The Man Who Sold The World

 David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World

(4 min 35 sec)

• Some of the lyrics are based on a poem by Hugh Mearns called The Psychoed:
  
  As I was going up the stair
  I met a man who was not there
  He wasn't there again today
  I wish that man would go away

We passed upon the stair

We spoke of was and when

Although I wasn't there

He said I was his friend

Which came as some surprise

I spoke into his eyes

"I thought you died alone

A long long time ago."

"Oh no, not me

I never lost control

You're face to face

With the man who sold the world."

I laughed and shook his hand

And made my way back home

I searched for form and land

For years and years I roamed

I gazed a gazely stare

At all the millions here

We must have died alone

A long long time ago

Who knows? Not me

We never lost control

You're face to face

With the man who sold the world (x2)

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