List of songs with lyrics by Bernie Taupin
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Bernie Taupin is a lyricist who has worked with several composers (including Alice Cooper and Heart), but primarily with Elton John. Taupin and John began writing in 1967 and, aside from brief periods apart, have been collaborating ever since. He has also released three solo albums and is a member of Farm Dogs, which has released two albums.
More about Taupin's career can be found in the article Bernie Taupin. This is a list of songs Bernie Taupin has written:
- 10 Soldater
- 12
- 1965
- A Little Peace
- A Love That Will Never Grow Old
- A Minute of Your Life
- A New Clear Morning
- A Woman's Needs
- A Word in Spanish
- Accents
- Across the River Thames
- Act of War
- Adult Music
- Aftermath
- Ain't We Bad in the Big City
- All Across the Havens
- All Or Nothing
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- All That I'm Allowed (I'm Thankful)
- All the Girls Love Alice
- All the Nasties
- All the Way Down to El Paso
- Amazes Me
- American Triangle
- Amoreena
- Amy
- ...And the House Fell Down
- Angeline
- Anitta
- Answer in the Sky
- Approaching Armageddon
- Are You Alright?
- Backbone
- Bad News Baby Darling
- Bad Side of the Moon
- Ball
- Ballad of a Well Known Gun
- Ballad of the Boy in Red Shoes
- Barstool
- Beautiful (I Don't Want to Be)
- Bed of Nails
- Belfast
- Believe
- Bennie and the Jets
- Better off Dead
- Between Seventeen and Twenty
- Big Man in a Little Suit
- Billie and the Kids
- Billy Bones and the White Bird
- Billy Fury
- Birds
- Birth
- Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance)
- Bitter Fingers
- Black Cat Crossing the Road
- Blessed
- Blitz Babies
- Blood in the Dust
- Blue Avenue
- Blues For Baby and Me
- Blues Never Fade Away
- Bobbie on the Backburner
- Bone of Contention
- Bonnie's Gone Away
- Boogie Pilgrim
- Border Song
- Born on the 4th of July
- Breaking Hearts (Ain't What it Used to Be)
- Bring Back the Magic
- Broken Woman
- Brothers Together Again
- Building a Bird
- Burn Down the Mission
- Burning Buildings
- Burn This Bed
- But then Again
- Cage the Songbird
- Calling it Christmas
- Caminaga Ella Tan Linda
- Can I Put You On?
- Candle in the Wind
- Candle in the Wind 1997
- Candy By the Pound
- Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
- Chameleon
- Chasing the Crown
- Cherokee D.J
- Child
- Chiquita
- Cinderella '67
- Citizen Jane
- Closer to the Edge
- Club At the End of the Street
- Cold
- Cold As Christmas (In the Middle of the Year)
- Cold Highway
- Color Bar
- Come Down in Time
- Conclusion
- Conquistador
- Corrugated Iron
- Country Comfort
- Cowboy
- Crazy Water
- Crocodile Rock
- Cry to Heaven
- Cry Willow Cry
- Crystal
- Culture Shock/Counter Clock
- Curtains
- Damn My Eyes
- Dance With Life
- Dan Dare (Pilot of the Future)
- Dancing in the End Zone
- Daniel
- Dark Diamond
- Deal For Life
- Desperation Train
- Diamonds Won't Do it (But I Will)
- Did Anybody Sleep with Joan of Arc?
- Did He Shoot Her?
- Dip Your Wings
- Dirty Little Girl
- Dixie Lily
- Donner Pour Donner
- Don't Be the Last to Know
- Don't Go Breaking My Heart
- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- Du Far Ej Fa
- Du Far Ej Ga
- Dub Till You Drop
- Dup Songs
- Durban Deep
- Easier to Walk Away
- Ego
- Elderberry Wine
- Emery Green
- Emily
- Empty Garden (Hey, Hey Johnny)
- Empty Sky
- En Sorgsen Sang
- End of a Day
- Fascist Faces
- Fat Boys and Ugly Girls
- Feed Me
- First Episode At Hienton
- First Verse
- Flatters (A Beginning)
- Fly on the Wall
- Fools in Fashion
- (For the) Working Girl
- For Veronica's Sake
- Freaks in Love
- Friend of the Flag
- Friends
- From the Inside
- Giardino Dell 'Amore
- Ginseng Woman
- Go it Alone
- God Never Came Here
- Goin' North
- Going Blind
- Goodbye
- Goodbye Marlon Brando
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket
- Guess I'll Always Love You
- Grey Seal
- Grimsby
- Grow Some Funk of Your Own
- Gulliver
- Gypsy Heart
- Hard Luck Story
- Harmony
- Have Mercy on the Criminal
- Healing Hands
- Heartache All Over the World
- Heart of an Angel
- Heart of Every Girl
- Heart of Glass
- Heavy Traffic
- Heels of the Wind
- Hell
- Hercules
- Hey Papa Legba
- Hey Ricky (You're a Low Down Heel)
- High Flying Bird
- Ho Ho Ho (Who'd Be a Turkey At Christmas?)
- Hold Back the Night
- Holiday Inn
- Honey Roll
- Honky Cat
- Hoop of Fire
- House
- House of Cards
- How Long Lord (Before the Night Is Over?)
- How You Gonna See Me Now?
- How's Tomorrow
- Hungry Eyes
- Hymn 2000
- I Am Not the Enemy
- I Am the Hunter
- I Am Your Robot
- I Came to Dance
- I Can't Keep This From You
- I Can't Steer My Heart Clear of You
- I Cry At Night
- I Don't Wanna Go on With You Like That
- I Engineer
- I Fall Apart
- I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)
- I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
- I Hypnotise
- I Know Why I'm in Love
- I Must Have Lost It on the Wind
- I Need You to Turn To
- I Never Knew Her Name
- I Still Can't Believe That You're Gone
- I Stop and I Breathe
- I Swear I Heard the Night Talkin'
- I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself
- I Want Love
- I Wish I Were Born in Beverly Hills
- Idol
- If I Was a Country
- If I Weren't So Romantic
- If the River Can Bend
- If there's a God in Heaven (What's He Waiting For?)
- I'm a Working Man
- I'm Going Home
- I'm Going to Be a Teenage Idol
- I'm Still Standing
- In Neon
- In Paradise
- Indian Sunset
- Inmates (We're All Crazy)
- Into the Heartland
- Into the Old Man's Shoes
- Island Girl
- It's Getting Dark in Here
- It's Me that You Need
- It's Only Rain
- It's Your Game
- I've Seen that Movie Too
- I've Seen the Saucers
- Jack Rabbit
- Jacknife Johnny
- Jamaica Jerk-Off
- January
- Japanese Hands
- Jazz Girl
- Josephine
- Julie
- Just Like Belgium
- Just Like Noah's Ark
- Just Like Strange Rain
- Keep It a Mystery
- Keep Me
- Kiss the Bride
- La Petite Marionette
- Lady Samantha
- Lady, What's Tomorrow?
- Last Stand in Open Country
- Latitude
- Le Dernier Mot
- Leather Jackets
- Leaves
- Leaving At Midnight
- Leaving the Fair
- Let Me Be Your Car
- Levon
- Lies
- Light in Your Heart
- Like Summer Tempests
- Little Casanova
- Little Quick Draw
- Li'l 'Frigerator
- Live Like Horses
- Llora Al Cielo
- Lonely School Year
- Long-Legged Women
- Long Way From Happiness
- Lonnie and Josie
- Look At What We've Done
- Look Ma No Hands
- Lord of the Flies
- Love
- Love (The Barren Desert)
- Love and Greed
- Love Cuts Like a Dangerous Blade
- Love Her Like Me
- Love Is a Cannibal
- Love Lies Bleeding
- Love Rusts
- Love So Cold
- Love Touch
- Love's Got A Lot to Answer For
- Lover Come Back to Me
- Lover's Cross
- Lovers Leap
- Lovesick
- Made For Me
- Made in England
- Man
- Madman Across the Water
- Make Me As You Are
- Mansfield
- Manslide
- Me & My Friends
- Medicine Man
- Medley (Yell Help/Wednesday Night/Ugly)
- Mellow
- Mendocino County Line
- Mexicana Fire
- Michelle's Song
- (Midnight) Midlife Crisis
- Midnight Creeper
- Millie and Billie
- Minha Vida Sem Voce
- Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
- Mona Lisa and Mad Hatters (Part II)
- Monkey in My Dreams
- Monkey on My Back (The Last Run)
- Monkeys in the Jungle
- Muniquita
- My Elusive Drug
- My Father's Gun
- My Side of the River
- Never Give Up on a Dream
- Never Gonna Break Your Heart
- New Morning
- Nice and Slow
- Nikita
- No Shoe Strings on Louise
- No Tricks
- No Valentines
- Nona Gita
- Non-Existente
- Nothin' Left But Ashes (After the Fire Has Gone Out)
- Nurse Rozetta
- Old '67
- On Dark Street
- On This Rock
- One Horse Town
- One More Arrow
- Onetime, Sometime Or Never
- Only a Boy
- Original Sin
- Out of My Hands
- Pain
- Pandora's Swing
- Paris
- Passengers
- Pay Dirt
- Pearl River
- Peter's Song
- Philadelphia Freedom
- Pinky
- Planes
- Please
- Poor Cow
- Porch Swing in Tupelo
- Postcards from Richard Nixon
- Pretty Bombs
- Prime of My Life
- Proof of Paradise
- Quantrill
- Quelques Mots Essentiels
- Ratcatcher
- Razor Face
- Reach Out
- Recover Your Soul
- Red
- Religion
- Remember
- Restless
- Ridin' Free
- Rock and Roll Madonna
- Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)
- Rock Me When He's Gone
- Rope Around a Fool
- Rosa
- Rotten Peaches
- Rough Justice
- Rowston Manor
- Roy Rogers
- Rubber Guns
- Runaway Train
- Rusted Love
- Sacrifice
- Sad Songs (Say So Much)
- Sails
- Sail Me Away
- Saint
- Salvation
- Satellite
- Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
- Satisfied
- Savage
- Savannah
- Screw You
- Seasons
- Season of the Rain
- Serious
- Seven-Four-Seven
- Sexy on the Inside
- Shadows in Charge
- Shameless
- Shane
- She Sends Shivers
- Shoot Down the Moon
- Shoulder Holster
- Show Us Your Ghosts
- Sick City
- Sign of the Cross
- Simple Life
- Since God Invented Girls
- Sisters of the Cross
- Sixty Years On
- Skin
- Skyline Pigeon
- Slave
- Sleeping Through the Weekend
- Sleeping With the Past
- Slice of Life
- Slow Down Georgie (She's Poison)
- Slow Rivers
- Slow the Dogs Down
- Slummin'
- Sneakin' Out the Backway
- Snookeroo
- Snow Queen
- So Jenny Rocks
- So Much Love
- So Sad the Renegade
- Social Disease
- Solar Prestige a Gammon
- Solitude
- Somebody Special
- Someone Saved My Life Tonight
- Someone's Final Song
- Something About the Way You Look Tonight
- Son of Your Father
- Sonny
- Sorrow Is Not For Me
- Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
- Soul Glove
- Spiteful Child
- Stallion Road
- Step Into Christmas
- Stinker
- Stones Throw From Hurtin'
- Storm Days
- Street Kids
- Strength of His Kiss
- Sugar and Fire
- Suit of Wolves
- Supercool
- Susie (Dramas)
- Sweat it Out
- Sweet Painted Lady
- Switchblade Years
- Take Me to the Pilot
- Talk About You
- Talking Old Soldiers
- Teacher I Need You
- Tell Me What the Papers Say
- Tell Me When the Whistle Blows
- Texan Love Song
- Thank You For All of Your Loving
- Thank You Mama
- The Ace of Hearts and the Jack of Spades
- The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909-1934)
- The Ballad of Dennis Hopper & Harry Dean
- The Ballad of Zero and the Tramp
- The Big Picture
- The Bitch Is Back
- The Bridge
- The Cage
- The Captain and the Kid
- The Crack in the Sky
- The Camera Never Lies
- The Eastern Bloc
- The Emperor's New Clothes
- The End Will Come
- The Fox
- The Greatest Discovery
- The Heart of an Angel
- The Heart of Every Girl
- The Kids Are Loose
- The King Must Die
- The Last Good Man in My Life
- The Last Motel
- The Last Ride of Charlie Fury
- The Last Song
- The Man Who Loved to Dance
- The New Lone Ranger
- The North
- The North Star
- The One
- The Power
- The Price of Lightning
- The Quiet Room
- The Rage
- The Retreat
- The Rumour
- The Scaffold
- The Visitor
- The Wasteland
- The Whores of Paris
- The Wide-Eyed and Laughing
- These Dreams
- They Call Her the Cat
- Thin Ice of Love
- Things Only Get Better with Love
- This Song Has No Title
- This Town
- This Train Don't Stop There Anymore
- Ticking
- Tinderbox
- Tiny Dancer
- To a Grandfather
- To Die With My Boots On
- Today's Hero
- Toni Loved the Rain
- Tonight
- Too Low For Zero
- Too Many Tears
- Too Young
- Tortured
- Touch the Fire
- Tower of Babel
- Town of Plenty
- Turn the Lights Out When You Leave
- Two-Armed Bandit
- Two Rooms At the End of the World
- Una Fletcha Mots
- Uncool (written with and performed by Courtney Love)
- Under Fire
- Understanding Women
- Union Jack
- Until You Come Back to Me
- Up Up (Over the Berlin Wall)
- Val-Hala
- Valley Nights
- Venezuela
- Waitress in a Roadhouse
- Water Kills Fire
- We All Fall in Love Sometimes
- We Are Romantics (R.U.1.2)
- We Built This City
- We Need Us
- Weight of the World
- Western Ford Gateway
- When a Woman Doesn't Want You
- When the Heron Wakes
- When the Phone Stops Ringing
- Whenever You're Ready (We'll Go Steady Again)
- Where Have All the Good Times Gone
- Where to Now St. Peter?
- Where's the Shoorah?
- Whipping Boy
- Whispers
- White Boys in Chains
- White Lady White Powder
- White Man Danger
- White Rose
- Whitewash County
- Who Wears these Shoes?
- Wicked Dreams
- Witches (Get Burned)
- Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way (NYC)
- Wounded Knee
- Wrap Her Up
- Writing
- You Can Make History (Young Again)
- You Gotta Love Someone
- Young Lust
- Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock 'N' Roll)
- Your Song
- You're So Static