Elton John - The Emperor's New Clothes lyrics

We bet on our lives and we bet on the horses
In that upstairs apartment
On Orlando and 4th and the rent was due and
The rent man was knocking
Like a Chinese proverb
We were always searching
Nightlife's a no-win but nobody noticed
How we killed off the bottles
Looking good on the surface
The dog days barked and the house cat got old
We were Bonnie and Clyde
In the emperor's new clothes

And the tears never came
They just stayed in our eyes
We refused to admit that
We wore this disguise
Every inch of us growing
Like Pinocchio's nose as we walked around in
The emperor's new clothes

We flew by our wit's and by
The seat of our pants
In the state of illusion
In the nation of chance
And the repo was hauling the
Wreck we'd been driving
As the dashboard Madonna
Smiled back at us kindly
We cheated the system never batting an eyelid
Seeing only the good
Through the holes in our shoes
And our halos were rusty but
We wore them proudly we were two little gods
In the emperor's new clothes

And the tears never came
They just stayed in our eyes
We refused to admit that
We wore this disguise
Every inch of us growing
Like Pinocchio's nose as we walked around in
The emperor's new clothes

We were Bonnie and Clyde
In the emperor's new clothes

And the tears never came
They just stayed in our eyes
We refused to admit that
We wore this disguise
Every inch of us growing
Like Pinocchio's nose as we walked around in
The emperor's new clothes

Emperor's new clothes emperor's new clothes