 Bernie Taupin began to write with Elton John in 1967. In those early days, they were songwriters for hire, willing to custom compose for anyone. I mean, the lyrics are just disgusting. I mean, they're terrible, you know, because the earlier lyrics, obviously, it was before, even before Elton was actually recording himself, it was when we were having to write sort of factory material for people like Engelbert Humperdinck and Tom Jones and artists like that. Roll me closer, time to dance