Elton John left in floods of tears after recording emotional song about heartbreaking subject

SIR Elton John is still being a right old maudlin Mary – and has confessed one of the songs on his new album is about him dying.

He said: “I wrote a song at the end of the album and I got Bernie Taupin’s lyrics called When This Old World Is Done With Me.

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“And so I’m writing the verse, like, ‘Oh, this is really pretty’. And then I get to the chorus and of course it’s about my death.”

He added on the Smartless podcast: “And when you get to my age, which is near 100, you think, ‘How much time have I got left?’

“And you’ve got children, you’ve got a wonderful ­husband . . . you just think about mortality.

“And so when I got to the chorus, I just broke down for 45 minutes.”

His new album, Who Believes In Angels?, with Brandi Carlile isn’t all doom and gloom though.

Elton, who will be on TV in a concert special with Brandi on ITV on April 19, added: “She inspired me to go ahead with this record and I think this is the best record I’ve made in 40 years.”

It comes after the pop legend lost vision in his right eye in July after contracting an infection on holiday in the South of France, and admitted his left eye is “not the greatest”.

In December he said he was unable to watch his new musical version of The Devil Wears Prada.

He added: “I haven’t been able to come to many of the previews because, as you know, I have lost my eyesight.

“But I love to hear it.”

And interviewed on Good Morning America he said. “It kind of floored me, and I can’t see anything.

“I can’t read anything, I can’t watch anything.”