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Life on Mars - David Bowie

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It's a god-awful small affair
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To the girl with the mousy hair
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But her mummy is yelling "No"
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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
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As they ask her to focus on
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Sailors
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Oh man!

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fighting in the dance hall
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Look at those cavemen go
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It's the freakiest show
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Take a look at the Lawman
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Beating up the wrong guy
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F#mmaj7
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Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
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He's in the best selling show
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Is there life on Mars?
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D#maj7
It's on Amerikas tortured brow

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That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
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Now the workers have struck for fame
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'Cause Lennon's on sale again
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See the mice in their million hordes
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From Ibeza 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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B
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
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G#m
It's about to be writ again
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As I ask you to focus on
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Sailors
Fm
Oh man!

C#
fighting in the dance hall
F#mmaj7
D# D#m
Look at those cavemen go
A#m
C#m
It's the freakiest show
G#
Take a look at the Lawman
C#
Beating up the wrong guy
Fm
F#mmaj7
D#
D#m
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
A#m
C#m
He's in the best selling show
Gm2 Fm/E Fm/D# Fm/D
Is there life on Mars?

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