David Bowie (89,96 %)
The Best of David Bowie 1969/1974 (86,64 %)
In collection
Released: 1997-10-07
Type: Compilation
Type: Compilation
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1.
The Jean Genie
 04:08
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2.
Space Oddity
 05:15
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3.
Starman
04:18
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4.
Ziggy Stardust
03:16
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5.
John, I'm Only Dancing
 02:42
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6.
Rebel Rebel
 04:30
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7.
Let's Spend the Night Together
03:07
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8.
Suffragette City
03:27
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9.
Oh! You Pretty Things
03:14
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10.
Velvet Goldmine
03:11
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11.
Drive-In Saturday
04:29
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12.
Diamond Dogs
06:05
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13.
Changes
03:34
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14.
Sorrow
02:55
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15.
The Prettiest Star
03:14
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16.
Life on Mars?
03:52
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17.
Aladdin Sane
05:10
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18.
The Man Who Sold the World
03:56
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19.
Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
03:00
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20.
All the Young Dudes
04:11
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Album length:
00:17:34
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Lyrics |
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1.
The Jean Genie
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A small Jean Genie snuck off to the city Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers Ate all your razors while pulling the waiters Talking bout Monroe and walking on Snow White New York's a go-go and everything tastes nice Poor little Greenie, woh ho Get back home The Jean Genie lives on his back The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks He's outrageous, he screams and he bawls Jean Genie let yourself go! Sits like a man but he smiles like a reptile She love him, she love him but just for a short while She'll scratch in the sand, won't let go his hand He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition And keeps all your dead hair for making up underwear Poor little Greenie, woh ho The Jean Genie lives on his back The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks He's outrageous, he screams and he bawls Jean Genie let yourself go oh He's so simple minded he can't drive his module He bites on the neon and sleeps in the capsule Loves to be loved, loves to be loved Woh ho Woh ho Aoo Jean Genie lives on his back The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks And he's outrageous, he screams and he bawls The Jean Genie let yourself go! go Go Jean Genie lives on his back Jean Genie loves chimney stacks And he's outrageous, he screams and he bawls Jean Genie let yourself go woh go Go go |
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2.
Space Oddity
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Ground Control to Major Tom Ground Control to Major Tom Take your protein pills and put your helmet on Ground Control to Major Tom Commencing countdown, engines on Check ignition and may God's love be with you Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Liftoff This is Ground Control to Major Tom You've really made the grade And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare This is Major Tom to Ground Control I'm stepping through the door And I'm floating in a most peculiar way And the stars look very different today For here Am I sitting in a tin can Far above the world Planet Earth is blue And there's nothing I can do Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles I'm feeling very still And I think my spaceship knows which way to go Tell me wife I love her very much she knows Ground Control to Major Tom Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you... Here am I floating round my tin can Far above the Moon Planet Earth is blue And there's nothing I can do |
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3.
Starman
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Goodbye love Didn't know what time it was the lights were low oh how I leaned back on my radio oh oh Some cat was layin' down some rock 'n' roll 'lotta soul, he said Then the loud sound did seem to fade a ade Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase ha hase That weren't no D.J. that was hazy cosmic jive There's a starman waiting in the sky 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 I had to phone someone so I picked on you ho ho Hey, that's far out so you heard him too! o o Switch on the TV we may pick him up on channel two Look out your window I can see his light a ight If we can sparkle he may land tonight a ight Don't tell your poppa or he'll get us locked up in fright There's a starman waiting in the sky 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 Starman waiting in the sky 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 La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la |
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Ziggy Stardust
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Ziggy played guitar, Jamming good with Weird and Gilly and The Spiders from Mars. He played it left hand, but made it too far Became the special man, then we were Ziggy's band Ziggy really sang, Screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo like some cat from Japan, He could lick 'em by smiling, he could leave 'em to hang They came on so loaded man, well hung and snow white tan. So where were the spiders while the fly tried to break our balls Just the beer light to guide us, So we bitched about his fans and should we crush his sweet hands? Ziggy played for time, Jiving us that we were voodoo, the kids were just crass, He was the nazz, with God given ass He took it all too far but boy could he play guitar Making love with his ego Ziggy sucked up into his mind Like a leper messiah When the kids had killed the man I had to break up the band. Ziggy played guitar |
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John, I'm Only Dancing
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Well, Annie's pretty neat, she always eats her meat Joe is awful strong, bet your life he's putting us on Oh lordy, oh lordy, you know I need some loving Oh, move me, touch me John, I'm only dancing She turns me on, but I'm only dancing She turns me on, don't get me wrong I'm only dancing Oh, shadow love was quick and clean, life's a well-thumbed machine I saw you watching from the stairs, you're everyone that ever cared Oh lordy, oh lordy, you know I need some loving Move me, touch me John, I'm only dancing She turns me on, but I'm only dancing She turns me on, but don't get me wrong I'm only dancing John, I'm only dancing She turns me on, but I'm only dancing She turns me on, but don't get me wrong I'm only dancing Dancing Won't someone dance with me? Touch me, oh! |
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Rebel Rebel
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You've got your mother in a whirl She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl Hey babe, your hair's alright Hey babe, let's go out tonight You like me, and I like it all We like dancing and we look divine You love bands when they're playing hard You want more and you want it fast They put you down, they say I'm wrong You tacky thing, you put them on Rebel Rebel, you've torn your dress Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess Rebel Rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so! Don't ya? You've got your mother in a whirl 'cause she's Not sure if you're a boy or a girl Hey babe, your hair's alright Hey babe, let's stay out tonight You like me, and I like it all We like dancing and we look divine You love bands when they're playing hard You want more and you want it fast They put you down, they say I'm wrong You tacky thing, you put them on Rebel Rebel, you've torn your dress Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess Rebel Rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so! Don't ya? Rebel Rebel, you've torn your dress Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess Rebel Rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so! You've torn your dress, your face is a mess You can't get enough, but enough ain't the test You've got your transmission and your live wire You got your cue line and a handful of ludes You wanna be there when they count up the dudes And I love your dress You're a juvenile success Because your face is a mess So how could they know? I said, how could they know? So what you wanna know Calamity's child, chi-chile, chi-chile Where'd you wanna go? What can I do for you? Looks like you've been there too 'Cause you've torn your dress And your face is a mess Oh, your face is a mess Oh, oh, so how could they know? Eh, eh, how could they know? |
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Let's Spend the Night Together
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Well, don't you worry 'bout what's been on my mind I'm in no hurry I can take my time I'm going red and my tongue's getting tired Out of my head and my mouth's getting dry I'm hi-hi-hi-high Let's spend the night together Now I need you more than ever Let's spend the night together now I feel so strong that I can't disguise, oh my Well, I just can't apologise, no Don't hang me up but don't let me down We could have fun just by fooling around, and around and around and a Let's spend the night together Now I need you more than ever Let's spend the night together now You know I'm smiling baby You need some guide baby I'm just deciding baby Let's spend the night together Now I need you more than ever Let's spend the night together now This doesn't happen to me every day No excuses I've got anyway, heh I'll satisfy your every need And I'll know you'll satisfy me, oh my-my-my my-my Let's spend the night together Now I need you more than ever Let's spend the night together Now I need you more than ever Let's spend the night together Now I need you more than ever Let's spend the night together They said we were too young Our kind of love was no fun But our love comes from above Do it! Let's make love Hoo Let's spend the night together Now I need you more than ever Let's spend the night together, now |
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Suffragette City
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Hey man, oh leave me alone you know Hey man, oh Henry, get off the phone, I gotta Hey man, I gotta straighten my face This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place Hey man, my schooldays insane Hey man, my work's down the drain Hey man, well she's a total blam-blam She said she had to squeeze it but she... then she... Oh don't lean on me man, cause you can't afford the ticket I'm back on Suffragette City Oh don't lean on me man Cause you ain't got time to check it You know my Suffragette City Is outta sight...she's all right Hey man, Henry, don't be unkind, go away Hey man, I can't take you this time, no way Hey man, droogie don't crash here There's only room for one and here she comes, here she comes Oh don't lean on me man, cause you can't afford the ticket I'm back on Suffragette City Oh don't lean on me man Cause you ain't got time to check it You know my Suffragette City Is outta sight...she's all right Oh hit me! Oh don't lean on me man, cause you can't afford the ticket I'm back on Suffragette City Oh don't lean on me man Cause you ain't got time to check it You know my Suffragette City Is outta sight...she's all right A Suffragette City, a Suffragette City I'm back on Suffragette City, I'm back on Suffragette City Ooo, Suffragette city, ooo, Suffragette City Oooh-how, Suffragette City, oooh-how, Suffragette City, oooh-how Suffragette Ohhh, wham bam thank you ma'am! A Suffragette City, a Suffragette City Quite all right A Suffragette City Too fine A Suffragette City, ooh, a Suffragette City Oh, my Suffragette City, oh my Suffragette City Oh, Suffragette Suffragette! |
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Oh! You Pretty Things
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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 work here for All the strangers came today And it looks as though they're here to stay Oh, You Pretty Things Don't you know you're driving your Mamas and Papas insane 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 Don't you know you're driving your Mamas and Papas insane 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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Velvet Goldmine
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You got crazy legs, you got amazing head You got rings on your fingers and your hair's hot red You got wit from my tongue, name on the sun I gotcha going to my breast Cause you're the only one, who uses school to pleasure You make me act real gone, you make me trawl along I had to ravish your capsule, suck you dry Feel the teeth in your bone, heal ya head with my own Why if I don't have you home, we'll have to fight alone Hang all together Velvet Goldmine, you stroke me like the rain Snake it, take it, panther princess you must stay Velvet Goldmine, naked on your chain I'll be your king volcano right for you again and again My Velvet Goldmine You're my taste, my trip, I'll be your master zip I'll suck your hair for kicks, you'll make me jump to my feet So you'll give me your hand, give me your sound Let my sea wash your face, I'm falling, I can't stand Oooh! Put your mink on Velvet Goldmine, you stroke me like the rain Snake it, take it, panther princess you must stay Velvet Goldmine, naked on your chain I'll be your king volcano right for you again and again My Velvet Goldmine Oh, shoot you down, bang bang Velvet Goldmine, you stroke me like the rain Snake it, take it, panther princess you must stay Velvet Goldmine, naked on your chain I'll be your king volcano right for you again and again My Velvet Goldmine Velvet Goldmine, Velvet Goldmine, My Velvet Goldmine Velvet Goldmine, Velvet Goldmine |
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11.
Drive-In Saturday
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Let me put my arms around your head Gee, it's hot, let's go to bed Don't forget to turn on the light Don't laugh babe, it'll be alright Pour me out another phone I'll ring and see if your friends are home Perhaps the strange ones in the dome Can lend us a book we can read up alone And try to get it on like once before When people stared in Jagger's eyes and scored Like the video films we saw His name was always Buddy And he'd shrug and ask to stay She'd sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid And turn her face away She's uncertain if she likes him But she knows she really loves him It's a crash course for the ravers It's a Drive-in Saturday Jung the foreman prayed at work That neither hands nor limbs would burst It's hard enough to keep formation with this fall out saturation Cursing at the Astronette Who stands in steel by his cabinet He's crashing out with Sylvian The Bureau Supply for ageing men With snorting head he gazes to the shore Which once had raised a sea that raged no more Like the video films we saw His name was always Buddy And he'd shrug and ask to stay She'd sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid And turn her face away She's uncertain if she likes him But she knows she really loves him It's a crash course for the ravers It's a Drive-in Saturday |
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12.
Diamond Dogs
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As they pulled you out of the oxygen tent You asked for the latest party With your silicone hump and your ten-inch stump Dressed like a priest you was Tod Browning's freak you was Crawling down the alley on your hands and knee I'm sure you're not protected, for it's plain to see The diamond dogs are poachers and they hide behind trees Hunt you to the ground they will, mannequins with kill appeal (Will they come?) I'll keep a friend serene (Will they come?) Oh baby, come unto me (Will they come?) Well, she's come, been and gone Come out of the garden, baby You'll catch your death in the fog Young girl, they call them the Diamond Dogs Young girl, they call them the Diamond Dogs The Halloween Jack is a real cool cat And he lives on top of Manhattan Chase The elevator's broke, so he slides down a rope Onto the street below, oh Tarzie, go man go Meet his little hussy with his ghost town approach Her face is sans feature, but she wears a Dali brooch Sweetly reminiscent, something mother used to bake Wrecked up and paralyzed, Diamond Dogs are sableized (Will they come?) I'll keep a friend serene (Will they come?) Oh baby, come unto me (Will they come?) Well, she's come, been and gone Come out of the garden, baby You'll catch your death in the fog Young girl, they call them the Diamond Dogs Young girl, they call them the Diamond Dogs Oo-oo-ooh, call them the Diamond Dogs Oo-oo-ooh, call them the Diamond Dogs In the year of the scavenger, the season of the bitch Sashay on the boardwalk, scurry to the ditch Just another future song, lonely little kitsch (There's gonna be sorrow) try and wake up tomorrow (Will they come?) I'll keep a friend serene (Will they come?) Oh baby, come unto me (Will they come?) Well, she's come, been and gone. Come out of the garden, baby You'll catch your death in the fog Young girl, they call them the Diamond Dogs Young girl, they call them the Diamond Dogs Ooh, call them the Diamond Dogs Ooh, call them the Diamond Dogs Bow-wow, woof woof, bow-wow, wow Call them the Diamond Dogs Dogs Call them the Diamond Dogs, call them, call them Call them the Diamond Dogs, call them, call them, oooh Call them the Diamond Dogs Keep cool Diamond Dogs rule, OK Hey-hey-hey-hey Beware of the Diamond Dogs |
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13.
Changes
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I still down know what I was waiting for And my time was running wild A million dead-end streets Every time I thought I'd got it made It seems 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 Ch-ch-changes Don't have to be a richer man Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Ch-ch-changes Don't want to be a better 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 flow through my eyes But the days still seem the same And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consolations They're quite aware of what they're going through Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Ch-ch-changes Don't tell them to grow up and out of it Ch-ch-changes Where's your shame You've left us up to our necks in it Time may change them But you can't trace time Strange fascination, fascinating me Changes are taking the pace I'm going through Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Ch-ch-changes Look out you rock 'n' rollers Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Ch-ch-changes Pretty soon you're gonna get a little older Time may change me But I can't trace time |
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Sorrow
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With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue The only thing I ever got from you was sorrow Sorrow You acted funny trying to spend my money You're out there playing your high-class games of sorrow Sorrow You never do what you know you oughta Something tells me you're a devil's daughter Sorrow, sorrow I tried to find her 'cause I can't resist her (I tried to find her) I never knew just how much I missed her Sorrow, sorrow With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue The only thing I ever got from you was sorrow Sorrow With your long blonde hair I couldn't sleep last night With your long blonde hair |
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The Prettiest Star
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Cold fire, you've got everything but cold fire You will be my rest and peace child I moved up to take the place, near you So tired, it's the sky that makes you feel tried It's a trick to make you see wide It can all but break your heart, in pieces Staying back in your memory Are the movies in the past How you moved is all it takes To sing a song of when I loved The Prettiest Star One day though it might as well be someday You and I will rise up all the way All because of what you are The Prettiest Star Staying back in your memory Are the movies in the past How you moved is all it takes To sing a song of when I loved Prettiest Star One day though it might as well be someday You and I will rise up all the way All because of what you are The Prettiest Star |
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Life on Mars?
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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 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 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 Amerika'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 Ibeza 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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Aladdin Sane
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Watching him dash away, Swinging an old bouquet - dead roses Sake and strange divine - you'll make it Passionate bright young things, Takes him away to war - don't fake it Sadden glissando strings - you'll make it Who'll love Aladdin Sane Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise Who'll love Aladdin Sane Motor sensational, Paris or maybe hell - (I'm waiting) Clutches of sad remains Waits for Aladdin Sane - you'll make it Oooh Who'll love Aladdin Sane Millions weep a fountain, just in case of sunrise Oooh Who'll love Aladdin Sane We'll love Aladdin Sane Love Aladdin Sane Oooh Who'll love Aladdin Sane Millions weep a fountain, just in case of sunrise Oooh Who'll love Aladdin Sane We'll love Aladdin Sane We'll love Aladdin Sane Oooh Who'll love Aladdin Sane Millions weep a fountain, just in case of sunrise Oooh Who'll love Aladdin Sane We'll love Aladdin Sane Who'll love Aladdin Sane See the lights shine oh so bright on Broadway |
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The Man Who Sold the World
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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 along, 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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Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
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Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth You pull on your finger, then another finger, then your cigarette The wall-to-wall is calling, it lingers, then you forget You're a rock 'n' roll suicide You're too old to lose it, too young to choose it And the clocks waits so patiently on your song You walk past a cafe but you don't eat when you've lived too long You're a rock 'n' roll suicide Chev brakes are snarling as you stumble across the road But the day breaks instead so you hurry home Don't let the sun blast your shadow Don't let the milk float ride your mind You're so natural - religiously unkind Oh no love, you're not alone You're watching yourself but you're too unfair You got your head all tangled up but if I could only make you care Oh no love, you're not alone No matter what or who you've been No matter when or where you've seen All the knives seem to lacerate your brain I've had my share, I'll help you with the pain You're not alone Just turn on with me and you're not alone Let's turn on with me and you're not alone (wonderful) Let's turn on and be not alone (wonderful) Gimme your hands cause you're wonderful (wonderful) Gimme your hands cause you're wonderful (wonderful) Oh gimme your hands |
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All the Young Dudes
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Now Billy rapped all night 'bout his suicide Kick it in the head when he was 25 All that speed jive Don't wanna stay alive when you're 25 Lucy's stealing clothes from unlocked cars Freddy's got zits from picking off the stars from his face Funky little boat race Oh the television man is crazy Saying we're juvenile delinquent wrecks Oh man I need TV when I got T. Rex Brother you guessed I'm a dude yeah All the young dudes Carry the news Boogaloo dudes Carry the news All the young dudes Carry the news Boogaloo dudes Carry the news Now Jimmy looks sweet 'cause he dresses like a queen But he can kick like a mule It's a real mean team We can love Oh yes, we can love Brother's back at home With his Beatles and his Stones We never got if off on that revolution stuff It was such a drag Too many snags Well I drunk a lot of wine And I'm feeling fine Gonna race some cat to bed Is there concrete all around Or is it in my head Brother you guessed Well I'm a dude yeah All the young dudes Carry the news Boogaloo dudes Carry the news All the young dudes Carry the news Boogaloo dudes Carry the news |