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David Bowie – Wishful Beginnings (1995) | Track profile | Dork

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David Bowie
1. Outside (The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle)
Wishful Beginnings

TRACK

Wishful Beginnings

Release date: 25th September 1995

From 1. Outside (The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle)

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About This Track

"Wishful Beginnings" is a track by David Bowie, from the album 1. Outside (The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle), released 25th September 1995. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about David Bowie.

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Lyrics

Wishful Beginnings

[Verse 1]

Cruising around me

The flames burn my body

Wishful beginnings

Does this remind them again and again

You're a sorry little girl

You're a sorry little girl

[Verse 2]

Please hide

For the pain must feel like snow

You're a sorry little girl

Sorry little girl

[Interlude]

Please hide

From the kiss and the bite

[Verse 3]

Shame burns

Breathing in, breathing out

Breathing in only doubt

The pain must feel like snow

I'm no longer your golden boy

Sorry little girl

I'm sorry little girl

[Verse 4]

The pain must feel like snow

There you go

Cover me, cover me

We flew on the wings

We were deep in the dead air

And this one will never go down

[Verse 5]

We had such wishful beginnings

But we lived unbearable lives

I'm sorry, little girl

Sorry, little girl

So, so sorry, little girl

[Outro]

The pain must feel like snow

There you go

There you go

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Track details

From 1. Outside (The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle)

1995

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Album

1. Outside (The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle)

Release year

1995

—Segue - Nathan Adler (II)
—Outside
—Segue: Algeria Touchshriek
—Segue: Nathan Adler Part. I
—The Diary of Nathan Adler or, The Art-Ritual Murder of Baby Grace Blue: A Non-Linear Gothic Drama Hyper-cycle
—No Control
—I'm Deranged
—The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (as Beauty)
—The Motel
—Leon Takes Us Outside
—Segue: Baby Grace (A Horrid Cassette)
—We Prick You
—Wishful Beginnings
—Thru' These Architect's Eyes
—Segue: Ramona A. Stone / I Am with Name
—I Have Not Been to Oxford Town
—A Small Plot of Land

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Writer: Brian Eno, David Bowie
Producer: Brian Eno, David Bowie