1. Five Years
2. Soul Love
3. Moonage Daydream
4. Starman
5. It Ain't Easy
6. Lady Stardust
7. Star
8. Hang On To Yourself
9. Ziggy Stardust
10.   Suffragette City
11.   Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

    

Five Years

Pushing through the market square
So many mothers sighing
News had just come over
We had five years left to cry in
News guy wept when he told us
Earth was really dying
Cried so much that his face was wet
And I knew he was not lying

I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies
I saw toys, boys, electric irons, and TV's
My brain hurt like a warehouse
It had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people
And all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people
And all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many people

A girl my age went off her head
Hit some tiny children
If the black hadn't pulled her off
I think she would have killed them
A soldier with a broken arm
Fixed his stare to the wheels of a cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
And a queer threw up at the sight of that
I think I saw you in an ice cream parlor
Drinking milkshakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
Don't think you knew you were in this song
And it was cold, and it rained
And I felt like an actor
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk

We got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
Five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we got

Soul Love

Stone love, she kneels before the grave
A brave son, who gave his life to save
The slogan, that hovers 'tween the head stone and her eyes
For they penetrate her grieving

New love, a boy and girl are talking
New words, that only they can share
In new words, a love so stong it tears their heart to sleep
Through the fleeting hour of the morning

CHORUS:
Love is careless in it's choosing
Sweeping over, cross a baby
Love descends on those defenseless
Idiot love will spark the fusion
Inspiration, have I none
Just to touch the flaming dove
All I have is my love of love
And love is not loving

Soul love, the priest that tastes the word
And told of love and how my God on high
Is all love, though reaching up on my loneliness evolves
By the blindness that surrounds him

CHORUS

Moonage Daydream

I'm an alligator
I'm a momma-pappa comin' for you
I'm a space invader
I'll be a rock 'n' rollin' bitch for you
Keep your mouth shut
You're squakin' like a pink monkey bird
And I'm busting up my brains for the words

CHORUS:
Keep your electric eye on me babe
Put your ray gun to my head
Press your space face close to mine, love
Freak out on a moonage daydream, oh yeah

Don't fake it baby
Lay the real thing on me
The church of man, love
Is such a holy place to be
Make me baby
Make me know you really care
Make me jump into the air

CHORUS

Starman

Didn't know what time it was, the lights were low
I leaned back on my radio
Some cat was layin' down some rock 'n' roll
"Lotta soul" he said
Then the loud sound did seem to fade
Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase
That weren't no D.J., that was hazy cosmic jive

CHORUS:
There's a Starman waiting in the sky
He's like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a Starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
'Cause he knows it's all worth-while
He told me, let hte hcildren lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie

I had to phone someone so I picked on you
Hey, that's far out, so you heard him too
Switch on the T.V., we may pick him up on channel two
Look out your window, I can see his light
If we an sparkle, he may land tonight
Don't tell your poppa, or he'll get us locked up in firght

CHORUS

It Ain't Easy

When you climb to the top of the mountain
Look out ove rhte sea
Think about all the places perhaps where a young man could be
Then you jump back down to the rooftops
Look out over the town
Think about all of the stranges things circulating round

CHORUS:
It ain't easy, it ain't easy
It ain't easy to get your helping when you're going down

Well all the people have got their problems
That ain't nothing new
With the help of the good Lord we can all pull on through
We can all pull on through
Get there in the end
Sometimes it'll take you right up and sometimes down again

CHORUS

Satisfaction, satisfaction
Keep me satisfied
I've got the love of a Hoochie Coochie woman
She's calling from inside
She's a-calling from inside
Trying to get to you
All the woman really wants you can give her something too

Lady Stardust

People stared at the make up on his face
Laughed at his long black hair
His animal grace
The boy in the bright blue jeans
Jumped up on the stage
And Lady Stardust sang his songs of darkness and disgrace

CHORUS:
And he was alright, the band was altogether
And he was alright, the song went on forever
He was awful nice, really quite out of sight (Really quite paradise)
And he sang all night long

Femme fatales emerged from shadows
To watch this creature fair
Boys stood upon their chairs
To make their point of view
I smiled sadly for a love I could not obey
And Lady Stardust sang his songs of darkness and disgrace

CHORUS

Oh how I sighed when they asked if I knew his name

CHORUS

Star

Tony went to fight in Belfast
Rudy stayed at home to starve
I could make it all worth-while as a rock 'n' roll star
Bevan tried to change the nation
Sonny wants to change the world
Well, he can tell you he tried

CHORUS: (twice)
I could make a transformation as a rock 'n' roll star
So inviting, so inticing to play the part
I could make a wild mutation as a rock 'n' roll star
I could do with the money
I'm so wiped out with things as they are
I'll send a photograph to my honey
And I'll come on a regular superstar

I could fall asleep at night as a rock 'n' roll star
I could fall in love all right as a rock 'n' roll star

Hang On To Yourself

Well she's a tongue-twisting storm
And she'll come to the show tonight
Praying to the light machine
She wants my honey, no my money
She's a funky thigh collector
Laying on electric dreams

CHORUS:
So come on, come on, we really got a good thing going
Come on, come on, if you think we're gonna make it
You better hang on to yourself

We can't dance, we don't talk much
We just ball and play
But we move like tigers on vaseline
Well the bitter comes out better on a stolen guitar
You're the blessed, we're the spiders from Mars

CHORUS

Ziggy Stardust

Ziggy played guitar
Jamming good with Weird and Gilly
The Spiders from Mars
He played it left hand
But made it too far
Became the special man
Then we were Ziggy's band

Ziggy really sang
Screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo
Like some cat from Japan
He could lick 'em by smiling
He could leave 'em to hang
Came on so loaded, man
Well hung and snow-white tan

So where were the spiders
While the fly tried to break our balls
With just the beer light to guide us
So we bitched about his fans
And should we crush his sweet hands

Ziggy played for time
Jiving us that we were voo doo
the kids was just crass
He was the nazz
With God given ass
He took it all too far
But boy could he play guitar

Making love with his ego
Ziggy sucked up into his mind
Like a leper Messiah
When the kids had killed the man
I had to break up the band

Suffragette City

Hey man, oh leave me alone, you know
Hey man, oh Henry get off the phone, I gotta
Hye man, I gotta straighten my face
This mellow-thighed chick just put my spine out of place
Hey man, my school day's insane
Hey man, my work's down the drain
Hey man, well she's a total blam blam
She said she had to squeeze it
But she, and then she

CHORUS:
Oh don't, lean on me man
'Cause you can't afford the ticket
I'm back on Suffragette City
No don't lean on me man
'Cause you ain't got time to check it
You know my Suffragette City
Is outta sight, she's alright

Hey man, ah Henry don't be unkind, go away
Hey man, I can't take it this time, no way
Hey man, droogie don't crash here
There's only room for one
And here she comes, here she comes

CHORUS

Rock 'N' Roll Suicide

Time takes a cigarette
Puts it in your mouth
You pull on your finger
Then another finger
Then the cigarette
The wall to wall is calling
It lingers then you forget
Oh, you're a rock 'n' roll suicide

You're too old to lose it
Too young to choose it
And the clock waits so patiently on your song
You walk past the cafe
But you don't eat when you live too long
Oh, no, no, no you're a rock 'n' roll suicide

Chev breaks are snarling
As you stumble across the road
But the day breaks instead so you hurry home
Don't let the sun blast your shadow
Don't let the milk floats ride your mind
So natural, religiously unking

Oh no love, you're not alone
You're watching yourself but you're too unfair
You got your head all tangled up
But if I could only make you care
Oh no love, you're not alone
No matter what of who you've been
No matter when or where you've seen
All the knives seem to lacerate your brain
I've had my share, I'll help you with the pain

You're not alone
Just turn on to me
'Cause you're not alone
Let's turn and me and be
Not alone
Gimme your hands
'Cause you're wonderful
Gimme your hands
'Cause you're wonderful
Gimme your hands