Life On Mars - David Bowie

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[Verse]

          
It's a god-awf

          
ul small affai

           
r to the girl 

              
with the mousy

 
 hair
           
But her mummy 

           
is yelling no 

             
and her daddy 

              
as told her to

 
 go
           
But her friend

              
 is nowhere to

   
 be seen
            
now she walks 

              
through her su

     
nken dream
           
To the seat wi

              
th the cleares

   
t view
             
and she's hook

              
ed to the silv

   
er screen
       
But the film i

)             
s a saddening 

   
bore
           
For she's live

              
d it ten times

    
 or more
            
She could spit

              
 in the eyes o

           
f fools as the

 
y ask her to f

ocus on


[Chorus]

          
Sailors, fight

              
ing in the dan

     
ce hall
       
Oh man! look a

)             
t those caveme

           
n go,    it's 

          
a freakest sho

w
          
Take a look at

           
 the lawman, b

#             
eating up the 

        
wrong guy
       
Oh man!  Wonde

)             
r if he'll eve

           
r know     he'

              
s in the best 

       
selling show
          
Is there life 

                       
on Mars?


[Verse]

          
It's on Americ

            
a's tortured b

/
row
            
Mickey Mouse h

              
as grown up a 


cow
           
Now the worker

              
s have struck 

     
for fame
             
Cause Lennon's

              
 on sale again
           
See the mice i

              
n their millio

      
n hordes
            
From Ibeza to 

              
the Norfolk Br

 
oads
           
Rule Brittania

              
 is out of bou


nds
             
To my mother, 

              
my dog and clo

 
wns
       
But the film i

)             
s a saddening 

   
bore
            
`Cause I wrote

             
 it ten times 

    
before
            
It's about to 

                 
be writ again
     
As I ask you t

o focus on


[Chorus]

          
Sailors, fight

              
ing in the dan

     
ce hall
       
Oh man! look a

)             
t those caveme

           
n go,    it's 

          
a freakest sho

w
          
Take a look at

           
 the lawman, b

#             
eating up the 

        
wrong guy
       
Oh man!  Wonde

)             
r if he'll eve

           
r know    he's

              
 in the best s

      
elling show
          
Is there life 

                       
on Mars?

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