Music by elton john, caleb quaye, james newton-howard and davey johnstone Lyrics by bernie taupin Available on the album blue moves Are you still in control of the boat that you row Or do you still cling to me when it's sinking I never condemned you, I only consoled you When candlelight made me a king For the wide-eyed and laughing Passed like a season Erasing a passion to sin For no one knew better than the tealeaves and the tarots That the wide-eyed and laughing Were just one step ahead of the wind And the hearts that you played on the porch swing for me Was a song that I'd heard in the past For I had an audience somewhere inside you That applauded whenever you laughed Gone is a word that I now rarely use Though sometime in the course of a day I go racing back like a man possessed By the wide-eyed and laughing daughters of some different age