyes
    Oh I know I'd make it
    Their tiny minds
    And sacred cows just fake it
    If only then and only then
    They would understand
    They'd turn a full-blooded city boy
    Into a full-blooded city man

    But I know the way they want me
    In the way they publicize
    If they could turn their focus off
    To the image in their eyes
    Maybe it would help them, help them understand
    Maybe it would help them, help them understand
    Maybe it would help them, help them understand
    That a full-blooded city boy
    Is now a full-blooded city man

    Oh my soul
    Oh my soul
    Oh my soul Writer/s: Bernard J.P. Taupin, Elton John
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • AnonymousElton doesn’t write the lyrics, Bernie Taupin does.
  • AnonymousRight on, Tom from Bath MI. Bernie wrote the lyrics by himself and Elton put music to them.
  • Tom from Bath MiI listened to this song for the first time in 2020. The lyrics seemed right away to track with Dave's first comment. However, when the songwriters explain what they were thinking about when they wrote the song, I'll go with them.
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