Name: Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
Duration: 3 min 2 s
Channel: David Bowie
Description: this track closes the Ziggy Lp and famously 'killed' off Ziggy in concert - it's our sixth in a series of Bowie covers and Gary's guitar is brilliant (deft touch)

this track closes the Ziggy Lp and famously 'killed' off Ziggy in concert - it's our sixth in a series of Bowie covers and Gary's guitar is brilliant (deft touch)

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some people get by with a little understanding, some people get by with a whole lot more..

think back to when Gary Numan wrote and recorded 'Cars' in 1979 and if we don't think we've lost something we're crazy...but if we think it's coming back anytime soon then we are complete fools... can you still recall in the juke box hall when the music played and the world spun round to a brand new sound in those far off days.. in their blue suede shoes they would scream and shout as they sang the blues, let it all hang out.. rock and roll..

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Cover Songs

Charts

#190 today Peak #6

#24 in subgenre Peak #1

Author

David Bowie

Rights

c.1972 David Bowie

Uploaded

September 25, 2025

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.9 MB • 179 kbps • 3:02

Story behind the song

we've done a few Bowie covers and we have another coming up soon, 'Let's Dance' minus Nile, minus the funk (we've gone for a Trent Reznor industrial mix, lol!)

Lyrics

Time takes a cigarette
Puts it in your mouth
You pull on your finger
Then another finger, then your cigarette
The wall-to-wall is calling
It lingers, then you forget

Oh, oh, oh, oh, you're a rock 'n' roll suicide

You're too old to lose it, too young to choose it
And the clock waits so patiently on your song
You walk past a café, but you don't eat
When you've lived too long

Oh, no, no, no, you're a rock 'n' roll suicide

Chev's brakes are snarling
As you stumble across the road
But the day breaks instead, so you hurry home
Don't let the sun blast your shadow
Don't let the milk float ride your mind
They're so natural, religiously unkind

Oh no, love, you're not alone
You're watching yourself, but you're too unfair
You got your head all tangled up
But if I could only make you care
Oh no, love, you're not alone
No matter what or who you've been
No matter when or where you've seen
All the knives seem to lacerate your brain
I've had my share, I'll help you with the pain

You're not alone

Just turn on with me (and you're wonderful)
Let's turn on with me (and you're wonderful)
Just turn on with me (and you're wonderful)
Give me your hands (and you're wonderful)
...give me your hands

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