1984/Dodo [Bowie]

Someday they won't let you, now you must agree
The times, they are a-telling and the changing isn't free
You've read it in the tea leaves, the tracks are on T.V.
Beware the savage jaw of 1984

They'll break your pretty cranium and fill it full of air
And tell you that you're eighty, but, lover, you won't care
You'll be shooting up as usual like tomorrow wasn't there
Beware the savage jaw of 1984

(Come see, come see, remember me?)
We played an all-night movie role
You said it would last, but I guess we enrolled
In 1984
(Who could ask for more?)
1984
(Who could ask for more?)

Now we can talk in confidence
Did you guess that we've been done wrong?
Lies jump in queue to be first in line
Such a shameless design

He thinks he's well-screened from the man at the top
It's a shame that his children disagree
They coolly decide to sell him down the line
Daddy's brainwashing time

He's a dodo
(Dodo)
No, no
(No, no)
Didn't hear it from me
(Didn't hear it from me)

He's a dodo
(Dodo)
No, no
(No, no)
Didn't hear it from me
(Didn't hear it from me)

She doesn't recall her blessed childhood of yore
When a unit was a figure, not a she
When lovers chose each other, seems the perks are due
Another memo to screw

She's a dodo
(Dodo)
No, no
(No, no)
Didn't hear it from me
(Didn't hear it from me)

Ah, she's a dodo
(Dodo)
No, no
(No, no)
Didn't hear it from me
(Didn't hear it from me)

Can you wipe your nose, my child
Without them slotting in your file a photograph?
Will you sleep in fear tonight
Wake to find the scorching light of neighbour Jim?

He's come to turn you in

Another dodo
(Dodo)
No, no
(No, no)
Didn't hear it from me
(Didn't hear it from me)

No, no, another dodo
(Dodo)
No, no
(No, no)
Didn't hear it from me
(Didn't hear it from me)

No, no, another dodo
(Dodo)
No, no
(No, no)
Didn't hear it from me
(Didn't hear it from me)

Come see, come see, remember me?
We played an all-night movie role
You said it would last, but I guess we enrolled
In 1984
(Who could ask for more?)
1984
(Who could ask for mor-or-or-or-ore?

Mor-or-or-or-ore)

1984
(Mor-or-or-or-ore)
1984
(Who could ask for more?)
1984
(Mor-or-or-or-ore)
1984
(Who could ask for more?)
1984
(Mor-or-or-or-ore)
1984
(Who could ask for more?)
1984
(Mor-or-or-or-ore)

Ooo
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Diamond Dogs - [Reissued 2004 EMI 30th Anniversary 2CD Ed. Release]
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