Baal's Hymn Lyrics - David Bowie

1 Whilst his mother's womb contained the growing Baal

2 Even then the sky was waiting quiet and pale

3 Naked, young, immensely marvellous

4 Like Baal loved it, when he came to us

5 That same sky remained with him in joy and care

6 Even when Baal slept peaceful and unaware

7 At night a lilac sky, a drunken Baal

8 Turning pious as the sky grows pale

9 So through hospital, cathedral, whiskey bar

10 Baal kept moving onwards and just let things go

11 When Baal's tired, boys, Baal cannot fall far

12 He will have his sky down there below

13 When the sinners congregate in shame together

14 Baal lay naked, revelling in their distress

15 Only sky, a sky that will go on forever

16 Formed a blanket for his nakedness

17 And that lusty girl, the world, who'll laughing yield

18 To the men who'll stand the pressure of her thighs

19 Sometimes gave him love-bites, such as can't be healed

20 Baal survived it, he just used his eyes

21 And when Baal saw lots of corpses scattered round

22 He felt twice the thrill, despite the lack of room

23 "Space enough" said Baal, "then I'll thicken the ground

24 Space enough within this woman's womb"

25 Any vice for Baal has got its useful side

26 It's the man who practices it, he can't abide

27 Vices have their point, once you see it as such

28 Stick to two for one will be too much

29 Slackness, softness are the sort of things to shun

30 Nothing could be harder than the quest for fun

31 Lots of strength is needed and experience too

32 Swollen bellies can embarrass you

33 Under gloomy stars and this poor veil of tears

34 Baal will graze a pasture till it disappears

35 Once it's been digested to the forest's teeth

36 Baal trod singing for a well earned sleep

37 Baal can spot the vultures in the stormy sky

38 As they wait up there to see if Baal will die

39 Sometimes Baal pretends he's dead, but vultures swoop

40 Baal in silence dines on vulture-soup

41 When the dark womb drags him down to its prize

42 What's the world still mean to Baal, he's overfed

43 So much sky is lurking still behind his eyes

44 He'll just have enough sky when he's dead

45 Once the Earth's dark womb engulfed the rotting Baal

46 Even then the sky was up there, quiet and pale

47 Naked, young, immensely marvellous

48 Like Baal loved it when he lived with us