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by David Bowie


Song: Changes (David Bowie)
Album: Hunky Dory


[4/4]

                                        
                             Oh yeah

                         
  Still don't know what I was waiting for
       
And my time was running wild
           
  A million dead-end streets and
                         
  Every time I thought I'd got it made
                                 
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
                    
So I turned myself to face me
                           
But I've never caught a glimpse
                            
Of how the others must see the faker
              
I'm much too fast to take that test

          
  Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
        
Turn and face the strange
        
  Ch-ch-Changes
                       [2/4]     [4/4]
  Don't want to be a richer      man
          
  Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
        
Turn and face the strange
        
  Ch-ch-Changes
                     [2/4]                
  It's gonna have to be a      different man
[3/4]           
       Time may change me
               [4/4]
But I can't trace time

I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream of warm impermanence
And so the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
Turn and face the strange
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't tell them to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
Turn and face the strange
Ch-ch-Changes
Where's your shame
You've left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
                 
But you can't trace time

                                      
Strange fascination, fascinating me
                      
Changes are taking the pace I'm going through


Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
Turn and face the strange
Ch-ch-Changes
Look out you rock'n'rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
Turn and face the strange
Ch-ch-Changes
Pretty soon now you're gonna get older
Time may change me
But I can't trace time

                    
I said that time may change me
         
But I can't trace time