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Rotten Peaches

This version of Rotten Peaches was released by Elton John in 1971.

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We’ve moved on six miles from where we were yesterday
And yesterday is but a long long ways away
So we’ll camp out tonight beneath the bright starlight
And forget rotten peaches and the places we’ve stayed

I left from the dockland two years ago now
Made my way over on the S.S. Marie
And I’ve always had trouble wherever I’ve settled
Rotten peaches are all that I see

Rotten peaches rotting in the sun
Seems I’ve seen that devil fruit since the world begun
Mercy I’m a criminal, Jesus I’m the one
Rotten peaches rotting in the sun

There ain’t no green grass in a U.S. state prison
There is no one to hold when you’re sick for your wife
And each day out you’ll pick, you’ll pick rotten peaches
You’ll pick rotten peaches for the rest of your life

Oh I’ve had me my fill of cocaine and pills
For I lie in the light of the Lord
And my home is ten thousand, ten thousand miles away
And I guess I won’t see it no more

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About Lyrics and Rotten Peaches by Elton John

The lyrics for Rotten Peaches are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1971 song by Elton John. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Rotten Peaches have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Rotten Peaches - Elton John and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Rotten Peaches by Elton John in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Rotten Peaches" means the words set to the music of Rotten Peaches, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Elton John. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Rotten Peaches and the lyrics to Rotten Peaches are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Elton John who came here looking just for the lyrics to Rotten Peaches, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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