Ricochet [Bowie]

Like weeds on a rockface
Waiting for the scythe 
Ricochet
Ricochet

The world is on a corner
Waiting for jobs 
Ricochet
Ricochet

Turn the holy pictures
So they face the wall

(And who can bear to be forgotten?
And who can bear to be forgotten?)

March of flowers
March of dimes
These are the prisons
These are the crimes

(Men wait for news while thousands are still asleep
Dreaming of tramlines, factories, pieces of machinery, mine shafts, things like that)

March of flowers
March of dimes
These are the prisons
These are the crimes

Sound of thunder
Sound of gold
Sound of the Devil
Breaking parole

Ricochet, it's not the end of the world

Sound of thunder, sound of gold
Sound of the Devil breaking parole
Ricochet
Ricochet

These are the prisons, these are the crimes
Teaching life in a violent new way 
Ricochet
Ricochet

Turn the holy pictures
So they face the wall

(And who can bear to be forgotten?
And who can bear to be forgotten?)

March of flowers
March of dimes
These are the prisons
These are the crimes

(Early, before the sun, they struggle off to the gates
In their secret fearful places, they see their lives unravelling before them)

March of flowers
March of dimes
These are the prisons
These are the crimes

Sound of thunder
Sound of gold
Sound of the Devil
Breaking parole

Ricochet, it's not the end of the world

(That's when they get home damp-eyed and weary
They smile and crush their children to their heaving chests making unfulfillable promises

For who can bear to be forgotten?)
Album(s)
Let's Dance
Sound + Vision - [Reissued 2003 Virgin/EMI 4CD Box Set Release]
Single(s)
Video(s)
Tour(s)