There comes a day when we look to the road that leads us back to our place of origin. After seeing the world in order to discover what we are, we find that we had lost ourselves instead. It is then we yearn for what we have left behind. The song “Yellow Brick Road” is like that—it makes us want to turn and ache for what we lost … or simply of what we should be.

Elton John’s songs are a marriage of poetry and music. He and his music partner Bernie Taupin merged the two into something that is so poignant, which causes us to smile with a touch of longing. Whenever you long for something, there is a lingering sadness. His songs provoke us to remember what we pushed aside because we were afraid to look back. The songs gently allow us to look back with wry smiles even if it may allow the tears to fall. And after the tears, it’s not so bad. It isn’t so bad that what we look behind are all intact and etched in time.

The regrets are there behind the road, but let it stay behind. Let the road stay where they are. You fear to face yourself but you need to rediscover your true self. In truth, traveling caused you to lose yourself, and it may be time to find who you are again. So say good-bye to the yellow brick road and be led to the green pasture that had always been there for you.