The Genius of David Bowie

# 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

# 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 100,000 miles

# I'm feeling very still

# And I think my spaceship knows which way to go

# Tell my 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. #

APPLAUSE

# Wake up you sleepy head

# Put on some clothes, get out of bed

# Put another log on the fire for me

# I made some breakfast and coffee

# Look out my window, what do I see?

# 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 the 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

# 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 say it again

# You've got to make way for the Homo Superior

# Look out at your children

# See their faces in golden rays

# Don't kid yourself they belong to you

# They're the start of the 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 say it again

# You got to make way for the Homo Superior...#

# 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

# Wake up you sleepy heads

# Put on some clothes, shake-up your beds

# Put another log on the fire for me

# I need some breakfast and coffee

# I look out my window and what do I see?

# A crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me

# All your nightmares came today

# And it looks as though they're here to stay...#

# 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

# Though 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 live on Mars?

# It's on America's tortured brow

# That Mickey Mouse Has grown up a cow

# And now the workers Have struck for fame

# Cos 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

# Cos 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? #

# Well, I'm up on the eleventh floor

# And I'm watching the cruisers below

# You know, my heart's In the basement

# My weekend's at an all-time low

# Well, he's down on the street

# And he's trying hard To pull sister Flo

# As she's hoping to score

# Well, I can't see her Letting him go

# Walk out of her heart

# Walk out of her mind

# Oh, no, no

# 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

# 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

# So I lay down a while

# And I gaze at my hotel wall

# Oh, the cot feels so cold

# That it don't feel Like no bed at all

# Yes, I lay down a while

# And I gaze at my hotel wall

# Oh, he's down on the street

# So I throw both his bags Down the hall

# And I'm phoning a cab

# Cos my stomach feels small

# There's a taste in my mouth

# But it's no taste at all

# Well, it could have been me

# Yes, it could have been me

# Why didn't I say, why didn't I say

# 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. #

# Hey, now, now

# Oh, no, no

# Didn't know what time it was

# And the lights were low, oh-oh

# I leaned back on my radio, oh-oh

# Some cat was laying down

# Some get it on rock'n'roll 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 DJ 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

# Cos 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, ooh, ooh

# Hey, that's far out

# So you heard him too, ooh-ooh!

# 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

# 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

# Cos he knows it's all worthwhile

# He told me

# "Let the children use it

# "Let the children lose it

# "Let all the children boogie"

# La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

# La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

# La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

# La, la, la, la... #

APPLAUSE

# Billy rapped all night About his suicide

# How he kick it in the head When he was 25

# Speed jive

# Don't want to stay alive When you're 25

# And Wendy's stealing clothes From Marks and Sparks

# And Freddy's got spots

# From ripping off the stars From his face

# Funky little boat race

# And the television man is crazy

# Saying we're juvenile Delinquent wrecks

# Oh, man, I need TV When I got T Rex

# Oh, brother, you guessed

# I'm a dude, Dad

# All the young dudes... #

Hey, dudes!

# Carry the news... #

Where are you?

# Boogaloo dudes... #

Stand up, come on!

# Carry the news

# All the young dudes... #

-I want to hear you!

-# Carry the news... #

-I want to see you!

-# Boogaloo dudes... #

And I want to talk to you! All of you!

# Carry the news. #

Oh!

# Lucy's lookin' sweet

# Cos he dresses like a queen

# But he can kick like a mule

# It's a real mean team

# But we can love

# Oh, yes, we can love

# And my brother's back at home

# With his Beatles and his Stones

# We never got it off On that revolution stuff

# What a drag

# Too many snags

# Well, I drunk a lot of wine

# And I'm feeling fine

# Got to race some cat to bed

# Oh! Is there concrete all around

# Or is it in my head?

# Yeah! I'm a dude, yeah!

# All the young dudes... #

What dudes?

# Carry the news... #

Let's hear the news, come on!

# Boogaloo dudes... #

I want to kick you!

# Carry the news... #

-Hey, you there! With the glasses!

-# All the young dudes

# Carry the news... #

I want you!

# Boogaloo dudes... #

I want you at the front!

# Carry the news... #

Now, you, all his friends!

-# All the young dudes... #

-I've wanted to do this for years.

# Carry the news... #

There you go!

# Boogaloo dudes... #

How do you feel?

# Carry the news. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Ziggy played guitar

# Jamming good with Weird and Gilly

# And the Spiders from Mars

# Well, 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 kill '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 To break our balls?

# With just the beer light To guide us

# So we bitched about his fans

# And should we crush His sweet hands?

# No!

# Oh, yeah!

# Ziggy played for time

# Jiving us that we were voodoo

# The kid 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 some leper messiah

# When the kids had killed the man

# I had to break up the band

# Oh!

# Oh, no, no, no!

# Oh, oh, ooooh!

# Now, Ziggy played guitar! #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Poor Jean Genie Snuck into the city

# Strung out on lasers And slash back blazers

# And ate all your razors While pulling the waiters

# Talking 'bout Monroe And walking on Snow White

# New York's a no-go And everything tastes nice

# Poor Jean Genie

# Eh! Jean Genie lives on his back

# Jean Genie loves chimney stacks

# He's outrageous He screams and he bawls

# The Jean Genie, let yourself go! Oh!

# Sits like a man

# But smiles like a reptile

# She loves him, she loves him

# But just for a short while

# She'll scratch in the sand Won't let go your hand

# He says he's a beautician

# And sells you nutrition

# And keeps all your dead hair

# For making up underwear

# Poor Jean Genie

# Eh!

# Jean Genie lives on his back

# The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks

# He's outrageous He screams and he bawls

# The 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

# Eh!

# 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!

# The Jean Genie lives on his back

# The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks

# He's outrageous He screams and he bawls

# The Jean Genie, let yourself go! Oh! #

APPLAUSE

# Just a perfect day... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Drink sangria in the park

# Then later, when it gets dark

# We go home

# Just a perfect day

# Feed the animals in the zoo

# Then later, a movie too

# And then home

# Oh, it's such a perfect day

# I'm glad I spent it with you

# Oh! Such a perfect day

# You just keep me hanging on

# You just keep me hanging on

# Just a perfect day

# Problems all left alone

# Weekenders on our own

# It's such fun

# Oh! It's a perfect day

# You made me forget myself

# I thought I was someone else

# Someone good

# Oh! It's such a perfect day

# I'm glad I spent it with you

# Oh! Such a perfect day

# You just keep me hanging on

# You just keep me hanging on

# You're going to reap Just what you sow

# You're going to reap Just what you sow

# Oh! What a perfect day!

# Oh! What a perfect day!

# Oh! What a perfect day! #

APPLAUSE

# You've got your mother in a whirl

# She's not sure If you're a boy or a girl

# Hey, baby, your hair's all right

# Hey, baby, let's stay out tonight

# You like me and I like it all

# You love dancing And you look divine

# You love bands When they play it 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

# You're...

# Rebel Rebel, you've torn your dress

# Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess You're...

# Rebel Rebel, how could they know?

# Hot tramp, I love you so!

# You've got your mother in a whirl

# She's not sure If you're a boy or a girl

# Hey, baby, your hair's all right

# Hey, baby, let's stay out tonight

# You like me and I like it all

# You love dancing And you look divine

# You love bands When they play it 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

# You're...

# Rebel Rebel

# You've torn your dress, you're...

# Rebel Rebel

# Your face is a mess, you're...

# Rebel Rebel

# How could they know?

# Hot tramp, I love you so!

# You've got your mother in a whirl

# She's not sure If you're a boy or a girl

# Hey, baby, your hair's all right

# Hey, baby, let's stay out tonight

# Stay out tonight

# Let's stay out tonight. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# We passed upon the stairs

# 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. #

APPLAUSE

# I, I wish you could swim

# Like dolphins Like dolphins can swim

# Though nothing Will keep us together

# We can beat them

# For ever and ever

# We can be heroes

# Just for one day

# I, I will be king

# And you, you will be queen

# Though nothing Will keep us together

# We can be us

# For ever and ever

# Or we can be heroes

# Just for one day

# I, I can remember

# I remember

# Standing by the wall

# By the wall

# And the guns shot above our heads

# Over our heads

# And we kissed

# As though nothing could fall

# Nothing could fall

# And the shame Was on the other side

# Oh, we can beat them

# For ever and ever

# Then we can be heroes

# Just for one day

# What d'you say?

# We can be heroes

# We can be heroes. #

APPLAUSE

Now, listen.

# I'm worth a million in prizes

# With my torture film

# Drive a GTO

# I wear a uniform

# All on a government loan

# I'm worth a million in prizes

# I'm through with sleeping On the sidewalk

# No more beating my brains

# Beating my brains

# With the liquor and drugs

# With the liquor and drugs

# Well, I am just a modern guy

# Of course I've had it In the ear before

# Cos of a lust for life

# Lust for life

# Lust for life

# Aaah!

# Lust for life

# Oooh!

# I got a lust for life

# I got a lust for life

# Lust for life

# I got a lust for life

# Lust for life

# Lust for life

# A lust for life

# Lust for life

# Lust for life

# Lust for life

# Lust for life

# Lust for life. #

APPLAUSE

# Heaven loves ya

# The clouds part for ya

# Nothing stands in your way

# When you're a boy

# Clothes always fit ya

# Life is a pop of the cherry

# When you're a boy

# When you're a boy

# You can wear a uniform

# When you're a boy

# Other boys check you out

# You get a girl

# These are your favourite things

# When you're a boy

# Boys

# Boys

# Boys keep swinging

# Boys always work it out

# Uncage the colours

# Unfurl the flag

# Luck just kissed you hello!

# When you're a boy

# They'll never clone ya

# You're always first on the line

# When you're a boy

# When you're a boy

# You can buy a home of your own

# When you're a boy

# Learn to drive and everything

# You'll get your share

# When you're a boy

# Boys

# Boys

# Boys keep swinging

# Boys always work it out. #

APPLAUSE

# There's a brand new dance But I don't know its name, no

# That people from bad homes do again and again, oh

# It's big and it's bland Full of tension and fear

# They do it over there But we don't do it here, no

-# Fashion!

-Turn to the left

-# Fashion!

-Turn to the right

-# Oooh...

-Fashion!

# We are the goon squad And we're coming to town

# Beep-beep

# Beep-beep

-# Listen to me

-Don't listen to me

-# Talk to me

-Don't talk to me

-# Dance with me

-Don't dance with me, no

# Beep-beep

# There's a brand new talk But it's not very clear, no

# Oh, bop

# That people from good homes are talking this year

-# Oh, bop

-Fashion

# It's loud and it's tasteless And I've heard it before

# Oh, bop

# You shout it while you're dancing

# On the ole dance floor

-# Oh, bop

-Fashion

-# Fashion!

-Turn to the left

-# Fashion!

-Right

-# Oooh!

-Fashion!

# We are the goon squad And we're coming to town

# Beep-beep

# Beep-beep

# Oooh!

# Ooh, ooh!

# Ooh, ooh!

# Ooh, ooh!

-# Listen to me

-Don't listen to me

-# Talk to me

-Don't talk to me

-# Dance with me

-Don't dance with me, no

# Beep-beep

# Oh, bop, do do do do do do do do

# Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion

# Oh, bop, do do do do do do do do

# Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion

# La-la-la-la

# Oh, bop, do do do do do do do do

# Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion

# Oh, bop, do do do do do do do do

# Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion! #

APPLAUSE

Thank you.

# Aahh

# Aahh

# Aahh

# Aahh

# Let's dance

# Put on your red shoes and dance the blues

# Let's dance

# To the song they're playing on the radio

# Let's sway

# While colour lights up your face

# Let's sway

# Sway through the crowd to an empty space

# If you say run I'll run with you

# And if you say hide We'll hide

# Hide...

# Because my love for you

# Would break my heart in two

# Aahh-aahh-aahh

# If you should fall

# Into my arms

# And tremble like a flower

# Let's dance

# Let's dance

# For fear your grace should fall

# Let's dance

# For fear tonight is all

# Let's sway

# You could look into my eyes

# Let's sway

# Under the moonlight This serious moonlight

# And if you say run I'll run with you

# And if you say hide We'll hide

# Hide...

# Because my love for you

# Would break my heart in two

# Aahh-aahh-aahh

# If you should fall

# Into my arms

# And tremble like a flower

# Let's dance

# Put on your red shoes

# And dance the blues

# Let's sway

# Under the moonlight

# This serious moonlight

# Let's sway... #

# Spaceboy, you're sleepy now

# Your silhouette is so stationary

# You're released But your custody calls

# And I want to be free

# Don't you want to be free?

# Do you like girls or boys?

# It's confusing these days

# But moondust will cover you

# Cover you

# So bye-bye, love

# Yeah, bye-bye, love

# Hallo, Spaceboy

# This chaos is killing me

# Hallo, Spaceboy

# Spaceboy, spaceboy, spaceboy

# Hallo

# Ground to Major, bye-bye, Tom

# This chaos is killing me

# Dead the circuit Countdown's wrong

# This chaos is killing me

# Planet Earth, is control on?

# So sleepy now

# Do you want to be free?

# Don't you want to be free?

# Do you like girls or boys?

# It's confusing these days

# But moondust will cover you

# Cover you

# So bye-bye, love

# Yeah, bye-bye, love

# Hallo, Spaceboy

# Spaceboy, spaceboy, spaceboy

# Hallo!

# Hallo, Spaceboy

# You're sleepy now

# This chaos is killing me... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# This chaos is killing me

# So bye-bye, love

# Yeah, bye-bye, love

# Do you want to be free?

# Yes, I want to be free

# Hallo, Spaceboy! #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Do you remember a guy that's been

# In such an early song?

# I've heard a rumour from Ground Control

# Oh, no, don't say it's true

# They got a message from the Action Man

# I'm happy, hope you're happy too

# I've loved all I've needed love

# Sordid details following

# I've never done good things

# I've never done bad things

# I never did anything out of the blue

# Woh-o-oh

# Want an axe to break the ice

# Want to come down right now

# Ashes to ashes, funk to funky

# We know Major Tom's a junkie

# Strung out in heaven's high

# Hitting an all-time low

# Time and again I tell myself

# I'll stay clean tonight

# But the little green wheels keep following me

# Oh, no, not again

# I'm stuck with a valuable friend

# I'm happy, hope you're happy too

# One flash of light But no smoking pistol

# I never did good things

# I never did bad things

# I never did anything out of the blue

# Woh-o-oh

# Want an axe to break the ice

# Want to come down right now

# Ashes to ashes, funk to funky

# We know Major Tom's a junkie

# Strung out in heaven's high

# Hitting an all-time low

# You'd better not mess with Major Tom

# My mother said to get things done

# You'd better not mess with Major Tom

# My mother said to get things done

# You'd better not mess with Major Tom

# My mother said to get things done

# You'd better not mess with Major Tom

# My mother said to get things done

# You'd better not mess... #

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