Maid of Bond Street Lyrics

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#Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 22:27:39 -0800 (PST)
#From: toomey
#Subject: CRD: b/bowie_david/maid_of_bond_street.crd
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#Maid of Bond Street, David Bowie.
#Available on any of a number of compilations of His early works, I have
#"London Boy."
#The words go by pretty quickly in some places. Even if I can't make out the
#words, I've put in nonsense syllables that approximate them.
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This girl is made of lipstick, Powder and paint,
Sees the pictures of herself, every magazine on every shelf.
This girl is Maid of Bond Street, hailing cabs,
Lunches with executives, gleaming teeth, seem imperative (thats what the words
sound like, I have no
idea what they really are.)
This girl is a lonely girl
Takes the train from Paddington (?) to Oxford Circus(?)
She reads the daily news but passengers
Don't smile at her, oh no, don't smile at her.
This girl is made of loneliness, a broken heart
For the boy that she once knew doesn't want to know her anymore.
And this girl is a lonely girl,
Everything she wants is hers but she can't make it
With the boy she really wants to be with
All the time, to love all the time.
This boy is made of envy, jealousy
He doesn't have a limosine, really wants to be a star himself.
And this girl, her world is made of flashlights and film
Her cares are scratched on the cutting room floor
And Maids of Bond Street, ride 'round in chauffeured cars
Maids of Bond Street, picture clothes, eyes of stars
Maids of Bond Street, shouldn't have love affairs
G C (tacet)
Maids of Bond Street,shouldn't have worldly cares.
FCCCFG.
Ending on the G works, and I haven't figured out the last little bit. So
there it is.
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