my favorite lyrics of David Bowie
David Bowie (1967)
Uncle Arthur: "Uncle Arthur packed his bags and fled back to mother, all's forgiven, serving in the family shop, he gets his pocket money, he's well fed."
Sell Me A Coat: "And when she smiles, the ice forgets to melt away, not like before, her smile was warming yesterday."
Rubber Band: "In the '14-'18 war I went to sea, thought my Sunday love was waiting home for me, and now she's married to the leader of the band. Oh, I hope you break your baton."
Love You Till Tuesday: "If you lie beneath my shade, I'll keep you nice and cool."
There Is A Happy Land: "Tony climbed a tree and fell, trying hard to touch the sky."
We Are Hungry Men: "We are hungry men, we don't give a damn for what you're saying. We're here to eat you."
When I Live My Dream: "Wish again, and you will stand before me while the sky will paint an overture and trees will play the rhythm of my dream."
Come And Buy My Toys: "You've watched your father plough the fields with a ram's horn, sowed it wide with peppercorn and furrowed with a bramble thorn, reaped it with a sharpened scyth, threashed it with a quill."
Join The Gang: "You won't be alone, we've all got beery grins. It's a big illusion but at least you're in."
She's Got Medals: "People say that when the moon is full and all the stars have gone to bed, you can see her ghost but that's a lie because the naughty woman isn't dead."
Maid Of Bond Street: "This girl, her world is made of flashlights and films, her cares are scraps on the cutting room floor."
Please Mr. Gravedigger: "I've started digging holes myself, and this one here's for you."
David Bowie (1969)
Space Oddity: "Here am I floating round my tin can far above the Moon, planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do."
Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed: "I'm the cream of the great utopia dream and you're the gleam in the depths of your banker's spleen."
Letter to Hermione: "And when he's strong, he's strong for you. And when you kiss, it's something new."
Cygnet Committee: "We broke the ruptured structure built of age, our weapons were the tongues of crying rage. Where money stood, we planted seeds of rebirth."
Janine: "For you're a lazy stream in which my thoughts would drown.
An Occasional Dream: In my madness I see your face in mine. I keep a photograph, it burns my wall with time."
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud: "And the day will end for some as the night begins for one."
God Knows I'm Good: "God knows I'm good, God may look the other way today."
Memory of a Free Festival: "Oh, to capture just one drop of all the ecstasy that swept that afternoon, to paint that love upon a white balloon and fly it from the toppest top of all the tops."
The Man Who Sold The World (1970)
The Width Of A Circle: "Then I ran across a monster who was sleeping by a tree, and I looked and frowned and the monster was me."
All The Madmen: "Here I stand, foot in hand, talking to my wall. I'm not quite right at all...am I?"
Black Country Rock: "Some say the view is crazy, but you may adopt another point of view. So if it's much too hazy, you can leave my friend and me with fond adieu."
After All: "Some people are marching together and some on their own, quite alone. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl."
Running Gun Blues: "It seems the peacefuls stopped the war, left generals squashed and stifled, but I'll slip out again tonight cause they haven't taken back my rifle, for I promote oblivion and I'll plug a few civilians."
Saviour Machine: "I need you flying, and I'll show that dying is living beyond reason, sacred dimension of time. I perceive every sign, I can steal every mind."
She Shook Me Cold: "I'll give my love in vain, to reach that peak again."
The Man Who Sold The World: "He said I was his friend which came as some surprise. I spoke into his eyes, I thought you died alone, a long long time ago."
The Supermen: "Where sad-eyed mermen tossed in slumbers, nightmare dreams no mortal mind could hold."
Hunky Dory (1971)
Changes: "Time may change me, but I can't trace time."
Oh! You Pretty Things: "I look out my window and what do I see, a crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me, All the nightmares came today and it looks as though they're here to stay."
Eight Line Poem: "The tactful cactus by your window surveys the prairie of your room."
Life on Mars?: "And she's hooked to the silver screen, but the film is a saddening bore for she's lived it ten times or more."
Kooks: "And if the homework brings you down, then we'll throw it on the fire and take the car downtown."
Quicksand: "Can't take my eyes from the great salvation of bullshit faith."
Fill Your Heart: "Gentleness clears the soul, love cleans the mind and makes it free."
Andy Warhol: "Put a peephole in my brain, two new pence to have a go, like to be a gallery, put you all inside my show."
Song for Bob Dylan: "Oh, hear this, Robert Zimmer. I wrote a song for you about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue."
Queen Bitch: "She's so swishy in her satin and tat in her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat. Oh God, I could do better than that."
The Bewlay Brothers: "I was stone and he was wax so he could scream and still relax, unbelievable."
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust (1972)
Five Years: “A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and a queer threw up at the sight of that.”
Soul Love: “Love descends on those defenseless.”
Moonage Daydream: “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 yeah!”
Starman: “There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us but he thinks he'd blow our minds.”
It Ain't Easy: “It ain't easy to get to heaven when you're going down.”
Lady Stardust: “Lady stardust sang his songs of darkness and dismay.”
Star: “I could fall in love all right as a rock & roll star.”
Hang On To Yourself: “She wants my honey not my money, she's a funky-thigh collector layin' on 'lectric dreams.”
Ziggy Stardust: “Making love with his ego, Ziggy sucked up into his mind like a leper messiah.”
Suffragette City: “This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.”
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.”
Alladin Sane (1973)
Watch That Man: "He talks like a jerk but he could eat you with a fork and spoon."
Aladdin Sane: "Watching him dash away, swinging an old bouquet, dead roses."
Drive in Saturday: "Don't forget to turn on the light. Don't laugh babe, it'll be alright."
Panic in Detroit: "He looked a lot like Che Guevara, drove a diesel van, kept his gun in quiet seclusion, such a humble man."
Cracked Actor: "I've come on a few years from my Hollywood highs, the best of the last, the cleanest star they ever had."
Time: "You are not a victim, you just scream with boredom."
The Prettiest Star: "One day, though it might as well be someday, you and I will rise up all the way, all because of what you are, the prettiest star."
Let’s Spend the Night Together: "I feel so strong that I can't disguise, oh my."
The Jean Genie: "Sits like a man but he smiles like a reptile."
Lady Grinning Soul: "She will be your living end."
Pin Ups (1973)
Rosalyn: "Treat me as sure as sin."
Here Comes The Night: "Oh she's with him. they're turning down the lights. Now he's holding her the way I used to do. I can see her closing her eyes and telling him lies, exactly like she told me too."
I Wish You Would: "Come back baby, give me one more chance. You know I still love you, gonna give you romance."
See Emily Play: "Put on a gown that touches the ground, float on a river for ever and ever, Emily."
Everything's Alright: "Let me hold your hand and be your loving man."
I Can't Explain: "Dizzy in the head, and I'm feeling blue. Things you say, well maybe they're true."
Friday On My Mind: "There is nothing else that bugs me more than working for the rich man. Hey, I'll change that scene one day."
Sorrow: "You never do what you know you ought to. Something tells me you're a devil's daughter."
Don't Bring Me Down: "I'm on my own, nowhere to roam. I tell you baby, don't want no home."
Shapes Of Things: "Soon I hope that I will find a seed within my mind that won't disgrace my kind."
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere: "Nothing gets in my way, not even locked doors. Don't follow the lines that been laid before."
Where Have All The Good Times Gone: "Yesterday was such an easy game for you to play, but let's face it, things are so much easier today. Guess you need some bringing down."
Diamond Dogs (1974)
Future Legend: "Fleas the size of rats sucked on rats the size of cats."
Diamond Dogs: "The diamond dogs are poachers and they hide behind trees, hunt you to the ground they will, mannequins with kill appeal."
Sweet Thing: "I'm glad that you're older than me, makes me feel important and free."
Candidate: "I'm having so much fun with the poisonous people, spreading rumours and lies and stories they made up. Some make you sing and some make you scream, one makes you wish that you'd never been seen."
Sweet Thing: "Is it nice in your snow storm, freezing your brain?"
Rebel Rebel: "You've got your mother in a whirl, she's not sure if you're a boy or a girl."
Rock 'N' Roll With Me: "Oh, when you rock 'n' roll with me, there's no one else I'd rather be."
We Are The Dead: "Now I'm hoping some one will care, living on the breath of a hope to be shared, trusting on the sons of our love that someone will care, someone will care."
1984: "The times they are a-telling, and the changing isn't free. You've read it in the tea leaves, and the tracks are on TV."
Big Brother: "He'll build a glass asylum with just a hint of mayhem. He'll build a better whirlpool, we'll be living from sin, then we can really begin."
Chant of the Ever-Circling Skeletal Family: "Shake it up, move it up."
Young Americans (1975)
Young Americans: "Ain't there one damn song that can make me break down and cry?"
Win: "Someone like you should not be allowed to start any fires."
Fascination: "Your soul is calling like when I'm walking, seems that everywhere I turn I hope you're waiting for me."
Right: "Taking it all the right way, never no turning back."
Somebody Up There Likes Me: "He's got his eye on your soul, his hand on your heart."
Across The Universe "Limitless undying love, which shines around me like a million suns, it calls me on and on and on."
Can You Hear Me: "I want love so badly, I want you most of all."
Fame: Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame that burns your change to keep you insane."
Station To Station (1976)
Station To Station: "Here am I, flashing no colour, tall in this room overlooking the ocean."
Golden Years: "Look at that sky, life's begun. Nights are warm and the days are young."
Word On A Wing: "In this age of grand illusion, you walked into my life, out of my dreams. Sweet name, you're born once again for me."
TVC15: "Up every evening about half eight or nine, I give my complete attention to a very good friend of mine.:
Stay: "Heartwrecker, heartwrecker, make me delight."
Wild Is The Wind: "You touch me, I hear the sound of mandolins. You kiss me, with your kiss my life begins. You're spring to me, all things to me. Don't you know, you're life itself!"
Low (1977)
Speed of Life: (Instrumental)
Breaking Glass: "Baby, I've been breaking glass in your room again. Listen, don't look at the carpet, I drew something awful on it."
What in the World: "I'm in the mood for your love, for your love."
Sound and Vision: "Blue, blue, electric blue, that's the color of my room where I will live."
Always Crashing in the Same Car: "Jasmine, I saw you peeping as I pushed my foot down to the floor. I was just going round and round the hotel garage, must have been touching close to 94."
Be My Wife: "Please be mine, share my life. Stay with me, be my wife."
A New Career in a New Town: (Instrumental)
Warszawa: "Sula vie dilejo, solo vie milejo."
Art Decade: (Instrumental)
Weeping Wall: (Instrumental)
Subterraneans: "Share bride failing star."
Heroes (1977)
Beauty And The Beast: "I wanted to believe me, I wanted to be good, I wanted no distractions like every good boy should."
Joe The Lion: "You will be like your dreams tonight."
Heroes: "I can remember standing by the wall, and the guns shot above our heads, and we kissed as though nothing could fall."
Sons Of The Silent Age: "Baby, I'll never let you go, all I see is all I know."
Blackout: "If you don't stay tonight I will take that plane tonight. I've nothing to lose, nothing to gain."
V-2 Schneider: "V-2 Schneider"
Sense Of Doubt: (Instrumental)
Moss Garden: (Instrumental)
Neuköln: (Instrumental)
The Secret Life Of Arabia: "I was running at the speed of life, through morning's thoughts and fantasies."
Lodger (1979)
Fantastic Voyage: "Dignity is valuable but our lives are valuable too."
African Night Flight: "Seems like another day I could fly into the eye of God on high."
Move On: "Somewhere there is a morning sky bluer than her eyes."
Yassassin: "I'm not a moody guy, I walk without a sound."
Red Sails: "Life stands still and stares."
DJ: "I am a D.J., I am what I play. I've got believers, believing in me."
Look Back in Anger: "'You know who I am' he said. The speaker was an angel, he coughed and shook his crumpled wings, closed his eyes and moved his lips, 'it's time we should be going.'"
Boys Keep Swinging: "Uncage the colours, unfurl the flag, luck just kissed you hello."
Repetition: "And he looks straight through you when you ask him how the kids are."
Red Money: "Can you see it in the sky that the landscape is too high? Like a nervous disease, it will tumble from the sky."
Scary Monsters (1980)
It’s No Game (Part 1): "Draw the blinds on yesterday and it's all so much scarier. Put a bullet in my brain and it makes all the papers."
Up the Hill Backwards: "While we sleep, they go to work. We're legally crippled, it's the death of love."
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps): "She asked me to stay and I stole her room, she asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind."
Ashes to Ashes: "Ashes to ashes, funk to funky, we know Major Tom's a junkie, strung out in heaven's high, hitting an all-time low."
Fashion: We are the goon squad and we're coming to town."
Teenage Wildlife: "You fall to the ground like a leaf from the tree and look up one time at that vast blue sky, scream out aloud as they shoot you down."
Scream Like a Baby: "He was thrown into the wagon, blindfolded, chains and they stomped on us and took away our clothes and things, and pumped us full of strange drugs."
Kingdom Come: "Sun keeps beating down on me, wall's a mile high, up in the tower they're watching me, hoping I'm going to die."
Because You’re Young: "And it makes me sad so I'll dance my life away, a million dreams, a million scars."
It’s No Game (Part 2): "People have their fingers broken to be insulted by these fascists, it's so degrading."
Lets Dance (1983)
Modern Love: "There's no sign of life, it's just the power to charm."
China Girl: "I'll give you television, I'll give you eyes of blue, I'll give you a man who wants to rule the world."
Let’s Dance: "If you say run, I'll run with you, and if you say hide, we'll hide. Because my love for you would break my heart in two if you should fall into my arms and tremble like a flower."
Without You: "There's no smoke without fire, you're exactly who I want to be with."
Ricochet: "March of flowers, march of dimes, these are the prisons, these are the crimes."
Criminal World: "The only thing that she enjoys is a criminal world where the girls are like baby-faced boys."
Cat People (Putting Out Fire): "And I’ve been putting out fire with gasoline."
Shake It: "I could take you to heaven, I could spin you to hell, but I'll take you to New York. It's the place that I know well."
Tonight (1984)
Loving The Alien: "Watching them come and go, tomorrows and the yesterdays."
Don’t Look Down: "I went this morning to the cemetery to see old Rudy Valentino buried, lipstick traces on his name."
God Only Knows: "I may not always love you but as long as there are stars above you, you'll never need to doubt it. I'll make you so sure about it."
Tonight: "I will love you till I die, I will see you in the sky tonight."
Neighborhood Threat: "Look at his eyes, did you see his crazy eyes?"
Blue Jean: "She got Latin roots, she got everything."
Tumble and Twirl: "When the road is mud, everything stops with a thud. That's the way it goes way down yonder in Borneo."
I Keep Forgetting: But these stupid old feet just head for your street like they've done so many times before, and this stubborn old fist on the end of my wrist keeps a knocking on your front door."
Dancing with the Big Boys: "Where there's trouble, there's poetry."
Never Let Me Down (1987)
Day In, Day Out: "She's hanging on his arms like a cheap suit."
Time Will Crawl: "I got a bad migraine that lasted three long years, and the pills that I took made my fingers disappear."
Beat of Your Drum: "Disco brat, follow the pack."
Never Let Me Down: "When I needed soul revival I called your name."
Zeroes: "Something good is happening and I don't know what it is."
Glass Spider: "Somewhere she glows divine, somewhere she wakes alone."
Shining Star (Makin’ My Love): "I could be your great misfortune, I can make you happy every day of your life."
New York’s in Love: "New York's in love with her big green eyes and her long blonde hair."
’87 and Cry: "Nothing looked good on you, that's how I liked you best."
Too Dizzy: "There's too much talking for a night drive, too much mist in front of my eyes. I'm trying not to lose control."
Bang Bang: "Rockets shooting up into space, buildings they rise to the skies."
Tin Machine's Tin Machine (1989)
Heaven’s in Here: "You'll dance to my tongue, we'll dance on the sun. We're the twilight and stars."
Tin Machine: "I'm neither red nor black nor white, I'm grey and blown to hell."
Prisoner of Love: "I've seen the best minds of my generation laid out in cemeteries and crematories, just take care."
Crack City: "Piss on the icon monsters whose guitars bequeath you pain, they'll face you down to their level with their addictions and their fast lanes."
I Can’t Read: "I can't read shit anymore, I just sit back and ignore, I just can't get it right."
Under the God: "Fascist flare is fashion cool. Well, you're dead - you just ain't buried."
Amazing: "Life's still a dream, your love's amazing. Since I found you, my life's amazing."
Working Class Hero: "As soon as you're born they make you feel small by giving you no time instead of it all."
Bus Stop: "I'm not sayin' that I don't believe you but are you sure that it really was him?"
Pretty Thing: "Think about the good things, think about the bad things, think about a reason to see you tonight."
Video Crime: "Trash Time Bundy, Death Row Chic, haunt this street from half past ten."
Run: "Wish I were a sailor crossing an azure sea under leaden skies, under your eyes."
Sacrifice Yourself: "God's the one we pick to curse us."
Baby Can Dance: "I'm the shadow man, the jumping jack, the man who can and don't look back."
Tin Machine's Tin Machine II (1991)
Baby Universal: "Failures as fathers, Mothers to chaos."
One Shot: "Hot love is the dearest, no money can buy. She burnt like a spitfire, one shot put her away."
You Belong In Rock & Roll: "Hand in hand in love with love, I love the cheap things that you say."
If There Is Something: "I will put roses around your door, sit in the garden,growing potatoes by the score."
Amlapura: "I would burn you if you should die, I would burn too, if you should lie upon that bamboo pyre."
Betty Wrong: "I'll be your light when the shadows fall down the walls."
You Can’t Talk: "I was under, backwards, forwards."
Stateside: "Home on the range where the living is easy on a horse with no name."
Shopping for Girls: "You gaze down into her eyes for a million miles, you wanna give her a name and a clean rag doll."
A Big Hurt: "I'm hurting so bad because you're my room-mate from hell."
Sorry: "Didn't mean to hurt you but I always do. I'm sorry."
Goodbye Mr. Ed: "Some things are so big, they make no sense. Histories so small."
Hammerhead: "She's so fabulous just like Cher."
Black Tie White Noise (1993)
The Wedding: (instrumental)
You’ve Been Around: "It's too many lonely nights, I can't tell bad from wrong."
I Feel Free: "Dance floor is like the sea, the ceiling is the sky. You're the sun, and as you shine on me."
Black Tie White Noise: "Putting on the black tie, cranking out the white noise."
Jump They Say: "They say he has no eyes, they say he has no mouth."
Nite Flights: "Be my love, we will be gods on nite flights with only one promise, only one way to fall."
Pallas Athena: "God is on top of it all."
Miracle Goodnight: "I wish I was a sailor, a thousand miles from here. I wished I had a future, anywhere."
Don’t Let Me Down & Down: "You jog-jog in my memory, you haunt in mind, not fade away."
Looking for Lester: (instrumental)
I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday: "You say that the day never arrives, and it seems so far away, but I know it's gonna happen someday, someday to you."
The Wedding Song: "I believe in magic, angel for life."
The Buddha of Suburbia (1993)
Buddha of Suburbia: "Full of blood, loving life and all it's got to give."
Sex and the Church: "Give me your freedom of spirit and the joys of the flesh."
South Horizon: (instrumental)
The Mysteries: (instrumental)
Bleed Like a Craze, Dad: "In the valley of the dead man walks, how they drank from the jazz."
Strangers When We Meet: "All my violence raining tears upon the sheets."
Dead Against It: "And when she's dreaming, I believe. And when she's reading, I retreat."
Untitled No. 1: "In mornings she's so regal that the valley sighs."
Ian Fish, U.K. Heir: (instrumental)
Outside (1995)
Leon Takes Us Outside: (instrumental)
Outside: "It's happening outside, the music is outside. It's happening."
The Hearts Filthy Lesson: "Paddy, will you carry me? I think I've lost my way."
A Small Plot of Land: "The brains talk but the will to live is dead, and prayer can't travel so far these days."
Segue - Baby Grace (A Horrid Cassette): "And now they just want me to be quiet and I think something is going to be horrid."
Hallo Spaceboy: "Spaceboy, you're sleepy now. Your silhouette is so stationary."
The Motel: "Explosion falls upon deaf ears while we're swimming in a sea of sham. Living in the shadow of vanity, a complex fashion for a simple man."
I Have Not Been to Oxford Town: "And the prison priests are decent, my attorney seems sincere. I fear my days are numbered, Lord get me out of here."
No Control: "If I can't control the web we weave, my life will be lost in falling leaves."
Segue - Algeria Touchshriek: "He's a broken man, I'm also a broken man. It would be nice to have company, we could have great conversations."
The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (as Beauty): "The screw is a tightening Atrocity."
Segue - Ramona A. Stone / I Am with Name: "I was an artiste in a tunnel, but I've been having a MIDI-life crisis and I've been dreaming of sleep."
Wishful Beginnings: "The pain must feel like snow."
We Prick You: "Flesh punks burning in their glue, revolution comes in the strangest way."
Segue - Nathan Adler (I): "She was, if you don't mind me saying so, an update demon."
I’m Deranged: "Thin skies, the man chains his hands held high."
Thru’ These Architect’s Eyes: "All the majesty of a city landscape, all the soaring days in our lives, all the concrete dreams."
Segue - Nathan Adler (II): "Ramona is so cold."
Earthling (1997)
Little Wonder: "Mars happy nation, sit on my karma. Dame meditation, take me away."
Looking for Satellites: "There's something in the sky, shining in the light, spinning and far away."
Battle for Britain (The Letter): "A loser I will be for I've never been a winner in my life."
Seven Years in Tibet: "So I drink in the shadows of an evening sky, see nothing at all."
Dead Man Walking: "Now I'm older than movies, let me dance away. Now I'm wiser than dreams, let me fly."
Telling Lies: "I'm your future, I am tomorrow, I am the end."
The Last Thing You Should Do: "Nobody laughs anymore."
I’m Afraid of Americans: "God is an American."
Law (Earthlings on Fire): "I don't want knowledge, I want certainty."
Hours (1999)
Thursday's Child: "Nothing prepared me for your smile, lighting the darkness of my soul."
Something in the Air: "Lived with the best times, left with the worst. Danced with you too long, nothing left to save."
Survive: "Give me wings, give me space, give me money for a change of face."
If I'm Dreaming My Life: "All the flowers so from the gallery, with the hymns of night singing 'Come to Me.'"
Seven: "I got seven days to live my life, or seven ways to die."
What's Really Happening?: "Hearts become outdated clocks, ticking in your mind."
The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell: "I am a drug, I am a dragon, I am the best jazz you've ever seen."
New Angels of Promise: "I am a blind man, she is my eyes."
Brilliant Adventure: (instrumental)
The Dreamers: "Raise their guns high as the darken falls, these are the days, boys."
Heathen (2002)
Sunday: "For in truth, it's the beginning of an end, and nothing has changed, everything has changed."
Cactus: "I miss your soup and I miss your bread."
Slip Away: "Watching all the world and war torn, how I wonder where you are."
Slow Burn: "And the walls shall have eyes, and the doors shall have ears. But we'll dance in the dark and they'll play with our lives."
Afraid: "I believe in Beatles, I believe my little soul has grown."
I've Been Waiting for You: "I've been looking for a woman to save my life."
I Would Be Your Slave: "Open up your heart to me, show me who you are."
I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship (Legendary Stardust Cowboy): "Moon shining down on some little town, and with each beam the same old dream."
5.15 the Angels Have Gone: "Cold station all of my life, forever I fear."
Everyone Says 'Hi': "Should've took a picture, something I could keep. Buy a little frame, something cheap for you."
A Better Future: "Give my children sunny smiles, give them warm and cloudless skies."
Heathen (The Rays): "Steel on the skyline, sky made of glass. Made for a real world, all things must pass."
Reality (2003)
New Killer Star: "All my idiot questions, let's face the music and dance."
Pablo Picasso: "Well, the girls would turn the color of the avocado when he would drive down their street in his El Dorado."
Never Get Old: "I'm screaming that I'm gonna be living on till the end of time, forever."
The Loneliest Guy: "All the pages that have turned, all the errors left unlearned."
Looking for Water: "Don't know about you but my heart's not in it."
She'll Drive the Big Car: "He promised her a dream-life, he'd take her back to street-life."
Days: "In red-eyed pain I'm knocking on your door again. My crazy brain in tangles, pleading for your gentle voice."
Fall Dog Bombs the Moon: "I'm Goddamn rich, an exploding man."
Try Some, Buy Some: "Won't you try some. Baby, won't you buy some."
Reality: "Now my sight is failing in this twilight, now my death is more than just a sad song."
Bring Me the Disco King: "Don't let me know when you're opening the door. Stab me in the dark, let me disappear."
Fly: "The television's on and I'm walking through the yard, the house is fast asleep and I'm crying in my car."
Queen of All the Tarts (Overture): "Queen of all the tarts."
The Next Day (2013)
The Next Day: "They live upon their feet and they die upon their knees, they can work with Satan while they dress like the saints."
Dirty Boys: "You got to learn to hold your tongue, this ain't the moon this is burning sun."
The Stars (Are Out Tonight): "They burn you with their radiant smiles, trap you with their beautiful eyes. They're broke and shamed or drunk or scared, but I hope they live forever."
Love Is Lost: "You know so much, it’s making you cry."
Where Are We Now?: "As long as there's me, as long as there's you."
Valentine’s Day: "It's in his tiny face, it's in his scrawny hand, Valentine knows it all."
If You Can See Me: "Children swarm like thousands of bugs towards the light."
I’d Rather Be High: "I’d rather be dead or out of my head than training these guns on those men in the sand."
Boss of Me: "Who'd have ever thought of it? Who'd have ever dreamed? That a small-town girl like you would be the boss of me?."
Dancing Out in Space: "Girl, you move like water. You’ve got stars upon your head."
How Does the Grass Grow?: "Would you still love me if the clocks could go backwards?"
(You Will) Set the World on Fire: "You’re in the boat babe, we're in the water."
You Feel So Lonely You Could Die: "You've got a dangerous heart. You stole their trust, their moon, their sun."
Heat: "I can only love you by hating him more."
Blackstar (2016)
★ (Blackstar): "Something happened on the day he died, spirit rose a metre and stepped aside. Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried I'm a blackstar."
’Tis a Pity She Was a Whore: "Man, she punched me like a dude."
Lazarus: "Oh, I'll be free, just like that bluebird."
Sue (Or in a Season of Crime): "Ride the train, I'm far from home, in a season of crime none need atone."
Girl Loves Me: "I'm cold to this pig and pug show, I'm sitting in the chestnut tree."
Dollar Days: "I’m dying to push their backs against the grain, and fool them all again and again."
I Can’t Give Everything Away: "Seeing more and feeling less, saying no but meaning yes."
Toy (2021)
I Dig Everything: "I've got more friends than I've had hot dinners, some of them are losers, but the rest of them are winners."
You’ve Got a Habit of Leaving: "You've got a habit of leaving me, you've got a habit of deserting me."
The London Boys: "You think you've had a lot of fun, but you ain't got nothing, you're on the run."
Karma Man: "From a hole in the tent where no one goes, a figure sitting cross-legged on the floor. He's clogged and clothed in saffron robes, his beads are all he owns."
Conversation Piece: "I'm a thinker, not a talker. I've no-one to talk to anyway."
Shadow Man: "Look in his eyes and see your reflection, look to the stars and see his eyes. He'll show you tomorrow, he'll show you the sorrow of what you did today."
Let Me Sleep Beside You: "I will show you a game where the winner never wins."
Hole In The Ground: "You can stay at home alone, don't even answer the phone. I will come when it's right and I won't stay all night."
Baby Loves That Way: "She clings around with all the boys, who treat her like unwanted toys."
Can’t Help Thinking About Me: "Remember when we used to go to church on Sundays? I lay awake at night, terrified of school on Mondays."
Silly Boy Blue: "Yak butter statues that melt in the sun cannot dissolve all the work you've not done."
Toy (Your Turn To Drive): "You're making my songs, you're making my heart. Your turn to drive."