Too Low for Zero
Too Low for Zero, released in 1983, was the seventeenth official album release for Elton John. It was his most critically acclaimed album of the 1980s, earning Platinum certification by the RIAA. It produced several huge international singles, each accompanied by successful MTV music videos, and it spent over a year on the Billboard album chart.
Background
For the first time since Blue Moves in 1976, all lyrics were written by Bernie Taupin. At the insistence of Taupin, John decided to go back to basics and returned to working with Taupin full-time. John also reunited with the core of his backing band of the early '70s: Dee Murray, Nigel Olsson and Davey Johnstone as well as Ray Cooper, Kiki Dee and Skaila Kanga (who played harp on John's self-titled album and Tumbleweed Connection).
Production
The album was produced by Chris Thomas and recorded at AIR Studios in Montserrat (the same studio for Jump Up!) and Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood.
For the first time since A Single Man, John played synthesizers in addition to piano, since James Newton-Howard left the band. John felt that synths allowed him to write better fast rock songs, having not been entirely happy with such compositions performed on piano.
Too Low For Zero
People need people
Just yesterday our nations became as one
To save those countless victims a way
Still the east is full of bombs that blast away
And children lose their innocence their heart to pray
Heroes come and heroes go, they save the day
But who will come and wash their tears away
Seems like Heaven cries all day
Still too low for zero, Heaven feels the pain
Too low for zero, too low
Too low for zero, Heaven knows, too low
Yes, it seems like Heaven is ten zillion miles away
When we go through earthly war, nature's [Incomprehensible]
Still I know that God loves each and every soul
The children of the one eternal flame
Skin of bronze, hair like [Incomprehensible] you turn away
The color of the skin still the judge
Christian, Muslim, Jew and Buddhist, they live and pray
Forgive? em Father, they know not what they do this day
Too low for zero, too low
Too low for zero, Heaven knows, too low
Hold on to your faith
Oh, as the world spins around
Just believe even though
That you? re, you're below zero
Too low for zero, too low
Too low for zero, Heaven knows
Too low for zero, too low
Too low for zero, Heaven knows
Too low for zero, too low
Too low for zero, Heaven knows
Too low for zero, too low
Too low for zero, Heaven knows, too low
Too low for zero, Heaven knows, too low
Too low for zero, Heaven knows, too low