Oscar Wilde Gets Out Lyrics - The Diving Board [deluxe W/ Exclusive Vintage Troubadour Poster] - Elton John

Freedom for the scapegoat leaving Reading jail 

Rheumy eyes just pierced his heart like crucifixion nails 

Shaking fists and razor gleamed, you never stood a chance 

When the ink ran red on Fleet Street 

You turned your eyes to France 

Humbled far from Dublin, chased across the waves 

Your biting wit still sharp enough to slice through every page 

Desitute and beaten by the system of the crown 

The bitter pill you swallowed tasted sweeter going down 

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And looking back on the great indifference 

Looking back at the limestone walls 

Thinking how beauty deceived you 

Knowing how lonve fools us all 

A golden boy in velveteen landed in New York 

The past was so seductive when they paid to hear you talk 

Baccarat and champagne flutes, tobacco from Virginia 

Long before the lords and law branded Oscar Wilde a sinner 

And looking back on the cold bleak winter 

Looking back on those long dark days 

Felt like the head of John the Baptist 

In the arms of Salome 

Don't turn around it's a white gull screaming 

Don't cry out loud you never know who's listening 

You've seen it all the exiled Unforgiven 

From the stately homes of England to her prisons 

And looking back at the hardened lifers 

Looking back on the wretched poor 

Thinking maybe they were my saviors 

Strange to think I'll miss them all 

Strange to think I'll miss them all 

Chrous