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David Bowie
David Robert Jones (born 8 January 1947) British singer, songwriter, and actor.
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- I've nothing much to offer,
There's nothing much to take.
I'm an absolute beginner,
But I'm absolutely sane.
As long as we're together
The rest can go to hell.
I absolutely love you,
But we're absolute beginners.
With eyes completely open,
But nervous all the same.
- If our love song
Could fly over mountains,
Could laugh at the ocean,
Just like the films,
There's no reason
To feel all the hard times,
To lay down the hard lines,
It's absolutely true.
- Though we're absolute beginners
With nothing much at stake
As long as you're still smiling
There's nothing more I need.
- Who will love Aladdin Sane?
- Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)
- All the young dudes
Carry the news
Boogaloo dudes
Carry the news.
- There's such a sad love
Deep in your eyes, a kind of pale jewel
Open and closed within your eyes.
I'll place the sky within your eyes.
- Makes no sense at all
Makes no sense to fall
Falling
As the world falls down
Falling
Falling
Falling in love
As the world falls down
(down) Falling
Falling
Falling in love.
- I'm happy, hope you're happy too.
- Ashes to ashes, fun to funky
We know Major Tom's a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high
Hitting an all-time low.
- I've never done good things
I've never done bad things
I never did anything out of the blue.
- My mama said to get things done
You'd better not mess with Major Tom.
- You're such a wonderful person
But you got problems
- I'm having so much fun with the poisonous people
Spreading rumours and lies and stories they made up
Some make you sing and some make you scream
One makes you wish that you'd never been seen.
- 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
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 and
So the days float through my eyes
But still 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.
- I stumble into town, just like a sacred cow
Visions of swastikas in my head,
Plans for everyone.
It's in the whites of my eyes.
- My little China Girl
You shouldn't mess with me
I'll ruin everything you are
Y'know, I'll give you television
I'll give you eyes of blue
I'll give you a man who wants to rule the world.
- And when I get excited
My little China Girl says
"Oh baby just you shut your mouth".
- Who wants the love of all the world
When here was love in the eyes of just one girl
That day, that precious day
When even a fool learns to love.
- Even A Fool Learns To Love
- In the event that this fantastic voyage
Should turn to erosion and we never get old
Remember it's true, dignity is valuable
But our lives are valuable too.
- We're learning to live with somebody's depression
And I don't want to live with somebody's depression.
- It's a moving world, but that's no reason
To shoot some of those missiles
Think of us as fatherless scum
It won't be forgotten
'Cos we'll never say anything nice again, will we?
- And the wrong words make you listen
In this criminal world
Remember it's true, loyalty is valuable
But our lives are valuable too.
- Oh wait, I'm getting ahead of myself
Let me take you back to when it all began
- One day nothing meant nothing
Ten dollars tore us apart
One thing led to a dead end
One shot put her away
- God is on top of it all
That's all
- There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all
- You - are not a victim
You - just scream with boredom
You - are not evicting time
- In this age of grand illusion, you walked into my life out of my dreams—
I don't need another change— still you forced a way into my scheme of things.
You say we're growing, growing heart and soul
In this age of grand illusion, you walked into my life out of my dreams.
- Just because I believe don't mean I don't think as well.
Don't have to question everything in heaven nor hell.
- Lord I kneel and offer you, my word on a wing
And I'm trying hard to fit among your scheme of things
It's safer than a strange land, but I still care for myself
And I don't stand in my own light... Lord, Lord, my prayer flies like a word on a wing
My prayer flies like a word on a wing
Does my prayer fit in with your scheme of things?
- Do you remember, your President Nixon?
Do you remember, the bills you have to pay
Or even yesterday?
- All right. I want the young American.
Attributed
- I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, "Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman".
- I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.
- I've found that every time I've made a radical change, it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist.
- If I feel comfortable with what I'm doing, something's wrong.
- I won't be writing a song about this one. (Talking about his artery clogging incident in 2004)
- Now that I understand myself and others, I'm supposed to die? What a crap game! I'd like to live to be 200 or 300 years old.
- You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race.
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