Life on Mars? es una canción del artista británico David Bowie, lanzada originalmente en el álbum Hunky Dory en diciembre de 1971 y como sencillo en 1973. La canción presenta una progresión de acordes compleja y demuestra la habilidad de Bowie tanto como compositor como letrista. La letra refleja el sentimiento de alienación y desilusión de la juventud de la época, ofreciendo una perspectiva crítica sobre los medios de comunicación y la sociedad ... Ver más [+] contemporánea. También es conocida por su producción cinematográfica y arreglo orquestal, lo que contribuye a su atmósfera dramática.
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D#m/Eb It's a god-awful small affair
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To the girl with the mousy hair
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But her mummy is yelling "No"
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And her daddy has told her to go
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D#m/Eb But her friend is nowhere to be seen
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Now she walks through her sunken dream.
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To the seat with the clearest view And she's hooked to the silver screen
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But the film is a saddening bore
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For she's lived it ten times or more
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She could spit in the eyes of fools
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As they ask her to focus on
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Sailors fighting in the dance hall
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Oh man! look at those cavemen go
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It's the freakiest show
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Take a look at the lawman
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Beating up the wrong guy
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Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
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He's in the best selling show
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Is there life on Mars?
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D#m/Eb It's on Amerika's tortured brow
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That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
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Now the workers have struck for fame
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'Cause Lennon's on sale again
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D#m/Eb See the mice in their million hordes
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From Ibeza to the norfolk broads
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Rule Britannia is out of bounds To my mother, my dog, and clowns