Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1979) - full transcript

DAVID BOWIE

D. A. PENNEBAKER

'HANG ON TO YOURSELF',
DO ?LBUM...

'ZIGGY STARDUST
AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS'

Oh, she's a tongue twisting storm

Comes to the show tonight

Praying to the light machine

She wants my honey not my money

She's a funky-thigh collector

Laying on the 'lectric dream

Come on, come on



We really got a good thing going

Come on, come on

If you think we're gonna make it

You better hang on to yourself

We can't dance,
we don't talk much,

we just ball and play

Then we move
like tigers on Vaseline

Well, the bitter comes out better
on a stolen guitar

You're the blessed,
we're the Spiders From Mars

Come on, come on

We really got a good thing going

Come on, come on

If you think we're gonna make it

You better hang on to yourself



C'mon

Come on, come on

Come on, come on

Really got a good thing going

Come on, come on

If you think we're gonna make it

You better hang on to yourself

Come on, come on

We really got a good thing going

Come on, come on

If you think we're gonna make it

You better hang on to yourself

Come on, come on

Come on, baby

'ZIGGY STARDUST
AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS'

Oh,
Oh, yeah

Ziggy played guitar

Jamming good with Weird and Gilly

And the Spiders from Mars

He played it left hand

But made it too far

Became the special man

Then we were Ziggy's band

Ziggy really sang

Screwed-up eyes
and screwed-down hairdo

Like some cat from Japan

He could lick 'em by smiling

He could leave 'em to hang

They came on so loaded, man

Well-hung and snow-white tan

So where were the spiders

While the fly tried
to break our bones?

With just the beer light to guide us

So we bitched about his fans

And should we crush
his sweet hands?

Oh, yeah!

Ziggy played for time

Jiving us that we were voodoo

The kids were just crass

He was the nazz

With God-given ass

He took it all too far

But, boy, could he play guitar

Making love with his ego

Ziggy sucked up into his mind, ah

Like a leper messiah

When the kids had killed the man

I had to break up the band

Oh, yeah

Ooh

Ziggy played guitar

'WATCH THAT MAN',
DO ?LBUM ALADDIN SANE

Shakey threw a party
that lasted all night

Everybody drank
a lot of something nice

There was an old fashioned
band of married men

Looking up to me for encouragement
- it was so-so

The ladies looked bad
but the music was sad

No one took their
eyes off Lorraine

She shimmied and she strolled
like a Chicago moll

Her feathers looked better and better
- it was so-so

Yeah! it was time to unfreeze

When the Reverend Alabaster
danced on his knees

Slam! Well, it wasn't it a game

Cracking all the mirrors in shame

Watch That Man!

Oh, Honey, Watch That Man

He talks like a jerk but he could
eat you with a fork and spoon

Watch That Man!

Oh, Honey, Watch That Man

He walks like a jerk but he's
only taking care of the room

Must be in tune.

A Benny Goodman fan painted
holes in his hands

So Shakey hung him up to dry

The pundits were jokin'
the manholes were smokin'

Every bottle battled
with the reason why

The girl on the phone
wouldn't leave me alone

A throw back from someone's LP

A lemon in a bag played a Tiger Rag

And the bodies on the screen
stopped bleeding

Yeah! I was shaking like a leaf

For I couldn't understand
the conversation

Yeah! I ran to the street,
looking for information

Watch That Man!

Oh, Honey, Watch That Man

He talks like no jerk but he could
eat you with a fork and spoon

Watch That Man!

Oh, Honey, Watch That Man

He walks like a jerk but he's
only taking care of the room

Must be in tune.

Watch That Man!

Watch That Man!

Watch That Man!

Watch That Man!

Watch That Man!

Watch That Man!

Watch That Man!

Watch That... Man!

'WILD EYED BOY FROM FREECLOUD',
DO ?LBUM 'SPACE ODDITY'.

Solemn faced

The village settles down

Undetected by the stars

And the hangman plays the
mandolin before he goes to sleep

And the last thing on his mind

Is the wild eyed boy imprisoned

'Neath the covered wooden shaft

Folds the rope into its bag

Blows his pipe of smolders

Blankets smoke into the room

And the day will end for some

As the night begins for one

Staring through
the message in his eyes

Lies a solitary son

From the mountain
called Freecloud

Where the eagle dare not fly

And the patience in his sigh

Gives no indication

For the townsmen to decide

So the village dreadful yawns

Pronouncing gross diversion

As the label for the dog

Oh, "It's the madness in his eyes"

As he breaks the night to cry:

It's really me

Really you and really me

It's so hard for us to really be

Really you and really me

You'll lose me, though I'm always

Really...

... free

'ALL THE YOUNG DUDES',
DE BOWIE/MOTT THE HOOPLE'

Jimmy rapped all night
'bout his suicide

How he'd kick it in the head
when he was 25

Don't wanna stay alive
when you're 25

Wendy's stealing
clothes from unlocked cars

Freddy's got spots from
ripping off stars from his face

Funky little boat race

The television man is crazy

Saying we're juvenile
delinquent wrecks

Man I need a TV
when I've got T. Rex

Hey brother you guessed
I'm a dude

All the young dudes

Carry the news

Boogaloo dudes

Carry the news

All the young dudes

Carry the news

Boogaloo dudes

Carry the news

'OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS',
DO ?LBUM 'HUNKY DORY'

Wake up you sleepy head

Put on some clothes,
shake up your bed

Put another
log on the fire for me

I've made some
breakfast and coffee

I look out my window
what do I see

A crack in the sky and a hand

reaching down...

... to me

All the nightmares came today

And it looks as though
they're here to stay

Oh You Pretty Things
(Oh You Pretty Things)

Don't you know
you're driving your

Mamas and Papas insane

Oh You Pretty Things
(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

Oh You Pretty Things
(Oh You Pretty Things)

Don't you know
you're driving your

Mamas and Papas insane

Oh You Pretty Things
(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

'MOONAGE DAYDREAM',

, DO ?LBUM
'THE RISE AND FALL...

... OF ZIGGY STARDUST
AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS'

I'm an alligator

I'm a mama-papa
comin' for you

I'm the space invader

I'll be a rock 'n' rollin'
bitch for you

Keep your mouth shut

You're squawking
like a pink monkey bird

And I'm bustin' up
my brains for the words

Keep your 'lectric eye on me,
babe

Put your ray gun to my head

Press your space
face close to mine, love

Freak out in a moonage daydream,
oh yeah!

Don't fake it baby,

lay the real thing on me

The church of man, love

Is such a holy place to be

Don't fake it baby

Make me baby,
make me know you really care

Make me jump into the air

Keep your 'lectric eye on me,
babe

Put your ray gun to my head

Press your space face close to mine,
love

Freak out in a moonage daydream,
oh yeah!

Keep your 'lectric eye on me,
babe

Put your ray gun to my head

Press your space face close to mine,
love

Freak out in a moonage daydream,
oh yeah!

Keep your 'lectric eye on me,
babe

Put your ray gun to my head

Press your space face close to mine,
love

Freak out in a moonage daydream,
oh yeah!

Freak out,

far out,

in out

'CHANGES',
DO ?LBUM 'HUNKY DORY'

I still don't know what
I was looking for

And my time
was running wild

A million dead-end streets

Every time I thought
I'd got it made

It seemed the taste
was not so sweet

So I turned myself
to face me

But I've never
caught a glimpse

Of how the others
must see the faker

I'm much too fast
to take that test

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

(Turn and face the stranger)

Ch-ch-Changes

Don't want to be
a richer one

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

(Turn and face the stranger)

Ch-ch-Changes

Just gonna have to be
a different one

Time may change me

But I can't trace time

I watch the ripples
change their size

But never leave
the stream

Of warm impermanence

So the days float
through my eyes

But still the days
seem the same

And these children
that you spit on

As they try to change
their worlds

Their immune
to your consultations

They're quite aware
of what they're going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

(Turn and face the stranger)

Ch-ch-Changes

Don't tell them
to grow up and out of it

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

(Turn and face the stranger)

Ch-ch-Changes

Where's your shame

You've left us up to our necks in it

Time may change me

But you can't trace time

Strange fascination,
fascinating me

Changes are taking the pace
I'm going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

(Turn and face the stranger)

Ch-ch-Changes

Oh, look out you rock 'n rollers

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

(Turn and face the stranger)

Ch-ch-Changes

Pretty soon you're
gonna get a little older

Time may change me

But I can't trace time

I said that time
may change me

But I can't trace time

'SPACE ODDITY'

Ground Control to Major Tom

Ground Control to Major Tom

Take your protein pills and put
your helmet on

Ground Control to Major Tom
(ten, nine, eight, seven, six)

Commencing countdown,
engines on (five, four, three)

Check ignition and may God's
love be with you (two, one, liftoff)

This is Ground Control
to Major Tom

You've really made the grade

And the papers want to know
whose shirts you wear

Now it's time to leave
the capsule if you dare

"This is Major Tom
to Ground Control

I'm stepping through the door

And I'm floating
in a most peculiar way

And the stars look
very different today

For here

Am I sitting in a tin can

Far above the world

Planet Earth is blue

And there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past one hundred
thousand miles

I'm feeling very still

And I think my spaceship
knows which way to go

Tell my wife I love her
very much she knows

Ground Control to Major Tom

Your circuit's dead,
there's something wrong

Can you hear me,
Major Tom?

Can you hear me,
Major Tom?

Can you hear me,
Major Tom?

Can you "Here am I floating
'round my tin can

Far above the moon

Planet Earth is blue

And there's nothing I can do"

'MY DEATH',
DE JACQUES BREL

My death waits like an old rou?

So confident I'll go his way

Whistle to him and
the passing time

My death waits like a bible truth

At the funeral of my youth

Weep loud for that and
the passing time

My death waits
like a witch at night

As surely as our love is bright

Let's not think about
the passing time

But what ever lies
behind the door

There is nothing much to do

Angel or devil,
I don't care

For in front of that door,

there is you

My death waits
like a beggar blind

Who sees the world
through an unlit mind

Throw him a dime for
the passing time

My death waits there
between your thighs

Your cool fingers
will close my eyes

Let's not think of that and
the passing time

My death waits
to allow my friends

A few good times
before it ends

So let's drink to that and
the passing time

But what ever lies
behind the door

There is nothing much to do

Angel or devil,
I don't care

For in front of that door,

there is you

My death waits there
among the leaves

In magicians'
mysterious sleeves

Rabbits and dogs and
the passing time

My death waits there
among the flowers

Where the blackest shadow,
blackest shadow cowers

Let's pick lilacs for
the passing time

My death waits there
in a double bed

Sails of oblivion at my head

So pull up the sheets against
the passing time

But what ever lies
behind the door

There is nothing much to do

Angel or devil,

I don't care

For in front of that door,

there is... you

Thank You.

'CRACKED ACTOR',
DO ?LBUM 'ALADDIN SANE'

I've come on a few years
from my Hollywood Highs

The best of the last,
the cleanest star they ever had

I'm stiff on my legend

The films that I made

Forget that I'm fifty

'Cause you just got paid

Crack, baby, crack

Show me you're real

Smack, baby, smack,
is that all that you feel

Suck, baby, suck

Give me your head

Before you start professing

That you're knocking me dead

You caught yourself
a trick down

On Sunset and Vine

But since he pinned you, baby

You're a porcupine

You sold me illusions
for a sack full of checks

You've made a bad connection
'cause I just want your sex

Crack, baby, crack

Show me you're real

Smack, baby, smack,
is that all that you feel

Suck, baby, suck

Give me your head

Before you start professing

That you're knocking me dead

'TIME', DO ?LBUM
'ALADDIN SANE'.

Time, he's waiting in the wings

He speaks of senseless things

His script is you and me, boy

Time, he flexes like a whore

Falls wanking to the floor

His trick is you and me, boy

Time, in quaaludes and red wine

Demanding Billy Dolls

And other friends of mine

Take your time

The sniper in the brain,

regurgitating drain

Incestuous and vain

And many other last names"

Oh, well, I look at my watch,
it says nine twenty-five

And I think
"Oh God, I'm still alive"

We should be on by now

We should be on by now

La, la, la, la, la, la,

You are not a victim

You just scream with boredom

You are not evicting time

Chimes, goddamn,
you're looking old

You'll freeze and catch a cold

'Cause you've left your coat behind

Take your time

Breaking up is hard,
but keeping dark is hateful

I had so many dreams

I had so many breakthroughs

But you, my love, were kind,

but love has left you dreamless

The door to dreams was closed

Your park was real dreamless

Perhaps you're smiling now

Smiling through this darkness

But all I had to give

was guilt for dreaming

We should be on by now

We should be on by now

We should be on by now

We should be on by now

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
yeah, time!

'THE WIDTH OF A CIRCLE',

, DO ?LBUM 'THE MAN WHO
SOLD THE WORLD'

In the corner of the
morning in the past

I would sit and blame
the master first and last

All the roads were
straight and narrow

And the prayers were
small and yellow

And the rumour spread that

I was aging fast

Then I ran across a monster

who was sleeping by a tree

And I looked and frowned

and the monster was me

Well, I said hello and
I said hello

And I asked "Why not?"
and I replied "I don't know."

So we asked a simple black bird,
who was happy as can be

And he laughed insane
and quipped "KAHLIL GIBRAN"

So I cried for all the others

till the day was nearly through

For I realized that

God's a young

man

too

So I said "So long" and
I waved "Bye-bye"

And I smashed my soul
and traded my mind

Got laid by a young bordello

Who was vaguely half asleep

For which my reputation

swept back home in drag

And the moral
of this magic spell

Negotiates my hide

When God did take my logic

for a ride

(Riding along)

He swallowed his pride
and puckered his lips

And showed me the leather
belt round his hips

My knees were shaking
my cheeks aflame

He said "You'll never go
down to the Gods again"

(Turn around, go back!)

He struck the ground
a cavern appeared

And I smelt the
burning pit of fear

We crashed a thousand
yards below

I said
"Do it again, do it again"

(Turn around, go back!)

His nebulous body
swayed above

His tongue swollen
with devil's love

The snake and I,
a venom high

I said
"Do it again, do it again"

(Turn around, go back!)

Breathe, breathe,
breathe deeply

And I was seething,
breathing deeply

Spitting sentry,
horned and tailed

Waiting for you

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

David Bowie apresenta
os membros do grupo.

No baixo, Trevor Bolder.

Na bateria, Mick Woodmansey.

Na guitarra, Mick Ronson.

"LET'S SPEND
THE NIGHT TOGETHER',

, DOS THE ROLLING STONES

Don't you worry 'bout what's
on your mind, oh my

I'm in no hurry,
I can take my time, oh my

I'm going red and
my tongue's getting tied

(Tongue's getting tied)

I'm off my head and
my mouth's getting dry

Let's spend the night together

Now I need you more than ever

Let's spend the night together, now

I feel so strong that
can't disguise, oh my

But I just can't apologize, oh no

Don't hang me up
and don't let me down

We could have fun
just groovin' around

Around, and round,
and oh my, my

Let's spend the night together

Now I need you more than ever

Let's spend the night together, now

You know I'm smiling, baby

You need some guiding, baby

I'm just deciding, baby, now

Let's spend the night together

I need you more than ever

Let's spend the night together, now

This doesn't happen
to me every day, oh no

No excuses offered anyway,
oh my

I'll satisfy your every need

And now I know

And now I know
you will satisfy me

Oh my my my my my my

Let's spend the night together

Now I need you,
need you more than ever, oh my

(Let's spend the night together)

Now I need you,
need you more than ever, oh my

Let's spend the night together

Now I need you,
need you more than ever, oh my

Let's spend the night together

Now I need you more than ever

Let's spend the night together,
now

"'SUFFRAGETTE CITY',
DO ?LBUM 'THE RISE AND FALL...

... OF ZIGGY STARDUST
AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS".

Hey man, oh leave me alone
you know

Hey man, oh Henry,
get off the phone, I gotta

Hey man,
I gotta straighten my face

This mellow thighed chick
just put my spine out of place

Hey man, my schooldays insane

Hey man,
my work's down the drain

Hey man,
well she's a total blam-blam

She said she had to squeeze
it but she then she

Oh don't lean on me man,

'cause you can't
afford the ticket

I'm back on Suffragette City

Oh don't lean on me man

'Cause you ain't got
time to check it

You know my Suffragette City

Is outta sight

she's all right

Hey man, oh Henry,
don't be unkind, go away

Hey man, I can't take
you this time, no way

Hey man,
droogie don't crash here

There's only room for one and
here she comes, here she comes

Oh don't lean on me man,
'cause you can't afford the ticket

I'm back on Suffragette City

Oh don't lean on me man

'Cause you ain't
got time to check it

You know my Suffragette City

Is outta sight

she's all right

Oh, hit me

Oh don't lean on me man,
'cause you can't afford the ticket

I'm back on Suffragette City

Oh don't lean on me man

'Cause you ain't
got time to check it

You know my Suffragette City

Oh don't lean on me man,
'cause you can't afford the ticket

I'm back on Suffragette City

Don't lean on me man

"cause you ain't
got time to check it

You know my Suffragette City

Is outta sight

she's all right

A Suffragette City,

A Suffragette City

A Suffragette City

she's all right

Suffragette City,
Oooh-how,

Sufragette City, oooh-how,

A Suffragette City, oooh-how,

Ohhh, wham bam thank you ma'am

A Suffragette City

A Suffragette City

she's all right

A Sufragette City

A Suffragette City, oooh

Suffragette

Obrigado... Boa noite.

'WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT',
DO THE VELVET UNDERGROUND,

, DO ?LBUM
'WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT'

White light - White light
gonna drive me out of my brain

White light - White light
gonna make me feel so insane

White heat - White shapin'
them down to my toes

White light - White light's
got it now, goodness knows

White light - White light
gonna drive me out of my mind

White light - White light's
surely gonna make me blind

White heat - White shaping
way down to my toes

White light - White light
could kill me now, goodness knows

Oh, Oh, White light

Oh, Oh, White light

Oh, Oh, White heat

Oh, Oh, White heat

White light - White light
gonna drive me out of my brain

White light - White light
gonna make me feel so insane

White heat - White shapin'
them down to my toes

White light - White light's
got it now, goodness knows

White light - White light
gonna drive me out of my mind

White light - White light's
surely gonna make me blind

White heat - White shaping
way down to my toes

White light - White light
could kill me now, goodness knows

Oh, Oh, Oh, White light

Oh, Oh, Oh, White light

Oh, Oh, Oh, White Heat

Oh, Oh, Oh, White Heat

Oh, Oh, Oh, White light

Oh, Oh, Oh, White light

Oh, Oh, Oh, White Heat

Oh, Oh, Oh, White Heat

White light

Still feels right

What's that sound,
what's that sound

Don't turn on,
be dead or alive

No feeling

Here she comes

Oww, yeah

(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
here she comes

(Oh, oh, oh, oh)

(Ah, ah, ah, ah)

Obrigado... Boa Noite!

Todos voc?s...

Lembraremos deste show,
em particular, por muito tempo,

, porque...

... n?o ? apenas o ?ltimo show
da turn?,

, mas ? o nosso ?ltimo show.

Obrigado.

"ROCK'N'ROLL SUICIDE', DO ?LBUM
'THE RISE AND FALL...

... OF ZIGGY STARDUST
AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS".

Time takes a cigarette,
puts it in your mouth

You pull on your finger, then
another finger, then your cigarette

The wall-to-wall is calling,
it lingers, then you forget

Ohhh, you're a rock 'n' roll suicide

You're too old to lose it,
too young to choose it

And the clocks waits
so patiently on your song

You walk past a cafe but you don't
eat when you've lived too long

Oh, no, no, no,
you're a rock 'n' roll suicide

Chev brakes are snarling
as you stumble across the road

But the day breaks
instead so you hurry home

Don't let the sun light
blast your shadow

Don't let the milk float
ride your mind

They're so natural -
religiously unkind

Oh, no love!
you're not alone

You're watching yourself
but you're too unfair

You got your head
all tangled up

but if I could only
make you care

Oh, no love!
you're not alone

No matter what
or who you've been

No matter when
or where you've seen

All the knives
seem to lacerate your brain

I've had my share,

I'll help you with the pain

You're not alone

Just turn on with me
and you're not alone

Let's turn on with me
and you're not alone

Gimme your hands
cause you're wonderful

Gimme your hands
cause you're wonderful

Gimme your hands
cause you're wonderful

Gimme your hands
cause you're wonderful

Gimme your hands

Gimme your hands

cause you're wonderful

Gimme your hands

cause you're wonderful, baby

Muito Obrigado!

Adeus... N?s amamos voc?s!

FILMADO POR

M?SICOS

SOM, GRAVA??O,
ASSISTENTES

GERENTE DE UNIDADE,
PRODUTOR ASSOCIADO E EDI??O

ILUMINA??O, MAQUIAGEM,
FIGURINO

03 DE JULHO DE 1973

HAMMERSMITH ODEON,
LONDRES

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