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Song Analysis

Life on Mars

By: David Bowie

SONG

David Bowie

1972

"Life on Mars?"

Single Cover

1973

Lyric Analysis

H

A

B

A

It's a God-awful small affair

To the girl with the mousy hair

But her mummy is yelling no

And her daddy has told her to go

B

I

B

Sailors fighting in the dance hall

Oh man, look at those cavemen go

It's the freakiest show

Take a look at the lawman

Beating up the wrong guy

Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know

He's in the best selling show

Is there life on Mars?

J

B

C

B

C

K

But her friend is nowhere to be seen

Now she walks through her sunken dream

To the seat with the clearest view

And she's hooked to the silver screen

D

C

L

M

E

N

It's on America's tortured brow

That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow

Now the workers have struck for fame

'Cause Lennon's on sale again

See the mice in their million hordes

From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads

Rule Britannia is out of bounds

To my mother, my dog, and clowns

E

But the film is a saddening bore

For she's lived it ten times or more

She could spit in the eyes of fools

As they ask her to focus on

O

F

O

G

P

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-Imagery

-Symbolism

-Rhyme

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Overall Mood

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