Is This Like a Beetles Song?

The chords are doing one thing, but the melody is actually also emphasizing that cycle. It's a striking and kind of orienting thing to do with a verse. And it also really underlines the thing i was talking about earlier, with how am sort of great american song book influenced and pianoe elton john's songs are. This is not the kind of chord progression that your average guitar playing singer, song writer, especially in the seventies would have written. There's also such a beetle's influence here in his vocals. I think that elton has this wonderfully, sort of a ever changing voice. You know, he can sing with a country twang, and he can

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