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Restless - Elton John

Album: Breaking Hearts

genre: Rock

It’s a hot summer night in the blackboard jungle
Crime sits heavy on the city shoulder
Can’t get no work, I can’t get a job
I just sit and play my radio in the parking lot
Well they’re breaking down doors in foreign countries
Everybody thinks somebody’s hiding something
There’s talk on the street and the nation is worried
But you can’t talk back when you’re dead, when you’re dead and
Buried

And Everybody’s restless
Everybody’s scared
Everybody’s looking for something that just ain’t there
Everybody’s restless

Everybody’s scared, they think we’re all in danger
Everyone’s taking cover from someone else’s anger
The walls have ears, Big Brother’s watching
They tell us that we’re poisoned from everything that we’re
Touching
Well we could be children from the way we’re acting
We feed ourselves lies and then we scream for action
We just breed and we lose our nerve
And there’s bombs going off in every corner of the world

And Everybody’s restless
Everybody’s scared
Everybody’s looking for something that just ain’t there
Everybody’s restless.

Lyrics added by Bianca G.

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Breaking Hearts Judah and the Lion album lyrics
The song was a life staple until 1986.
Song details
  • Co-Production: Chris Thomas
  • Composition: Bernie Taupin and Elton John
  • Vocals: Elton John
  • Release Date: June 1984
When released, the world was still confronting hard political times, more exactly in the apogee of the Cold War.