Pushing thru the market square,
so many mothers sighing
News had just come over,
we had five years left to cry in
News guy wept when he told us,
earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet,
then I knew he was not lying
I heard telephones, opera house,
favorite melodies
I saw boys, toys, electric irons and T.V.'s
My brain hurt like a warehouse,
it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things
to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people,
and all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people
and all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many people
A girl my age went off her head,
hit some tiny children
If the black hadn't a-pulled her off
I think she would have killed them
A soldier with a broken arm,
fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest,
and a queer threw up at the sight of that
I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour,
drinking milk shakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine,
don't think you knew you were in this song
And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an
actor
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get
back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to
walk

We got five years, stuck on my eyes
We got five years, what a surprise
We got five years, my brain hurts a lot
We got five years, that's all we've got

Stone love - she kneels before the grave
A brave son - who gave his life to save the
slogan
That hovers 'tween the headstone and her
eyes
For they penetrate her grieving

New love - a boy and girl are talking
New words - that only they can share in
New words - a love so strong it tears their
hearts
To sleep - through the fleeting hours of
morning
Love is careless in its choosing - sweeping
over cross a baby
Love descends on those defenseless
Idiot love will spark the fusion
Inspirations have I none - just to touch the
flaming dove
All I have is my love of love - and love is not
loving

Soul love - the priest that tastes the word
and
Told of love - and how my God on high is
All love - though reaching up my loneliness
evolves
By the blindness that surrounds him

I'm an alligator,
I'm a mama-papa comin' for you
I'm the space invader,
I'll be a rock 'n' rollin' bitch for you
Keep your mouth shut,
you're squawking like a pink monkey bird
And I'm busting up my brains for the words

Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe
Put your ray gun to my head
Press your space face close to mine, love
Freak out in a moonage daydream oh! yea!


Don't fake it baby, lay the real thing on me
The church of man, love, is such a holy
place to be
Make me baby, make me know you really
care
Make me jump into the air

Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe
Put your ray gun to my head
Press your space face close to mine, love
Freak out in a moonage daydream oh! yea!

Didn't know what time it was,
the lights were low
I leaned back on my radio
Some cat was layin' down
some rock 'n' roll 'lotta soul, he said
Then the loud sound did seem to fade
Came back like a slow voice on a wave of
phase
That weren't no D.J. that was hazy cosmic
jive

There's a starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
Cause he knows it's all worthwhile
He told me:
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie

I had to phone someone so I picked on you
Hey, that's far out so you heard him too!
Switch on the TV we may pick him up on
channel two
Look out your window I can see his light
If we can sparkle he may land tonight
Don't tell your poppa or he'll get us locked
up in fright

There's a starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
Cause he knows it's all worthwhile
He told me:
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie

When you climb to the top of the mountain
Look out over the sea
Think about the places perhaps, where a young man could be
Then you jump back down to the rooftops
Look out over the town
Think about all of the strange things circulating round

CHORUS
It ain't easy, it ain't easy
It ain't easy to get to heaven when you're going down

Well all the people have got their problems
That ain't nothing new
With the help of the good Lord
We can all pull on through
We can all pull on through
Get there in the end
Sometimes it'll take you right up and sometimes down again

CHORUS

Satisfaction, satisfaction
Keep me satisfied
I've got the love of a Hoochie Koochie woman
She calling from inside
She's a-calling from inside
Trying to get to you
All the woman really wants you can give her something too

CHORUS (x2)

People stared at the makeup on his face
Laughed at his long black hair, his animal
grace
The boy in the bright blue jeans
Jumped up on the stage
And lady stardust sang his songs
Of darkness and disgrace

And he was alright the band was altogether
Yes he was alright the song went on
forever:
And he was awful nice
Really quite out of sight
(second time: really quite paradise)
And he sang all night long

Femme fatales emerged from shadows
To watch this creature fair
Boys stood upon their chairs
To make their point of view
I smiled sadly for a love I could not obey
And lady stardust sang his songs
Of darkness and dismay

And he was alright the band was altogether
Yes he was alright the song went on
forever:
And he was awful nice
Really quite out of sight
(second time: really quite paradise)
And he sang all night long

Oh how I sighed when they asked if I knew
his name

Tony went to fight in Belfast
Rudi stayed at home to starve
I could make it all worthwhile as a rock &
roll star
Bevan tried to change the nation
Sonny wants to turn the world,
well he can tell you that he tried
I could make a transformation as a rock &
roll star
So inviting - so enticing to play the part
I could play the wild mutation as a rock &
roll star
I could do with the money
I'm so wiped out with things as they are
I'd send my photograph to my honey -
and I'd c'mon like a regular superstar
I could fall asleep at night as a rock & roll
star
I could fall in love all right as a rock & roll
star

She's a tongue twisting storm,
she will come to the show tonight
Praying to the light machine
She wants my honey not my money
she's a funky-thigh collector
Layin' on 'lectric dreams

So come on, come on,
we've really got a good thing going
Come on, come on,
if you think we're gonna make it
You better hang on to yourself

We can't dance, don't talk much, just ball
and play
But then we move like tigers on vaseline
The bitter comes out better on a stolen
guitar
You're the blessed, we're the spiders from
Mars

So come on, come on,
we've really got a good thing going
Come on, come on,
if you think we're gonna make it
You better hang on to yourself

Ziggy played guitar,
jamming good with Weird and Gilly
The spiders from Mars.
He played it left hand,
But made it too far,
Became the special man,
then we were Ziggy's band.

Ziggy really sang,
screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo
Like some cat from Japan,
he could lick 'em by smiling
He could leave 'em to hang
Came on so loaded man,
well hung and snow white tan.

So where were the spiders while
the fly tried to break our balls
Just the beer light to guide us,
So we bitched about his fans and
should we crush his sweet hands?

Ziggy played for time,
living us that we were voodoo
The kids were just crass,
he was the nazz
With God given ass
He took it all too far but
boy could he play guitar.

Making love with his ego
Ziggy sucked up into his mind
Like a leper messiah
When the kids had killed the man
I had to break up the band.

Hey man oh leave me alone, you know
Hey man oh Henry, get off the phone, I gotta
Hey man I gotta straighten my face
This mellow thighed chick just put my spine
out of place

Hey man schooldays insane
Hey man my work's down the drain
Hey man she's total blam-blam
She said she had to squeeze it but she...
then she...

Don't lean on me man, cause you can't
afford the ticket
I'm back on Suffragette City
Don't lean on me man,
Cause you ain't got time to check it
You know my Suffragette City
Is outta sight...she's all right

Hey man, ah! Henry, don't be unkind, go
way
Hey man ah! I can't take you this time, no
way
Hey man ah! droogie don't crash here
There's only room for one and here she
comes, here she comes

Don't lean on me man, cause you can't
afford the ticket
I'm back on Suffragette City
Don't lean on me man,
Cause you ain't got time to check it
You know my Suffragette City
Is outta sight...she's all right

Ah, hey man!

Don't lean on me man, cause you can't
afford the ticket
I'm back on Suffragette City
Don't lean on me man,
Cause you ain't got time to check it
You know my Suffragette City
Is outta sight...she's all right

Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am!

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth
You pull on your finger, then another finger,
then your cigarette
The wall-to-wall's calling, it lingers, then you
forget
You're a rock 'n' roll suicide

You're too old to lose it, too young to
choose it
And the clocks waits so patiently on your
song
You walk past the cafe but you don't eat
when you've lived too long
You're a rock 'n' roll sucide

Chev brakes are snarling as you stumble
across the road
But the day breaks instead so you hurry
home
Don't let the sun blast your shadow
Don't let the milk floats ride your mind
You're so natural - religiously unkind

Oh no love! you're not alone
You're watching yourself but you're too
unfair
You got your head all tangled up but if I
could only make you care
Oh no love! you're not alone

No matter what or who you've been
No matter when or where you've seen
All the knives seem to lacerate your brain
I've had my share I'll help you with the pain
You're not alone just turn on with me
You're not alone let's turn on and be
You're not alone gimme your hands
You're wonderful gimme your hands
You're wonderful gimme your hands

Well, Annie's pretty neat, she always eats her meat
Joe is awful strong, bet your life he's putting us on
Oh lordy, oh lordy, you know I need some loving
I'm moving, touch me!

(CHORUS)
John, I'm only dancing
She turns me on, but I'm only dancing
She turns me on, don't get me wrong
I'm only dancing

Oh shadow love was quick and clean, life's a well thumbed machine
I saw you watching from the stairs, you're everyone that ever cared
Oh lordy, oh lordy, you know I need some loving
I'm moving, touch me!

CHORUS (x2)

Dancing, won't someone dance with me?
Touch me! Ohhh!

You got crazy legs, you got amazin' head
You got rings on your fingers and your hair's hot red
You got the width of my tongue name on the sun
I clutch you close to my breast
Cause you're the only one, who uses school to pleasure

You make me act real gone, you make me troll along
I had to ravish your capsule, suck you dry
Feel the teeth in your bones, heal ya head with my own
Why if I don't have you whole, is that your final love?
Here all together

CHORUS
Velvet goldmine, you stroke me like the rain
Snake it, take it, panther princess you must stay
Velvet goldmine, naked on your chain
I'll be your king volcano right for you again and again
My velvet goldmine

You're my taste, my trip, I'll be your master zip
I'll chop your hair off for kicks, you'll make me jump to my feet
So you'll give me your hand, give me your sound
Let my sea wash your face, I'm falling, I can't stand
Oooh! Clutch your makeup!

CHORUS

Oh
Shoot you down, bang bang

CHORUS

(hum) Velvet Goldmine (repeat)

I tried to break away from you
From the spics and blacks and the gum you chew
Where the posters are torn by the muggin' gangs
By the faggy parks and the burnt out vans
I've got ninety-nine years of laying in the dark and I'm far too young to lie
I've got ninety-nine ways to play my guitar it's going to pay me before I die

CHORUS
So bob your sweet head
Brother Ziggy going to play
I'm just about the best you can hear
Gonna rock it in your head
Shazam! and come ball
With my guitar and me soprano
We can give you sweet head

I'm tough as glass and clean as night
Well if looks can love we can love all right
I'm your rubber peacock angelic whore
I'm a wrought iron face upon the wall
I had ninety-nine years of murder called life and I'm running away from it all
I got a bedroom, every mirror in town they're going to claim me if I fall

CHORUS

Sweet head, give you sweet head
(spoken: while ya down there)

See my eyes of blocked emotion, see my tremble, see my fall
Traumatics thick and fast, your faith in me can last
Besides I'm known to lay you, one and all

Look south the way your mother dwells
If she knew what's going down, she'd give you hell
I'm the kind of man she warned me of
Till there was rock, you only had god

You and I have a mutual vow
We both like young, and we both like loud
I got pretty shoes, and I'm kid and proud
I'm street side out with my ear to the crowd

CHORUS

Move along, sir!

Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly
The spiders from Mars. He played it left hand
But made it too far
Became the special man, then we were Ziggy's band

Ziggy really sang, screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo
Like some cat from Japan, he could lick 'em by smiling
He could leave 'em to hang
Came on so loaded man, well hung and snow white tan.

So where were the spiders while the fly tried to break our balls
Just the beer light to guide us,
So we bitched about his fans and should we crush his sweet hands?

Ziggy played for time, jiving us that we were voodoo
The kids were just crass, he was the nazz
With God given ass
He took it all too far but boy could he play guitar

Making love with his ego Ziggy sucked up into his mind
Like a leper messiah
When the kids had killed the man I had to break up the band.

Oh yeah
Ooooooo
Ziggy played guitaarrrrrr

People stared at the makeup on his face
Laughed at his long black hair, his animal grace
The boy in the bright blue jeans
Jumped up on the stage
And lady stardust sang his songs
Of darkness and disgrace

CHORUS
And he was alright, the band was altogether
Yes he was alright, the song went on forever
And he was awful nice
Really quite out of sight (second time: really quite paradise)
And he sang all night long

Femme fatales emerged from shadows
To watch this creature fair
Boys stood upon their chairs
To make their point of view
I smiled sadly for a love I could not obey
Lady stardust sang his songs
Of darkness and dismay

CHORUS

Oh how I sighed when they asked if I knew his name

CHORUS