Changes – David Bowie

“Changes”


I still don’t know what I was waiting for

And my time was running wild

A million dead-end streets

Every time I thought I’d got it made

It seemed the taste was not so sweet

So I turned myself to face me

But I’ve never caught a glimpse

Of how the others must see the faker

I’m much too fast to take that test


Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes (Turn and face the strange)

Turn and face the strain

Ch-ch-Changes

Don’t have to be a richer man

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

Ch-ch-Changes (Turn and face the strange)

Don’t want to be a better man

Time may change me

But I can’t trace time


I watch the ripples change their size

But never leave the stream

Of warm impermanence and

So the days float through my eyes

But the days still seem the same

And these children that you spit on

As they try to change their worlds

Are immune to your consultations

They’re quite aware of what they’re going through


Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

Ch-ch-Changes (Turn and face the strange)

Don’t tell them to grow up and out of it

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes (Turn and face the strange)

Where’s your shame

You’ve left us up to our necks in it

Time may change me

But you can’t trace time


Strange fascination, fascinating me

Changes are taking the pace I’m going thru


Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

Ch-ch-Changes (Turn and face the strange)

Look out you Rock’n’ rollers

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

Ch-ch-Changes (Turn and face the strange)

Pretty soon now you’re gonna get older

Time may change me

But I can’t trace time

I said that time may change me

But I can’t trace time