Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
From the soundtrack Friends
I hope the day will be a lighter highway
For friends are found on every road
Can you ever think of any better way
For the lost and weary travellers to go
Making friends for the world to see
Let the people know you got what you need
With a friend at hand you will see the light
If your friends are there then everything's all right
It seems to me a crime that we should age
These fragile times should never slip us by
A time you never can or shall erase
As friends together watch their childhood fly
Elton John - Friends (02:23)
Friends Movie Soundtrack
Read lyrics at the end, he's blaming "Holy Moses." He's been "deceived," even "removed." It makes you think it's about racial harmony... but is about "distant" "kinds" of beings whose "affairs" are oppositely "directed." Also, read that he decorates his home with satanic art. Was considering covering this song, waited 221/2 years to look into it a little further. They take it as Zeus and the Rape of Ganemedes. Hombly speaking...
Autor: Yardmon50
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Religious nuts, self-righteous liberal atheist nuts...fucking morons all of you. Why can't you just get the fuck over yourselves for a MINUTE and watch a music video?
Autor: xreddragonx
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@flapjackrabbit
Please donot misunderstood me at any time I tried to say something negative at all please accept my apologies if you thought that way, indeed I am against racism as myself have been a victim of racism here in Vancouver just for being a Latino and since my teenage years I like Elton John's music.
Autor: VanLat7
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this is about the situation in palestine. Jews and Arabs are believed to be distant cousins, both of whom desended from abraham. and when the jews first settled the Arabs were decieved into believing that they came in peace. but they were decieved and removed from their land. also, he swears by holy moses, which makes no sence in any other context. I believe he said that was what the song was talking about but there was such a backlash that he no longer admits it.
Autor: ironyandinjustic
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i'm a racist like flapjackrabbit!
Autor: greeniem
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He had a bald spot on the back of his head, even back then. He had that type of thinning hair that you could tell wasn't going to be around very long
Autor: ritter89
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@vanlatino A gospel isn't proprietarily Christian music, but the more precise term for it would be Negro Spiritual, like the songs African slaves would sing/during the Civil Rights Movement, a la "Free at Last," "Swing Low Sweet Chariot," "We Shall Overcome," "Let My People Go" (yes, the last one is about Hebrews in Egypt, but the struggle is similar)
As for your other statements, condemning racism and giving homophobia a pass is a double standard and a bit hypocritical, don't you think?
Autor: flapjackrabbit
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This is actually a song condeming racism as you can hear part of the lyrics at the end of the song it says "There's a man over there what's his colour I don't care
He's my brother let us live in peace"
And I don't think this song is a gospel at all don't forget in the Bilble Moses condemed homosexuality and then regarding Elton.........
Judge yourself
After all this is one of Elton John's best songs