David Bowie - We Are The Dead lyrics

I looked at you, wondered if you saw things my way

People will hold us to blame

It hit me today, it hit me today

We're taking it hard all the time

Why don't we pass it by?

Just reply, you've changed your mind

We're fighting with the eyes of a lie

Taking it hard, taking it hard

But now

We feel that we are paid for, choking on you nightly

They tell me "Son, we want you." Be elusive, but don't walk far

For we're breaking in the new boys, deceive your next of kin

For your dancing where the dogs decay, defecating ecstasy

You're just an ally of the leecher

Procreator for the virgin king, but I love you in your funky pumps

And your nimble dress betrayals

Oh, dress yourself, my urchin one, for I hear them on the rails

Because of all we've seen, because of all we've said

We are the dead

One thing kind of touched me today

I looked at you and counted all the times we had laid

Pressing our love through the night

Knowing it's right, knowing it's right

Now I'm hoping some one will care

Living on the breath of a hope to be shared

Trusting on the sums of our love,

that some one will care, some one will care

But no...i..ho

We're todays scrambled creatures locked in tomorrows double feature

Heavens on the pillow, its silence competes with hell

It's a twenty-four hour service, guaranteed to make you tell

And the streets are full of brass men,

bent on getting hung and buried

And the legendary curtains are drawn 'round baby bankrupt,

who sucks you while you're sleeping

It's the theater of financiers,

count them, fifteen 'round the table,

white and dressed to kill

Oh, caress yourself, my juicy,

for my hands have all but whithered

Oh, dress yourself my urchin one, for I hear them on the stairs

Because of all we've seen, because of all we've said

We are the dead

We are dead

We are the dead