Life On Mars? (Live '83)

It's a God-awful small affair

To the girl with the lousy hair

And her mother is yellin', no

And her father has told her to go

But her friend is nowhere to be seen

As she walks through a 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 wrote it ten times or more

It's about to be writ again

As they ask her to focus on

Sailors, fightin' in the dance hall

Oh, man, look at those cavemen go

It's the freakiest show

Take a look at the lawman, beatin' 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

Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow

And 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, fightin' 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?