Oh You Pretty Things - David Bowie

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[Intro]
        
      
       

[Verse 1]
             
  Wake up you 

  
sleepy head
         
Put on some cl

             
othes, shake o


ff your bed
             
Put another lo

         
g on the fire 

for me
             
I've made some

              
 breakfast and

 
 coffee
             
Look out my wi

      
ndow, what do 

I see
          
A crack in the

            
 sky and a han

          
d reaching dow

   
n to me
          
All the nightm

            
ares came toda

y
              
And it looks a

              
s though they'

             
re here to sta

              
y

[Verse 2]
             
  What are we 

  
coming to
         
No room for me

     
, no fun for y

ou
             
  I think abou

    
t a world to c

ome
             
Where the book

              
s were found b

      
y the Golden O

nes
             
Written in pai

   
n, written in 

awe
          
By a puzzled m

            
an who questio

         
ned what we we

/
re here for
          
All the strang

           
ers came today
              
And it looks a

              
s though they'

    
re here to sta

y

[Chorus]
        
Oh you pretty 

       
things
          
Don't you know

              
 you're drivin

             
g your mamas a

            
nd papas insan

e?
        
Oh you pretty 

       
things
          
Don't you know

              
 you're drivin

             
g your mamas a

            
nd papas insan

e?
       
Let me make it

 plain
            
Gotta make way

            
 for the homo 

       
superior

[Verse 3]
(         
Look out at yo

  
ur children
         
See their face

      
s in golden ra

ys
             
 Don't kid you

             
rself they bel

ong to you
             
  They're the 

             
start of the c

oming race
             
The earth is a

              
 bitch, we've 


finished our n

ews
          
  Homo sapiens

        
 have outgrown

        
 their use
          
All the strang

           
ers came today
              
And it looks a

              
s though they'

    
re here to sta

y

[Chorus]
        
Oh you pretty 

       
things
          
Don't you know

              
 you're drivin

             
g your mamas a

            
nd papas insan

e?
        
Oh you pretty 

       
things
          
Don't you know

              
 you're drivin

             
g your mamas a

            
nd papas insan

e?
       
Let me make it

 plain
            
Gotta make way

            
 for the homo 

       
superior

[Outro]