1975. In one FINE album from Elton John called Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, 'Sir Elton' who was just an Elton back when unleashed this classic of hateful outpouring and yet salvation. Now this song has been interpreted a million ways from Sunday but deep down Johnny thinks Elton's line 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight' is his way of coming to terms with his homosexuality and being helped to see there was no shame in it and in fact there was more shame in the pretend life he had in public by running around with and being seen with many women. Is this song about his attempt at a Sylvia Plath type suicide as some suggest? We're not so sure about that as when you put your head in an oven, yet unlike Ms. Plath you leave all the windows open, you don't really NEED saving.
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