Teenage Wildlife - David Bowie

Well, how come you only want tomorrow

With its promise of something hard to do

A real life adventure

Worth more than pieces of gold

Blue skies above and sun on your arms

Strength in your stride and hope

In those squeaky clean eyes (squeaky clean eyes)

You’ll get chilly receptions everywhere you go

Blinded with desire

I guess the season is on

So you trade by shadow boxing and search for the truth

But it’s all, but it’s all used up

Break open your million dollar weapon and push your luck

Still you push, still you push your luck

A broken nosed mogul are you

One of the new wave boys

Same old thing in brand new drag

Comes sweeping into view, oh ooh

As ugly as a teenage millionaire

Pretending it’s a whiz kid world

You’ll take me aside

And say

«Well David, what shall I do?

They wait for me in the hallway»

I’ll say, «Don't ask me, I don’t know any hallways»

But they move in numbers and they’ve got me in a corner

And I feel like a group of one, no no

They can’t do this to me

I’m not some piece of teenage wildlife

Oh oh oh oh

(Oh I’m not some piece of teenage wildlife)

Those midwives to history put on their bloody robes

And the word is that the hunted one is out there on his own

And you’re alone

For maybe the last time

And you breathe for a long time

Then you howl like a wolf in a trap

And you daren’t look behind

You fall to the ground like a leaf from the tree

And look up one time at that vast blue sky

Scream out aloud as they shoot you down

No no, I’m not a piece of teenage wildlife

Oh oh oh oh I’m not a piece of teenage wildlife

Oh oh oh oh

(Oh I’m not a piece of teenage wildlife)

And no one will have seen and no one will confess

The fingerprints will prove that you couldn’t pass the test

There’ll be others on the line filing past who’ll whisper low

«I miss you, he really had to go»

Well each to his own, he was another piece of teenage wildlife

Oh oh oh oh, another piece of teenage wildlife

Oh oh oh oh, another piece of teenage wild

Wild

Wild

Wild

(Oh, another piece of teenage wildlife)

(Oh, another piece of teenage wildlife)

(Oh, another piece of teenage wildlife)

(Oh, another piece of teenage wildlife)

(Oh, another piece of teenage wildlife)

(Oh, another piece of teenage wildlife)