Nothing Here
Elton John/Bernie Taupin
outtake from "Lestat - The Musical" (2005)

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  I see the longing in your eyes
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 You always were the dreaming child
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 This house is old and torn apart
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 It holds no future, has no heart
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 The world is changing every day
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 But here they cling to their own ways
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 They taunt you with their cruel tongues
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 On you their callous jokes are hung

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 So much in you that I can sense
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 You hate them for their ignorance
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 I hate them for the ties that bind
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 Your freedom with their narrow minds
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 You'll only suffer if you stay
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 These cold grey walls will have their way
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 I beg of you to free your mind
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 And leave this sinking ship behind

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It's in the past, they'll always leave
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A crumbling future up ahead
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And years of grief and bitter tears
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I tell you that there's nothing here

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There's nothing here, you don't belong
           Gm                      Bb/F
You must escape while you're still young
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The path for you is bright and clear
           Cm           D      Gm
I tell you boy there's nothing here

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 The colours run so deep out there
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 Find joy to trade for this despair
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 Go seek the wonders of the stage
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 Of music and the printed page
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 This century is moving faster
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 Share the joke and hear the laughter
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 Find precious bodies for your bed
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 And chase the dreams inside your head

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 Knowledge waits for thirsty minds
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 Beyond these peasant Philistines
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 Whose world revolves around horse and cart
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 Who belch and jeer, and curse the odds
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 The time is now I beg of you
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 Cast off the old embrace the new
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 Drink deep the life and love my son
C                                F
 And damn this house to kingdom come

repeat chorus

    Bb/F     Eb                 D
The path for you is bright and clear
           Cm           D      Gm
I tell you boy there's nothing here