Sara Bareilles

Released: October 18, 2013

Songwriter: Bernie Taupin Elton John

Producer: Sara Bareilles

[Verse 1]
When are you gonna come down?
When are you going to land?
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man
You know you can't hold me forever
I didn't sign up with you
I'm not a present for your friends to open
This boy's too young to be singing the blues
Ooh, aah

[Chorus]
So goodbye, yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough
Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh, I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road

[Verse 2]
So, what do you think you'll do then?
I bet they shoot down your plane
It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To get you on your feet again
Maybe you'll get a replacement
There's plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain't got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground
Oh, oh–

[Chorus]
So goodbye, yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough
Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh, I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road—
Oh, oh–

So goodbye, yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough
Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh, I've finally decided my future lies
I've finally decided my future lies
I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road

[Spoken]
Thank you so much, everyone. Peace and love. I'm so grateful, thank you

A critically acclaimed singer/songwriter that achieved mainstream success in 2007 with the hit single “Love Song”, which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Bareilles has sold over one million records and over seven million singles in the United States alone and is a six-time Grammy Award nominee. Her fourth studio album, The Blessed Unrest was a 2014 Grammy nominee for Album of the Year, the most prestigious award in the music industry. In the third season of NBC’s The Sing-Off, Bareilles was a celebrity judge alongside Ben Folds and Shawn Stockman. In February 2012, VH1 placed Bareilles in the 80th spot of the Top 100 Greatest Women in Music.

Her memoir, published in 2015, Sounds Like My Life (So Far) in Song is a New York Times bestseller.

She composed the score for the Broadway musical Waitress, earning a Tony Award nomination for her work in 2016. On March 31, 2017, Bareilles took over the lead role Jenna in the Broadway production for ten weeks.

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