David Bowie

Red Sails is a song written and performed by David Bowie. It is from the album Lodger in 1979.

Lyrics:

Feel a bit 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

Thunder ocean

Red sails take me, make me sail along

Red sails, and a mast so tall

Red sails

Do you remember we another person

Green and black and red and so scared

Graffiti on the wall kept us all in tune

Bringing us all back home

Red sails

Thunder ocean

Red sails

Sailor can't dance like you, ooh, yooou

Ahh, red sail

Red sail action

Red sail

Some reaction

Action boy seen living under neon

Struggle with a foreign tongue

Red sails make him strong

Action make him sail along

Life stands still and stares

The hinterland, the hinterland

We're gonna sail to the hinterland

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

Its a far far, far far far, fa da, da da da

3-4

Ooooooo

Comments

12 years ago

chippy783

with help from Brian Eno

12 years ago

Morcaiden

I always imagined a video for this as being a whacked-out pirate ship full of banners, rocking back and forth as the band tries not to lose footing..."sailor can't dance on you" ;-D

12 years ago

ladeestarrdust

@AJAXKID123 so true! the hinterland the hinterland! i always put my hand above my eyes as if looking far away and blocking the sun. oh bowie;)

13 years ago

AJAXKID123

Awesome! The end of this song is so much fun. If you don't feel compelled to perform a very bizarre routine (making motions like you're scouting out the "hinterland") and growling "far far far fa fa fa" like a manic (as you chase the kids, screaming, around the house) then... well... you have no soul!! Cheers.

13 years ago