Lyrics When the Boys Come Marching Home - David Bowie
How
to
make
amends
for
the
things
they
said
The
girls
avoid
the
stormy
sky
But
I
and
my
cloudy
face
Will
be
gone,
high-tailing
out
of
here
Is
the
lights
a-blazing
in
their
lonely
town?
I
love
the
little
cars
at
dawn
But
I
and
my
heathen
heart
Will
be
lain
upon
some
foreign
shore
Here's
the
saddest
Joe
on
the
corner
of
the
town
"Listen
to
the
words!"
he
cries
I
love
him
in
his
craziness,
his
tatters
and
his
courage
He'll
thumb
his
nose
at
the
straight
and
true
When
the
boys
come
marching
home
They'll
fly
his
rags
from
the
highest
tree
When
the
boys
come
marching
home
(when
the
boys
come
marching
home)
(home,
marching
home)
Aching
for
some
innocence
and
peace
of
mind
While
the
moon
pulls
up
its
net
of
souls
The
sun
presses
down
on
my
brave
new
world
But,
in
truth,
i
don't
feel
brave
at
all
Leave
it
all
behind
me
to
the
townies
and
the
wags
The
kids
who
never
learned
to
smile
While
I
and
the
cobbled
nag
I
ride
Stumble
down
another
weary
mile
Here's
to
those
who
cluster,
Walking
through
the
wars
The
girls
who
never
close
'til
dawn
They
rag
upon
the
feeble
And
they
swan
around
the
stronger
But
their
eyes
are
fixed
on
the
edge
of
town
When
the
boys
come
marching
home
They'll
slide
from
view
- tiny,
two
by
two
When
the
boys
come
marching
home
(home,
marching
home)
(home,
marching
home)
When
the
boys
come
marching
home
(when
the
boys
come
marching
home)
Boys
come
marching
home
(home,
marching
home)
(home,
when
the
boys
come
marching
home)
(home,
marching
home)
(home)
(when
the
boys
come
marching
home)
1 Safe
2 Panic in Detroit (outtake from a 1979 recording)
3 Conversation Piece (Re-Recorded 2002)
4 A Better Future (Remix by Air)
5 Sunday (Moby Remix)
6 Everyone Says ‘Hi’ (5.1 mix)
7 Wood Jackson
8 A Better Future
9 Everyone Says ‘Hi’
10 5:15 the Angels Have Gone
11 I Took a Trip On a Gemini Spaceship
12 I Would Be Your Slave
13 I’ve Been Waiting for You
14 Slow Burn
15 Slip Away
16 Cactus
17 Sunday
18 Conversation Piece (written 1969, recorded 1970, re-recorded 2002)
19 Conversation Piece (written 1969, recorded 1970, re-recorded 2002)
20 Panic in Detroit (outtake from a 1979 recording)
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