Listen to Brandi Carlile & Elton John Who Believes In Angels
This record was one of the toughest I’ve ever made, but it was also one of the greatest musical experiences of my life,” Elton says. “It has given me a place where I know I can move forward.
Who Believes In Angels? feels like going into another era and I’m pushing the door open to come into the future.
I have everything I’ve done behind me and it’s been brilliant, amazing. But this is the new start for me. As far as I’m concerned, this is the start of my career Mark two.”
Elton John and Brandi Carlile have announced they will release a collaborative album Who Believes In Angels? on April 4th via Interscope Records.
The duo also released the album’s tracklist and shared the record’s title track and an accompanying video.
Elton, Brandi, Grammy Award-winning producer and songwriter Andrew Watt, and Elton’s longtime lyricist Bernie Taupin devised the concept for the album and wrote the entire album in just 20 days.
The album features top class musicians such as Chad Smith, Pino Palladino, and Josh Klinghoffer.
Brandi Carlile & Elton John Who Believes In Angels lyrics
Verse 1: Brandi Carlile]
You don’t need to laugh so hard
You don’t have to wear a tie
Sometimes honest is bein’ caught inside a lie
And I have been there
I have been there
[Verse 2: Brandi Carlile & Elton John]
If I’d lived an easy life
Would I still choose you? Would I fall on the same knife?
A rodeo queen breathing fire into the night
I have been there
Man, I’ve been there
[Pre-Chorus: Brandi Carlile & Elton John, Brandi Carlile]
What do you say we set the pleasantries aside?
Even the diamonds look like rocks to the untrained eye
What does it cost to buy your soul back when you die?
What are the angels gonna do with you and I?
[Chorus: Brandi Carlile & Elton John]
I
What do the angels do with you and I?
Blame the end of days
Mercury in retrograde
Who believes in angels anyway?
[Verse 3: Brandi Carlile & Elton John]
The color of the lie is white
I would die on that hill in a one-handed fight
If you’re not swingin’ first you were never in the right
I have been there
Man, I’ve been there
[Pre-Chorus: Brandi Carlile & Elton John, Brandi Carlile]
What do you say we set the pleasantries aside?
Even the diamonds look like rocks to the untrained eye
What does it cost to buy your soul back when you die?
What are the angels gonna do with you and I?
[Chorus: Brandi Carlile & Elton John, Elton John]
I
What do the angels do with you and I?
Blame the end of days
Mercury in retrograde
Who believes in angels anyway? (Oh, no)
Blame the end of days
Mercury in retrograde
Who believes in angels anyway?
[Verse 4: Brandi Carlile, Brandi Carlile & Elton John]
There’s no need to curse the stars
Or bite before you bark
But when you need someone to walk with in the dark
I have been there
I have been there
[Outro: Brandi Carlile, Elton John, Both]
I have been there
I have been there
Man, I’ve been there
Woah, yeah, been there
I’ve been there
Man, I’ve been there
I’ve been there
I’ve been there
