Never mind, it was already said.
Ah, “really keen”, that’s what was being sung. One more of life’s mysteries unraveled.
So there is no such thing as “Redicain”…I just knew it! I thought it was some made up, bizarre race of space rockers, ala Ziggy Stardust!
Although I like the song, the only actual words I’ve ever been able to understand as words are “Bennie and the Jets!” and “read it in a magazine!” I pretty much listened to it as if it was mostly in an unknown foreign language.
I tend to be a bit smilie impaired, as well as forgetting that you all can’t hear the tone of the thoughts in my head when I type them.
I actually thought it was a pretty funny pun, in a big groan sort of way.
Over the years, I managed to decipher most of this song’s lyrics without help, but I must admit that the “fatted calf” bit completely eluded me.
Elton obviously has an eccentric way of pronouncing certain things. After hearing the song for 30+ years, it was only a few months ago that I learned what words he was singing immediately following the title phrase of “Rocket Man.”
And to be honest…I’ve already forgotten them!
Well, he did tell you it was going to be a “long long time”!
Thanks. And sorry for the tone and I apologize. You did indeed whoosh me, and big time. But come on, you knew somebody was going to make a “Moe-hair” pun sooner or later. 
- You have three, maybe four point of views represented in this song.
The first verse is a promoter hawking BatJ concerts.
The chorus starts with a kid who has succumbed to the hype asking Candie and Ronnie if they’ve seen them. Candie or Ronnie reply negatively: “(No), but they’re so spaced out”. In response, the original kid then gives his/her reasons why: weird, wonderful, Bennie is really cool, mohair suits, etc.
The second verse can possibly be the promoter saying that listening to BatJ will drive their parents crazy, or it could be a third POV, this time coming from a big fan who has blown up BatJ to be this outrageous thing that will drive their parents crazy and is the epitome of rebellion.
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Studio version, crowd noise added.
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Already answered.
“Burning out his dreams up here alone.”
His fuse.
I’ve survived for eleven years as a Doper posting worse. 
(In fact, this may be my worst visual pun.
Huh? What was the pun?
The guy in Chocrane’s post is Moe from the Three Stooges, notorious for having bad hair.
Mohair = Moe hair.
Chocrane’s right… perhaps we should just shoot him/her. 
Where’s the threatening another doper thing?
Or was that just the “Shoot me now” comment? Sorry…got confused and assumed that the picture of Moe was some sort of veiled death threat.
That was the “shoot me now” comment, which is, in the letter, against the “don’t threaten violence” rule, but definitely not in the spirit.
If I’m wrong, y’all can kill me.
Shit!
Did you post that when someone asked you for a link?
If so, Bra, vo!
If you posted it when Carol Stream or Rand Rover started frothing at the mouth and demanding a link, Double bravo.
This is the first version of the song I ever heard - Biz Markie and the Beastie Boys live. I always thought its incoherence was due to Biz just being massively stoned and slurring, but after I looked up the original version, I really think he was just imitating the hard-to-understand lyrical performance…
One thing I really liked about Elton John was how each album included the lyrics in the liner notes. Cleared up a lot of confusion. And “spaced out” wasn’t necessarily a negative comment back in the 70’s!
Department of Anality: the line is “Ooh, but they’re so spaced out” (“Oh” in the second chorus). The speaker does not change at this point.
Yes, that’s why I put the “no” in brackets. As you mentioned, in the first iteration of the chorus it’s more of an “ooooh, but they’re so spaced out” (with the “ooooh” being phonetic with “too” and “two”).
Whether the speaker changes is up to interpretation… I can see it both ways, true. That’s the nice thing about 1970’s-era Bernie Taupin lyrics - they’re not as simple to parse as most pop songs.