Not what you two people mean but I gained the nickname Rocket Man in 1975. If your comment (s ) are derogatory or offensive you do have a right to comment. That's all I was doing. Peace Out. .. Rocket Man
He’s saying that at home , he’s bored, he’s seeking adventure away from his dull and loveless marriage, he’s done with her and the marriage, she packs his backs, done, over, he leaves , thinking he’s going to do way better than his present life, he’s soooo important he deserves better,.finds out the grass wasn’t greener on the other side, regrets walking out on his marriage , misses his wife.
😇John Todd said Elton John never wrote a song that was not written in witch language, as one of the 13, in his time in the music industry... So maybe it's a good thing you were singing the wrong lyrics 👹
+whyu wannaknow This is one of 3 of my music tapes in my first car. You should know Bernie Taupin writes the words, Elton only writes the tunes. All Elton's songs (Except for Lion King/Broadway) have words written for him by Bernie Taupin.
all that he sang was written in witch language if he wrote it bob marley wrote it corn aretha franklin kanye west it don't matter but thanks for that good lil tid bit be easy Liz happy friday
+Liz Hoopes OMG, me too! I would just mumble anything when certain parts came. Thanks for sharing that! This is a very beautiful, haunting song. June 1972. My first serious boyfriend was killed in a car crash. After I heard the news on the phone, this song came on the radio. Every time I hear it, it takes me back to that day. Sad, but I remember the beauty of the relationship we had, and try not to question his death. Ciao!
I remember camping with my family in the summer 0f ' 72 ,and singing this song dressed in my t shirt and blue jeans , and our Starcraft camping trailer fully set up nearby ,
I suddenly saw a meaning that I hadn't considered before in this song--one of my favorites. It's about drug use: "I'm gonna be high as a kite by then; Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up hear alone; I'm not the man they think I am at home, I'm a Rocket man." The rocket, the fuse--it's a joint. He's bored with his job. He smokes to get through his boring day, but he has to do it in secret. I found a website that says he was inspired by Ray Bradbury stories--but the song could reasonably be interpreted to be talking about drug use. Or not. Just another way to see it.
This is exactly why I looked up the lyrics for the same line that the guy below me just mentioned I always thought he was talking about burning off his shoes? I don't know couldn't understand that thick British accent
I love this song so much because I get what he means, I feel him. :) I get what he means when he says I'm not the man they think I am at home oh no no no I am a rocket, He means people think different of him but he is not that way he is better
He saying he's a rocket man not a Spaceman because Rockets don't go to space I'm not the man they think I am at home, all this science I don't understand. research flat-earth. Quit trying to put it in the metaphor and actually listen to what it's saying!!! And go listen to the song Californication and hear what it's trying to say "space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement!!"
Someone saved my life tonight. Learned all the lyrics in high school!! It's 6 o'clock in the morning, damn it listen to me good.I heard this song is about a buddy who saved him from marrying some girl!!!
I wish people did care like you Elton John. Got promised help and support, than they refuse that help to me causing more harm to me, leaving me for dead. Always a free soul✌️ ☯️☀️life is preshis and beauitful without abuse. I hope to one day care for animals how they deserve, the abuse needs to stop or we are all rocket men and rocket girls going no where. Id acomplish good things more than just surviving abuse if life was respected and not restricted and threatened. So many things I could be without bad peoples abuse. So much more we all could be if we could just be and actually have fairness for when things natrually go pair shaped. World should not be pair shaped and no one should be suffering or causing suffering. If we could just be, people would not suffer. So hopefully we are oneday able to choose our own lives and not go down the sink whole that we all going down one way or another because of wrong. Thank you Elton John for this song, you desrcibe my sorrow well and in sadness I understand is better to have words to or feeling just stay sad, words help to see the end of suffering, came though sky and will one day exit through sky and not be a rocket man in next life. Mite come back as animal to seek vengence than move onto a lively respected planit as this earth is ugly, redicoulse, pointless. People kill each other, good people are killed, plants and animals die, everthing is dying🙁 and most lie amd dont want peace, so to infinity and beyond always. Would be better to be more than a rocket man, a man with life would be good 😍✌️☯️
Guys, yes, this song is about drug addiction but the beauty of music is being able to interpret it multiple ways. While the writer had a specific meaning behind it, we can still hear it differently. Chillax and listen to the jams.
A relação entre o fato de Elton John sentir saudades de sua ex-esposa 🎻: "I miss my wife" e sua posterior aceitação de sua homossexualidade 🎶 pode ser interpretada de maneira complexa 🎭, refletindo as nuances das emoções humanas e dos processos de autoconhecimento 🌈. Mesmo após ter assumido sua homossexualidade, às duras penas, o sentimento de saudade da ex-esposa pode ser compreendido sob diferentes perspectivas. Assim, essas considerações são humildes e visam o aprofundamento dessa complexidade emocional contida no que ele afirma de que será um longo tempo. Primeiramente, é fundamental entender que sentimentos de afeto, carinho e até mesmo amor não se apagam simplesmente com o reconhecimento de uma orientação sexual diferente 🇬🇧. A saudade que Elton John ter sentido pela ex-esposa não necessariamente contradiz sua orientação sexual, mas sinaliza claramente um apreço genuíno e a conexão emocional que ele desenvolveu durante o relacionamento. As experiências compartilhadas, os momentos de intimidade 🎹 e a convivência criam laços que vão além da atração sexual 🎷 e que podem continuar a existir mesmo depois do fim de uma relação 🌈. Em suma, não temos muito controle sobre nossas emoções, sentimentos e ações, o que não quer dizer que não possamos nos esforçar para compreendê-los dentro de uma lógica psicanalítica. Além disso, é possível que a saudade represente uma nostalgia por um período de sua vida em que ele estava tentando se adequar às expectativas sociais, às normas e padrões da heterossexualidade hegemônica, afinal, essa orientação e identidade de gênero costuma ser menos penosa. Nesse cenário interno, há que se lembrar das demandas e desejos pessoais, antes de se permitir viver plenamente sua orientação sexual tão bem escondida das outras pessoas. A aceitação da homossexualidade por parte de John foi um processo que envolveu desafios internos e externos, e olhar para trás pode trazer sentimentos mistos de saudade e arrependimento 🎤, não pela pessoa em si, mas pela vida que poderia ter sido diferente caso ele tivesse sido plenamente honesto consigo mesmo desde o início 🌈. Acrescente o fato de que ele tentou suicídio se jogando alcoolizado e drogado na piscina de sua bela mansão, o que sinalizou claramente que um Elton precisava morrer, para que outro nascesse! Felizmente ele foi salvo e hoje segue limpo das drogas, casado com seu produtor musical. Outro aspecto a considerar é o fato de que a saudade pode ser uma forma de luto pelo término de um relacionamento significativo 🎸, independentemente das circunstâncias. O reconhecimento de sua orientação sexual não extermina a história que ele viveu com sua ex-esposa 🇬🇧, e a saudade pode ser uma forma de respeitar e honrar essa parte de sua vida 🎵do passado, mesmo que agora ele siga um caminho diferente 🌈 com seu marido. Aliás, a amizade que ele tinha com a princesa Daiana já era um sinal de profundo respeito, amor e consideração para as mulheres, pois fez uma bela canção para ela, após a morte da linderosa que também era generosa! Essa complexidade emocional pode ser comparada ao enredo do filme "La La Land" 🎬, onde os personagens principais também enfrentam escolhas difíceis entre o amor e a realização pessoal, o que, em última instância, leva a uma sensação agridoce de perda e crescimento. Em suma, a saudade de sua ex-esposa 🎼 e a aceitação de sua homossexualidade coexistem como partes da complexa tapeçaria da vida emocional de Elton John 🎤, mostrando que o amor e o carinho por uma pessoa não são necessariamente definidos ou limitados por questões de orientação sexual 🌈, nem dos papeis sexuais performados para não termos conflitos homóficos com os demais, mas sim por experiências humanas profundas e multifacetadas. Bom saber que Elton continua limpo das drogas e produzindo canções inesquecíveis para nós!
E.J. loves the big rockets all the way up until they run out of fuel. Not my words but his paraphrased so that the average "laymen" can understand it. (Puns intended)
Above, it says that this song is probably the most understood as far as lyrics. Well, I watched 'Bennie and the Jets' lyrics. I think I had every single word wrong in the entire song. Look it up.
"Burning out his fuse up here alone..." Never was really sure what the words were, until now. What a great song; best song ever butchered by Bill Shatner. lol
~ "..Zero Hour 9am..." (or thereabouts). I didn't see anything, I didn't hear anything....I don't know anything ; I wasn't there.... (yet I cannot help but wonder?) ;-j
Man, having dabbled in some substances I never thought I would’ve, I want to ask you all if this song is mainly from the perspective of someone that likes to use coke? Lol
Great song that has lasted through all the yrs and remained popular for new generations to enjoy
From the soundtrack of my whole life. We had the best voices and music growing up. This still makes me cry 47 years after I first heard it.
WOW it's been that long. We did have the greatest bands. I like listening that song on a record. It takes me back.🎸🎧📀
I cried the other day from this song.my wife is in jail and I miss her....I miss my wife
@@kayfloxka4793 what she do
It’s beyond beautiful. And perfect for our times:
my father died today this was his favorite song i love you dad
My favorite Elton John song. Head it on the radio when it first came out in 1972 and it blew me away.
I was born in 72 my mom was just a young 16 yr old with a baby she put my bassinet in her room played this song over and over again
Perfeita ❤❤❤
Man, his voice is something fierce. Good man. Good song.
I'm the original " Rocket Man '
more like the rocket polisher.What a pud knocker
+Williama Peachey E's a brit
Not what you two people mean but I gained the nickname Rocket Man in 1975. If your comment (s ) are derogatory or offensive you do have a right to comment. That's all I was doing. Peace Out. .. Rocket Man
+Ronald Johnson Why did you get that nickname?
I will forever be in absolute love with this song, ever since I was a wee toddler! 😏
Burning out his fuse up here alone, never understood that line untill now.
Means, if you write songs. Burnt out on writing. He showed Them.
I always had it as "burning out a piece of here and gone" which I kind of like better.
Same here
Means burning his energy to think about her all the time … or misses her or burnout of not having her with him
No one does it like the Rocket Man himself...Sir Elton John!
Billy Joel wasn't no slouch now
How time flys. All the good music is gone. Sad everything in the world is changing for the worst
Unang narining ko tong kanta na ito ngayon lang 45 na ako pero kinabisa ko agad dahil favorite ko
A timeless classic. A master piece
He’s saying that at home , he’s bored, he’s seeking adventure away from his dull and loveless marriage, he’s done with her and the marriage, she packs his backs, done, over, he leaves , thinking he’s going to do way better than his present life, he’s soooo important he deserves better,.finds out the grass wasn’t greener on the other side, regrets walking out on his marriage , misses his wife.
Thank you for the meaning behind this song. I don't have to look it up now ❤
He could really hit those high notes - always loved his voice.
Not anymore. Still great tho
Thank you for the correct words, been singing them wrong 40+ years.'
because the internet :)
😇John Todd said Elton John never wrote a song that was not written in witch language, as one of the 13, in his time in the music industry... So maybe it's a good thing you were singing the wrong lyrics 👹
+whyu wannaknow This is one of 3 of my music tapes in my first car. You should know Bernie Taupin writes the words, Elton only writes the tunes. All Elton's songs (Except for Lion King/Broadway) have words written for him by Bernie Taupin.
all that he sang was written in witch language if he wrote it bob marley wrote it corn aretha franklin kanye west it don't matter but thanks for that good lil tid bit be easy Liz happy friday
+Liz Hoopes OMG, me too! I would just mumble anything when certain parts came. Thanks for sharing that! This is a very beautiful, haunting song. June 1972. My first serious boyfriend was killed in a car crash. After I heard the news on the phone, this song came on the radio. Every time I hear it, it takes me back to that day. Sad, but I remember the beauty of the relationship we had, and try not to question his death. Ciao!
Here's a salute to Payload Specialist Howard "Froot Loops" Wolowitz, Master of Engineering.
This is one of the greatest comments on this thread. Lol. Go fruit loops. :D
Bazinga!
Penny never what she missed out on. Dumb bitch!
Penny never knew what she missed out on. Dumb bitch!!!!
I remember camping with my family in the summer 0f ' 72 ,and singing this song dressed in my t shirt and blue jeans , and our Starcraft camping trailer fully set up nearby ,
Elton John ROCKS!!!!!
One of the best artists! We love sir elton john, ❤🙌
I suddenly saw a meaning that I hadn't considered before in this song--one of my favorites. It's about drug use: "I'm gonna be high as a kite by then; Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up hear alone; I'm not the man they think I am at home, I'm a Rocket man." The rocket, the fuse--it's a joint. He's bored with his job. He smokes to get through his boring day, but he has to do it in secret. I found a website that says he was inspired by Ray Bradbury stories--but the song could reasonably be interpreted to be talking about drug use. Or not. Just another way to see it.
It's also done really well by My morning jacket🎼🎶🎧💞But I 💘70s Elton John the best😸
This song always makes me think of an AT&T commercial from the late 90’s. It was in 1997 when the commercial aired
This is an update on this time frame... always loved this song..always will 🌟✨🤓🚀
Man, his voice is something fierce. Good man. Good song.
I will forever be in absolute love with this song, ever since I was a wee toddler! 😏
Seemingly the only HD bit rate studio version. Thanks!
My love for this masterpiece is higher than the mountain and deeper than the sea
Thanks
Here goes the genius again. We love you Elton !
Davey Johnstone, Dee Murray, Nigel Olsen... and Elton John... created an absolutely beautiful song
This is my 29 year old deads cousin song he died for years ago on this same day 12/23/2010 I miss u Troy Clark
my father died the next day 12/24/10
Cheyenne Houghton... i'm sorry for your loss...
Lmao
We don't care
Beautiful song
Not sure what You hear, but it's burning out into the billabong.
This is exactly why I looked up the lyrics for the same line that the guy below me just mentioned I always thought he was talking about burning off his shoes? I don't know couldn't understand that thick British accent
Great song..Great Elton!
Beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤❤
beautiful description man
I love this song so much because I get what he means, I feel him. :) I get what he means when he says I'm not the man they think I am at home oh no no no I am a rocket, He means people think different of him but he is not that way he is better
I think, That all think your a fighter. Maybe so. But the side where you care about everything, They don't get. I care.
It's a song that expresses that feeling of utter loneliness when you are totally loaded on Coke without your loved ones to share it with you.
He saying he's a rocket man not a Spaceman because Rockets don't go to space I'm not the man they think I am at home, all this science I don't understand. research flat-earth. Quit trying to put it in the metaphor and actually listen to what it's saying!!! And go listen to the song Californication and hear what it's trying to say "space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement!!"
This comment thread is the epitome of perspective, and personal experience molding individual reality
Thank God for lyrics videos. The words I made up made no sense whatsoever
From the Spring of 1972-a Long Long Time ago...
its not up here, its out there right?
A man with meaning within' his songs.
Definitely hardly any that have an idea what they mean tho 💡 hint double meanings
Dude, you just took that guy's entire channel down. That's awesome.
I wonder if Kim Jung Yun sings this when he's alone 🤔
You're too funny!😄
this song is TEN MINUTES DAMN. a whole storyline , im geekin
Its not
Here's a salute to Payload Specialist Howard "Froot Loops" Wolowitz, Master of Engineering.
That was nice lol
Someone saved my life tonight. Learned all the lyrics in high school!! It's 6 o'clock in the morning, damn it listen to me good.I heard this song is about a buddy who saved him from marrying some girl!!!
I wish people did care like you Elton John. Got promised help and support, than they refuse that help to me causing more harm to me, leaving me for dead. Always a free soul✌️ ☯️☀️life is preshis and beauitful without abuse. I hope to one day care for animals how they deserve, the abuse needs to stop or we are all rocket men and rocket girls going no where. Id acomplish good things more than just surviving abuse if life was respected and not restricted and threatened. So many things I could be without bad peoples abuse. So much more we all could be if we could just be and actually have fairness for when things natrually go pair shaped. World should not be pair shaped and no one should be suffering or causing suffering. If we could just be, people would not suffer. So hopefully we are oneday able to choose our own lives and not go down the sink whole that we all going down one way or another because of wrong. Thank you Elton John for this song, you desrcibe my sorrow well and in sadness I understand is better to have words to or feeling just stay sad, words help to see the end of suffering, came though sky and will one day exit through sky and not be a rocket man in next life. Mite come back as animal to seek vengence than move onto a lively respected planit as this earth is ugly, redicoulse, pointless. People kill each other, good people are killed, plants and animals die, everthing is dying🙁 and most lie amd dont want peace, so to infinity and beyond always. Would be better to be more than a rocket man, a man with life would be good 😍✌️☯️
BEAUTIFUL MAN
good comment
Amazing
I luv this song....peace
Guys, yes, this song is about drug addiction but the beauty of music is being able to interpret it multiple ways. While the writer had a specific meaning behind it, we can still hear it differently. Chillax and listen to the jams.
No it isn't
Love you Rocketman💋
I absolutely love Elton John. Mwaaaah!
ich liebe diesen Song ....
Only a true addict can really understand this song, I'm sorry guys but everything in this song is a metaphor....
Arturo Esparza I always thought that his was tripping on psychedelics
Oh absolutely
Que lindo toca y canta elthon jhon es el mejor en toda la industria de la musica
no music when continues about halfway other than that great job!
Why do the lyrics repeat without the music?
Zack Voss well in my opinion bananas do taste good
zanye skype how would you know?
Greg Dahlen how in the world did you end up on banana's P.S. I luv banana's
Kennedy Center honours Elton John
This is a great
Great song to just puff to ❤️
I love the horns at 4:02
He likes rockets to the moon LOL LMAO
robert spencer ha.
very few get it. good one
There is a reason it's called "Classic Rock " during that period, the title speaks for itself.
best song in the world!!!
one song i never want to hear again.
A relação entre o fato de Elton John sentir saudades de sua ex-esposa 🎻: "I miss my wife" e sua posterior aceitação de sua homossexualidade 🎶 pode ser interpretada de maneira complexa 🎭, refletindo as nuances das emoções humanas e dos processos de autoconhecimento 🌈. Mesmo após ter assumido sua homossexualidade, às duras penas, o sentimento de saudade da ex-esposa pode ser compreendido sob diferentes perspectivas. Assim, essas considerações são humildes e visam o aprofundamento dessa complexidade emocional contida no que ele afirma de que será um longo tempo.
Primeiramente, é fundamental entender que sentimentos de afeto, carinho e até mesmo amor não se apagam simplesmente com o reconhecimento de uma orientação sexual diferente 🇬🇧. A saudade que Elton John ter sentido pela ex-esposa não necessariamente contradiz sua orientação sexual, mas sinaliza claramente um apreço genuíno e a conexão emocional que ele desenvolveu durante o relacionamento. As experiências compartilhadas, os momentos de intimidade 🎹 e a convivência criam laços que vão além da atração sexual 🎷 e que podem continuar a existir mesmo depois do fim de uma relação 🌈. Em suma, não temos muito controle sobre nossas emoções, sentimentos e ações, o que não quer dizer que não possamos nos esforçar para compreendê-los dentro de uma lógica psicanalítica.
Além disso, é possível que a saudade represente uma nostalgia por um período de sua vida em que ele estava tentando se adequar às expectativas sociais, às normas e padrões da heterossexualidade hegemônica, afinal, essa orientação e identidade de gênero costuma ser menos penosa. Nesse cenário interno, há que se lembrar das demandas e desejos pessoais, antes de se permitir viver plenamente sua orientação sexual tão bem escondida das outras pessoas. A aceitação da homossexualidade por parte de John foi um processo que envolveu desafios internos e externos, e olhar para trás pode trazer sentimentos mistos de saudade e arrependimento 🎤, não pela pessoa em si, mas pela vida que poderia ter sido diferente caso ele tivesse sido plenamente honesto consigo mesmo desde o início 🌈. Acrescente o fato de que ele tentou suicídio se jogando alcoolizado e drogado na piscina de sua bela mansão, o que sinalizou claramente que um Elton precisava morrer, para que outro nascesse! Felizmente ele foi salvo e hoje segue limpo das drogas, casado com seu produtor musical.
Outro aspecto a considerar é o fato de que a saudade pode ser uma forma de luto pelo término de um relacionamento significativo 🎸, independentemente das circunstâncias. O reconhecimento de sua orientação sexual não extermina a história que ele viveu com sua ex-esposa 🇬🇧, e a saudade pode ser uma forma de respeitar e honrar essa parte de sua vida 🎵do passado, mesmo que agora ele siga um caminho diferente 🌈 com seu marido. Aliás, a amizade que ele tinha com a princesa Daiana já era um sinal de profundo respeito, amor e consideração para as mulheres, pois fez uma bela canção para ela, após a morte da linderosa que também era generosa!
Essa complexidade emocional pode ser comparada ao enredo do filme "La La Land" 🎬, onde os personagens principais também enfrentam escolhas difíceis entre o amor e a realização pessoal, o que, em última instância, leva a uma sensação agridoce de perda e crescimento.
Em suma, a saudade de sua ex-esposa 🎼 e a aceitação de sua homossexualidade coexistem como partes da complexa tapeçaria da vida emocional de Elton John 🎤, mostrando que o amor e o carinho por uma pessoa não são necessariamente definidos ou limitados por questões de orientação sexual 🌈, nem dos papeis sexuais performados para não termos conflitos homóficos com os demais, mas sim por experiências humanas profundas e multifacetadas. Bom saber que Elton continua limpo das drogas e produzindo canções inesquecíveis para nós!
Me: man, I love this song so much!!! but it ends so sooooooon
(checks video endurance)
DEAR LORD IT DOESNT END SOON
thank you Martina Pavloff Stoller for tagging me
E.J. loves the big rockets all the way up until they run out of fuel. Not my words but his paraphrased so that the average "laymen" can understand it. (Puns intended)
Candle in the wind
That was nice lol
I 'heard', all this time, ".. burning on the fuels of Avalon.."
I like my version better!
I always heard “ burning down the streets of Everlong”!
Lol
Rooooooket mmmmman....
Not the man they think at him...
Ellis Island ...650.00
Get out of the way he's taking over!!!
hank moody got me here!
+Nick Gonzales
me too ;)
+Nick Gonzales me too dude, that scene was amazing...
Me Too!!!!
Above, it says that this song is probably the most understood as far as lyrics. Well, I watched 'Bennie and the Jets' lyrics. I think I had every single word wrong in the entire song. Look it up.
good job
"Burning out his fuse up here alone..." Never was really sure what the words were, until now. What a great song; best song ever butchered by Bill Shatner. lol
This always seemed like a sequel to Space Oddity by David Bowie (in a way).
That song is amazing
GIZZY GAZZA BROUGHT ME HEREE!
1972 ROCKET MAN ELTON JOHN LYRICS
Oh yeah
Bodacious said that
And I can’t take it back !
💘💘💘💘
Listen to Bennie and the jets! Its the same artist.
no shit
good shot, baby
Calforcation
I just finished the show.
I loved it so much.
😍😍😍😍😍
I UNDERSTAND BROTHER
Howard fruit loops Wolowitz brought me here
this would be a good song for fallout
+Connor Hughes hahaha right! someone did it with a montage. it was funny.
ALL LOVE PROPHECIES ARE BEING FULFILLED, NOW!!🛸🌊🦅🕊☯️🕊🦅🌊🛸
🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
SO SLOW FIND IT SILLY
~ "..Zero Hour 9am..." (or thereabouts). I didn't see anything, I didn't hear anything....I don't know anything ; I wasn't there.... (yet I cannot help but wonder?) ;-j
stewie got me hear
Yeah mate
Man, having dabbled in some substances I never thought I would’ve, I want to ask you all if this song is mainly from the perspective of someone that likes to use coke? Lol
Pretty much yeah mate
Laika.
Space-the final frontier!!!!!!!
Someone's here for big bang theory?
thats what your mother likes. thats my theory
Humm, i dont get it.. xD
Yes, I am. Few days ago I saw Howard crying because he was the Rocket Man.... No friends around... poor guy
Nope, he is not the rocketman, he is the chocapic :p
i have a masterball, you are mine pika pika
i thought hell was hot not cold
rocket rocket rocket rocket man.....
Why is the phone blocking me I just want my women an a family of my own 🌞💔🥺🦷
You can't hide from the Cyber Police. We're always watching...
😂😂😂😂😂😂
You know, now that I think of it, I think this song was about how he was gay
♡