Killing A Little Time

(David Bowie)



I staggered through
This criminal rain
I'm not in love
No phony pain

Creeping through
This tidal wave
No warm embrace
Just a lovers' grave
This symphony
This rage in me

I've got handful
Of songs to sing
To sting your soul
To fuck you over

This furious rain

I'm falling man
I'm choking man
I'm fading man
I'm the broken line

I'm falling man
I'm choking man
I'm fading man
Just killing a little time

I love the sound
Of an empty room
The screams of night
The end of love
Two beating hearts
One laboured start
One open wound
Wasted and drawn

No sympathy
This furious rain

I lay in bed
The monster fed
The body bled
I turned and said:
"I get some of you
All the time
All of you
Some other time"
This rage in me
Get away from me

I'm falling man
I'm choking man
I'm fading man
I'm the broken line

I'm falling man
I'm choking man
I'm fading man
Just killing a little time

This symphony
Get away from me



(Appeared in the Lazarus theatre production at The New York Theatre Workshop, directed by Ivo van Hove, written by David Bowie and Enda Walsh).
(The Bowie studio version from the Blackstar recordings was released on Lazarus Original Cast Recording on 21st October 2016. Also released as part of the 'No Plan' EP on CD (24th February 2017), 12" black vinyl [21st April 2017], white vinyl [26th May 2017] and clear blue vinyl [22nd April 2017]).