
2nd Track on Hunky Dory. The song's key reference is to a science-fiction fantasy, namely Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 novel, "The Coming Race", in which a superior species of quasi humans is discovered living in the depths of the earth, they banished war, crime and inequality... Wake up you sleepy head Put on some clothes, shake up your bed Put another log on the fire for me I've made some breakfast and coffee Look out my window and what do I see A crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me All the nightmares came today And it looks as though they're here to stay What are we coming to No room for me, no fun for you I think about a world to come Where the books were found by the Golden ones Written in pain, written in awe By a puzzled man who questioned What we were here for All the strangers came today And it looks as though they're here to stay [CHORUS:] Oh You Pretty Things Don't you know you're driving your Mamas and Papas insane Oh You Pretty Things Don't you know you're driving your Mamas and Papas insane Let me make it plain ([second time:] Let me say it again) You gotta make way for the Homo Superior Look at your children See their faces in golden rays Don't kid yourself they belong to you They're the start of a coming race The earth is a bitch We've finished our news Homo Sapiens have outgrown their use All the strangers came today And it looks as though they're here to stay [CHORUS] Oh You Pretty Things Don't you know you're driving your Mamas and Papas <b>...</b>
David
Bowie
oh
You
Pretty
Things
Hunky
Dory
1971
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