David Bowie ♪ Life on Mars

David Bowie (born 1947), a true artist in all the glory of that word.

Life on Mars? (1971). Abstract, nonsensical lyrics, and that's so great about it. Every person interpreter it with their own meaning.

Note the distinguished mark of David's pupils. Commonly thought to be a genetic condition known as Heterochromia, i.e. each iris has different color. That's not true. According to interviews, the different eye color is a result of injury of the left eye. At age 15, he got punched by his friend George Underwood over a girl. Operation prevented it from being blind but left with imperfect vision and permanently dilated pupil.

David Bowie

This video is directed by Mick Rock, 1973.

Lyrics and music by 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 Amerika's 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 Ibiza 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

Norfolk Broads A network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes in the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. (above London)