How Does The Grass Grow? Lyrics - David Bowie

1 There’s a graveyard by the station

2 Where the girls wear nylon skirts and

3 Sandals from Hungary

4 The boys ride their Riga 1’s

5 Upon the little hill

6 Such sadness and grief

7 The trees die standing

8 That’s where we made our trysts

9 And struggled with our guns

10 Would you still love me

11 If the clocks could go backwards?

12 The girls would fill with blood and

13 The grass would be green again

14 Remember the dead

15 They were so great, some of them

16 Ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya

17 Ya ya ya ya ya ya

18 How does the grass grow?

19 Blood, blood, blood

20 Ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya

21 Ya ya ya ya ya ya

22 Where do the boys lie?

23 Mud, mud, mud

24 How does the grass grow?

25 Blood, blood, blood

26 But I lived a blind life

27 A white face in prison

28 But you made a life out of nothing

29 Now I ride my black horse

30 I miss you more

31 Than you’ll ever, ever know

32 Waiting with my red eyes

33 And my stone heart

34 Ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya

35 Ya ya ya ya ya ya

36 How does the grass grow?

37 Blood, blood, blood

38 Ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya

39 Ya ya ya ya ya ya

40 Where do the boys lie?

41 Mud, mud, mud

42 How does the grass grow?

43 Blood, blood, blood

44 I gaze in defeat

45 At the stars in the night

46 The light in my life burnt away

47 There will be no tomorrow

48 Then you sigh in your sleep

49 And meaning returns with the day

50 Ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya

51 Ya ya ya ya ya ya

52 Where do the boys lie?

53 Mud, mud, mud

54 How does the grass grow?

55 Blood, blood, blood