HERE AND THERE

30.04.1976 – Великобритания. 03.05.1976 – США

Оригинальная версия включала в себя 9 песен:

CD 1 (Запись концерта в The Royal Festival Hall 18.05.1974, Лондон):

SKYLINE PIGEON

BORDER SONG

HONKY CAT

LOVE SONG (Дуэт с Лесли Дункан)

CROCODILE ROCK

CD 2 (Запись концерта в Madison Square Garden 28.11.1974, Нью-Йорк):

FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND (LOVE LIES BLEEDING)

ROCKET MAN (I THINK IT’S GOING TO BE A LONG, LONG TIME)

BENNIE AND THE JETS

TAKE ME TO THE PILOT

Переиздан в 1995 (Mercury) и 1996 (Rocket) с дополнительными треками

CD 1 (Запись концерта в The Royal Festival Hall 18.05.1974, Лондон)

SKYLINE PIGEON

Turn me loose from your hands

Let me fly to distant lands

Over green fields, trees and mountains

Flowers and forest fountains

Home along the lanes of the skyway

For this dark and lonely room

Projects a shadow cast in gloom

And my eyes are mirrors

Of the world outside

Thinking of the way

That the wind can turn the tide

And these shadows turn

From purple into grey

For just a Skyline Pigeon

Dreaming of the open

Waiting for the day

He can spread his wings

And fly away again

Fly away skyline pigeon fly

Towards the dreams

You've left so very far behind

Just let me wake up in the morning

To the smell of new mown hay

To laugh and cry, to live and die

In the brightness of my day

I want to hear the pealing bells

Of distant churches sing

But most of all please free me

From this aching metal ring

And open out this cage towards the sun

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

BORDER SONG

Holy Moses I have been removed

I have seen the spectre he has been here too

Distant cousin from down the line

Brand of people who ain't my kind

Holy Moses I have been removed

Holy Moses I have been deceived

Now the wind has changed direction and I'll have to leave

Won't you please excuse my frankness but it's not my cup of tea

Holy Moses I have been deceived

I'm going back to the border

Where my affairs, my affairs ain't abused

I can't take any more bad water

I've been poisoned from my head down to my shoes

Holy Moses I have been deceived

Holy Moses let us live in peace

Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease

There's a man over there what's his colour I don't care

He's my brother let us live in peace

He's my brother let us live in peace

He's my brother let us live in peace

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

TAKE ME TO THE PILOT

If you feel that it's real I'm on trial

And I'm here in your prison

Like a coin in your mint

I am dented and I'm spent with high treason

Through a glass eye your throne

Is the one danger zone

Take me to the pilot for control

Take me to the pilot of your soul

Take me to the pilot

Lead me through the chamber

Take me to the pilot

I am but a stranger

Take me to the pilot

Lead me through the chamber

Take me to the pilot

I am but a stranger

Well I know he's not old

And I'm told he's a virgin

For he may be she

But what I'm told is never for certain

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

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COUNTRY COMFORT

Soon the pines will be falling everywhere

Village children fight each other for a share

And the six-o-nine goes roaring past the creek

Deacon Lee prepares his sermon for next week

I saw grandma yesterday down at the store

Well she's really going fine for eighty four

Well she asked me if sometime I'd fix her barn

Poor old girl she needs a hand to run the farm

And it's good old country comfort in my bones

Just the sweetest sound my ears have ever known

Just an old-fashioned feeling fully-grown

Country comfort's in a truck that's going home

Down at the well they've got a new machine

The foreman says it cuts man-power by fifteen

Yeah but that ain't natural well so old Clay would say

You see he's a horse-drawn man until his dying day

Now the old fat goose is flying cross the sticks

The hedgehog's done in clay between the bricks

And the rocking chair's creaking on the porch

Across the valley moves the herdsman with his torch

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

LOVE SONG (Дуэт с Лесли Дункан)

The words I have to say

May well be simple but they're true

Until you give your love

There's nothing more that we can do

Love is the opening door

Love is what we came here for

No one could offer you more

Do you know what I mean?

Have your eyes really seen?

You say it's very hard

To leave behind the life we knew

But there's no other way

And now it's really up to you

Love is the key we must turn

Truth is the flame we must burn

Freedom the lesson we must learn

Do you know what I mean?

Have your eyes really seen?

Автор: Лесли Дункан

BAD SIDE OF THE MOON

It seems as though I've lived my life

On the bad side of the moon

To stir your dregs in sickness still

Without the rustic spoon

Common people live with me

Where the light has never shone

And the hornets flock like hummingbirds

To speak in a foreign tongue

I'm a light world away

From the people who make me stay

Sitting on the bad side of the moon

There ain't no need for watchdogs here

To justify our ways

We live our life in manacles

The main cause of our stay

Exiled here from other worlds

My sentence comes too soon

Why should I be made to pay

On the bad side of the moon

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

BURN DOWN THE MISSION

You tell me there's an angel in your tree

Did he say he'd come to call on me

For things are getting desperate in our home

Living in the parish of the restless folks I know

Everybody now bring your family down to the riverside

Look to the east to see where the fat stock hide

Behind four walls of stone the rich man sleeps

It's time we put the flame torch to their keep

Burn down the mission

If we're gonna stay alive

Watch the black smoke fly to heaven

See the red flame light the sky

Burn down the mission

Burn it down to stay alive

It's our only chance of living

Take all you need to live inside

Deep in the woods the squirrels are out today

My wife cried when they came to take me away

But what more could I do just to keep her warm

Than burn burn burn burn down the mission walls

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

HONKY CAT

When I look back boy I must have been green

Bopping in the country, fishing in a stream

Looking for an answer trying to find a sign

Until I saw your city lights honey I was blind

They said get back honky cat

Better get back to the woods

Well I quit those days and my redneck ways

And oh the change is gonna do me good

You better get back honky cat

Living in the city ain't where it's at

It's like trying to find gold in a silver mine

It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine

Well I read some books and I read some magazines

About those high class ladies down in New Orleans

And all the folks back home well, said I was a fool

They said oh, believe in the Lord is the golden rule

They said stay at home boy, you gotta tend the farm

Living in the city boy, is going to break your heart

But how can you stay, when your heart says no

How can you stop when your feet say go

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

CROCODILE ROCK

I remember when rock was young

Me and Suzie had so much fun

holding hands and skimming stones

Had an old gold Chevy and a place of my own

But the biggest kick I ever got

was doing a thing called the Crocodile Rock

While the other kids were Rocking Round the Clock

we were hopping and bopping to the Crocodile Rock

Well Crocodile Rocking is something shocking

when your feet just can't keep still

I never knew me a better time and I guess I never will

Oh Lawdy mama those Friday nights

when Suzie wore her dresses tight

and the Crocodile Rocking was out of sight

But the years went by and the rock just died

Suzie went and left us for some foreign guy

Long nights crying by the record machine

dreaming of my Chevy and my old blue jeans

But they'll never kill the thrills we've got

burning up to the Crocodile Rock

Learning fast as the weeks went past

we really thought the Crocodile Rock would last

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

CANDLE IN THE WIND

Goodbye Norma Jean
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did

Loneliness was tough
The toughest role you ever played
Hollywood created a superstar
And pain was the price you paid
Even when you died
Oh the press still hounded you
All the papers had to say
Was that Marilyn was found in the nude

Goodbye Norma Jean
From the young man in the 22nd row
Who sees you as something as more than sexual
More than just our Marilyn Monroe

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

YOUR SONG

It's a little bit funny this feeling inside

I'm not one of those who can easily hide

I don't have much money but boy if I did

I'd buy a big house where we both could live

If I was a sculptor, but then again, no

Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show

I know it's not much but it's the best I can do

My gift is my song and this one's for you

And you can tell everybody this is your song

It may be quite simple but now that it's done

I hope you don't mind

I hope you don't mind that I put down in words

How wonderful life is while you're in the world

I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss

Well a few of the verses well they've got me quite cross

But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song

It's for people like you that keep it turned on

So excuse me forgetting but these things I do

You see I've forgotten if they're green or they're blue

Anyway the thing is what I really mean

Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

SATURDAY NIGHT’S ALRIGHT (FOR FIGHTING)

It's getting late have you seen my mates
Ma tell me when the boys get here
It's seven o'clock and I want to rock
Want to get a belly full of beer

My old man's drunker than a barrel full of monkeys
And my old lady she don't care
My sister looks cute in her braces and boots
A handful of grease in her hair

Don't give us none of your aggravation
We had it with your discipline
Saturday night's alright for fighting
Get a little action in

Get about as oiled as a diesel train
Gonna set this dance alight
`Cause Saturday night's the night I like
Saturday night's alright alright alright

Well they're packed pretty tight in here tonight
I'm looking for a dolly who'll see me right
I may use a little muscle to get what I need
I may sink a little drink and shout out "She's with me!"

A couple of the sound that I really like
Are the sounds of a switchblade and a motorbike
I'm a juvenile product of the working class
Whose best friend floats in the bottom of a glass

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

CD 2 (Запись концерта в Madison Square Garden 28.11.1974, Нью-Йорк)

FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND (LOVE LIES BLEEDING)

The roses in the window box

Have tilted to one side

Everything about this house

Was born to grow and die

Oh it doesn't seem a year ago

To this very day

You said I'm sorry honey

If I don't change the pace

I can't face another day

And love lies bleeding in my hand

Oh it kills me to think of you with another man

I was playing rock and roll and you were just a fan

But my guitar couldn't hold you

So I split the band

Love lies bleeding in my hands

I wonder if those changes

Have left a scar on you

Like all the burning hoops of fire

That you and I passed through

You're a bluebird on a telegraph line

I hope you're happy now

Well if the wind of change comes down your way girl

You'll make it back somehow

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

ROCKET MAN (I THINK IT’S GOING TO BE A LONG, LONG TIME)

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...

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

TAKE ME TO THE PILOT

If you feel that it's real I'm on trial

And I'm here in your prison

Like a coin in your mint

I am dented and I'm spent with high treason

Through a glass eye your throne

Is the one danger zone

Take me to the pilot for control

Take me to the pilot of your soul

Take me to the pilot

Lead me through the chamber

Take me to the pilot

I am but a stranger

Take me to the pilot

Lead me through the chamber

Take me to the pilot

I am but a stranger

Well I know he's not old

And I'm told he's a virgin

For he may be she

But what I'm told is never for certain

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

BENNIE AND THE JETS

Hey kids, shake it loose together
The spotlight's hitting something
That's been known to change the weather
We'll kill the fatted calf tonight
So stick around
You're gonna hear electric music
Solid walls of sound

Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet
But they're so spaced out, Bennie and the Jets
Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful
Oh Bennie she's really keen
She's got electric boots a mohair suit
You know I read it in a magazine
Bennie and the Jets

Hey kids, plug into the faithless
Maybe they're blinded
But Bennie makes them ageless
We shall survive, let us take ourselves along
Where we fight our parents out in the streets
To find who's right and who's wrong

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

GREY SEAL

Why's it never light on my lawn

Why does it rain and never say good-day to the new-born

On the big screen they showed us a sun

But not as bright in life as the real one

It's never quite the same as the real one

And tell me grey seal

How does it feel to be so wise

To see through eyes

That only see what's real

Tell me grey seal

I never learned why meteors were formed

I only farmed in schools that were so warn and torn

If anyone can cry then so can I

I read books and draw life from the eye

All my life is drawings from the eye

Your mission bells were wrought by ancient men

The roots were formed by twisted roots

Your roots were twisted then

I was re-born before all life could die

The Phoenix bird will leave this world to fly

If the Phoenix bird can fly then so can I

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

DANIEL

Daniel is travelling tonight on a plane
I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain
Oh and I can see Daniel waving goodbye
God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes

They say Spain is pretty though I've never been
Well Daniel says it's the best place that he's ever seen
Oh and he should know, he's been there enough
Lord I miss Daniel, oh I miss him so much

Daniel my brother you are older than me
Do you still feel the pain of the scars that won't heal
Your eyes have died but you see more than I
Daniel you're a star in the face of the sky

Daniel is travelling tonight on a plane
I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain
Oh and I can see Daniel waving goodbye
God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes
Oh God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

YOU’RE SO STATIC

I've a constant ache in the morning light
It's on account of the night before
Some Park Lane lady in a shady bar
Took a fancy to the watch I wore

But I can still remember how she laughed at me
As I spun around and hit the bed
She said thank you honey, forget about the money
This pretty watch'll do instead

City living woman, you're so static
Matching your men with a hook and eye
If you're gonna spend the summer in New York City
Them women oh oh oh they're gonna slice your pie

Said you're so static, baby I've had it
Rolling in a yellow cab
Downtown hustlers trying to pull some muscle
If they catch you, oh oh oh it could turn out bad

It's a Show me what you want, I'll show you what I've got
I can show you a real good time
She's a friend indeed of a friend in need
But you'll be sorry when she leaves you crying

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

WHATEVER GETS YOU THROUGH THE NIGHT (Дуэт с Джоном Ленноном)

Whatever gets you through the night it's alright, it's alright
It' your money or your life it's alright, it's alright
Don't need a sword to cut thru flowers oh no, oh no
Whatever gets you thru your life it's alright, it's alright
Do it wrong or do it right it's alright, it's alright
Don't need a watch to waste your time oh no, oh no

Hold me darling come on listen to me
I won't do you no harm
Trust me darling come on listen to me, come on listen to me
Come on listen listen

Whatever gets you to the light it's alright, it's alright
Out the blue or out of sight alright, alright
Don't need a gun to blow your mind oh no, oh no

Hold me darling come on listen to me
I won't do you no harm
Trust me darling come on listen to me, come on listen to me
Come on listen listen

Автор: Джон Леннон

LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS (Дуэт с Джоном Ленноном)

Picture yourself in a boat on a river

With tangerine trees and marmalade skies

Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly

A girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green

Towering over your head

Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes

And she's gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain

Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies

Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers

That grow so incredibly high

Newspaper taxis appear on the shore

Waiting to take you away

Climb in the back with you head in the clouds

And you're gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Picture yourself on a train in a station

With plasticine porters with looking glass ties

Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile

The girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Авторы: Джон Леннон, Пол Маккартни

I SAW HER STANDING THERE (Дуэт с Джонои Ленноном)

She was just seventeen

And you know what I mean

And the way she looked was way beyond compare

I couldn't dance with another

When I saw her standing there

Well she looked at me

and I could see

That before too long I fell in love with her

I couldn't dance with another

When I saw here standing there

Well my heart went boom

As I crossed that room

And I held her hand in mine

Oh we danced through the night

And we held each other tight

And before too long I feel in love with her

I couldn't dance with another

When I saw here standing there

Авторы: Джон Леннон, Пол Маккартни

DON'T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME

I can't light no more of your darkness
All my pictures seem to fade to black and white
I'm growing tired and time stands still before me
Frozen here on the ladder of my life

Too late to save myself from falling
I took a chance and changed your way of life
But you misread my meaning when I met you
Closed the door and left me blinded by the light

Don't let the sun go down on me
Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see
I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

I can't find, oh the right romantic line
But see me once and see the way I feel
Don't discard me just because you think I mean you harm
But these cuts I have they need love to help them heal

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

YOUR SONG

It's a little bit funny this feeling inside

I'm not one of those who can easily hide

I don't have much money but boy if I did

I'd buy a big house where we both could live

If I was a sculptor, but then again, no

Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show

I know it's not much but it's the best I can do

My gift is my song and this one's for you

And you can tell everybody this is your song

It may be quite simple but now that it's done

I hope you don't mind

I hope you don't mind that I put down in words

How wonderful life is while you're in the world

I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss

Well a few of the verses well they've got me quite cross

But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song

It's for people like you that keep it turned on

So excuse me forgetting but these things I do

You see I've forgotten if they're green or they're blue

Anyway the thing is what I really mean

Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

THE BITCH IS BACK

I was justified when I was five
Raising cane, I spit in your eye
Times are changing, now the poor get fat
But the fever's gonna catch you when the bitch gets back

Eat meat on Friday that's alright
Even like steak on a Saturday night
I can bitch the best at your social do's
I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue

I'm a bitch, I'm a bitch
Oh the bitch is back
Stone cold sober as a matter of fact
I can bitch, I can bitch
`Cause I'm better than you
It's the way that I move
The things that I do

I entertain by picking brains
Sell my soul by dropping names
I don't like those, my God, what's that
Oh it's full of nasty habits when the bitch gets backI was justified when I was five
Raising cane, I spit in your eye
Times are changing, now the poor get fat
But the fever's gonna catch you when the bitch gets back

Eat meat on Friday that's alright
Even like steak on a Saturday night
I can bitch the best at your social do's
I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue

I'm a bitch, I'm a bitch
Oh the bitch is back
Stone cold sober as a matter of fact
I can bitch, I can bitch
`Cause I'm better than you
It's the way that I move
The things that I do

I entertain by picking brains
Sell my soul by dropping names
I don't like those, my God, what's that
Oh it's full of nasty habits when the bitch gets back

Музыка: Элтон Джон

Стихи: Берни Топин

ПЕРЕВОД ПЕСЕН КОНСТАНТИНА ОВСЯННИКОВА

В мае Элтон Джон отправился в свое первое за два года гастрольное турне по Великобритании. Во время подготовки к шестнадцатинедельной поездке вышел еще один альбом му­зыканта с концертными записями — "Неге and There". Пять песен на первой стороне ("Skyline Pigeon", "Border Song", "Ноnку Cat", "Love Song" и "Crocodile Rock") были взяты из записи благотворительного концерта 18 мая 1974 года в "Royal Festival Hall", на котором среди прочих присутствовала и принцесса Маргарет. Четыре песни второй стороны ("Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding", "Rocket Man", "Bennie and the Jets" и "Таkе Me to the Pilot") — это запись концерта 28 но­ября 1974 года в нью-йоркском Медисон-сквер-гарден, в ко­тором принимал участие Джон Леннон. Песни Леннона не были включены в альбом. Элтон утверждал, что никогда не собирался использовать то, что Леннон сделал в качестве одолжения.

И это было хорошо. Где-то на полпути между концертом и продукцией Гаса Даджена вся живость исполнения исчезла. Пол Гамбаччини, присутствовавший на концерте в Нью-Йо­рке, с восторгом писал: "Когда толпа ногами отбивала такт в таких рок-н-роллах, как "Bennie and the Jets" и "Таkе Me to the Pilot", роскошные декорации подпрыгивали, как будто тоже пытались неуклюже отбивать ритм. Когда Элтон пел балладу "Rocket Маn" при свете зажженных спичек, на зал спускался неземной покой". К сожалению, ничего этого не могла пере­дать запись.

Элтон не хотел выпускать этот альбом и согласился лишь для того, чтобы выполнить условия контракта с DJM. Недо­вольство фирмой, с которой он должен был скоро распро­щаться, продолжало нарастать. Элтон плохо воспринял то, что два диска "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" были засчитаны ему за один альбом, что означало, что через шесть месяцев ему придется вновь возвращаться в студию и записывать новый материал, когда он к этому не готов. "Однако больше всего меня расстроил тот факт, что "Неге and There" стал моим последним альбомом на DJM, — говорил Элтон год спустя. — Я оказался перед выбором: либо выпустить этот альбом, либо они предъявят свои права позже. Это значит, что они получат и "Blue Moves" [потому что его могут засчи­тать как последний альбом]". Элтон хотел как можно скорее расстаться с DJM и выпустить "Blue Moves" под собственной маркой. (В конечном итоге только второй альбом лучших хитов, выпущенный в 1977 году, убедил Дика Джеймса, что Элтон выполнил обязательства по контракту.)

Альбом "Неге and Тhеге" был выпущен в Британии 30 ап­реля 1976 года. Он вошел в чарт 15 мая и поднялся до 6-й по­зиции, но продержался в списке лучших альбомов всего де­вять недель. В Соединенных Штатах альбом "Неге and There" вышел 3 мая. Он дебютировал в "Тор LP" журнала "Billboard" 22 мая и поднялся до 4-го места. В США альбом пользовался успехом дольше, чем в Британии, оставаясь в чарте почти полгода, как раз до появления "Blue Moves". Кроме того, он стал двенадцатым золотым альбомом музыканта, в коммер­ческом смысле превзойдя другой его альбом с концертными записями, "11-17-70".

Элизабет Розенталь. Rocket Man. Английский оригинал - His Songs

Элтон Джон – рояль, вокал.

Лесли Дункан – вокал (Love Song)

Рей Купер – перкуссия

Джон Леннон – вокал, гитара

Дэйви Джонстон – гитара

Найджел Олссон – барабаны

Ди Мюррей – бас  

Produced by Gus Dudgeon