Life on Mars    (video) (intro) (midi)

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1. It's a god-awful small affair to the girl with the mousy hair,

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but her mummy is yelling, "No" and her daddy has told her to go.

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But her friend is nowhere to be seen,

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now she walks through her sunken dream

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to the seat with the clearest view,

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and she's hooked to the silver screen.

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But the film is a saddening bore,

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for she's lived it ten times or more

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she could spit in the eyes of fools as they ask her to focus on …

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Sailors, fighting in the dance hall,

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Oh man! look at those cavemen go, it's a freakest show !

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Take a look at the lawman, beating up the wrong guy !

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Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know, he's in the best selling show.

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Is there life on Ma........................rs ?

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2. It's on America's tortured brow, Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow,

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now the workers have struck for fame ‘cause Lennon's on sale again.

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See the mice in their million hordes,

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from Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads,

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rule Britannia is out of bounds,

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to my mother, my dog and clowns.

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But the film is a saddening bore,

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`cause I wrote it ten times or more,

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it's about to be writ again, as I ask you to focus on ...

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Sailors, fighting in the dance hall,

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Oh man! look at those cavemen go, it's a freakest show !

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Take a look at the lawman, beating up the wrong guy !

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Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know, he's in the best selling show.

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Is there life on Ma........................rs ?

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(orig. = capo 3rd; video = capo 2nd) (David Bowie)