Since the day alter ego Major Tom observed that ‘Planet Earth is blue, and there’s nothing I can do’, a controversy has raged; namely are Bowie’s lyrics brilliant or bollocks. The following is a list of dubious couplets or lines, as imperfectly heard by the website’s author. You may notice a disproportionate amount of this questionable writing originates from Bowie’s earlier career, in fact the entire second page. All you have to do is decide whether they are brilliant, or bollocks?

Blackout

I just cut and blackout,
I’m under Japanese influence,
And my honour’s at stake,
The music’s great

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Tags: Blackout, Kiss you in the rain

Don’t look at the carpet,
I drew something awful on it

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Tags: Berlin, Breaking Glass, Let me touch you, Low, Such a wonderful Person

Jasmine, I saw you breathing,
As I pushed my foot down to the floor

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But I’m, always crashing in the same car

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Tags: Always Crashing in the Same Car, Low, Machine, touching close to 94

Don’t you wonder sometimes,
‘Bout sound and vision?

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Tags: blue blue, david bowie, Hertha Berlin, Low, Sound and Vision

Inside every teenage girl, there’s a fountain,
Inside every young pair of pants, there’s a mountain

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Tags: Candidate, david bowie, Young pair of pants

My brain felt like a warehouse,
It had no room to spare

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Soldier knelt, and kissed the feet of a Priest,
And a queer threw up at the sight of that

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It was cold, and it rained,
So I felt like an actor

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Tags: david bowie, Five Years, Milkshakes cold and long, Spiders from Mars, Ziggy, Ziggy Stardust

I’m an Alligator,
I’m a Mama, Papa,
Coming for you,
I’m a Space Invader,
I’ll be a Rockin’, Rollin’ bitch for you

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Tags: Alligator, Bowie, Life on Mars, Moonage daydream, Ray-gun, Space Invader, Spiders from Mars, Tall Venusian Spiders from Mars, Ziggy, Ziggy Stardust

Lay me place,
And bake me pie,
I’m starving for me gravy

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Tags: Comedian Chameleon Corinthian and Caricature, david bowie, Hunky dory, Starving for me gravy, Stewing Steak

I’m not a prophet,
Or a Stone Age man,
Just a mortal with potential of a superman

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Tags: david bowie, Hunky dory, logic of Homo Sapien, quick sand, Quicksand

I’ll give you back my farmland,
I’ll give you back my house,
I’ll give you back my right to be free,
I’ve got moon,
I’ve got sun,
Lightening, Lightening, Lightening,
I’ve got me,
I’ve got you,
Frightening, Frightening, Frightening

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Tags: Bowie Bonus Track, Farmland and House, Freedom rescinded, Lightening Frightening, Lightning Frightening, Moon and Sun, You and Me