Conversation Piece Lyrics - David Bowie

1 I took this walk to ease my mind

2 To find out what's gnawing at me

3 Wouldn't think to look at me

4 That I've spent a lot of time in education

5 It all seems so long ago

6 I'm a thinker, not a talker

7 I've no one to talk to anyway

8 I can't see the road

9 For the rain in my eyes

10 I live above the grocers' store

11 Owned by an Austrian

12 He often calls me down to eat

13 And he jokes about his broken English

14 Tries to be a friend to me

15 But for all my years of reading conversation

16 I stand without a word to say

17 I can't see the bridge

18 For the rain in my eyes

19 And the world is full of life

20 Full of folk who don't know me

21 And they walk in twos or threes or more

22 While the lamp that shines above the grocers' store

23 Investigates my face so rudely

24 And my essays lying scattered on the floor

25 Fulfill their needs just by being there

26 And my hands shake, my head hurts

27 My voice sticks inside my throat

28 I'm invisible and dumb

29 And no one will recall me

30 And I can't see the water

31 For the tears in my eyes