Oh! You Pretty Things [live]
Recorded
Release history
Credits
- Originally performed by David Bowie
- Written by David Bowie, © Tintoretto Music (BMI)
- Produced and mixed by Kurt Bloch
- Recorded live in the studio at Avast!
- Engineered by Austin Sousa
Lyrics
Wake up you sleepyheads
Put on some clothes, shake up your beds
Put another log on the fire for me
I made some breakfast and coffeeI look out my window and what do I see?
A crack in the sky and a hand reaching down for me
All the nightmares came today
And looks as though they’re here to stayWhat are we coming to:
No room for me, no fun for you
I think about the days to come
Where the books were found by the golden oneWritten in pain, written in awe
By a troubled man who questioned what we’re here for
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though they’re here to stayOh, you pretty things, don’t you know
You’re driving your mamas and papas insane?
Oh, you pretty things, don’t you know
You’re driving your mamas and papas insane?
Let me make it plain
You gotta make way for the homo superiorLook at your children
See their faces in golden rays
Don’t kid yourself they belong to you
They’re the start of the coming raceThe earth is a bitch, we’ve finished our news
Homo sapiens have outgrown their use
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though they’re here to stayOh, you pretty things, don’t you know
You’re driving your mamas and papas insane?
Oh, you pretty things, don’t you know
You’re driving your mamas and papas insane?
Let me make it plain
You gotta make way for the homo superior