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FIVE YEARS SOUL LOVE ZIGGY STARDUST STARMAN LADY STARDUST STAR HANG ON TO YOURSELF SUFFRAGETTE CITY
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DAVIDA BOWIEHO |
Pushing thru the market square,so many mothers sighing
News had just come over,we had fine years left to cry in
News guy wept when he told us,earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet,then I knew he was not lying
I heard telephones,opera house,favorite melodies
I saw boys,toys,electric irons and TV's
My brain hurt like a warehouse,it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people,and all the tall-short people
All the nobody people and all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many people
A girl my age went off her head,hit some tiny children
If the black hadn't a-pulled her off I thing she would have killed them
A soldier with a broken arm,fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest,and a queer
threw up at the sight of that
I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour drinking
milk shakes cold and long
Smilling and waving and looking so fine,don't think you knew you
were in this song
And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face,your race,the way that you talk
I kiss you,you're beautiful,I want you to talk
We got five years,stuck on my eyes
We got five years,what a surprise
We got five years,my brain hurts a lot
We got five years,that's all we've got
New love-a boy and girl are talking
Soul love-the priest that tastes the word and
Ziggy really sang,screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo
So where were the spiders while the fly tried to break our balls
Ziggy played for time,living us that we were voodoo
Making love with his ego Ziggy sucked up into his mind
Didn't know time it was,the lights were low
There's starman waiting in the sky
I had to phone someone so I picked on you
People started at the makeup on his face
And he was alright the band was altogether
Femme fatales emerged from shadows
SOUL LOVE
Stone love-she kneels before the grave
A brave son-who gave his life to safe the slogan
That hovers 'tween the headstone and her eyes
For they penetrate her grieving
New words-that only they can share in
New words-a love so strong it tears their hearts
To sleep-through the fleeting hours of morning
Love is careless in its choosing-sweeping over cross a baby
Love descends on those defenseless
Idiot love will spark the fusion
Inspirations have I none-just to touch the flaming dove
All I have is my love of love-and love is not loving
Told of love-and how my Go on high is
All love-though reaching up my loneliness evolves
By the blindness that surrounds him
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ZIGGY STARDUST
Ziggy played guitar,jamming good with Wierd and Gilly,
The spiders from Mars.He played it left hand.
But made it too far,
Became the special man,then we were Ziggy's band.
Like some cat from Japan,he could lick'em by smiling
He could leave 'em to hang
Come on so loaded ma,well hung and snow white tan.
Just the beer light to guide us,
So we bitched about his fans and should we crush his sweet hands?
The kids was just crass,he was the nazz
With God given ass
He took it all too far but boy could he play guitar.
Like a leper messiah
When the kids had killed the man I had to break up the band.
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LIFE ON MARS?
It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mather is yelling "No"
And her father has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
As she walks through her sunkendream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screan
But the film is a saddening bore
For she's lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man !Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
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STARMAN
I leaned back on my radio
Some cat was layin' down some rock'n'roll'lotta soul,he said
Then the loud sound did seem to fade
Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase
That weren't no D.J. that was hazy cosmic jive
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
Cause he knows it's all worthwhile
He told me:
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie
Hey,that's far out so you heard him too!
Switch on the TV we may pick him up on channel two
Look out your window I can see his light
If we can sparkle he may land tonight
Don't tell your poppa or he'll get us locked up in fright
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LADY STARDUST
Laughed at his long black hair,his animal grace
The boy in the bright blue jeans
Jumped up on the stage
And lady stardust his songs
Of darkness and disgrace
Yes he was alright the song went on forever:
And he was awful nice
Really quite out of sight(second time:really paradise)
And he sang all night long
To watch this creature fair
Boys stood upon their chairs
To make their point of view
I smiled sadly for a love I could not obey
And lady stardust sang his songs
Of darkness and dismay
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STAR
Tony went to fight in Belfast
Rudi stayed at home it all worthwhile as a rock & roll star
Bevan tried to change the nation
Sonny wants to turn the world ,well he can tell you that he tried
I could make a transformation as a rock &roll star
So inviting -so enticing to play the part
I could play the wild mutation as a rock &roll star
I could do with the money
I'm so wiped out with things as they are
I'd send my photograph to my honey -and I'd c'mon like
a regular superstar
I could fall asleep at night as a rock&roll star
I could fall in love all right as a rock&roll star
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