Live Like Horses

Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Available on the album The Big Picture
 

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I can't control this flesh and blood
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That's wrapped around my bones
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It moves beneath me like a river
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Into the great unknown

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I stepped onto the moving stairs
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Before I could tie my shoes
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Pried a harp out the fingers of a renegade
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Who lived and died the blues

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And his promise made was never clear
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It just carved itself in me
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All I saw was frost inside my head
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On the night he said to me

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Someday we'll live like horses
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Free rein from your old iron fences
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There's more ways than one to regain your senses
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Break out the stalls and we'll live like horses

We're the victims of the heartbreak
That kept us short of breath
Trapped above these bloodless streets
Without a safety net

I stood in line to join the trial
One more customer of fate
Claimed a spoke in the wheel of the wagon train
On the road to the golden gate

On the flat cracked desert I jumped ship
It just made sense to me
I've spent too long in the belly of the beast
And now I shall be free