DAVID BOWIE - ROCK AND ROLL SUICIDE

ROCK AND ROLL SUICIDE

DAVID BOWIE

SONGWRITER: DAVID BOWIE

WHERE: LIVE IN PHILADELPHIA 1974

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS

LABEL: RCA VICTOR

GENRE: ROCK AND ROLL

YEAR: 1972

"Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" is a song by David Bowie, originally released as the closing track on the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars in June 1972. It detailed Ziggy's final collapse as an old, washed-up rock star and, as such, was also the closing number of the Ziggy Stardust live show. In April 1974 RCA issued it as a single.

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

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

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

And the clock 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 blast your shadow

Don't let the milk float ride your mind

You'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

Let's turn on and be not alone

Gimme your hands cause you're wonderful[2x]

Oh gimme your hands.