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Shining Star
David Bowie
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Making my love
Like a shining star
Taking my love
Just a touch too far
Eddie Boyd lit like paraffin
Spending two weeks in the crackhouse
Burning on his brain like Chernobyl
Dean was thin with a two-pack
But as he was lying dead on his mother's bed
Someone to pray for
'Til I met you
Life is like a broken arrow
Memory a swinging door
I could be your great misfortune
I could make you happy every day of your life
Making my love
Like a shining star
Taking my love
Just a touch too far
Dizzy done tricks with a soul like ice
'Cause love left holes in four swell kids
Breaking her heart
I've got windows, I've seen much vice
I've touched down with vermin, cowards, lice
And I say
Nobody cares what you do
Please be yourself today
I could be your great misfortune
But you'll never find a
Bet you'll never find a better man
Making my love
Like a shining star
Taking my love
Just a touch too far
Peter met Frank, formed a dummy-ran gang
Worked heister, hit for ten G's flat
Blew heads out of shape in the name of Trotsky
Sinn Fein, Hitler, cash down
No hope here, all this colorless pave
With debts in heroin, fingers in blood
Poor little bodies all covered in scabs
Threw it all away, now the life in the grave
(The life in the grave)
Life is like a broken arrow
Memory a swinging door
I could be your great misfortune
Well, I could make you happy every goddamn single day of your life
Making my love
Like a shining star
Like a shining star
Babe, that's what you are
Like a shining star
Making my love
Like a shining star
Taking my love
Just a touch too far
Making my love
Like a shining star
Taking my love
Just a touch too far
Making my love
Like a shining star
Taking my love
Just a touch too far
Making my love
Like a shining star
Taking my love
Just a touch too far
Making my love
Like a shining star
Taking my love
Just a touch too far