So he put down his idea of what it might be like on to paper. If the lyrics sound naive, it's because they were: Taupin was only 17 when he wrote them, and had never experienced romantic love – not really. “ Your Song was one of the first songs we wrote when we really got locked into writing and when we had really honed our craft after writing all the sort of early bits and pieces that never surfaced,” Taupin told Zollo.
Written in the very early days of the pair’s partnership, the song marked the first time John and Taupin really realised the power they had as a duo. It came out in about 20 minutes, and when I was done, I called him in and we both knew.” “ down at the piano and looked at it, going, ‘Oh, my God, this is such a great lyric, I can't fuck this one up’.
“I remember writing it at my parents' apartment in North London and Bernie giving me the lyrics,” John told Rolling Stone in 2013. We went into the room where the piano was and just hammered it out.” “I remember writing it as I was having breakfast – the original lyric had tea stains on it,” he told Paul Zollo in Songwriters On Songwriting.
