Seven

David Bowie

I forgot what my father said

I forgot what he said

I forgot what my mother said

as we layed upon your bed

A city full of flowers

a city full of rain

I got seven days to live my life

or seven ways to die

I forgot what my brother said

I forgot what he said

I don't regret anything at all

I remember how he wept

On a bridge of violent people

I was small enough to cry

I got seven days to live my life

or seven ways to die

Hold my face before you

still my trembling heart

Seven days to live my life

or seven ways to die

The Gods forgot they've made me

so I forgot them to

I listen to the shadows

I play among their graves

My heart is never broken

my patience never tried

I got seven days to live my life

or seven ways to die

Seven days to live my life

or seven ways to die

The man...

of your dreams

David Bowie

Always Crashing

in the Same Car

David Bowie

Every chance,

every chance that I take

I take it on the road

Those kilometres and the red lights

I was always looking left and right

Oh, but I'm always crashing

in the same car

Jasmine, I saw you peeping

As I pushed my foot down to the floor

I was going round and round the hotel garage

Must have been touching close to 94

Oh, but I'm always crashing

in the same car

Better take..........

care.....

Never Get Old

David Bowie

Better take care

Think I better go, better get a room

Better take care of me

Again and again

I think about this and I think about personal history

Better take care

I breathe so deep when the movie gets real

When the star turns round

Again and again

He looks me in the eye says he's got his mind on a countdown 3-2-1

Forever

I'm screaming that I'm gonna be living on till the end of time

Forever

The sky splits open to a dull red skull

My head hangs low 'cause it's all over now

And there's never gonna be enough money

And there's never gonna be enough drugs

And I'm never ever gonna get old

There's never gonna be enough bullets

There's never gonna be enough sex

And I'm never ever gonna get old

So I'm never ever gonna get high

And I'm never ever gonna get low

And I'm never ever gonna get old

Better take care

The moon flows on to the edges of the world because of you

Again and again

And I'm awake in an age of light living it because of you

Better take care

I'm looking at the future solid as a rock because of you

Again and again

Wanna be here and I wanna be there

Living just like you, living just like me

Forever

Putting on my gloves and bury my bones in the marshland

Forever

Think about my soul but I don't need a thing just the ring of the bell in the pure clean air

And I'm running down the street of life

And I'm never gonna let you die

And I'm never ever gonna get old

And I'm never ever gonna get

I'm never ever gonna get

I'm never ever gonna get old

And I'm never ever gonna get

And I'm never ever gonna get

Never ever gonna get old

Word...

on a Wing

David Bowie

In this age of grand illusion you walked into my life out of my dreams

I don’t need another change, still you forced away into my scheme of things

You say we’re growing, growing heart and soul

In this age of grand illusion you walked into my life out of my dreams

Sweet name, you’re born once again for me

Sweet name, you’re born once again for me

Oh sweet name, I call you again, you’re born once again for me

Just because I believe don’t mean I don’t think as well

Don’t have to question everything in heaven or hell

Lord, I kneel and offer you my word on a wing

And I’m trying hard to fit among your scheme of things

It’s safer than a strange land, but I still care for myself

And I don’t stand in my own light

Lord, lord, my prayer flies like a word on a wing

My prayer flies like a word on a wing

Does my prayer fit in with your scheme of things?

In this age of grand illusion you walked into my life out of my dreams

Sweet name, you’re born once again for me

Just as long as I can see, I’ll never stop this vision flowing

I look twice and you’re still flowing

Just as long as I can walk

I’ll walk beside you, I’m alive in you

Sweet name, you’re born once again for me

And I’m ready to shape the scheme of things

Ooh, ready to shape the scheme of things

Ooh, ready to shape the scheme of things

Ooh, ready to shape the scheme of things

Ooh, ready to shape the scheme of things

Ooh, ready to shape the scheme of things

Ooh...

Lord, I kneel and offer you my word on a wing

And I’m trying hard to fit among your scheme of things

It’s safer than a strange land, but I still care for myself

And I don’t stand in my own light

Lord, lord, my prayer flies like a word on a wing

And I’m trying hard to fit among your scheme of things

It’s safer than a strange land, but I still care for myself

And I don’t stand in my own light

Lord, lord, my prayer flies like a word on a wing

My prayer flies like a word on a wing

Does my prayer fit in with your scheme of things?

Tutto il mondo....

è paese.....

China Girl

David Bowie

I could escape this feeling
with my China girl
I feel a wreck
without my little China girl
I hear her heart beating
loud as thunder
Saw they stars crashing

I'm a mess
without my little China girl
Wake up mornings where's my little China girl
I hear her heart's beating
loud as thunder
Saw they stars crashing down

I feel a-tragic
like I'm Marlon Brando
When I look at my china girl
I could pretend that nothing really meant too much
When I look at my China girl

I stumble into town just like a sacred cow
Visions of swasticas in my head
Plans for everyone
It's in the white of my eyes

My little China girl
You shouldn't mess with me
I'll ruin everything you are
I'll give you television
I'll give you eyes of blue
I'll give you man who wants to rule the world

And when I get excited
My little China girl says
Oh baby just you shut your mouth
She says … sh-sh-shhh

Life.....

On Mars?

David Bowie

It's a god-awful small affair

To the girl with the mousy hair

But her mummy is yelling "No"

And her daddy has told her to go

But her friend is nowhere to be seen

Now she walks

through her sunken dream

To the seat with the clearest view

And she's hooked to the silver screen

But the film is a saddening bore

For she's lived it

ten times or more

She could spit in the eyes of fools

As they ask her to focus on

Sailors fighting in the dance hall

Oh man!

Look at those cavemen go

It's the freakiest show

Take a look at the Lawman

Beating up the wrong guy

Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know

He's in the best selling show

Is there life on Mars?

It's on America's tortured brow

That Mickey Mouse

has grown up a cow

Now the workers

have struck for fame

'Cause Lennon's on sale again

See the mice in their million hordes

From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads

Rule Britannia is out of bounds

To my mother, my dog, and clowns

But the film is a saddening bore

'Cause I wrote it

ten times or more

It's about to be writ again

As I ask you to focus on

Sailors fighting in the dance hall

Oh man!

Look at those cavemen go

It's the freakiest show

Take a look at the Lawman

Beating up the wrong guy

Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know

He's in the best selling show

Is there life on Mars?

Assolutissimamente

Assoluti...
Absolute Beginners - David Bowie



I've nothing much to offer
There's nothing much to take
I'm an absolute beginner
And I'm absolutely sane
As long as we're together
The rest can go to hell
I absolutely love you
But we're absolute beginners
With eyes completely open
But nervous all the same

If our love song
Could fly over mountains
Could laugh at the ocean
Just like the films

Nothing much could happen
Nothing we can't shake
Oh we're absolute beginners
With nothing much at stake
As long as you're still smiling
There's nothing more I need
I absolutely love you
But we're absolute beginners
But if my love is your love
We're certain to succeed

If our love song
Could fly over mountains
Sail over heartaches
Just like the films
There's no reason
To feel all the hard times
To lay down the hard lines
It's absolutely true

Equivoci

"Motel" Gino Bramieri




"Rebel Rebel" David Bowie




Got your mother in a whirl
She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl
Wey babe your hair's alright
Hey baby let's go out tonight
You like me and I like it all
We like dancing and we look divine
You love bands when they play it loud
You want more and you want it fast
Put you down and say I'm wrong
And put them on.

Rebel Rebel you've torn your dress
Rebel Rebel your face is a mess
Rebel Rebel how could they know
Hot tramp I love you so.

Got your mother in a whirl
Cos she's no sure if you're a boy or a girl
Hey babe your hair's alright . . .

Rebel Rebel you've torn your dress . . .

You've torn your dress your face is a mess
You can't get enough but it don't fake the test
Transmission and a live wire you got
Your cue lines and a handful of ludes you wanna
But you love your dress your face is a mess
You're a juvenile success because your face is a mess
So how could they know
I said how could they know.


Tua madre ha una gran confusione in testa:
Non sa bene se sei un ragazzo o una ragazza.

Ehi, piccola, i tuoi capelli sono a posto;
Ehi, piccola, usciamo insieme stasera.
Io ti piaccio e a me piace tutto questo;
Ci piace ballare e siamo davvero divini.
Tu ami le band quando suonano duro,
Vuoi di più e lo vuoi in fretta.
Gli altri ti umiliano, dicono che io sbaglio;
Tu sguaiatamente li prendi in giro.

Ribelle ribelle, hai strappato il tuo vestito.
Ribelle ribelle, la tua faccia è un casino.
Ribelle ribelle, ma che ne sanno gli altri?
Calda vagabonda, mi piaci così!

A voi no?

Hai il vestito strappato, la tua faccia è un casino.
Non sei mai soddisfatta, ma l’eccesso è la tua regola.
Hai corrente e filo elettrico,
Hai il tuo bel seguito di gente e un po’ della tua roba
E ci tieni a far sapere che sei una dandy.
E adoro il tuo vestito!
Sei un giovane successo,
Perché la tua faccia è un casino.
Ma che ne possono sapere gli altri?!
Eh?! Che ne sanno gli altri?!

Allora che vuoi sapere, figlia di Calamity?
Dove vorresti andare?
Cosa posso fare per te? Sembra che anche tu fossi là,
Perché hai il vestito strappato
E la tua faccia è un casino.
Oh, la tua faccia è un casino!
Oh, oh, ma che ne possono sapere gli altri?
Eh eh, come possono sapere?

Orizzonti lontani

Chi c'è in ascolto Claudio Baglioni




accendi questa notte di cristalli liquidi
il cielo è un crocevia di mille brividi
di satelliti che tracciano segnali nitidi
che seguono la via di mondi ripidi
chissà se queste macchine che parlano per noi
ci riavvicinano o ci allontanano
quando sembra di sfiorarsi e invece in mezzo restano
dei ponti levatoi che non si abbassano mai
io non sono di qui
io son di passaggio
io sono in mezzo al mio viaggio
sono io che ti invio un messaggio
da maggio io vengo e vado dietro a un miraggio
di un domani che inganna da lontano
e porta me lontano da domani
e che mi stringe a sé
in questo tempo avvolto
chi c'è oltre me
chi c'è in ascolto
incontrami in questo spazio senza margine
nel fondo del display che fa da argine
a cento secoli volati via come vertigine
qualcuno schiacciò play e fu l'origine
chissà se il cosmo chiuso dentro le tre doppie vu
è verosimile o è un facsimile
quando sembra di viaggiare e invece resti immobile
tra i totem e i tabù dell'impossibile ma
io che mi muovo qui
io oltre frontiera
io solo in zona straniera
sono io fermo alla tastiera
ogni sera schermo di vita vera o chimera
di essere laggiù là dove non mi trovo
e non so più come trovare dove
adesso vivi tu
che forse sei in ascolto
io che parlo da qui
io passo attraverso
un blu sconosciuto e diverso
io non so più se vado verso
o all'inverso torno se è un sogno o è l'universo
che un insieme è di mille e mille soli
e gli altri e me che siamo soli insieme
per questo chiamo te
da un mondo capovolto
chi c'è oltre me
chi c'è in ascolto
chi c'è con me
chi c'è chi c'è in ascolto
non smettere di trasmettere



Changes David Bowie





I still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets
Every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste
was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the stranger)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the stranger)
Ch-ch-Changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can't trace time

I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence and
So the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware
of what they're going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the stranger)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't tell them to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the stranger)
Ch-ch-Changes
Where's your shame
You've left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you can't trace time

Strange fascination, fascinating me
Changes are taking the pace
I'm going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the stranger)
Ch-ch-Changes
Oh, look out you rock 'n rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the stranger)
Ch-ch-Changes
Pretty soon you're gonna get
a little older
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I said that time may change me
But I can't trace time


MUTAMENTI
(Bowie)


Non so ancora cosa stavo aspettando
E il mio tempo passava irruente
Un milione di vicoli ciechi
Ogni volta che pensavo di avercela fatta
Sembrava che il sapore
non fosse così dolce
mi sono voltato per guardarmi
ma non ho colto il minimo accenno
di come gli altri vedono uno che finge
sono troppo veloce per quella prova

M-m-m-m-mutamenti 1
(Girati e affronta lo straniero)
M-m-mutamenti
Non voglio essere più ricco
M-m-m-m-mutamenti
(Girati e affronta lo straniero)
M-m-mutamenti
Devo solo cambiare identità
Il tempo può cambiarmi
Ma io non posso inseguire il tempo.

Guardo i vortici che cambiano forma
Senza lasciare mai la corrente
Di calda precarietà e
Così i giorni scorrono attraverso i miei occhi
Ma sembrano sempre uguali
E questi bambini su cui sputi
Mentre cercano di cambiare il loro mondo
Sono immuni ai tuoi consigli
Sanno bene quello
a cui andranno incontro

M-m-m-m-mutamenti
(Girati e affronta lo straniero)
M-m-mutamenti
Non dire loro di crescere e di piantarla
M-m-m-m-mutamenti
(Girati e affronta lo straniero)
M-m-m-m-mutamenti
Dov'è la tua vergogna
Ci hai lasciati dentro fino al collo
Il tempo mi può cambiare
Ma tu non puoi inseguire il tempo.

Strano fascino che mi affascina
I mutamenti seguono
il mio ritmo

M-m-m-m-mutamenti
(Girati e affronta lo straniero)
M-m-mutamenti
Guardate fuori voi che ballate il Rock'n'Roll
M-m-m-m-mutamenti
(Girati e affronta lo straniero)
M-m-mutamenti
Molto presto sarai
un po' più vecchio
Il tempo può cambiarmi
Ma non riesco a inseguire il tempo
Ho detto che il tempo può cambiarmi
Ma non riesco a inseguire il tempo