Life on mars – David Bowie
[Verse 1]
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It's a god-awful small affair
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To the girl with the mousy hair
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But her mummy is yelling "No"
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And her daddy has told her to go
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But her friend is nowhere to be seen
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Now she walks through her sunken dream.
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To the seat with the clearest view
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Oh man! look at those cavemen go
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It's the freakiest show
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Take a look at the lawman
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Beating up the wrong guy
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Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
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He's in the best selling show
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Is there life on Mars?
Rule Britannia is out of bounds.
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To my mother, my dog, and clowns
[Pre-Chorus]
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But the film is a saddening bore
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For I've writ it ten times or more
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It's about to be writ again
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As I ask you to focus on
[Bridge]
And she's hooked to the silver screen
[Chorus]
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[Pre-Chorus]
[Verse 2]
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But the film is a saddening bore
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For she's lived it ten times or more
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She could spit in the eyes of fools
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As they ask her to focus on
[Chorus]
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Sailors fighting in the dance hall
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It's on Amerika's tortured brow
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That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
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Now the workers have struck for fame
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'Cause Lennon's on sale again
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See the mice in their million hordes
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From Ibeza to the norfolk broads
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Sailors fighting in the dance hall
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Oh man! look at those cavemen go
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It's the freakiest show
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Take a look at the lawman
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Beating up the wrong guy
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Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
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He's in the best selling show
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Is there life on Mars?