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Changes Lyrics
Oh yeah
Mm Still don’t know what I was waiting for And my time was running wild A million dead-end streets and Every time I thought I’d got it made It seemed the taste was not so sweet So I turned myself to face me But I’ve never caught a glimpse Of how the others must see the faker I’m much too fast to take that test Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (turn and face the strain) Ch-ch-changes Don’t want to be a richer man Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (turn and face the strain) Ch-ch-changes Just gonna have to be a different man Time may change me But I can’t trace time I watch the ripples change their size But never leave the stream Of warm impermanence So the days float through my eyes But stil the days seem the same And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations They’re quite aware of what they’re going through Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (turn and face the strain) Ch-ch-changes Don’t tell them to grow up and out of it Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (turn and face the strain) Ch-ch-changes Where’s your shame You’ve left us up to our necks in it Time may change me But you can’t trace time Strange fascination, fascinating me Ah changes are taking the pace I’m going through Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (turn and face the strain) Ch-ch-changes Oh, look out you rock ’n rollers Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (turn and face the strain) Ch-ch-changes Pretty soon now you’re gonna get a little older Time may change me But I can’t trace time I said that time may change me But I can’t trace time |
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04-27-2003
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05-08-2003
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05-08-2003
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05-10-2003
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06-06-2003
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04-11-2004
"Tu-tu-tu-tu-TUESDAY!
(Time for Driver's Ed)
Tu-tu-TUESDAY!
Don't forget to use the turn signal!"
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06-06-2004
But I can't change time.
Is it trace? I always thought is was change. That would make more sense I would think...hmm...
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06-22-2004
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10-13-2004
and i must say this is a great Bowie song but not his best. Moonage Daydream is a must have along with RockNroll suicide and 1984
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11-11-2004
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02-18-2005
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02-26-2005
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03-01-2005
I thought that was awesome, since the movie is about change.
Bowie is a God.
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03-22-2005
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04-06-2005
"And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through"
When I was a teeny bopper, I didn't understand it. Now that i'm older, around 25, I find myself on the opposite end of that comment - I mostly depise teenagers.. and I like to spit on teenagers, when I'm not running them over in my Volvo (i.e. in America, where I am from duh!)... Because they so painlessly seek sex and drugs (and rocknroll), and seem to be offended by the idea of wisdom (and rocknroll).
End result, a guy like me just wonders, as people have expected for the past 5000 years, that society is in decline.. Then teenagers who can't read or think reply with "500 years ago, people thought teenagers would ruin society too, and it never happened" or something along those lines..
But of course, that's an empty thing to say, or course bad things happened... I mean.. thousands of passionate wars have been fought and 100 million Jews were killed in concentration camps, and eventually, perhaps America will no longer exist - and the young seem to have no interest in keeping that from happening.
With all due respect to David Bowie.. he is a man who had a lot of heart.. an introspective man.. who has brought visions to me that I value and cherish.. Again, unfortunately, I never got the Jap girls in synthesis - the one vision I would have like the most..
But that line above particularly bothers me, because it sort of says to me that there is an "us" and a "them", and me and David Bowie are on different sides.. Instead of basically saying "they are immune to my bullshit", it would have been nice if he could have bridged our differences with some thoughtful discourse...
But then again.. Well.. Differences... Sometimes it is exactly those differences that makes a music provocative.. His song provokes me.. I don't know if that's good.. But surely puts the music is up there in the ranks..
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06-07-2005
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07-07-2005
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07-14-2005
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08-08-2005
Though it pains me to be affiliated with him in any way, the lyrics that student so expertly discussed happen to be my favorite as well. Being 16, i despise adult guidance/advice forced upon me, even though I know most of it would be beneficial to follow. A major part of growing up is being rebellious and questioning what is accepted as we mature and try to find our place in society. It's primarily a personal journey and I'd rather make some mistakes along the way then have the adults in my life breathing down my neck all the time to make sure i turn out alright. whatever happens, happens. that's life.
Bowie perfectly illustrates that in the this, as noted before, timeless song. It may have came out long ago, but I connect with it greatly and young punks of many generations to come are sure to as well.
Oh, and f@#% good charlotte. I listened to them pre-TRL days and they were mediocre at best then. Nowadays, they are just god awful market researched poo. I always wondered how they were so popular and now the truth has finally been revealed this week; they really aren't. Sony's been bribing radio stations to play that crap for years. That is some skeezy sh**.
This is why i spent the money to get a line-in jack in my car so i can listen to my 30gb corporate corruptionless collection of bowie, sufjan stevens, MF Doom, and other amazing artists wherever i go. Ahh, feels good just thinking about it.
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08-16-2005
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08-20-2005
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08-20-2005
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09-04-2005
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12-12-2005
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01-06-2006
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