The Prettiest Star

David Bowie

Cold fire, you've got everything but cold fire
You will be my rest and peace, child
I moved up to take a place
Near you

So tired, it's the sky that makes you feel tried
It's a trick to make you see wide
It can all but break your heat
In pieces

Staying back in your memory
Are the movies in the past?
How you moved is all it takes
To sing a song of when I loved
The prettiest star

One day, though it might as well be someday
You and I will rise up all the way
All because of what you are
The prettiest star

Staying back in your memory
Are the movies in the past?
How you moved is all it takes
To sing a song of when I loved
The prettiest star

One day, though it might as well be someday
You and I will rise up all the way
All because of what you are
The prettiest star


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    I'm sure you'll agree that this song is beautiful and of a time pure and simple, a lost time that unless you were there you couldn't begin to understand how special it was, I'm there still in my mind, still dreaming of it, special times gone now, todd

    todd1961on July 09, 2016   Link

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