 Genius Lyrics
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David Bowie – Be My Wife [Welcome to the Blackout]
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[Verse] / Sometimes you get so lonely / Sometimes you get nowhere / I've lived all over the world / I've left every place / [Chorus] / Please be mine / Share my life / Stay with me
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David Bowie – Space Oddity
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‘Major Tom’ is a fictional character created by David Bowie for this song in 1969. That same year marked the first moon landing, so space was “in”; this was a year after Stanley
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David Bowie – Sound and Vision
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“Sound and Vision” is the most immediate reward on Low, more familiar in its funk stutter-steps and sultry crooning.
In an interview, Bowie went in depth on the meaning behind the
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David Bowie (Ft. Kristen Wiig) – Space Oddity-Mitty Mix
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Ground control to Major Tom / Ground control to Major Tom / Take your protein pills and put your helmet on / (Ten) Ground control (Nine) to major Tom (Eight) / (Seven, six
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David Bowie – Space Oddity (Live '74)
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[Instrumental intro] / [Verse 1] / Ground Control to Major Tom / Ground Control to Major Tom / Take your protein pills / And put your helmet on / Ground Control to Major Tom
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David Bowie – Space Oddity [Live Santa Monica '72]
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[Instrumental intro] / [Verse 1] / Ground Control to Major Tom / Ground Control to Major Tom / Take your protein pills / And put your helmet on / (10) Ground Control (9) to Major
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David Bowie – Space Oddity (2019 Mix)
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Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the album Space Oddity, producer Tony Visconti’s liner notes for the song, “Space Oddity”, blast- off,
“[In 1969] I couldn’t see the wood for
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David Bowie – Space Oddity (demo excerpt)
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[VERSE 1] / This is Major Tom to Ground Control / I’m stepping through the door / And I’m floating in the most peculiar way / Can I please get back inside now, if I may? / [HOOK
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David Bowie – Space Oddity (Live) [2023 Remaster]
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[Verse 1] / Ground Control to Major Tom / Ground Control to Major Tom / Take your protein pills and put your helmet on / (Ten) Ground Control (Nine) to Major Tom (Eight, seven) / (
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David Bowie – Space Oddity (1979 Version)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Ground Control to Major Tom / Ground Control to Major Tom / Take your protein pills and put your helmet on / (Ten) Ground Control (Nine) to Major
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David Bowie – Space Oddity (Live 1973)
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[Instrumental intro] / [Verse 1] / Ground Control to Major Tom / Ground Control to Major Tom / Take your protein pills / And put your helmet on / Ground Control to Major Tom
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UNKLE – Hold My Hand Samples
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See all of “Hold My Hand” by UNKLE’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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BATTS – Space Oddity (David Bowie Cover)
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[Verse 1] / Ground Control to Major Tom / Ground Control to Major Tom / Take your protein pills and put your helmet on / (Ten) Ground Control (Nine) to Major Tom (Eight, seven) / (
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David Bowie – Space Oddity [Bowie at the Beeb]
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[Instrumental intro] / [Verse 1] / Ground Control to Major Tom / Ground Control to Major Tom / Take your protein pills and put your helmet on / (Ten) Ground Control (Nine) to Major
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Davie Jones & The King Bees – Louie, Louie Go Home
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Well I, well I left my wife and child / (Louie, go back home) / Yeah, my conscience is about to drive me wild, yeah / (Louie, go back home) / A little voice inside my head goes on
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David Bowie (Ft. John Hutchinson) – Space Oddity (Clareville Grove Demo) [2019 Remaster]
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[Verse 1] / Ground Control to Major Tom / Ground Control to Major Tom / Take your protein pills / And put your helmet on / (Ten) Ground Control (Nine) to Major Tom (Eight) / (Seven
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David Bowie – Space Oddity (Live Friars, Aylesbury, 25th September, 1971)
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[Intro] / This is one of my own that we get over with as soon as possible / [Verse 1] / Ground Control to Major Tom / Ground Control to Major Tom / Take your protein pills and put
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Passenger – Space Oddity (Cover)
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"Ground Control to Major Tom / "Ground Control to Major Tom / Take your protein pills and put your helmet on" / "Ground Control to Major Tom / Commencing countdown, engines on
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David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes
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“Ashes to Ashes” is a follow up to “Space Oddity”, reinterpreting its iconic stranded spaceman Major Tom as a drug addict lost in the throes of substance abuse.
In addition to
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David Bowie – Blackout [Welcome to the Blackout]
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[Verse 1] / Oh you, you walk on past / Your lips cut a smile on your face / (Your scalding face) / To the cage, to the cage / She was a beauty in a cage / It's too, too high a
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David Bowie – Beauty and the Beast [Welcome to the Blackout]
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[Verse 1] / Weaving down a byroad / Singing the song / That's my kind of highroad / Gone wrong / [Chorus] / My-my, smile at least / You can't say no to the Beauty and the Beast / [
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David Bowie – Sound and Vision [Welcome to the Blackout]
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[Chorus] / Don't you wonder sometimes / 'Bout sound and vision? / [Verse] / Blue, blue, electric blue / That's the colour of my room / Where I will live / Blue, blue / Pale blinds
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David Bowie – Five Years
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Perhaps one of the best album openers of all time, “Five Years” crescendos beautifully. A sparse fade in introduces a few verses set to piano, chronicling the panic that
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Peter Schilling – Major Tom (Coming Home)
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[Verse 1] / Standing there alone / The ship is waiting / All systems are go / "Are you sure?" / Control is not convinced / But the computer / Has the evidence / No need to abort
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David Bowie – Space Oddity (demo - alternative lyrics)
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John Hutchinson: Nice, nice / David Bowie: Didn’t sound nice to me. Let’s remember to do that. Ok, Hutch / (Begins playing) / DB: Ope, hun. Yeah? / JH: What a single! / DB: We’re
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David Bowie – Fame [Welcome to the Blackout]
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[Verse 1] / Fame, (fame) makes a man take things over / Fame, (fame) lets him loose, hard to swallow / Fame, (fame) puts you there where things are hollow / Fame (fame) / [Chorus 1
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David Bowie – Changes (Live at the Elysée Montmartre, Paris on 14th October, 1999)
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[Intro] / Oh yeah / Oh yeah / Oh yeah / [Verse 1] / Still don't know what I was waiting for / Time was running wild, million dead-end streets and / Every time I thought I'd got it
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David Bowie – Space Oddity (Deram Version)
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[Instrumental intro] / [Verse 1] / Ground Control to Major Tom / Ground Control to Major Tom / Take your protein pills and put your helmet on / (Ten) Ground Control (Nine) to Major
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David Bowie – Soul Love [Welcome to the Blackout]
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[Verse 1] / Stone love - she kneels before the grave / A brave son - who gave his life / To save the slogan / That hovers between the headstone and her eyes / For they penetrate
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David Bowie – Sense of Doubt [Welcome to the Blackout]
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[instrumental]
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David Bowie – Warzsawa [Welcome to the Blackout]
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Sula vie dilejo / Sula vie milejo / Cheli venco deho / Cheli venco deho / Malio / Helibo seyoman / Cheli venco raero / Malio / Malio
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David Bowie – Art Decade [Welcome to the Blackout]
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[instrumental]
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David Bowie – Life on Mars?
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“Life on Mars?” is often considered one of the true masterpieces of the Bowie Canon. Originally released on the Hunky Dory album in 1971, it was made a single in 1973 during the
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David Bowie – Oh! You Pretty Things
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Written and recorded by Bowie as a demo, the song was first released by Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits fame. As a solo artist, it was Noone’s first album and first single
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David Bowie – Star [Welcome to the Blackout]
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[Verse 1] / Tony went to fight in Belfast / Rudi stayed at home to starve / I could make it all worthwhile as a rock & roll star / Bevan tried to change the nation / Sonny wants to
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David Bowie – Stay [Welcome to the Blackout]
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[Verse 1] / This week dragged past me so slowly / The days fell on their knees / Maybe I'll take something to help me / Hope someone takes after me / I guess there's always some
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David Bowie – TVC15 [Welcome to the Blackout]
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[Intro] / Oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh / Oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh / Oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh / [Verse 1] / Up every evening 'bout half eight or nine / I give my
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David Bowie – Hang on to Yourself [Welcome to the Blackout]
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[Verse 1] / Well, she's a tongue twisting storm / She'll come to the show tonight / Praying to the light machine / She wants my honey not my money / She's a funky-thigh collector
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