Life On Mars? (David Bowie)

　　自問不是David Bowie的歌迷，不過今天聽聞他在一月十日逝世，所以揀了一首「Life On Mars?」。
　　也不是喜歡這首歌，而是喜歡歌名，因為後來有一套BBC電視劇也叫這個名字。David Bowie有點妖氣，其實他又可以好正經，只不過那時潮流興古怪又唔男唔女，走在時代尖端，又要引人注意，歌唱表演除了音樂歌曲，其次就是外表。
　　歐西流行曲很多樣，說到前衛，英國則比美國走得更前。隨著年紀漸長，早已喜歡較慢的民歌，也許隨著David Bowie的離去，亦是一個時代的終結。

Life On Mars?

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 America'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?

Songwriters
DAVID BOWIE