“I wrote a song at the end of the album and I just get the lyrics, Bernie Taupin’s lyrics,” John, 78, explained on the Tuesday, March 25, episode of the “Smartless” podcast. “I’m ...

He continued: “When you get to my age, which is near 100, you think, ‘How much time have I got left?’. You’ve got children, you’ve got a wonderful husband, you just think about mortality.