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SPACE ODDITY

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The Bewlay Brothers

Album: Hunky Dory

Year: 1971

And so the story goes  they wore the clothes They said the things to make it seem improbable The whale of a lie like they hope it was And the Goodmen of Tomorrow Had their feet in the wallow And their heads of Brawn were nicer shorn And how they bought their positions with saccharin and trust And the world was asleep to our latent fuss Sighing, the swirl through the streets Like the crust of the sun The Bewlay Brothers In our Wings that Bark Flashing teeth of Brass Standing tall in the dark Oh, And we were Gone Hanging out with your Dwarf Men We were so turned on By your lack of conclusions I was Stone and he was Wax So he could scream, and still relax, unbelievable And we frightened the small children away And our talk was old and dust would flow Thru our veins and Lo! it was midnight Back o' the kitchen door Like the grim face on the Cathedral floor And the solid book we wrote Cannot be found today And it was Stalking time for the Moonboys The Bewlay Brothers With our backs on the arch In the Devil-may-be-here But He can't sing about that Oh, And we were Gone Real Cool Traders We were so Turned On You thought we were Fakers Now the dress is hung, the ticket pawned The Factor Max that proved the fact Is melted down And woven on the edging of my pillow Now my Brother lays upon the Rocks He could be dead, He could be not He could be You He's Camelian, Comedian, Corinthian and Caricature "Shooting-up Pie-in-the-Sky" The Bewlay Brothers In the feeble and the Bad The Bewlay Brothers In the Blessed and Cold In the Crutch-hungry Dark Was where we flayed our Mark Oh, and we were Gone Kings of Oblivion We were so Turned On In the Mind-Warp Pavilion Lay me place and bake me Pie I'm starving for me Gravy Leave my shoes, and door unlocked I might just slip away Just for the Day, Hey! Please come Away, Hey! (repeat)

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Queen Bitch

Album: Hunky Dory

Year: 1971

I'm up on the eleventh floor And I'm watching the cruisers below He's down on the street And he's trying hard to pull sister Flo My heart's in the basement My weekend's at an all time low 'Cause she's hoping to score So I can't see her letting him go Walk out of her heart Walk out of her mind

Oh not her! (CHORUS) She's so swishy in her satin and tat In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat Oh God, I could do better than that She's an old-time ambassador Of sweet talking, night walking games And she's known in the darkest clubs For pushing ahead of the dames If she says she can do it Then she can do it, she don't make false claims But she's a Queen, and such are queens That your laughter is sucked in their brains Now she's leading him on And she'll lay him right down Yes she's leading him on And she'll lay him right down But it could have been me Yes, it could have been me Why didn't I say, why didn't I say, no, no, no (CHORUS) So I lay down a while And I gaze at my hotel wall Oh the cot is so cold It don't feel like no bed at all Yeah I lay down a while And I look at my hotel wall But he's down on the street So I throw both his bags down the hall And I'm phoning a cab 'Cause my stomach feels small There's a taste in my mouth And it's no taste at all It could have been me Oh yeah, it could have been me Why didn't I say, Why didn't I say, no, no, no (CHORUS)

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Song for Bob Dylan

Album: Hunky Dory

Year: 1971

Oh, hear this Robert Zimmerman I wrote a song for you About a strange young man  called Dylan With a voice like sand and glue His words of truthful vengeance They could pin us to the floor Brought a few more people on And put the fear in a whole lot more Ah, Here she comes Here she comes Here she comes again The same old painted lady From the brow of a superbrain She'll scratch this world to pieces As she comes on like a friend But a couple of songs From your old scrapbook Could send her home again You gave your heart to every bedsit room At least a picture on my wall And you sat behind a million pair of eyes And told them how they saw Then we lost your train of thought The paintings are all your own While troubles are rising We'd rather be scared Together than alone Ah, Here she comes...(etc) Now hear this Robert Zimmerman Though I don't suppose we'll meet Ask your good friend Dylan If he'd gaze a while down the old street Tell him we've lost his poems So they're writing on the walls Give us back our unity Give us back our family You're every nation's refugee Don't leave us with their sanity Ah, Here she comes....(etc)

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Andy Warhol

Album: Hunky Dory

Year: 1971

Like to take a cement fix Be a standing cinema Dress my friends up  just for show See them as they really are Put a peephole in my brain Two New Pence to have a go I'd like to be a gallery Put you all inside my show (CHORUS) Andy Warhol looks a scream Hang him on my wall Andy Warhol, Silver Screen Can't tell them apart at all Andy walking, Andy tired Andy take a little snooze Tie him up when he's fast asleep Send him on a pleasant cruise When he wakes up on the sea Be sure to think of me and you He'll think about paint  and he'll think about glue What a jolly boring thing to do (CHORUS)

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Fill Your Heart

Album: Hunky Dory

Year: 1971

Fill your heart with love today Don't play the game of time Things that happened in the past Only happened in your Mind Only in your Mind-Forget your Mind And you'll be free-yea' The writing's on the wall Free-yea'. And you can know it all If you choose. Just remember Lovers never lose 'Cause they are Free of thoughts unpure  And of thoughts unkind Gentleness clears the soul Love cleans the mind And makes it Free. Happiness is happening The dragons have been bled Gentleness is everywhere Fear's just in your Head Only in your Head Fear is in your Head Only in your Head So forget your Head And you'll be free The writing's on the wall Free-yea'. And you can know it all If you choose. Just remember Lovers never lose 'Cause they are free of thoughts unpure And of thoughts unkind Gentleness clears the soul Love cleans the mind And makes it Free!! Free-yea' Yeah-yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah (repeat)

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Quicksand

Album: Hunky Dory

Year: 1971

I'm closer to the Golden Dawn  Immersed in Crowley's uniform  Of imagery 

I'm living in a silent film  Portraying  Himmler's sacred realm  Of dream reality  I'm frightened by the total goal  Drawing to the ragged hole  And I ain't got the power anymore  No I ain't got the power anymore  I'm the twisted name  on Garbo's eyes  Living proof of  Churchill's lies  I'm destiny  I'm torn between the light and dark  Where others see their targets  Divine symmetry  Should I kiss the viper's fang  Or herald loud the death of Man  I'm sinking in the quicksand  of my thought  And I ain't got the power anymore (CHORUS) Don't believe in yourself  Don't deceive with belief  Knowledge comes with death's release  I'm not a prophet  or a stone age man  Just a mortal  with the potential of a superman  I'm living on  I'm tethered to the logic  of Homo Sapien  Can't take my eyes  from the great salvation  Of bullshit faith  If I don't explain what you ought to know  You can tell me all about it  On, the next Bardot I'm sinking in the quicksand  of my thought  And I ain't got the power anymore (CHORUS)

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Kooks

Album: Hunky Dory

Year: 1971

(Chorus x 2) Will you stay in our Lovers' Story If you stay you won't be sorry 'Cause we believe in you Soon you'll grow so take a chance With a couple of Kooks Hung up on romancing We bought a lot of things  to keep you warm and dry And a funny old crib on which the paint won't dry I bought you a pair of shoes A trumpet you can blow And a book of rules On what to say to people  when they pick on you 'Cause if you stay with us you're gonna be pretty Kookie too (Chorus) And if you ever have to go to school Remember how they messed up  this old fool Don't pick fights with the bullies  or the cads 'Cause I'm not much cop at punching other people's Dads And if the homework brings you down Then we'll throw it on the fire And take the car downtown

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Life On Mars?

Album: Hunky Dory Year: 1971

LIFE ON MARS by DAVID BOWIE It's a god-awful small affair To the girl with the mousy hair But her mummy is yelling "No" And her daddy has told her to go But her friend is nowhere to be seen Now she walks through her sunken dream To the seat with the clearest view And she's hooked to the silver screen But the film is a saddening bore 'Cause 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 freakiest show Take a look at the Lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars? It's on America's tortured brow That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow Now the workers have struck for fame 'Cause Lennon's on sale again See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads Rule Britannia is out of bounds To my mother, my dog, and clowns But the film is a saddening bore 'Cause I wrote it ten times or more It's about to be writ again As I ask you to focus on Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man! Look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the Lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars? 

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Eight Line Poem

Album: Hunky Dory Year: 1971

EIGHT LINE POEM by DAVID BOWIE The tactful cactus by your window Surveys the prairie of your room The mobile spins to its collision Clara puts her head between her paws They've opened shops down West side Will all the cacti find a home But the key to the city Is in the sun that pins the branches to the sky 

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Oh! You Pretty Things

Album: Hunky Dory Year: 1971

OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS by DAVID BOWIE Wake up you sleepy head Put on some clothes, shake up your bed Put another log on the fire for me I've made some breakfast and coffee I look out my window what do I see A crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me All the nightmares came today And it looks as though they're here to stay What are we coming to No room for me, no fun for you I think about a world to come Where the books were found by the Golden ones Written in pain, written in awe By a puzzled man who questioned What we came here for All the strangers came today And it looks as though they're here to stay Oh You Pretty Things (Oh You Pretty Things) Don't you know you're driving your Mamas and Papas insane Oh You Pretty Things (Oh You Pretty Things) Don't you know you're driving your Mamas and Papas insane Let me make it plain You gotta make way for the Homo Superior Look at your children See their faces in golden rays Don't kid yourself they belong to you They're the start of a coming race The earth is a bitch We've finished our news Homo Sapiens have outgrown their use All the strangers came today And it looks as though they're here to stay Oh You Pretty Things (Oh You Pretty Things) Don't you know you're driving your Mamas and Papas insane Oh You Pretty Things (Oh You Pretty Things) Don't you know you're driving your Mamas and Papas insane Let me make it plain You gotta make way for the Homo Superior 

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Changes

Album: Hunky Dory Year: 1971 

CHANGES by DAVID BOWIE

Oh yeah Mm Still don't know what I was waiting for And my time was running wild A million dead-end streets and Every time I thought I'd got it made It seemed the taste was not so sweet So I turned myself to face me But I've never caught a glimpse Of how the others must see the faker I'm much too fast to take that test Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes Turn and face the strange (Ch-ch-Changes) Don't want to be a richer man Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes Turn and face the strange (Ch-ch-Changes) Just gonna have to be a different man Time may change me But I can't trace time I watch the ripples change their size But never leave the stream Of warm impermanence So the days float through my eyes But stil the days seem the same And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations They're quite aware of what they're going through Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes Turn and face the strange (Ch-ch-Changes) Don't tell them to grow up and out of it Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes Turn and face the stranger (Ch-ch-Changes) Where's your shame You've left us up to our necks in it Time may change me But you can't trace time Strange fascination, fascinating me Ah changes are taking the pace I'm going through Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes (Turn and face the strange) Ch-ch-Changes Oh, look out you rock 'n rollers Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes (Turn and face the strange) Ch-ch-Changes Pretty soon now you're gonna get older Time may change me But I can't trace time I said that time may change me But I can't trace time

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HUNKY DORY

(I am indeed aware that I haven't listed "David Bowie" and "Space Oddity" yet, but I will put them up later! :) ) 

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The Supermen

Album: The Man Who Sold The World Year: 1971 (UK) 

THE SUPERMEN by DAVID BOWIE

When all the world was very young And mountain magic heavy hung The supermen would walk in file Guardians of a loveless isle And gloomy browed with superfear their tragic endless lives Could heave nor sigh In solemn, perverse serenity, wondrous beings chained to life Strange games they would play then No death for the perfect men Life rolls into one for them So softly a supergod cries Where all were minds in uni-thought Powers weird by mystics taught No pain, no joy, no power too great Colossal strength to grasp a fate Where sad-eyed merment tossed in slumbers Nightmare dreams no mortal mind could hold A man would tear his brother's flesh, a chance to die To turn to mold. Far out in the red-sky Far out from the sad eyes Strange, mad celebration So softly a supergod cries  Far out in the red-sky Far out from the sad eyes Strange, mad celebration So softly a supergod dies

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The Man Who Sold the World

Album: The Man Who Sold the World Year: 1971 (UK) 

THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD by DAVID BOWIE

We passed upon the stair, we spoke of was and when Although I wasn't there, he said I was his friend Which came as some surprise I spoke into his eyes I thought you died alone, a long long time ago Oh no, not me I never lost control You're face to face With the Man Who Sold The World I laughed and shook his hand, and made my way back home I searched for form and land, for years and years I roamed I gazed a gazely stare at all the millions here We must have died alone, a long long time ago Who knows? Not me We never lost control You're face to face With the Man who Sold the World Who knows? Not me We never lost control You're face to face With the Man who Sold the World

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She Shook Me Cold

Album: The Man Who Sold The World Year: 1971 (UK) 

SHE SHOOK ME COLD by DAVID BOWIE

We met upon a hill, the night was cool and still She sucked my dormant will Mother, she blew my brain, I will go back again My God, she shook my cold I had no time to spare, I grabbed her golden hair And threw her to the ground Father, she caved my head, Oh Lord, the things she said My God, she should be told I was very smart, broke the gentle hearts Of many young virgins I was quick on the ball, left them so lonely They'd just give up trying Then she took my head, smashed it up Kept my young blood rising Crushed me mercilessly, kept me going around So she don't know I crave her so-o-o (Oh oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh) I'll give my love in vain, to reach that peak again We met upon a hill Mother, she blew my brain, I will go back again My God, she shook me cold

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Saviour Machine

Album: The Man Who Sold The World Year: 1971 (UK) 

SAVIOUR MACHINE by DAVID BOWIE

President Joe once had a dream The world held his hand, gave their pledge So he told them his scheme for a Saviour Machine They called it the Prayer, its answer was law Its logic stopped war, gave them food How they adored till it cried in its boredom 'Please don't believe in me, please disagree with me Life is too easy, a plague seems quite feasible now or maybe a war, or I may kill you all Don't let me stay, don't let me stay My logic says burn so send me away Your minds are too green, I despise all I've seen You can't stake your lives on a Saviour Machine I need you flying, and I'll show that dying Is living beyond reason, sacred dimension of time I perceive every sign, I can steal every mind Don't let me stay, don't let me stay My logic says burn so send me away Your minds are too green, I despise all I've seen You can't stake your lives on a Saviour Machine