Lyrics by David Bowie
I... I wish you could swim Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim Though nothing, nothing will keep us together We can beat them, forever and ever We can be heroes, just for one day
I... I will be king And you, you will be queen Though nothing, nothing will drive them away We can be heroes, just for one day We can be us, just for one day
I... I remember Standing, by the wall And guns, shot above our heads And we kissed, as though nothing could fall And the shame, was on the other side We can beat them, forever and ever Then we could be heroes, just for one day
We can be heroes We can be heroes We can be heroes We can be heroes Just for one day
Well, you could walk like a stranger head back into here, Bringing gifts while you act so sincere, Bringing gifts for a boy who's five years, Looking for rocks and training wheels.
I don't remember you from any of those books, Ashes to ashes and six feet under, face down in a box. Where did you ever learn to treat me like that ?
You don't seem to have any of that family stuff, You know the hardwood floors and all that penniless rough. Your bad luck follows you like a heart attack, Twist your fingers, soon as break your back.
I don't remember you from any of those books, Ashes to ashes and six feet under, face down in a box. Where did you ever learn to treat me like that that that ?
It's coming from another with a mother who's just like yours, Givin' you headaches and all those mental scores. Give a little, have a little, take some for yourself, Like the needy and the greedy always seem by themselves, Well, you must be, have to be one of these, Hidin' in the shade under your family tree Think I met you once in a liquor store, No think I saw you hanging by the stage door Handing out programs to the family theater Devised a role so you don't mistreat her.
Take it wild, take it fast, You never gave yourself a chance.
I don't remember you from any of those books, Ashes to ashes and six feet under, face down in a box. Where did you ever learn to treat me like that, that, that, that ?
Standing up above and looking below I know you thought you seen a halo Well, getting down below what I've shown You'll see just what I've known
It's one more hour 'till day break I know I've had all I can take I heard a secret I can't shake One wing and an *iron something* Jumping *half* away
And I can't say there's Nothing wrong here with me With me, yeah She's one step over One mile older Without me
Well, devil in a white suite talk'n to me He says I got a heart full of *kerosene* He says he keeps seein' me in the same dream In the web of an old heart's string That's breaking
Down on my knees at the oak tree They brought these rabbits forth with me Well, faith is the new symbol I've tied to me Well, the tree outcried to me Cut loose and set me free
And I can't say there's Nothing wrong here with me With me, yeah She's one step over One mile older Without me Without me
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Standing up above and looking below I know you thought you seen a halo And I can't say there's Well, getting down below what I've shown You'll see just what I've known A ring of fire and a rainbow
Nothing wrong here with me With me, yeah She's one step over One mile older Without me Without me ooh,ooh ooh,ooh
* indicate that it's uncertain what the word(s) is (are)
Mama, don't you send me a letter this month my heart is all used up Mama, I wana come home, I wanna get back home.
(chorus) So look out into the morning train, 'Cause I'm not on ooh ooh ooh, the mourning train
I'm bringing down my suitcase now And I'm shining my good shoes round. 'Cause no one knows my name No one knows my name
(Chorus)
Mister you can't hurt me now You got my girl, I still don't know how. But it don't matter now, No it don't matter now.
(Chorus)
Well there goes Sally, my old lady She gone crazy drawing lines on her face. And you know I got a feeling that Sally been a' stealling. 'Cause I was hip to this, that you don't trust Skinny Lips
Sally's got a good heart, raised in a churchyard But it ain't ever far from the backyard To the boulevard Cemetery girls ain't fun They ain't sweet like sugar plums. She wasn't always like this, but she did have skinny lips.
(Chorus) Well i don't believe it She don't need it from me Hey hey hey hey hey hey
Now I seen her on weekends my little rose garden. I say hello to all her friends and the gentlemen. Now i heard it from a junkie that my old lady Wasn't mine but everyone's skinny lips.
(Chorus) Come on, come on, come on, I need a witness Man it shouldn't be like this, 'Cause I know you won't be the pill That makes me feel that I'm the best Come on come on skinny lips Come on and give me just one kiss. 'Cause you know I only got one wish I wanna be in love with skinny lips
(Chorus)
Never thought that I knew too much always thought I knew enough Why do you act tough? Well maybe I'm just losing my touch And where do we go? They keep us on the run But how could we know? We'd only just begun
But look what we've done they knew it all along that our chances were none in murder one by one
And do you still have that dream where two lovers play hide and seek? Why would you find it beneath the secrets that I keep? So why do we lie and keep it all inside when love is implied and the heart just goes denied?
And look what we've done They knew it all along They're inlove with no one They murder one by one
Tie you up with just one thread and seal you in baby's breath and beneath your chest is a heart that needs a rest But I won't let you fall They keep us here in line like two paper dolls her little hand in mine
And look what we've done They knew it all along That our chances were none in murder one by one
Mine is a sunshine kind of a Valentine But sometimes I still don't feel even worth a dime, But it used to be different before I'd been where I've been.
Now you've got a heart so you know how it feels, When you can't move at the top of a Ferris Wheel, But I used to keep trying, but it always felt like dying.
Chorus:
Sad, sad, everything has gone bad, In the dreams I've had, they all laughed at what I have, Oh no, tell me that it ain't true, When I awake I'm still me, man I wish I could once be you.
Now I used to be lucky, Till I spent some time with me.
Now is losing is amusing man get a load of me, You see me falling in love with a guillotine, But it used to be funny to think you would think of me.
I wish I could just take all my things and leave, But I'm falling down in the wheels of this machine, But it used to be something to be nowhere with nothing.
(Chorus twice)
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