Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise) Lyrics - David Bowie

1 '''PART ONE:SWEET THING'''

2 Its safe in the city, to love in a doorway

3 To wrangle some screens from the door

4 And isnt it me, putting pain in a stranger?

5 Like a portrait in flesh, who trails on a leash

6 Will you see that Im scared and Im lonely?

7 So Ill break up my room, and yawn and i

8 Run to the centre of things

9 Where the knowing one says

10 Boys, boys, its a sweet thing

11 Boys, boys, its a sweet thing, sweet thing

12 If you want it, boys, get it here, thing

13 cause hope, boys, is a cheap thing, cheap thing

14 Im glad that youre older than me

15 Makes me feel important and free

16 Does that make you smile, isnt that me?

17 Im in your way, and Ill steal every moment

18 If his trade is a curse, then Ill bless you

19 And turn to the crossroads, and hamburgers, and

20 Boys, boys, its a sweet thing

21 Boys, boys, its a sweet thing, sweet thing

22 If you want it, boys, get it here, thing

23 cause hope, boys, is a cheap thing, cheap thing

24 '''PART TWO:CANDIDATE'''

25 I'll make you a deal, like any other candidate

26 We'll pretend we're walking home 'cause your future's at stake

27 My set is amazing, it even smells like a street

28 There's a bar at the end where I can meet you and your friend

29 Someone scrawled on the wall "I smell the blood of Les Tricoteuses"

30 Who wrote up scandals in other bars

31 I'm having so much fun with the poisonous people

32 Spreading rumors and lies and stories they made up

33 Some make you sing and some make you scream

34 One makes you wish that you'd never been seen

35 But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache

36 Making bullet-proof faces; Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay

37 "If you want it, Boys, get it here, thing"

38 So you scream out of line:

39 "I want you! I need you! Anyone out there? Any time?"

40 Tres butch little number whines "Hey gorgeous, I want you

41 When it's good, it's really good, and when it's bad I go to pieces"

42 If you want it, Boys, get it here, thing

43 On the street where you live I could not hold up my head

44 For I put all I have in another bed

45 On another floor, in the back of a car

46 In the cellar of a church with the door ajar

47 Well, I guess we must be looking for a different kind

48 But we can't stop trying till we break up our minds

49 till the sun drips blood on the seedy young knights

50 Who press you on the ground while shaking in fright

51 I guess we could cruise down one more time

52 With you by my side, it should be fine

53 We'll buy some drugs and watch a band

54 Then jump in the river holding hands

55 '''PART THREE:SWEET THING (REPRISE)'''

56 "If you want it, boys, get it here, thing

57 'Cause hope, boys, is a cheap thing, cheap thing"

58 Is it nice in your snow storm, freezing your brain?

59 Do you think that your face looks the same?

60 Then let it be, it's all I ever wanted

61 It's a street with a deal, and a taste

62 It's got claws, it's got me, it's got you ...