“I could wear your new blue shoes”
With this track we’re half way through The Next Day and on to the words for If You Can See Me.
Though many of you have them allready, we’ll continue posting more lyrics for now.
Pretty much all of Jonathan Barnbrook‘s album cover artwork has been revealed one way or another, not least of all on his blog.
So we decided we would try and post some vaguely-relevant-to-the-lyrics images from the upcoming David Bowie is Exhibition at The V&A.
Pictured today are the blue, blue, ’lectric blue boots that Bowie wore for Mick Rock’s Pin-Ups album cover session.
We all presumed they were shoes actually, but you can view them here for the first time in all their unhidden glory.
And so, the words.
If You Can See Me (David Bowie)If you can see me I can see youI could wear your new blue shoesI should wear your old red dressAnd walk to the crossroadsSo take this knifeAnd meet me across the riverJust shoots and ladders and this is the kissAmerican anna fantasticalsationFrom nowhere to nothingAnd I go way backChildren swarm like thousands of bugsTowards the lights the beacons above the hillThe stars to the West, the South, the NorthAnd to the EastNow you could say I’ve got a gift of sortsA fear of rear windows and swinging doorsA love of violence a dread of sighsIf you can see me I can see youIf you can see me I can see youI have seen these bairns wave their fists at GodSwear to destroy the beasts stamping the groundIn their excitement for tomorrowI could wear your new blue shoesI should wear your old red dressAnd walk to the crossroadsSo take this knifeAnd meet me across the riverI will take your lands and all that lays beneathThe dust of cold flowers prison of dark ashesI will slaughter your kind who descend from beliefI am the spirit of greed a lord of theftI’ll burn all your books and the problems they makeIf you can see me I can see youIf you can see me