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Red Sails Lyrics by David Bowie

Sound + Vision [2003 Version]

1979

[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
Oooooooh

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"Red Sails" appears on "Sound + Vision [2003 Version]" in 1979.

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