Quelles sont les paroles de Life on Mars de David Bowie ?

Chanson écrite par David Bowie et sortie en 1973 sur l’album Hunky Dory, "Life on Mars ?" s’impose instantanément comme l’un des classiques du chanteur, alors dans sa phase Ziggy Stardust. Considéré aujourd’hui comme l’un des morceaux intemporels de la musique pop britannique, "Life on Mars ?" mélange orchestrations symphoniques, piano et la voix étrange de Bowie, dans un tout indescriptible et envoûtant.

Anecdote

La chanson est aujourd’hui rentrée dans l’inconscient collectif britannique, au point de devenir le titre de la série "Life on Mars", dans laquelle un policier anglais perd connaissance et se réveille en 1973. La série dérivée "Ashes to Ashes", porte par ailleurs elle aussi le titre d’une chanson de Bowie, Ashes to Ashes, de l’album "Scary Monsters" (and Super Creeps), sorti en 1980.

Paroles

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
'Cause 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. 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 ? (© David Bowie/RCA - 1973)