How Does the Grass Grow?

Album: The Next Day (2013)
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  • There's a graveyard by the station
    Where the girls wear nylon skirts and
    Sandals ?
    The boys ride their Riga 1's
    Upon the little hill
    Such sadness and grief
    The trees die standing
    That's where we made our trysts
    And struggled with our guns
    Would you still love me
    If the clocks could go backwards
    The girls would fill with blood and
    The grass would be green again
    Remember the dead
    They were so great
    Some of them

    How does the grass grow
    Blood blood blood
    Where do the boys lie
    Mud mud mud
    How does the grass grow
    Blood blood blood

    But I lived a blind life
    A white face in prison
    But you made a life out of nothing
    Now I ride my black horse
    I miss you more
    Than you'll ever ever know
    Waiting with my red eyes
    And my stone heart

    How does the grass grow
    Blood blood blood
    Where do the boys lie
    Mud mud mud
    How does the grass grow
    Blood blood blood

    I gaze in defeat
    At the stars in the night
    The light in my life burnt away
    There will be no tomorrow
    Then you sigh in your sleep
    And meaning returns with the day

    Where do the boys lie
    Mud mud mud
    How does the grass grow
    Blood blood blood Writer/s: DAVID BOWIE, JERRY LORDAN
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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