It's a God awful small affair
To the girl with the mousey hair
But her mummy is yelling, "No!"
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is no where to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seats with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen
But the film is sadd'ning 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 America'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 Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a sadd'ning 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?
Musical Monday
Monday, September 27, 2010
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6 animadversions:
hey you!
so, tell me, please, why did you choose this song? do you want to know - in his own words - how Bowie came up with it?
"This song was so easy. Being young was easy. A really beautiful day in the park, sitting on the steps of the bandstand. 'Sailors bap-bap-bap-bap-baaa-bap.' An anomic (not a 'gnomic') heroine. Middle-class ecstasy.
"I took a walk to Beckenham High Street to catch a bus to Lewisham to buy shoes and shirts but couldn't get the riff out of my head. Jumped off two stops into the ride and more or less loped back to the house up on Southend Road.
"Workspace was a big empty room with a chaise longue; a bargain-price art nouveau screen ('William Morris,' so I told anyone who asked); a huge overflowing freestanding ashtray and a grand piano. Little else.
"I started working it out on the piano and had the whole lyric and melody finished by late afternoon. Nice. Rick Wakeman came over a couple of weeks later and embellished the piano part and guitarist Mick Ronson created one of his first and best string parts for this song which now has become something of a fixture in my live shows."
see, dear FAF, I am a font of all knowledge
well, not all, but some at least!
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ooops - almost forgot
XXX
I chose this song because I was in a Bowie sort of mood and I enjoy the tune very much.
XOXOXO
wassa Bowie mood then? which era of Bowie? I'm not that familiar with much of his stuff apart from the bigger hits. . . he used to scare me when I was a teen because he was so strange. . .
. . .he was kinda local to where I grew up and everyone knew someone who knew a relative of his! I think his aunt usd to work at the library where I had a summer job once
I've got just about everything DB has recorded, so there's no particular era. I even saw him in concert on his Glass Spider tour.
I was intrigued because he was so strange. I guess he was more than a small influence regarding the spectacle aspect of putting on a show.
Wellllllllllll....I've never really been a DB fan.....
Yeah, yeah....I know....I suck.
*sigh*
First the book, now the tune....
Which way to the naughty corner?
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