The song Baal's Hymn is performed by David Bowie in the album named Sound + Vision in the year 2003 .
Whilst his mother's womb contained the growing Baal
Even then the sky was waiting quiet and pale
Naked, young, immensely marvellous
Like Baal loved it, when he came to us
That same sky remained with him in joy and care
Even when Baal slept peaceful and unaware
At night a lilac sky, a drunken Baal
Turning pious as the sky grows pale
So through hospital, cathedral, whiskey bar
Baal kept moving onwards and just let things go
When Baal's tired, boys, Baal cannot fall far
He will have his sky down there below
When the sinners congregate in shame together
Baal lay naked, revelling in their distress
Only sky, a sky that will go on forever
Formed a blanket for his nakedness
And that lusty girl, the world, who'll laughing yield
To the men who'll stand the pressure of her thighs
Sometimes gave him love-bites, such as can't be healed
Baal survived it, he just used his eyes
And when Baal saw lots of corpses scattered round
He felt twice the thrill, despite the lack of room
"Space enough" said Baal, "then I'll thicken the ground
Space enough within this woman's womb"
Any vice for Baal has got its useful side
It's the man who practices it, he can't abide
Vices have their point, once you see it as such
Stick to two for one will be too much
Slackness, softness are the sort of things to shun
Nothing could be harder than the quest for fun
Lots of strength is needed and experience too
Swollen bellies can embarra*s you
Under gloomy stars and this poor veil of tears
Baal will graze a pasture till it disappears
Once it's been digested to the forest's teeth
Baal trod singing for a well earned sleep
Baal can spot the vultures in the stormy sky
As they wait up there to see if Baal will die
Sometimes Baal pretends he's dead, but vultures swoop
Baal in silence dines on vulture-soup
When the dark womb drags him down to its prize
What's the world still mean to Baal, he's overfed
So much sky is lurking still behind his eyes
He'll just have enough sky when he's dead
Once the Earth's dark womb engulfed the rotting Baal
Even then the sky was up there, quiet and pale
Naked, young, immensely marvellous
Like Baal loved it when he lived with us
David Bowie - Sound + Vision
- Space Oddity (original demo 1969)
- The Wild-Eyed Boy From Freecloud (rare B-side version 1969)
- The Prettiest Star (single version 1970)
- London Bye Ta-Ta (previously unreleased stereo mix 1970)
- Black Country Rock
- The Man Who Sold The World
- The Bewlay Brothers
- Changes
- Round And Round (alternate vocal take 1971)
- Moonage Daydream
- John I'm Only Dancing (Aladdin Sane outtake 1973)
- Drive In Saturday
- Panic In Detroit
- Ziggy Stardust (live from Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture)
- White Light/White Heat (live from Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture)
- Rock 'n Roll Suicide (live from Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture)
- Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
- Sorrow
- Don't Bring Me Down
- 1984/Dodo (recorded 1973)
- Big Brother
- Rebel Rebel (rare single version 1974)
- Suffragette City (Live)
- Watch That Man (Live)
- Cracked Actor (Live)
- Young Americans
- Fascination
- After Today (Young Americans outtake 1975)
- It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City (recorded 1975)
- TVC15
- Wild Is The Wind
- Sound And Vision
- Be My Wife
- Speed Of Life
- Helden (German version of Heroes - 1989 remix)
- Joe The Lion
- Sons Of The Silent Age
- Station To Station (Live)
- Warszawa (Live)
- Breaking Glass (Live)
- Red Sails
- Look Back In Anger
- Boys Keep Swinging
- Up The Hill Backwards
- Kingdom Come
- Ashes To Ashes
- Baal's Hymn (from Baal E.P.)
- Drowned Girl (from Baal E.P.)
- Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (soundtrack album version)
- China Girl
- Ricochet
- Modern Love (Live) (B-side)
- Loving The Alien
- Dancing With The Big Boys
- Blue Jean
- Time Will Crawl
- Baby Can Dance
- Amazing
- I Can't Read
- Shopping For Girls
- Goodbye Mr. Ed
- Amlapura
- You've Been Around
- Nite Flights (Remix)
- Pallas Athena (Gone Midnight Mix)
- Jump They Say
- Buddha Of Suburbia
- Dead Against It
- South Horizon
- Pallas Athena (Live as Tao Jones Index)