Songwriter: Reeves Gabrels David Bowie
Producer: Tin Machine
Between the dead ring ash of extreme defense
The lonely groups of company boys
Snapping pictures of scrawny limbs and toothy grins
These are children riding naked on their tourist pals
While the hollows that pass for eyes swell from withdrawal
And he lies on a mattress in a rat infested room
Talking 'bout his family and the cold back home
Between the dull cold eyes and the mind unstable
Noone over here reads the papers pal
'Tween the dull cold eyes and the mind unstable
He's a clean trick and he's shopping for girls
A small black someone jumps over the crazy white guard
Cranking up the volume of a Michael Jackson song
Between the dull cold eyes and the mind unstable
Noone over here reads the papers pal
'Tween the dull cold eyes and the mind unstable
He's a clean trick and he's shopping for girls
Where the frangipani scents the air
She mouths a word that breaks his stare
He grunts his reply in a garrulous croak
"That's a mighty big word for a nine year old"
Between the dull cold eyes and the mind unstable
Noone over here reads the papers pal
'Tween the dull cold eyes and the mind unstable
He's a squeaky clean trick and he's shopping for girls
Shopping for girls, shopping for girls
You gaze down into her eyes for a million miles
You wanna give her a name and a clean rag doll
The lonely groups of company boys
Snapping pictures of scrawny limbs and toothy grins
These are children riding naked on their tourist pals
While the hollows that pass for eyes swell from withdrawal
And he lies on a mattress in a rat infested room
Talking 'bout his family and the cold back home
Between the dull cold eyes and the mind unstable
Noone over here reads the papers pal
'Tween the dull cold eyes and the mind unstable
He's a clean trick and he's shopping for girls
A small black someone jumps over the crazy white guard
Cranking up the volume of a Michael Jackson song
Between the dull cold eyes and the mind unstable
Noone over here reads the papers pal
'Tween the dull cold eyes and the mind unstable
He's a clean trick and he's shopping for girls
Where the frangipani scents the air
She mouths a word that breaks his stare
He grunts his reply in a garrulous croak
"That's a mighty big word for a nine year old"
Between the dull cold eyes and the mind unstable
Noone over here reads the papers pal
'Tween the dull cold eyes and the mind unstable
He's a squeaky clean trick and he's shopping for girls
Shopping for girls, shopping for girls
You gaze down into her eyes for a million miles
You wanna give her a name and a clean rag doll
more tracks from the album
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
From the albums
- Sound + Vision (1989)
- Tin Machine II (1991)