@ALBUM: ziggy.stardust David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ============================================================= @SONG: Five Years Pushing through 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 Saw boys, toys, electric irons and TVs 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 wheels of a Cadillac A cop knelt and kiss 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 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 @SONG: Soul Love Stone love -- she kneels before the grave A brave son -- who gave his life to save the slogan That hovers 'tween 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 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 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 @SONG: Moonage Daydream I'm an alligator, I'm a mama-papa comin' 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 the moonage daydream oh! yea! 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 the moonage daydream oh! yea! @SONG: Starman Didn't know what time it was, 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 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(twice) @SONG: Lady Stardust 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 onto the stage And lady stardust sang his songs Of darkness and disgrace 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 And he sang all night long Femme fatales emerged from the 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 And lady stardust sang his songs Of darness and dismay And he was alright the band was altogether Yes he was alright the song went on forever And he was awful nice Really quite paradise And he sang all night long Oh how I sighed when they asked if I knew his name And he was alright the band was altogether Yes he was alright the song went on forever And he was awful nice Really quite paradise And he sang all night long @SONG: Star Tony went to fight in Belfast Rudi stayed at home to starve I could make it all worth while as a rock'n'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'n'roll star So inviting -- so enticing to play the part I could play the wild mutation as a rock'n'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'n'roll star I could fall in love all right as a rock'n'roll star @SONG: Hang on to Yourself 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 Come on, come on, if you think we're gonna make it You better hang on to yourself We can't dance, don't talk much, just ball and play But then we move like tigers on vaseline The bitter comes out better on a stolen guitar You're the blessed, we're the spiders from Mars CHORUS @SONG: Ziggy Stardust Ziggy played guitar, jammin' good with Weird 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 'em to hang Came on so loaded man, well hung and snow white tan So where were the spiders while the fly tried th break our balls Just a 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 was voodoo 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 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 @SONG: Suffragette City 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 schooldays insane Hey man my work's down the drain Hey man well she's total blam-blam She said she had to squeeze it but she... and then she... CHORUS Don't lean on me man, 'cause you can't afford the ticket I'm back on Suffragette City 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, ah Henry, don't be unkind, go way Hey man, ah! I can't take you this time, no way Hey man, ah droogie don't crash here There's only room for one and here she comes, here she comes CHORUS Ah, hey man! CHORUS Aaaaaah Wham Bam Thank you Ma'am! Suffragette City... Suffragette @SONG: Rock'n'Roll Suicide Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth You pull on your finger, then another finger, then your cigarette The wall-to-wall's 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 clock waits so patiently on your song You walk past the 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 day breaks instead so you hurry home Don't let the sun blast your shadow Don't let the milk floats ride your mind 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 are where you've seen All the knives seem to lacerate your brain I've had my share so I'll help you with the pain You're not alone just turn on with me You're not alone let's turn on and be You're not alone gimme your hands You're wonderful gimme your hands You're wonderful gimme your hands