"Look back in anger"

You know who I am he said.
I m the freak who was an angel, he closed his eyes and moved his lips: It s time we should be going. Waiting so long, I was waiting so long,. Look back in anger, driven by the night, here she comes.

"scary monsters supercreeps"

When I looked in her eyes, they were blue, but nobody home. She could have been a killer if she didn t walk away, she do. She opens strange doors, we can never close again.
Scary monsters, supercreeps keep me running, running scared.
She asked for my love, and I gave her a dangerous mind, now she's sleeping in the street and she can't socialize. But I love the little girl, and I love her till the day she dies.

"Heroes"

I wish, I wish we could swim, like the dolphins,, like dolphins can swim

"Joe the lion"

Joe the Lion went to a bar, with a couple of freaks, from the houses, you know, who they are,
when you know it s tomorrow.

"Beauty and the beast"

Nothing to do, nothing to game. Kiss you in the rain, in the rain, in the rain, Bring me to the doctor!, it s selfprotection. Don t say no, to the beauty and the beast.

"Station to station"

I am the thin white duke, throwing darts in lovers eyes.

'Golden years".

Don t let me hear you re save lives, taking you nowhere, angel
Nothing s gonna touch you, in these golden years.

"Fame"

Fame, is there anybody wunder, I reject you first. Fame.

"Ashes to ashes"

The little green wings follow me, oh no not again,

I'm the next, who breaks the ice, Want to come down right now. Ashes to ashes. Funk to funky, we know Major Tom's a junkie, strong out in heavens high, weeping at all time long.

From "Sound and vision"

You re just a little girl with grey eyes, waiting to say something, waiting till the grave cries.

"China girl"

My little china girl, you shouldn t mess with me, I ruin everything you are.
I gave you television. I gave you eyes so blue.
You had a man, who wants to rule the world for you.
I gave you everything you are.
But when I get exited, she just say: just you shut your mouth: sssst.

"Space oddity"

10.9.8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 Lift off...
This is Major Tom to ground control: I m stepping throug the door, and I'm floating in a most a peculier way, and the stars look very different today.
Ground control to Major Tom, your circuits dead, there s something wrong, can you here me Major Tom?.
Can you here me.....Here am I floating in a tin can, far above the world. Planet earth is blue and there s nothing I can do.

"Red sails"

Red sails, red sail action. red sail, some reaction.
We re going down to the Hinterland, the Hinterland, and its fafafafafar away

"DJ"

This is easy, realism. I ve got a girl out there. I think she s dancing. What do I know?
I am a Dj. I am what I play. I ve got believers, believe in me.
I'm lost and be terrible ill, of night and evening faces. Fast food.

"The man who sold the world"

He said I was his friend, wich came as some suprise,

I spoke into his eyes:
I thougt 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.

"the jean geanie"

Sits like an amber, smiles like a reptile . She loves him, she loves him but just for a short while
She scratch in the sand, let go his hand

"A-ladd-insane"

Who will love: A-Ladd-Insane

"Hurt"

I hurt myself today. To see or I still feel. I focus on the pain. The only thing thats real.

Ïs there life on Mars?"

Take a look at the lord men, beating on the wrong guy, I wunder if you ever know, its the bestselling show, Is there life on Mars?

(all lines written by D.Bowie and or Brian Eno)
Vooral Bowie, vormde mijn kleuter-puberjaren,
vandaar dit dankbare getuigschrift

© juli 2008, Franciscus Borst, BasicPublishing.nl