Elton is a punk rock … Read Full Bio ↴There are several artists with the name Elton.
Elton is a punk rock band from Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. The band was formed in 2005 and released their first album, "Pequeno mundo que só você conhece" (The Little World Only You Know), in early 2006.
The band was created by Rodrigo Deltoro (guitar/vocals), Didi Gloor (drums), Eddie Hoffman (bass) and Fabinho (guitar) soon after Deltoro and Gloor left Tequila Baby, another punk rock band from Porto Alegre.
Elton is also the name of a German TV moderator and comedian. His career began with his job at the TV show "TV Total" by Germany's comedian Stefan Raab.
Daniel
Elton Lyrics
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I can see the red taillights headin' for Spain
Oh, and I can see Daniel wavin' goodbye
God, it looks like Daniel
Must be the clouds in my eyes
They say Spain is pretty, no, I've never been
Well Daniel says it's the best place that he's ever seen
Lord, I miss Daniel
Oh, I miss him so much
Oh, Daniel, my brother, you are older than me
Do you still feel the pain of the scars that won't heal?
Your eyes have died, but you see more than I
Daniel, you're a star in the face of the sky
Oh, Daniel, my brother, you are older than me
Do you still feel the pain of the scars that won't heal?
Your eyes have died, but you see more than I
Daniel, you're a star in the face of the sky
Daniel is travelin' tonight on a plane
I can see the red taillights headin' for Spain
Oh, and I can see Daniel wavin' goodbye
God, it looks like Daniel
Must be the clouds in my eyes
Oh God, it looks like Daniel
Must be the clouds in my eyes
The song "Daniel" by Elton John is a melancholic ballad about a man named Daniel who is traveling by plane to Spain. The opening lines of the song convey the singer’s melancholic thoughts as he watches the red taillights of the airplane disappear. He also feels like he cannot properly see his brother waving goodbye due to the clouds in his eyes. The song evokes a sense of distance and separation, as the singer misses his brother and wonders what he is feeling as he travels.
Elton John describes the beauty of Spain through second-hand accounts from Daniel, who has previously been there. Despite never having been to Spain himself, the singer feels like he knows the country because of Daniel’s stories. The chorus of the song highlights the age gap between the two brothers, as the singer addresses Daniel as “my brother, you are older than me”. He wonders if his brother still feels the pain of old scars, although he is unable to see it because of the cloud in his eyes. He holds his older brother in high esteem and sees him as a star in the sky.
The song ends just as it begins, with Elton John watching the plane with Daniel flying away, suggesting that there are things that are out of our control and that we cannot help but ruminate and feel melancholic about them.
Line by Line Meaning
Daniel is travelin' tonight on a plane
Daniel is flying to Spain tonight.
I can see the red taillights headin' for Spain
The plane's red taillights can be seen going towards Spain.
Oh, and I can see Daniel wavin' goodbye
The singer can see Daniel waving goodbye as the plane takes off.
God, it looks like Daniel
Must be the clouds in my eyes
The singer is unsure because the clouds are obstructing the view.
They say Spain is pretty, no, I've never been
The singer has never been to Spain but has heard that it's beautiful.
Well Daniel says it's the best place that he's ever seen
Daniel has been to Spain and thinks it's the best place he's ever been to.
Oh, and he should know, he's been there enough
Since Daniel has been to Spain many times, he would have a good idea of how it is.
Lord, I miss Daniel
Oh, I miss him so much
The singer misses Daniel a lot.
Oh, Daniel, my brother, you are older than me
Do you still feel the pain of the scars that won't heal?
Your eyes have died, but you see more than I
Daniel, you're a star in the face of the sky
The singer refers to Daniel as his brother and asks if he still feels the pain of past emotional wounds. Even though Daniel has lost the ability to see, he has gained insight that the singer doesn't possess. The singer sees Daniel as a shining star.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Vladimir Cort, Elton John, Bernie Taupin
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@@thatguy6112 Megamind: (voiceover.) Here's my day so far; went to jail, lost the girl of my dreams, and got my butt kicked pretty good. Still, things could be a lot worse. Oh, that's right. I'm falling to my death. Guess they can't. How did it all come to this you ask? My end starts at the beginning. The very beginning. Yes, that's me. I had a fairly standard childhood. I came from what you might call a broken home, literally broken. I was 8 days old and still living with my parents. How sad is that? Clearly it was time to move on.
(to baby Megamind.)
Megamind's Mother: Here is your Minion, he will take care of you.
Megamind's Father: And here is your binky.
(He puts the binky into Megamind's mouth and then utters his last words to his son.)
Megamind's Father: You are destined for...
(The ship closes and starts to take off.)
Megamind: [voice over] I didn't quite hear that last part, but it sounded important. Destined for... what? I set out to find my destiny. Turns out a kid from the Glaupunk Quadrant had the exact same idea. That was the day I met Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes. And our glorious rivalry was born!
(baby Megamind's ship is heading towards a large beautiful house.)
Megamind: [voice over] Could this be what I was destined for? A dream life filled with luxury?
(baby Metro Man’s ship appears in front and crash lands into the beautiful house.)
Megamind: (voice-over.) Apparently not! Even fate has its favorites. No big deal. A much different fate awaited me.
(Megamind's ship lands in Metro City Prison.)
Lady Scott: A baby! How thoughtful.
(holds infant Metro Man in her hands.)
Lord Scott: (reading his paper.) Oh, yes, yes. I saw and thought of you.
(baby Megamind's ship opens and he sees the prisoners crowding around looking at him.)
Megamind: (voice-over.) Luckily I found a lovely little place to call home.
(to the other prisoners.)
Prisoner: Can we keep it?
(one of the prisoners is showing him picture cards of a policeman and a burglar.)
Megamind: (voice-over.) A place that taught me the differences between right and wrong. Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes on the other hand had life handed to him on a silver platter.
(baby Metro Man flies around the ceiling.)
Lady Scott: Our baby can fly!
(without looking he continues to read his paper.)
Lord Scott: Yes, yes, nothing but the best for you, darling.
Megamind: (voice-over.) The power of flight, invulnerability, and great hair! [the image freezes at Mr. GTS as the tip of his hair shines] But I had something far, far greater. My amazing intellect! A knack for building objects of mayhem. [Now riding a tricycle made out of Metro City license plates, baby Megamind rides down the hall with some of the inmates following him. His pacifier shoots a beam through the wall and is stopped by the warden.
(Megamind as a child is being escorted out of prison and taken to School)
Megamind: (voice-over.) After a few years and with some time off for good behavior, I was given an opportunity to better myself through learning at a strange place called ‘shool’. It was there that I once again ran into Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes. He had already amassed a gigantic army of soft-headed groupies.
(Metro Man as a child uses his laser vision to heat up popcorn and all the school children cheer and clap.)
Megamind: (voice-over.) He bought their affections with showmanship, extravagant gifts of deliciousness. So I too would make this popped corn and win over those mindless drones.
Warden: Lights out! (The prison lights turn off. Megamind uses his pacifier as a flashlight to add some more sketches to his invention while Minion watches.)
(Megamind's object to produce popcorn for the school children explodes and Metro Man uses his powers to put the fire out.)
Megamind: (voice-over.) That's when I learned a very hard lesson. Good receives all the praise and adulation while evil is sent to quiet time in the corner. [Metro Man sends Megamind to the back of the room and is rewarded with a gold star sticker. A class photo] So fitting in wasn’t really an option. (MM (Metro Man) plays a ukulele as the class sings "Itsy Bitsy Spider".) While they were learning Itzy Bitzy Spider, I learnt how to dehydrate inanimate objects and rehydrate them at will. (Megamind fires a ray at Minion turning him into a cube, and adds a drop of water on the cube to bring Minion back to life. The latter sees the former belly-up as he taps of the sphere. Minion wakes up as the two share a smile.) Some days it felt like it was just me and Minion against the world. No matter how hard I tried I was always the odd man out. (MM picks a girl with a cast and crutches to be on his team.) The last one picked. A screw up! Black sheep! (dodgeballs are being pelted at Megamind.) Bad boy! (As a new round begins, Megamind buckles up a helmet with spikes on them. As the dodgeballs fire, lightning from the spikes reflect the balls hitting a car, a man's head, and nearly hitting the teacher, but deflected by MM. He is rewarded with yet another gold star sticker.) Was this my destiny? Wait... maybe it was! Being bad is the one thing I'm good at. Then it hit me; if I was the bad boy, then I was going to be the baddest boy of them all!
(sets off a chemical explosion in the schoolhouse.) I was destined to be a supervillain, and we were destined to be rivals! The die had been cast! And so began an enduring epic lifelong career…and I LOVED IT!
(a gallery of newspaper articles appears, featuring Megamind and Metro Man's battles.)
Megamind: (voice-over.) Our battles quickly got more elaborate. He would win some, I would almost win others! He took the name Metro Man, defender of Metro City (pronounced 'met-traw-city'). I decided to pick something a little more humble; Megamind, incredibly handsome criminal genius and master of all villainy!
(in prison.)
Warden: (Noticing the cell guard reading a newspaper.) Read on your own time! Open up! (The guard opens the window and Warden and sees that Megamind is not sitting in his chair. Concerned, he presses his face up closer to the window.)
Megamind: BOO! (Warden jumps back. Megamind laughs.) Good morning Warden. Great news, I'm a changed man and I’m ready to re-enter society as a solid citizen.
Warden: You're a villain! And you’ll always be a villain. You’ll never change and you’ll never leave.
Megamind: You're fun.
Warden: You got a present in the mail.
Megamind: Is it a puppy?
[the warden opens the box to reveal a hand watch]
Warden: From Metro Man.
[reading the card from Metro Man]
Warden: 'To count every second of your eighty-five life sentences.' That's funny, never thought Metro Man was the gloating type. Oh, but he does have nice taste.
[he puts the watch on his wrist]
Warden: I think I’ll keep it.
Megamind: Any chance you could give me the time. I don’t want to be late for the opening of the Metro Man museum.
[the warden looks at the watch]
Warden: Oh, no! Looks like you’re gonna miss it, by several thousand years.
(the warden walks away.)
Megamind: Oh, am I?
(starts to do an evil laugh.)
Roxanne Ritchie: Happy Metro Man day, Metro City. It’s a beautiful day in downtown where we’re here to honor a beautiful Metro Man. His heart is an ocean that’s inside a bigger ocean. For years he’s been watching us with his supervision, saving us with his super strength and caring for us with his super heart. Now it’s our turn to give something back. This is Roxanne Ritchie, reporting live from the dedication of the Metro Man museum.
[she does the cut sign to her cameraman]
Hal: Wow! Okay, the stuff they make you read on air, that’s un-freaking-believable! It’s crazy.
Roxanne Ritchie: I wrote that piece myself, Hal.
Hal: What I was trying to say was, I can’t believe that in our modern society, they let, like actual art get onto the news.
Roxanne Ritchie: Nice save, Hal.
Hal: Why don’t we…like, let’s just get a coffee or something.
Roxanne Ritchie: [Scoffs] Come on, it’s time to get into the metro man day spirit!
Hal: Well, if I were Metro Man, Megamind wouldn’t be kidnapping you all the time, that’s the first thing.
Roxanne Ritchie: [chuckles] That’s sweet, Hal.
Hal: And I’d be watching you, like…like a dingo watches a human baby.
Roxanne Ritchie: Mmm.
Hal: Okay, that sounded…okay, that sounded a little weird.
Roxanne Ritchie: A little bit, yeah.
Hal: You’re making a face, and that’s making me feel weird. (Roxanne is kidnapped by minion as Hal continues to speak)
Hal: Point is, I would watch you like something watching something intently with love. Not love, we’re not in love. I’m not saying I love you. Okay, I love you, whatever. [chuckles] But I’m not saying, like, I’m in love with you, I’m saying… (he notices Roxanne is gone) Roxxane? Roxaroo?
(Cut back to the prison. The warden’s appearance is changed into Megamind’s as he walks back from the cell.)
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Lyrics
Daniel is traveling tonight on a plane
I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain
And I can see Daniel waving goodbye
Oh it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes
They say Spain is pretty though I've never been
And Daniel says it's the best place that he's ever seen
He should know, he's been there enough
Oh I miss Daniel, oh I miss him so much, oh
Daniel my brother you are older than me
Do you still feel the pain of the scars that won't heal?
Your eyes have died but you see more than I
Daniel you're a star in the face of the sky
Oh Daniel my brother you are older than me
Do you still feel the pain of the scars that won't heal?
Your eyes have died but you see more than I
Daniel you're a star in the face of the sky
Daniel is traveling tonight on a plane
And I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain
And I can see Daniel waving goodbye
Oh it looks like Daniel, it must be the clouds in my eyes
Oh God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes
@davidallardyce-ni8jn
I lost my twin Brother Daniel
to Cancer...
Nov 11th 1990
He was only 34.
Thank you
Sir Elton John
While the song
makes me cry..
They are tears
of happiness
knowing I had
a wonderfully
brother that's
brought joy and
happiness to my
life...
P.S. I'm 67 yrs old now and still
cry on Nov 11th
God bless you
Sir Elton for all
the beautiful
music you have
provided to the
WOLD...
David Cambridge
Ontario Canada
@janicehook7621
My Brother Daniel just passed away this morning at 5:25 this morning 😢😢😢 from cancer
Best Big Brother EVER 😢😢😢😢
@francoiskruger9090
So sorry
@shodanart
💔
@JesusErnestoRamos-dr1yt
🙏🌹🌹💜🛐☦️ like My litle brother My younger brother it nas been 2 years n My mother she has been so stranger for her age we all have hard tome 🌹🙏🌹💜🌹🛐☦️
@JesusErnestoRamos-dr1yt
God is with You guys 😘🌹🌹🌹🌹
@JesusErnestoRamos-dr1yt
So stranger it is what i mean My messenger is Bad some times
@paulbellamy9920
The stories of people missing their Daniel's really makes this song hit different. I'm sitting here in tears.
@johndyson4109
Me too...
@CrystalSmith-zh3ue
Same
@Gullvivas
Same hear I got so sad :(