1984/dodo

david bowie

someday they won't let you

now you must agree

the times they are a-telling

and the changing isn't free

you've read it in the tea leaves

the tracks are on tv

beware the savage jaw

of 1984

they'll break your pretty cranium

and fill it full of air

and tell you that you're eighty

but lover you won't care

you'll be shooting up this huge world

like tomorrow's wasn't there

beware the savage jaw

of 1984

we played out an all night movie role

you said it would last

but i guess we've grown

in 1984

1984

now we can talk in confidence

did you guess that we've been done wrong

lies jumped the queue to be first in line

such a shameless design

he thinks he's well screened from the man at the top

it's a shame that his children disagree

they cooly decide to sell him down the line

daddy's brainwashing time

he's a do do

no no didn't hear it from me

he's a do do

no no didn't hear it from me

she doesn't recall her blessed childhood out of yore

when a unit was a figure not a she

when lovers chose each other seems the perk's are due

another memo to screw

she's a do do

no no didn't hear it from me

she's a do do

no no didn't hear it from me

can you wipe your nose my child without them slotting in your file a photograph

will you sleep in fear tonight wake to find the scorching light of neighbour jim

come to

turn you in

but the do do

no no

didn't hear it from me

another do do

no no

didn't hear it from me

another do do

no no

didn't hear it from me

another do do

no no

didn't hear from me

come see

come see

remember me?

we played out an all night movie role

you said it would last

but i guess we enrolled

in 1984

1984

1984

1984

1984

1984

1984

1984

1984