People From Bad Homes

(David Bowie)



People from bad homes
Don't have time
To look things over
Make up their minds

People from good homes
Don't have the minds
To care for bad homes
Don't have the time

Home is the mainline
Can't take the blame
'Cos people have notions
To play out this game

Just stand on your own line
Stand high above
'Cos people have caution
And trouble to love

Me, I've got no home
Just main street and wine
No one to hussle
No one to jive
Me and my prospects
Just having a ball
Having the best time
Or nothing at all

Home is the mainline
Can't take the blame
'Cos people have notions
To play out this game
Just stand on your own line
Stand high above
'Cos people have caution
And trouble to love

Home is the mainline
Can't take the blame
'Cos people have notions
To play out this game
Just stand on your own line
Stand high above
'Cos people have caution
And trouble to love

Oh yeah



(Recorded during the Ava Cherry and The Astronettes sessions at the Olympic Studios, Barnes, London in November 1974).