Life on Mars by David Bowie

David Bowie

Album
Hunky Dory
Released
1971

It's a god-awful small affair            [Verse]

To the girl with the mousy hair      B  D#m F#m G#7

But her mummy is yelling no          C#m E F#7 F#7

And her daddy has told her to go

But her friend is nowhere to be seen

Now she walks through her sunken dream  [Pre-

To the seat with the clearest view       Chorus]

And she's hooked to the silver screen    D  D

                                         Bm  C

But the film is a saddening bore         G  B7

(For she's lived it ten times or more    Em G7

 She could spit in the eyes of fools)

As (they ask her) to focus on           [Chorus]

                                   (E  A

Sailors fighting in the dance hall  C#m7 Am

Oh, man, look at those cavemen go   B   Bm

It's the freakiest show             F#m7 Am7 x2)

Take a look at the                  C#m7 C

Lawman beating up the wrong guy     E  F#

Oh, man, wonder if he'll ever know

He's in the best selling show           [Instru]

Is there life on Maaaaars          B  G#7 C#m   Bb7

                                   D#m E Em7 X

It's on America's tortured brow

That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow ╔═════════╗

Now the workers have struck for fame ║ Life on ║

'Cause Lennon's on sale again        ║  Mars?  ║

See the mice in their million hordes ║  David  ║

From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads     ║  Bowie  ║

Rule Britannia is out of bounds      ╚═════════╝

To my mother, my dog and clowns  [Pre-

                                  Chorus]

(Because I wrote it ten times or more     [Cho-

 It's about to be writ again) (I ask you)   rus]