Released: April 14, 1983
Songwriter: David Bowie
Producer: Nile Rodgers David Bowie
[Verse 1]
Like weeds on a rockface waiting for the scythe
Ricochet - ricochet
The world is on a corner waiting for jobs
Ricochet - ricochet
Turn the holy pictures so they face the wall
"And who can bear to be forgotten"
"And who can bear to be forgotten"
[Chorus]
March of flowers, march of dimes
These are the prisons, these are the crimes
"Men wait for news while thousands are still asleep
Dreaming of tramlines, factories, pieces of machinery
Mine shafts things like that."
March of flowers, march of dimes
These are the prisons, these are the crimes
Sound of thunder, sound of gold
Sound of the devil breaking parole
Ricochet - it's not the end of the world
[Verse 2]
Sound of thunder, sound of gold
Sound of the devil breaking parole
Ricochet - ricochet
These are the prisons these are the crimes
Teaching life in a violent new way
Ricochet - ricochet
Turn the holy pictures so they face the wall
"And who can bear to be forgotten"
"And who can bear to be forgotten"
[Chorus]
March of flowers, march of dimes
These are the prisons, these are the crimes
"Early, before the sun
They struggle off to the gates
In their secret fearful places they see their lives
Unraveling before them"
March of flowers - march of dimes
These are the prisons, these are the crimes
Sound of thunder, sound of gold
Sound of the devil breaking parole
Ricochet - it's not the end of the world
[Verse 3]
"That's when they get home, damp eyed and weary
They smile and crush their children to their heaving chests
Making unfulfillable promises
For who can bear to be forgotten"
Like weeds on a rockface waiting for the scythe
Ricochet - ricochet
The world is on a corner waiting for jobs
Ricochet - ricochet
Turn the holy pictures so they face the wall
"And who can bear to be forgotten"
"And who can bear to be forgotten"
[Chorus]
March of flowers, march of dimes
These are the prisons, these are the crimes
"Men wait for news while thousands are still asleep
Dreaming of tramlines, factories, pieces of machinery
Mine shafts things like that."
March of flowers, march of dimes
These are the prisons, these are the crimes
Sound of thunder, sound of gold
Sound of the devil breaking parole
Ricochet - it's not the end of the world
[Verse 2]
Sound of thunder, sound of gold
Sound of the devil breaking parole
Ricochet - ricochet
These are the prisons these are the crimes
Teaching life in a violent new way
Ricochet - ricochet
Turn the holy pictures so they face the wall
"And who can bear to be forgotten"
"And who can bear to be forgotten"
[Chorus]
March of flowers, march of dimes
These are the prisons, these are the crimes
"Early, before the sun
They struggle off to the gates
In their secret fearful places they see their lives
Unraveling before them"
March of flowers - march of dimes
These are the prisons, these are the crimes
Sound of thunder, sound of gold
Sound of the devil breaking parole
Ricochet - it's not the end of the world
[Verse 3]
"That's when they get home, damp eyed and weary
They smile and crush their children to their heaving chests
Making unfulfillable promises
For who can bear to be forgotten"
Sound + Vision
- Buddha of Suburbia
- Shopping for Girls
- The Drowned Girl
- Blue Jean
- Rebel Rebel
- Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
- Ricochet
- Boys Keep Swinging
- Look Back in Anger
- Kingdom Come
- Ashes to Ashes
- Red Sails
- Up the Hill Backwards
- Time Will Crawl
- Pallas Athena
- South Horizon
- It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City
- Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide (Live ’73)
- Ziggy Stardust (Live ’73) [Stereo]
- White Light/White Heat (Live ’73) [Stereo]
- Watch That Man (Live) [Stereo]
- Suffragette City (Live) [Stereo]
- Nite Flights (Moodswings Back to Basics Remix)
- Dead Against It
- London Bye Ta Ta
- Baal’s Hymn
- Round and Round
- I Can’t Read
- Helden
- 1984/Dodo
- After Today
- Dancing with the Big Boys
- Jump They Say
- You’ve Been Around
- Moonage Daydream
- Sons of the Silent Age
- Joe the Lion
- Warszawa
- The Prettiest Star
- Be My Wife
- Speed of Life
- Changes
- Cracked Actor
- John, I’m Only Dancing
- Sound and Vision
- Breaking Glass
- Space Oddity
- Drive-In Saturday
- Sorrow
- China Girl
- Fascination
- Young Americans
- Loving the Alien
- Big Brother
- Wild Is the Wind
- TVC 15
- The Bewlay Brothers
- Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
- Don’t Bring Me Down
- Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud
- Panic in Detroit
- Black Country Rock
- Station to Station
- Modern Love
- The Man Who Sold the World
- Let’s Dance (1983)
- Sound + Vision (1989)
- Space Oddity
- ★ (Blackstar)
- Heroes
- Life on Mars?
- Lazarus
- Starman
- Changes
- The Man Who Sold the World
- Girl Loves Me
- Ashes to Ashes
- Ziggy Stardust
- Moonage Daydream
- Modern Love
- Five Years
- ’Tis a Pity She Was a Whore
- I Can’t Give Everything Away
- Dollar Days
- Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide
- Rebel Rebel
- Young Americans
- Station to Station
- Suffragette City
- Let’s Dance
- Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)