The North

Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Available on the album The One

Have you seen the North
That cold grey place
Don't want its shadow anymore
On my face
A man grows bitter
We're a bitter race
Some of us never get to see
A better place

In the Northern Skies
There was a steel cloud
It used to follow me around
But I don't see it now
There's a farm in the rain
And a little farmhouse
There were a young man's eyes
Looking south


The North was my mother
But I no longer need her
You trade your roots and your dust
For a face in the river


And a driven rain that washes you
To a different shore
There's a North in us all
But my North can't hold me anymore