We Are the Dead Lyrics - David Bowie

1 Something kind of hit me today

2 I looked at you and wondered if you saw things my way

3 People will hold us to blame

4 It hit me today, it hit me today

5 We're taking it hard all the time

6 Why don't we pass it by?

7 Just reply, you've changed your mind

8 We're fighting with the eyes of the blind

9 Taking it hard, taking it hard

10 Yet now

11 We feel that we are paper, choking on you nightly

12 They tell me "Son, we want you, be elusive, but don't walk far"

13 For we're breaking in the new boys, deceive your next of kin

14 For you're dancing where the dogs decay, defecating ecstasy

15 You're just an ally of the leecher

16 Locator for the virgin King, but I love you in your fuck-me pumps

17 And your nimble dress that trails

18 Oh, dress yourself, my urchin one, for I hear them on the rails

19 Because of all we've seen, because of all we've said

20 We are the dead

21 One thing kind of touched me today

22 I looked at you and counted all the times we had laid

23 Pressing our love through the night

24 Knowing it's right, knowing it's right

25 Now I'm hoping someone will care

26 Living on the breath of a hope to be shared

27 Trusting on the sons of our love

28 That someone will care, someone will care

29 But now

30 We're today's scrambled creatures, locked in tomorrow's double feature

31 Heaven's on the pillow, its silence competes with hell

32 It's a twenty-four hour service, guaranteed to make you tell

33 And the streets are full of press men

34 Bent on getting hung and buried

35 And the legendary curtains are drawn 'round Baby Bankrupt

36 Who sucks you while you're sleeping

37 It's the theater of financiers

38 Count them, fifty 'round a table

39 White and dressed to kill

40 Oh caress yourself, my juicy

41 For my hands have all but withered

42 Oh dress yourself my urchin one, for I hear them on the stairs

43 Because of all we've seen, because of all we've said

44 We are the dead

45 We are the dead

46 We are the dead