David Bowie - You've Been Around lyrics

Where's the pain in the violent night?

I'm depressed by the grill

I stay over many years

I should have thought of that

For the love of the money

Like a black-hearted vile thing

It's the nature of being

It's too many lonely nights

I can't tell bad from wrong

I can't pass you by

Too exchanging

You've been around

But you've changed me

When the flesh meets the spirit world

Where the traffic is thin

I slip from a vacant view

I should have thought of that

And the sound of tomorrow

Like a black-hearted vile thing

Like the silence of tension

It's too many lonely nights

I can't tell good from bad

I can't pass you by

Too exchanging

You've been around

But you've changed me

You've been around

Can't pass you by

You've been around

But you've changed me

Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-change!

Too exchanging

You've been around

but you've changed me

You've been around

can't pass you by

You've been around

but you've changed me

You've been around

can't pass you by

You've been around

but you've changed me