Conversation Piece Lyrics

I took this walk to ease my mind
To find out what's gnawing at me
Wouldn't think to look at me,
That I've spent a lot of time in education
It all seems so long ago
I'm a thinker, not a talker
I've no-one to talk to, anyway

I can't see the road
For the rain in my eyes
Ahhh ...

I live above the grocers store,
Owned by an austrian
He often calls me down to eat
And he jokes about his broken english,
Tries to be a friend to me
But for all my years of reading conversation,
I stand without a word to say

I can't see the bridge
For the rain in my eye
Ahhh...

And the world is full of life
Full of folk who don't know me
And they walk in twos or threes or mor
While the light that shines above the grocer's store
Investigates my face so rudely
And my essays lying scattered on the floor
Fulfill their needs just by being there
And my hands shake, my head hurts,
My voice sticks inside my throat
I'm invisible and dumb,
And no-one will recall me

And I can't see the water
Through the tears in my ey-y-yes

David Bowie - David Bowie Box

Oct 2007

1. Seque: Baby Grace (A Horrid Cassette)
2. Hallow Spaceboy
3. Seque: Algeria Touchshriek
4. Medley: Seque: Ramona A. Stone/I Am With Name
5. Seque: Nathan Adler
6. Segue: Nathan Adler
7. Pallas Athena Tao Jones Index
8. Something In the Air
9. If I'm Dreaming My Life
10. What's Really Happening?
11. The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell
12. New Angels Of Promise
13. Brilliant Adventure
14. The Dreamers
15. 1917
16. We Shall Go To Town
17. We All Go Through
18. No-One Calls
19. 5.15 the Angles Have Gone
20. Everybody Says 'Hi'
21. Conversation Piece
22. Wood Jackson
23. When the Boys Come Marching Home
24. Baby Loves That Way
25. You've Got a Habit Of Leaving
26. Safe
27. Shadow Man
28. Falling Dog Bombs the Moon
29. Waterloo Sunset
30. Fly
31. Queen Of All the Tarts (Overture)
32. Love Missile F1 Eleven
33. Rebel Never Gets Old