Your favorite song

I have a million and one favourite songs, and picking just one was incredibly difficult, but I put some thought into it – all the music I have loved over the years and what is the song that would be my number one, that one song that I keep going back to, the one song that always commands my attention each time my iPhone serves it up to me. Here it is!

David Bowie – Life on Mars?

David Bowie

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
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
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

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?

It’s on Amerikas 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 Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
‘Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It’s about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on

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?

I first heard this song as a kid. Not the David Bowie version though, the London Symphonic Orchestra put a record out of classic rock songs, played by them. I can’t remember all that was on the record – it was vinyl. I’d love to find MP3 versions of the tracks as they recorded them, but I loved this song from back then. One day I heard the original version, and I still love it now.

Conclusion

This blog post concludes the thirty days of me series. Thank you for reading daily and I hope you all stick around to see what I will do next. I have learned a lot about myself and about all of you as well.

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

- Tom Head

Together, Alone, Unique and Common. Thirty days of islands becoming continents. Peace out and ROCK ON!