Quicksand (ChangesNowBowie Version)

[Verse 1]

I'm closer to the golden dawn

Immersed in Crowley's uniform

Of imagery

[Verse 2]

I'm living in a silent film

Portraying Himmler's sacred realm

Of dream reality

[Pre-Chorus]

I'm frightened by the total goal

I'm drawing to the ragged hole

And I ain't got the power anymore

No, I ain't got the power anymore

[Verse 3]

I'm the twisted name on Garbo's eyes

Living proof of Churchill's lies

I'm destiny

[Verse 4]

I'm torn between the light and dark

Where others see their targets

Divine symmetry

[Pre-Chorus]

Should I kiss the viper's fang

Or herald loud the death of man

I'm sinking in the quicksand

Of my thought

And I ain't got the power anymore

[Chorus]

Don't believe in yourself

Don't deceive with belief

Knowledge comes with death's release

Ah ah ah ah

Ah ah ah ah; ah

[Verse 5]

I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man

Just a mortal with potential of a superman

I'm living on

[Verse 6]

I'm tethered to the logic of homo sapien

Can't take my eyes from the great salvation

Of bullshit faith

[Pre-Chorus]

If I don't explain what you ought to know

You can tell me all about it

On the next Bardo

I'm sinking in the quicksand

Of my thought

And I ain't got the power anymore

[Chorus]

Don't believe in yourself

Don't deceive with belief

Knowledge comes with death's release

Ah ah ah ah

Ah ah ah ah; ah

[Chorus]

Don't believe in yourself

Don't deceive with belief

Knowledge comes with death's release

Ah ah ah ah

Ah ah ah ah; ah