(Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket (Live From "Midsummer Music" At Wembley Stadium / 1975)

(Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket (Live From "Midsummer Music" At Wembley Stadium / 1975) - Elton John

I can hound you if I need to

Sip your brandy from a crystal shoe

In the corner in the corner

While the others climb reaching dizzy heights

The world's in front of me in black and white

I'm on the bottom line I'm on the bottom line

I'd have a cardiac if I had such luck

Lucky losers lucky losers

Landing on skid row landing on skid row

While the Diamond Jims and the Kings road pimps

Breath heavy in their brand new clothes

I'm on the bottom line I'm on the bottom line

And I gotta get a meal ticket

To survive you need a meal ticket

To stay alive you need a meal ticket

Feel no pain no regret

When the line's been signed you're someone else

Do yourself a favor the meal ticket does the rest

Shake a hand if you have to

Trust in us and we will love you

Anyway anyway

Don't leave us stranded in the jungle

With fifty percent that's hard to handle

Ain't that so ain't that so

And I gotta get a meal ticket

To survive you need a meal ticket

To stay alive you need a meal ticket

Feel no pain no regret

When the line's been signed you're someone else

Do yourself a favor the meal ticket does the rest

Meal ticket

Gotta get a meal ticket and I gotta get a meal ticket

To survive you need a meal ticket

To stay alive you need a meal ticket

Feel no pain no regret

When the line's been signed you're someone else

Do yourself a favor the meal ticket does the rest

Meal ticket meal ticket

Meal ticket meal ticket

Meal ticket

Meal ticket

Gotta get a meal ticket

Gotta get a meal ticket and I gotta get a meal ticket

Meal ticket

And I gotta get a meal ticket