Oh You Pretty Things - David Bowie

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[Verse 1]
        
Wake up you sl

    
eepy 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 co

    
ming to
        
No room for me

      
, no fun for y

ou
        
I think about 

        
a world to com

e
           
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 your

              
self they belo

  
ng to you
           
They're the st

              
art of the com

    
ing race
        
The earth is a

              
 bitch, we've 

    
finished our n

ews
        
Homo sapiens h

     
ave outgrown t

       
heir 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

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