Ballad Of The Adventurers Lyrics - David Bowie

Sickened by sun, with rainstorms lashing him rotten 

A looted wreath crowning his tangled hair 

Every moment of his youth apart from its dream was forgotten 

Gone the roof overhead, but the sky was always there 

Oh you, who are flung out, alike from heaven and from Hades 

You murderers who've been so bitterly repaid 

Why did you part from the mothers who nursed you as babies 

It was peaceful and you slept and there you stayed 

Still he explores and rakes the absinthe green oceans 

Though his mother has given him up for lost 

Grinning and cursing with a few odd tears of contrition 

Always in search of that land where life seems best 

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Loafing through hells and flocked through paradises 

Calm and grinning, with a vanishing face 

At times he still dreams of a small field he recognises 

With a blue sky overhead and nothing else 

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