Life on Mars? Lyrics

LIFE ON MARS? from Hunky Dory
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
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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
CHORUS 1:
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
Ebm7 Gm F#aug5 Bb Em7dim5
Is there life on mars?
SOLO: F F#dim Gm G#dim Am Bb
It's on Americas tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
Cos Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hoards
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Brittannia is out of bounds
To my mother my dog and clowns
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But the film is a saddening bore
Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
As they ask her to focus on
CHORUS 2:
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
Ebm7 Gm F#aug5 Bb Em7dim5
Is there life on mars?
OUTRO: F F#dim Gm Bb Bb Bb
This is very much a piano song and is quite difficult to get a good sounding
version on guitar. Pay careful attention to the chord shapes at the top. It
sounds awful if the wrong strings ring out. For the first four chords of every
verse, F F/E F7 D, try to only play the B, G and D strings of the guitar.
Picking is the best way to get it across nice and subtle. For the chorus you may
want to play the Bb up at the 6th fret so it's easier to get to the Eb:
SOLO:
im
E------8---------7P4----78-78-8P6-----------|
B---68B-8B-8B68-----6------------9P68P68910-|
Outro:
B---68B868-8B-----10------------3-3-3-8--7---3-|
G-57----------799B--9B97-5P3-3/-3-3-3-8--8---3-|
CHORDS: EADGBE
Ab#5 XX211X
Em7dim5 010030