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Thread #94563 Message #1831597
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
10-Sep-06 - 11:12 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Country Comfort (Elton John/Bernie Taupin
Subject: RE: Brits: Explain pop lyric?
Not necessarily. However, Taupin obviously wrote his lyric for an American market, and based it on his (probably rather limited, at the time) understanding of small-town America. If it's confusing, it's because it was written by a small-town English boy who had spent a bit of time in the States, but was writing, at that point, from a largely imaginary perspective got from films and records rather than real life.