Compositor: Bernie Taupin, Elton John, Davey Johnstone, Caleb Quaye, Howard J. Newton
Are you still in control of the boat that you row
Or do you still cling to me when it's sinking?
I never condemnde you. I only consoled you
When candlelight made me a King
For the wide-eyed and laughing
Passed like a season
Erasing a passion to sin
For no-one kenw better than the tealeaves and the tarots
That the wide-eyed and laughing
Where just one step ahead of the wind
And the hearts that you played on the porch swing for me
Was a song that I'd heard in the past
For I had an audience somewhere inside you
That applauded whenever you laughed
Gone is a word that I now rarely use
Though sometime in the course of the day
I go racing back like a man possessed
By the wide-eyed and laughing daughters of some different age