Song for Guy Lyrics
Life isn't everything
Isn't everything
Isn't everything
[Chorus]
Life isn't everything
Isn't everything
Isn't everything
[Chorus]
Life isn't everything
Isn't everything
Isn't everything
[Outro]
Life, life, life, life
Life, life, life, life, life, life
About
The ending track to Elton’s “A Single Man” album, this instrumental piece was written on the day Guy Burchett, the messenger boy for Elton, was killed in an accident. It’s one of the only Elton John songs solely credited to Elton as most of his songs were written with lyricist Bernie Taupin.
Q&A
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In a 2013 interview with Rolling Stone, Elton John said:
“It was different, it was an instrumental, it was just me doing everything. It meant so much to me, that track. It was a huge record in England and everywhere else in the world, but it was my first single that didn’t make the Top 100 in the U.S. That was the reason I got bloody-minded and left MCA Records. I wanted to have an instrumental on the charts. They said, ‘You can’t.’”
- 3.I Don’t Care
- 4.Big Dipper
- 7.Georgia
- 9.Madness
- 10.Reverie
- 11.Song for Guy
- 12.Ego
- 13.Flinstone Boy
- 14.I Cry at Night
- 15.Lovesick
- 16.Strangers
