Life on Mars? Lyrics – David Bowie

Read the full Life on Mars? lyrics by David Bowie along with the music video, song credits, release information and other details about the song. If you enjoy David Bowie’s music, you can also explore Ashes to Ashes and Cactus, two other songs by David Bowie.

[Verse 1]
It’s a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling, “No!”
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she’s hooked to the silver screen

[Pre-Chorus]
But the film is a saddening bore

For she’s lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on

[Chorus]
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh, man! Look at those cavemen go
It’s the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman, beating up the wrong guy
Oh, man! Wonder if he’ll ever know
He’s in the best-selling show
Is there life on Mars?

[Verse 2]
It’s on America’s tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
‘Cause Lennon’s on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog and clowns

[Pre-Chorus]
But the film is a saddening bore

Because I wrote it ten times or more
It’s about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on

[Chorus]
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh, man! look at those cavemen go
It’s the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman, beating up the wrong guy
Oh, man! Wonder if he’ll ever know
He’s in the best-selling show
Is there life on Mars?