Wiser Man

Bowie David

Earthling

Dead Man Walking

He swivels his head, tears his eyes from the screen

As his past puts him back in Atlantic City

There's not even a demon in heaven or hell

Is it all just human disguise as I walk down the aisle

And I'm gone, gone, gone

Now I'm older than movies

Let me dance away

Now I'm wiser than dreams

Let me fly, fly, fly

While I'm touching tomorrow

And I know who's there

When silhouettes fall

And I'm gone like I'm dancing on angels

And I'm gone thru' the crack in the past

Like a dead man walking

Three old men dancing under the lamplight

Shaking their sex and their bones

and the boys that we were

An alien nation in therapy sliding naked and new

Like a bad tempered child on the rain slicked streets

Let me dance, dance, dance

And I'm gone

Like a dead man