Композиция, впервые увидевшая свет ещё в 1971 году
на альбоме Дэвида Боуи “Honky Dory”, стала ещё одним шагом к его концептуальному
альбому “The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars”(1972). А началось всё с простой космической баллады “Space Oddity” (1969), в которой поётся про майора Тома, оставшегося
в космосе. “Life On Mars?” не обладает определенным сюжетом. Здесь тема Марса преподносится как
нечто будничное. Вопрос «а есть ли жизнь на Марсе?» возникает «между делом»…
“Life
On Mars?”
DAVID BOWIE
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
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
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?
It's on Amerikas
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 Ibeza
to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of
bounds
To my mother, my dog, and
clowns
But the film is a saddening
bore
'Cause I wrote it ten times
or more
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on
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?
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