Hi,
Just sitting here on the run up to christmas listening to some fantastic music in the office. I'm playing Elton John's Greatest hits CD, now I'm only 25 so I'm too young to have heard most of this music the first time around, leaving aside how fantastic this album is (close to pop perfection), I wonder how many songs there are out there by different artists that we really only recognise their true meaning now, decades later.
Example, Rocket Man by Elton John.
She packed my bags last night pre-flight
Zero hour nine a.m.
And I’m gonna be high as a kite by then
I miss the earth so much I miss my wife
It’s lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight
And I think it’s gonna be a long long time
Till touch down brings me round again to find
I’m not the man they think I am at home
Oh no no no I’m a rocket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone
Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it’s cold as hell
And there’s no one there to raise them if you did
And all this science I don’t understand
It’s just my job five days a week
A rocket man, a rocket man
And I think it’s gonna be a long long time...
To me, this is clearly about Elton's sexuality, he's a rocket man
Andrew