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ELTON JOHN AND LEANN RIMES - WRITTEN IN THE STARS

Elton John was one of the dominant commercial forces in the rock world during the 1970s, with a string of seven consecutive #1 records on the U.S. album charts, 23 Top 40 singles, 16 Top 10 ones, and six #1 hits. His success had a profound impact on popular music, and contributed to the continued popularity of the piano in rock and roll. Key musical elements in John's success included his melodic gifts matched with the contributions of his lyricist partner Bernie Taupin, his rich tenor and gospel-chorded piano, aggressive string arrangements, and his flamboyant fashion sense and on-stage showmanship.


His 1999 duet with LeAnn Rimes, Written in the Stars, reached #29 on the U.S. Top 40, marking the 30th consecutive year in which Elton John had had a Top 40 single. (However, this methodology credits one late 1995 hit {"Blessed") that extended into the January 1996 chart, and another single ("Candle in the Wind '97") whose chart run covered both 1997 and 1998.)


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Written in the Stars
LeAnn Rimes and Elton John

Elton

I am here to tell you we can never meet again
Simple really, isn't it, a word or two and then
A lifetime of not knowing where or how or why or when
You think of me or speak of me or wonder what befell
The someone you once loved so long ago so well

LeAnn

Never wonder what I'll feel as living shuffles by
You don't have to ask me and I need not reply
Every moment of my life from now until I die
I will think or dream of you and fail to understand
How a perfect love can be confounded out of hand


LeAnn and Elton (Chorus)


Is it written in the stars
Are we paying for some crime
Is that all that we are good for
Just a stretch of mortal time

Is this God's experiment
In which we have no say
In which we're given paradise
But only for a day


Elton

Nothing can be altered, there is nothing to decide
No escape, no change of heart, no anyplace to hide


LeAnn

You are all I'll ever want, but this I am denied
Sometimes in my darkest thoughts, I wish I'd never learned


Leann and Elton

What it is to be in love and have that love returned

Chorus

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