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Ziggy Stardust
by David Bowie
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Overall Rating:
3.5229
Avg. Critic Score:
4.0000
Ziggy Stardust Lyrics
Lyrics
Disc
Track
Title
- Pushing thru the market
- square
- so many mothers sighing
- News had just come over,
- we had five years left to cry in
- News guy wept and 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, favourite melodies
- I saw boys, toys electric irons and T.V.'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
- And 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 think she would have killed them
- A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheel 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
- Smiling 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 walk
- We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
- We've got five years, what a surprise
- We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
- We've got five years, that's all we've got
- Stone love - she kneels before the grave
- A brave son - who gave his life
- to save the slogans
- That hovers between the headstone and her eyes
- For they penetrate her grieving
- New love - a boy and girl are talking
- 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
- [CHORUS]
- Love is careless in its choosing
- Sweeping over cross a baby
- Love descends on those defenceless
- 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
- Soul love - the priest that tastes the word and
- Told of love - and how my God on high is
- All love - though reaching up my loneliness
- evolves
- By the blindness that surrounds him
- [CHORUS]
- I'm an alligator, I'm a mama-papa coming for you
- I'm the space invader, I'll be a rock 'n' rollin' bitch for you
- Keep your mouth shut,
- you're squawking like a pink monkey bird
- And I'm busting up my brains for the words
- Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe
- Put your ray gun to my head
- Press your space face close to mine, love
- Freak out in a moonage daydream oh yeah!
- Don't fake it baby, lay the real thing on me
- The church of man, love
- Is such a holy place to be
- Make me baby, make me know you really care
- Make me jump into the air
- Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe
- Put your ray gun to my head
- Press your space face close to mine, love
- Freak out in a moonage daydream oh yeah!
- Freak out, far out, in out
- Didn't know what time it was and the lights were low
- 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
- [CHORUS]
- 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
- 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
- [CHORUS (x2)]
- La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
- When you climb to the top of the mountain
- Look out over the sea
- Think about the places perhaps, where a young man could be
- Then you jump back down to the rooftops
- Look out over the town
- Think about all of the strange things circulating round
- [CHORUS]
- It ain't easy, it ain't easy
- It ain't easy to get to heaven when you're going down
- Well all the people have got their problems
- That ain't nothing new
- With the help of the good Lord
- We can all pull on through
- We can all pull on through
- Get there in the end
- Sometimes it'll take you right up and sometimes down again
- [CHORUS]
- Satisfaction, satisfaction
- Keep me satisfied
- I've got the love of a Hoochie Koochie woman
- She calling from inside
- She's a-calling from inside
- Trying to get to you
- All the woman really wants you can give her something
- too
- [CHORUS (x2)]
- People stared at the makeup on his face
- Laughed at his long black hair, his animal grace
- The boy in the bright blue jeans
- Jumped up on the stage
- And lady stardust sang his songs
- Of darkness and disgrace
- [CHORUS]
- And he was alright, the band was altogether
- Yes he was alright, the song went on forever
- And he was awful nice
- Really quite out of sight
- ([second time:]really quite paradise)
- And he sang all night long
- Femme fatales emerged from shadows
- 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
- Lady Stardust sang his songs
- Of darkness and dismay
- [CHORUS]
- Oh how I sighed
- When they asked if I knew his name
- [CHORUS]
- Get some pussy now!
- Tony went to fight in Belfast
- Rudi stayed at home to starve
- I could make 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
- [CHORUS (x2)]
- 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
- Well she's a tongue twisting storm, she will come to the
- show tonight
- Praying to the light machine
- She wants my honey not my money she's a funky-thigh
- collector
- Layin' on 'lectric dreams
- [CHORUS]
- So come on, come on
- we've really got a good thing going
- Well come on, well come on
- If you think we're gonna make it
- You better hang on to yourself
- We can't dance, we don't talk much
- We just ball and play
- But then we move like tigers on vaseline
- Well the bitter comes out better on a stolen guitar
- You're the blessed, we're the Spiders from Mars
- [CHORUS (x3)]
- Come on, ah, come on, ah[repeat ad inf.]
- 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.
- Ziggy really sang, screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo
- Like some cat from Japan, he could lick 'em by smiling
- He could leave 'me to hang
- 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 was just crass, he was the naz
- 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 rnan I had to break up the band
- 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...
- [CHORUS]
- 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
- [CHORUS]
- A Suffragette City, a Suffragette City
- I'm back on Suffragette City [x2]
- Suffragette City
- Ohhh, Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am!
- Suffragette City [ad lib]
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