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Teenage Wildlife
David Bowie
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How come you only want tomorrow
With its promise of something hard to do?
Some real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
With the blue skies above, the sun on your heart
Strength in your stride and hope in your squeaky clean eyes
You get chilly receptions everywhere you go
Blinded by desire, guess the season is on
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So you trade by shadowboxing in search of the truth
Buyers on, buyers on you, stop
Break open your million dollar weapon and push your luck
Still you push, still you push your luck
Some Pope and Royce mogul like you
One of the new wave boys
It's the same old thing in brand new drag
Comes sweeping into view, ooh
As ugly as a teenage millionaire
Pretending it's a whiskey world
You take me aside and you say
"Hey, David, what can I do?
They wait for me in the hallway"
And I say, "Don't ask me, I don't know any hallways"
But they, they move in numbers
And they got me in a corner
I feel like a group of one, oh no
They can't do this to me
I'm not some piece of teenage wildlife
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I'm not some piece of teenage wildlife, oh no
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Those great ones stay history
They're put on their bloody ropes
And the word is I'm the hunted one
He's out there on his own
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You're alone for maybe the last time
And you breathe for a long time
Then you roar out loud in a chant
And you dare not look behind
You fall to the ground just like a leaf from a tree
And look up one time at that vast blue sky
And scream out aloud as they shoot you down, oh no no
I'm not some piece of teenage wildlife
I'm not some piece of teenage wildlife, oh no
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Not some piece of teenage wildlife, oh no
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And no one will have seen and no one will confess
The fingerprints will prove that you couldn't pass the test
There'll be others on the line piling past
And we'll whisper "Oh, I miss him, but he had to go"
Well, each to his own, he was another piece of teenage wildlife
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Just another piece of teenage wildlife, oh yeah
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Another piece of teenage wildlife
Another piece of teenage wildlife
Another piece of teenage wildlife
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