Big Brother

Album: Diamond Dogs (1974)
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  • Don't talk of dust and roses
    Or should we powder our noses?
    Don't live for last year's capers
    Give me steel, give me steel, give me pulses unreal

    He'll build a glass asylum
    With just a hint of mayhem
    He'll build a better whirlpool
    We'll be living from sin, then we can really begin

    Please savior, savior, show us
    Hear me, I'm graphically yours

    Someone to claim us, someone to follow
    Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
    Someone to fool us, someone like you

    We want you Big Brother, Big Brother

    I know you think you're awful square
    But you made everyone and you've been every where
    Lord, I think you'd overdose if you knew what's going down

    Someone to claim us, someone to follow
    Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
    Someone to fool us, someone like you
    Someone to claim us, someone to follow
    Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
    Someone to fool, someone like you
    Someone to claim us, someone to follow
    Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
    Someone to fool, someone like you

    We want you Big Brother Writer/s: ADE SCHOLEFIELD, ANDY JONES, NEIL SPRAGG, ROB LLOYD
    Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC , Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, TINTORETTO MUSIC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • John from Boise, IdOne of my all time favorite Bowie songs. I only saw him perform it 'live' once, (despite seeing him live 7 times) and that was on the 'Glass Spider' tour, (although I did see him on that tour 3 times). Then when the dvd of that tour came out it was a great disappointment to me that he left it out!?. His performance of it on that tour was 'classic'. If we ever get to talk that will be the bone I will have to pick with him LOL.
  • Jack from Lodi, NjOne of my all time favorite Bowie songs. I only saw him perform it 'live' once, (despite seeing him live 7 times) and that was on the 'Glass Spider' tour, (although I did see him on that tour 3 times).

    Then when the dvd of that tour came out it was a great disappointment to me that he left it out!?.

    His performance of it on that tour was 'classic'.

    If we ever get to talk that will be the bone I will have to pick with him LOL.
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