The Bewlay Brothers
David Bowie
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D And so the story goes they wore the clothesD Em A They said the things to make it seem improbableD D Em A The whale of a lie like they hope it wasD And the goodmen of tomorrowD Had their feet in the wallowEm And their heads of brawn, were nicer shornA D D And how they bought their positions with saccharin and trust.Em A D D The world was asleep to our latent fuss.Em Sighing the swirl through the streetsA Like the crust of the sunBm The Bewlay BrothersA in our wings that barkG Flashing teeth of brassF# Standing tall in the darkA Oh, we were gone-----G Hanging out with your dwarf menContinues after the adG G/F# Em We were so turned onC By your lack of conclusionsD D Em A7 I was stone and he was wax So he could scream and still relax, unbelievable And we frightened the small children away And our talk was old and dust would flow Thru our veins and lo! it was midnight Back o' the kitchen door Like the grim face on the cathedral floor And the solid book we wrote Cannot be found today It was stalking time for the moonboys The Bewlay Brothers With our backs on the arch And the Devil may be here But he can't sing about that Oh, we were gone Real cool traders We were so turned on You thought we were fakersD D Em A7 Now the dress is hung, the ticket pawned The factor max that proved the fact is melted down, And woven on the edging of my pillow Now my Brother lays upon the rocks He could be dead. He could be not, He could be you. He's chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature "Shooting-up pie-in-the-sky" The Bewlay Brothers In the feeble and the bad The Bewlay Brothers In the blessed and cold In the crutch-hungry dark Was where we flayed our mark Oh, we were gone Kings of Oblivion We were so turned on In the mind-warp pavilionBm A Lay me place and bake me pieG Em I'm starving for me gravyBm A Leave my shoes, and door unlockedG Em I might just slip awayF Just for the day, hey! (Repeat last 2 lines into fade)Bm Please come away, hey!