ELTON JOHN - Elaborate Lives lyrics

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Music by elton john<br>Lyrics by tim rice<br>Elton's solo version is unreleased<br><br>We all lead such elaborate lives<br>Wild ambitions in our sights<br>How an affair of the heart survives<br>Days apart and hurried nights<br><br>Seems quite unbelievable to me<br>I don't want to live like that<br>Seems quite unbelievable to me<br>I don't want to love like that<br>I just want our time to be slower and gentler, wiser, free<br><br>We all live in extravagant times<br>Playing games we can't all win<br>Unintended emotional crimes<br>Take some out, take others in<br><br>I'm so tired of all we're going through<br>I don't want to live like that<br>I'm so tired of all we're going through<br>I don't want to love like that<br>I just want to be with you now and forever, peaceful, true<br><br>I wish I had the courage<br>To tell you face to face<br>But I could wait forever<br>For the perfect time and place<br><br>We all live such elaborate lives<br>We don't know whose words are true<br>Strangers, lovers, husbands, wives<br>Hard to know whose loving who<br><br>Too many choices tear us apart<br>I don't want to live like that<br>Too many choices tear us apart<br>I don't want to love like that<br>I just want to touch your heart, may this confession be the start