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Mansfield

Elton John
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Mansfield
Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Available on the album Songs From The West Coast
      
      
It's a case I guess of paradise lost
Ten years back on the hands of the clock
In that little house on Mansfield
On your old block 
Sometimes the magic of the past is all we've got 
Just you and me at a crossroads then
Ain't it funny how we were old friends
Accidentally thrown together
Did we intend
To be the romantic novel you never want to end?
And it's the contact of the eye that meets across a crowded room
And how I kind of wound up the lyrics to your tune
You said, 'Funny but it feels like I've known you all my life
And how it might feel to kiss you on the mouth tonight'
And between the Star of David and the California moon
The Santa Ana winds blew warm into your room
We were crazy, wild and running
Blind to the change to come
In that little house on Mansfield
We'd wake at the break of dawn 
In an Indian summer gone 
In the candlelight I can recall
Your naked shadow looking ten feet tall
Like a wild pony dancing
Along the wall
Off balance I found love the only place to fall
And it's the contact of the eye that meets across a crowded room
And how I kind of wound up the lyrics to your tune
You said, 'Funny but it feels like I've known you all my life
And how it might feel to kiss you on the mouth tonight'
And between the Star of David and the California moon
The Santa Ana winds blew warm into your room
We were crazy, wild and running
Blind to the change to come
In that little house on Mansfield
We'd wake at the break of dawn 
In an Indian summer gone 
Wake at the break of dawn 
In an Indian summer gone 

Outro

    
   
Copyright (c) Mark van Gerven Netherlands

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