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Quicksand (San Francisco hotel recording)
David Bowie
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I'm closer to the golden dawn
Immersed in Crowley's uniform of imagery
I'm living in the silent film
Portraying Himmler's sacred realm of dream reality
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I'm frightened by the total gall
I'm drawing to the racket hall
And I'm sinking in the quicksand of my youth
And I ain't got the power anymore
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I'm the twisted name on Garbo's eyes
I'm living through the church's lies, I'm destiny
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I'm torn between the light and dark
Where others see the target divine's symmetry
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Should I kiss the viper's back
Or herald loud the death of man
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thoughts
And I ain't got the power anymore
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Don't believe in yourself
Don't deceive with belief
Knowledge comes with death's release
Ahh, ahh
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man
Just a mortal with potential of a superman
I'm living on a wonder
Tethered to the logic of homo sapien
Can't take my eyes from the great salvation
Bullshit faith
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If I don't explain what you ought to know
You can tell me all about it on the next Bardo
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thoughts
And I ain't got the power anymore
Don't believe in yourself
Don't deceive with belief
Knowledge comes with death's release
Ahh, ahh
Don't believe in yourself
Don't deceive with belief
Knowledge comes with death's release
Ahh, ahh
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