Slip Away lyrics

Song information

Artist: David Bowie
Album: Heathen

Lyrics

Oogie waits for just another day
Drags his bones to see the yankees play
Bones boy talks and flickers gray
Oh, they slip away

Once a time they nearly might have been
Bones and oogie on a silver screen
No one knew what they could do
Except for me and you
They slip away
They slip away

Chorus
Don't forget to keep your head warm
Twinkle twinkle uncle floyd
Watching all the world and war torn
How I wonder where you are

Sailing over coney island
Twinkle twinkle uncle floyd
We were dumb but you were fun, boy
How I wonder where you are
Oo-oo

Oogie knew there's never ever time
Some of us will always stay behind
Down in space it's always 1982
The joke we always knew
Oo-oo
What's-a matter with you

C'mon, let's go
Slip away
Oo-oo

Chorus

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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