I'd Rather Be High (Venetian Mix)

Song I'd Rather Be High (Venetian Mix)
Artist David Bowie
Album Love Is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy for the DFA)

Lyrics

[00:20.850] Nabokov is sun-licked now
[00:23.350] Upon the beach at Gruenewald
[00:25.930] Brilliant and naked just
[00:28.320] The way that authors look
[00:35.990] Clare and Lady Manners drink
[00:38.370] Until the other cows go home
[00:41.060] Gossip till their lips are bleeding politics and all
[00:49.590] I'd rather be high
[00:54.600] I'd rather be flying
[00:59.730] I'd rather be dead or out of my head
[01:04.770] Than training these guns on those men in the sand
[01:09.760] I'd rather be high
[01:21.390] The Thames was black, the tower dark
[01:23.770] I flew to Cairo, find my regiment
[01:26.660] City's full of generals
[01:28.720] And generals full of shit
[01:36.280] I stumble to the graveyard and I lay down by my parents,
[01:40.860] Whisper "Just remember duckies
[01:43.580] Everybody gets got"
[01:50.340] I'd rather be high
[01:55.220] I'd rather be flying
[02:00.340] I'd rather be dead or out of my head
[02:05.350] Than training these guns of those men in the sand
[02:10.480] I'd rather be high
[02:21.850] I'm seventeen and my looks can prove it
[02:26.740] I'm so afraid that I will lose it
[02:31.730] I'd rather smoke and phone my ex
[02:34.250] Be pleading for some teenage sex, yeah
[02:40.330] I'd rather be high
[02:45.400] I'd rather be flying
[02:50.520] I'd rather be dead or out of my head
[02:55.520] Than training these guns on the men in the sand
[03:00.660] I'd rather be high,
[03:05.690] I'd rather be flying
[03:10.860] I'd rather be high
[03:15.870] I'd rather be flying