From
Tin Machine II (by Tin Machine) (1991) by
David Bowie
Baby Universal (Bowie, Gabrels) - 3:18
Now that he has no sense of destination
Now he's running for the love of speed
When the child goes bad it's no cause for
celebration
Like Jimmy Dean he don't talk back to me
Failures as fathers, Mothers to chaos
No baby, no baby, no baby no
Hallo humans can you feel me thinking
I assume you're seeing everything I'm
thinking
Hallo humans nothing starts tomorrow
I'm the baby now
Baby Universe, Baby Universe, Baby
Universal
A speck of dust just settled in my eye
It doesn't matter I've seen everything
anyway
Failures as fathers, Mothers to chaos
No baby, no baby, no baby no
Hallo humans can you feel me thinking
I assume you're seeing everything I'm
thinking
Hallo humans nothing starts tomorrow
I'm the baby now
One Shot (Bowie, Gabrels, Sales, Sales) - 5:11
The last days were the meanest
Leanest days of our lives
You threw me the pieces
I started the fire
One thing led to a dead end
One shot put her away, hey-hey
Look out on a green world
Windows and wives
No bedroom to run to
No miracle jive - no conversation
Then nothing meant nothing
Ten dollars tore us apart
One thing led to a dead end
One shot put her away
Hot love is the dearest
No money can buy
She burnt like a spitfire
One shot put her away
You Belong in Rock and Roll (Bowie, Gabrels) - 4:07
Just the twinkling lights of heaven
Two reflections on the sparkling water
Hand in hand in love with love uh-huh
I love the cheap things that you say
You belong in rock 'n roll
You belong in rock 'n roll
You belong in rock 'n roll
Well so do I
I love how she moves me
It makes me feel alright
I'm a hurt, I'm a hurt, I'm a hurting
I'm a man with a beat in my pocket
I'm going down to the rhythm of love
I love a bad look that you bringring
You belong in rock 'n roll
You belong in rock 'n roll
You belong in rock 'n roll
Well so do I
Alone on a mean street
It makes me feel on fire
I love the cheap street in your walk
You belong in rock 'n roll
You belong in rock 'n roll
Well so do I
I love how she moves me
It makes me feel alright
Oh-oh!
If There Is Something (Ferry) - 4:45
If there is something that I might find
Look around corners
Try to find peace of mind I say
Where would you go if you were me
Try to keep a straight course not easy
Somebody special looking at me
A certain reaction we find
What should it try to be I mean
If there are many
Meaning the same
Be specific just a game
I would do anything for you
I would climb mountains
I would swim all the oceans blue
I would walk a thousand miles
Reveal my secrets
More than enough for me to share
I would put roses round our door
Sit in the garden
Growing potatoes by the score
Shake your hair girl with your ponytail
Takes me right back (when you were young)
Throw your precious gifts into the air
Watch them fall down (when you were young)
Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
You used to walk upon (when you were young)
Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
The hills were higher (when we were young)
Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
The trees were taller (when you were young)
Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
The grass was greener (when you were young)
Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
You used to walk upon (when you were young)
Amlapura (Bowie, Gabrels) - 3:46
Hey-hey it's the tall sail
On a beach reach for java
Make way for to Java
Watching for Boogies
Hey-hey it's a dreaming
I would burn you if you should die
Hey-hey I would burn too
If you should lie upon that bamboo pyre
CHORUS
I dream of Amlapura
Never saw in all my life a more shining
jewel
I dream of Amlapura
Of an ocean or dream of a princess in
stone
Hey-hey golden roses around
A rajah's mouth
Hey-hey all the dead children buried
standing
A flying Dutchman
Smoking gun and spice wind
CHORUS
I dream of Amlapura
Of a princess in stone
Hey-hey it's a tall ship
Hey-hey
Hey-hey
Amlapura
Betty Wrong (Bowie, Gabrels) - 3:48
Till the sun blisters and sprays
And every lamb ceases to graze
When the kiss of the comb
Tears my face from the bone
I'll be your light
When the shadows fall down the wall
Then life will be done
And it just won't matter at all
I was carved from a hand
Nurtured on grime, goodwill and screams
Now your breath fills my step
Now there is you till life is gone
I'll roll your ball
Till the stars can't make me cry
Then life will be done
And it just won't matter at all
Not at all
When the kiss of the comb
Tears my face
You Can't Talk (Bowie, Gabrels, Sales, Sales) - 3:09
Beauty shrieks "Beast in booties"
Coming home so lay the table
Look at you calling shots
Call you over under out
I was under, backwards, forwards
Holding hands in the dark
Kissing some, kissing cousins
Kissing this
You can't talk
You can't see me drowning
You can't talk
I don't see you swimming
You can't talk
You want go your way
You can't talk
I know you don't blow me
Look at us heart's a poppin'
Guess it's over
Crazy action mine's a breakin'
Guess it's over
(Here we go)
You can't talk
You can't see me drowning
You can't talk
I don't see you swimming
You can't talk
You want go your way
You can't talk
I know you don't blow me
Beauty shrieks 'Beast in booties'
Coming home so lay the table
Look at you calling shots
Call you over under out
You can't talk
You can't see me drowning
You can't talk
I don't see you swimming
You can't talk
You want go your way
You can't talk
I know you don't blow me
Stateside (Bowie, Hunt Sales) - 5:38
I'm goin' home
I've been gone much too long
She said she missed me
Since I been gone
I'll be back soon
Ain't no doubt
'Cause she said she wanted my lovin', my
lovin'
CHORUS (twice)
No holding back I'm going home
No holding back I'm going home
I'm going stateside with my convictions
I said I'm coming home soon
I don't know when
It will be sometime soon
Sooner than
I thought I'd be
I thought I'd be
I thought I'd be stateside sooner than later
Marilyn inflatables home on the range
Where the living is easy on a horse with no
name
Kennedy convertibles home on the range
Where the suffering comes easy on a
blonde with no brain
I'm going stateside
I'm going stateside
I'm going home
It's been so long
She said she missed me
And all the fun we've had
I think it be the best way
She said she missed me in every way
CHORUS (twice)
I've been gone so long
I've been gone so long
I'm missing you
Marilyn inflatables home on the range
Where the living is easy on a horse with no
name
Kennedy convertibles home on the range
Where the suffering comes easy on a ten
dollar raise
I'm going stateside
I'm going stateside
Shopping for Girls (Bowie, Gabrels) - 3:44
Between the dead ring ash of extreme
defense
The lonely groups of company boys
Snapping pictures of scrawny limbs and
toothy grins
These are children riding naked on their
tourist pals
While the hollows that pass for eyes swell
from withdrawal
And he lies on a mattress in a rat infested
room
Talking 'bout his family and the cold back
home
CHORUS
Between the dull cold eyes and the mind
unstable
No one over here reads the papers pal
Between the dull cold eyes and the mind
unstable
He's a clean trick and he's shopping for
girls
A small black someone jumps over the
crazy white guard
Cranking up the volume of a Michael
Jackson song
CHORUS
A Big Hurt (Bowie) - 3:40
To meet her once just to know it through
and through
I know, I know
But it ain't finished till the fat lady sings
I know, I know
How can I help you?
You're just a wanna-be
I'm a believer
You're a sex receiver
And me with a big hurt
You know I had a big hurt
From the very start
I'm hurting so bad
'Cause you're my roommate from hell
CHORUS
Got to take some blows on the stepping
stones
Speak in extremes
It'll save you time
You were a saint abroad
But a devil at home
Come on here, woo-woo
And kiss it for me
To meet her once just to know it through
and through
I know, I know
Even a glass eye in a duck's ass can see
that
I know, I know
I'm hurting so bad
And here come the indians oooo
CHORUS
Sorry (Sales) - 3:39
Time is tight love always gets in the way
I'm sorry
Didn't mean to hurt you but I always do
I'm sorry
I'm so sorry
I'm so sorry
I'm sorry
You know I am
Well my eyes are pinned and my money's spent
I'm sorry
You know I'm sorry
I wouldn't do for me what I would for for you
Would you forgive me
I'm sorry
I'm so sorry
I guess I've thrown it away
I've thrown it away
Didn't mean to do it that way
I'm sorry
Time is so tight
And I mean it if I say
I'm so sorry
I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sor-rrr-ry
You know I am
Goodbye Mr. Ed (Bowie, Sales, Sales) - 3:24
The ghost of Manhattoes
Shrieking as they fall
From AT&T
Someone sees it all - Goodbye Mr. Ed
Andy's skull enshrined
In a shopping mall near Queens
Someone sees it all
Icarus takes his pratfall
Bruegel on his head
Goodbye Mr. Ed
Four and twenty black kids
Some of them are blind
Someone sees it all
Tolerance of violence
By the fellows with no heads
Goodbye Mr. Ed
CHORUS (twice)
Some things are so big
They make no sense
Histories so small
People are so dense
Someone sees it all
Goodbye Mr. Ed
Never mind the Pistols
They laid the Golem eggs
Others came to hatch them
Outside the pale
Someone sees it all
Goodbye Mr. Ed
Hammerhead (Bowie, Hunt Sales) - 0:57
I should never call her
Heartbreakers, never kill
But she's been New Zealand on another trip
Have you felt like Dixon
And ray, and Ali
Hit me
Hit me baby
On the camera
Take me in
I'm going down
Hit me baby
You win
Your the very tough with a long past
Your a hammerhead
Sweet thing
Goldwyn drive
Keep it all stuck on here
She's all black or white
Don't tell her where I'm livin'
Hit me
Hit me baby
She got me ruined
She's a bore
She fell apart
Oh, oh, ooh
She's so fabulous
Just like Cher
It was life at the top
You would be I
She's a hammerhead
Sweet thing
She's a hammerhead
I mention her hammerhead
Oh, oh, ooh
Hit me
Hit me baby
She's a hammerhead
Sweet thing
Hit me
Hit me baby
Drop my folly into the night
Enter the dragon
Oh, oh, ooh
She's so fabulous
Just like Cher
It was life at the top
It would be I
She's a hammerhead
Sweet thing
She's a hammerhead
Mention her hammerhead
Oh, oh, ooh