Life on mars

Mars

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
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 Amerika’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 Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
‘Cause I wrote it
ten times or more
It’s about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on
(David Bowie)

(Reason Piano + Akoustic Piano Ableton Live on MAC)

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2 Responses to “Life on mars”

  1. Arsomnia scrive:

    Life on Mars? … credevo di si, un tempo. Ora, forse, a tratti. Fugacemente.

    Questa tua interpretazione mi pare più vicina all’ultima versione di Bowie.

    Un caro saluto e l’augurio di un sereno Natale e un buon 2010.

    Claudia

  2. gaz scrive:

    Che bella! E’ veramente un piacere ascoltarti suonare…
    Posso lasciarti un saluto e se non esagero, anche un augurio: sereno, sereno anno nuovo!

    Ciao e spero a presto!

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