Be sure to adjust the settings for vinyl. Load the vinyl into the Silhouette Cameo vinyl side up and ‘send to cut’. Using the Silhouette Studio software, I created my design utilizing “felt marker” font. Mine is is a 1×3 about 46 inches in length. Tools: Silhouette Cameo, scissors, gift card/credit card (for burnishing/rubbing), foam paint brush 7 on the singles chart.I think this lyric to “Your Song” by Elton John is the perfect accessory to the world map in our family room. It’s not somebody pretending to write a song that is simple and naive. “The great thing about that song is that the naivete of it is truly honest. “It was one of the first songs we wrote when we really got locked into writing and when we had really honed our craft after writing all this sort of early bits and pieces that never surfaced,” Taupin told acclaimed author Paul Zollo in “More Songwriters on Songwriting” (2016). “Your Song” became John’s breakout hit and would lead to a long, healthy creative career between the two. The older I get, the more I sing these lyrics, and the more they resonate with me.” I was 22, and he was 19, and it gave us so much confidence.
“Your Song” was written in roughly 20 minutes, and once John was finished composing the music, he called Taupin back into the room. I remember writing it at my parents’ apartment in North London, and Bernie giving me the lyrics, sitting down at the piano and looking at it and going, ‘Oh, my God, this is such a great lyric, I can’t fuck this one up,’” John recalled.
Taupin claimed the song was written with no one particular lover in mind, while John has often commented that it is based on an ex-girlfriend of his. Lyrically, the love song is drawn with vague references to an unnamed lover. “I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss / Well, a few of the verses, well, they’ve got me quite cross / But the sun’s been quite kind while I wrote this song / It’s for people like you that keep it turned on,” he sings. John’s delivery is as straightforward and lilting. There is a magical innocence that is forever embedded in the lyrics. “How wonderful life is while you’re in the world,” reads the sweeping refrain. “Believe me, nobody back then would have allowed some unfamiliar teenage friend of the tea boy to be perched precariously on their roof scribbling away like some hayseed Byron, romantic imagery, indeed.” As for the sitting on the roof bit, fanciful icing on the cake, I imagine,” he continued.
He was already a professional musician by the time we met in ‘67. “The problem here is that Elton worked there in this capacity three years before we were introduced. “OK… I’ve never been in nor do I know where 20 Denmark Street is, so I can only assume it is where Elton (then Reg Dwight) worked as a gopher for Mills Music.” “So, supposedly I wrote the lyrics on the roof of 20 Denmark Street in London’s Tin Pan Alley while waiting for Elton to finish work, hence, ‘I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss,’” he wrote. In a blog post, dated November 30, 2018, Taupin corrected a prevalent falsehood around the song’s origins. “ ’Your Song’ could only have been written by a 17-year-old who’d never been laid in his life.” “The early were not drawn from experience but imagination,” Taupin once said. He was sharing a bunk bed at John’s mother’s apartment in Northwood Hills, an area in the north-west of London, and the song came down like a bolt of lightning.
Then 17-years-old, lyricist Bernie Taupin scribbled down the stark, simple and poetic words one morning in 1969. “Your Song,” which Elton John recorded for 1970’s self-titled sophomore record, appeared on an otherwise normal morning at the breakfast table. There is always a time and a place for great songs to appear.