Red Sails

By David Bowie

On Lodger

Released on May 18, 1979

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[Verse 1]

I feel a little roughed up, feel a bit frightened

Nearly pin it down some time

Red sail action, wake up in the wrong town

Boy, I really get around


[Refrain]

Thunder ocean, thunder ocean

Red sails take me, make me sail along

Red sails, and a mast so tall

Red sails, red sails


[Verse 2]

Do you remember, we another person

Green and black and red and so scared

Graffiti on the wall keep us all in tune

Bringing us all back home


[Refrain]

Red sails, thunder ocean

Red sails, sailor can't dance like you

Red sail, red sail action

Red sail, some reaction


[Verse 3]

Action boy seen living under neon

Struggle with a foreign tongue

Red sails make him strong

Action make him sail along


[Outro]

Life stands still and stares

The hinterland, the hinterland

We're going to sail to the hinterland

And it's far far, far far far, far far far away

It's a far far, far far far, fa da, da da da

1, 2, 3, 4

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