I spent about two straight weeks listening to ‘Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me‘ by Elton John this summer. With as much as it’s repeatedly beaten into our ears you can lose track of just how epic that song is, and how powerful the lyrics are.. “I can’t light, no more of your darkness…” not to sound high, but how deep is that?
You know that line about how cliches are cliches because they’re true? And how great songs are overplayed because they are great? Well that holds true here for sure, and the cool thing is, if you go spend $3.00 at a used record store, like I did on a copy of 1974′s ‘Caribou,’ then listen to ‘Sun’ 200 or so times, no matter how close-minded you are, eventually you’ll come across the next song on the record, ‘Ticking,’ which might be just as good: