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David Bowie - Absolute Beginners, Live at Glastonbury 2000 (Official Audio)
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
David Bowie
David Bowie
Vocals
Emm Gryner
Emm Gryner
Background Vocals
Gail Ann Dorsey
Gail Ann Dorsey
Bass
Holly Palmer
Holly Palmer
Background Vocals
Mark Plati
Mark Plati
Guitar
Sterling Campbell
Sterling Campbell
Drums
Earl Slick
Earl Slick
Guitar
Mike Garson
Mike Garson
Piano
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
David Bowie
David Bowie
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Nigel Reeve
Nigel Reeve
Mastering Engineer
Ray Staff
Ray Staff
Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

It's my favorite love song, yet
This next one
Uh, I hope, I hope some of you know it
It's called, Absolute Beginners
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
I've nothing much to offer
There's nothing much to take
I'm an absolute beginner, ah yeah
But I'm absolutely sane
As long as we're together
The rest can go to hell
I absolutely love you
But we're absolute beginners
With eyes completely open
But nervous all the same
If our love song
Could fly over mountains
Can sail over heartaches
Just like the films
There's no reason
To feel all the hard times
To lay down the hard lines
It's absolutely true
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Nothing much can happen
Nothing we can't shake
We're absolute beginners
With nothing much at stake
As long as you're still smiling
That's all I really need
I absolutely love you, ah-huh
Though we're absolute beginners
And if my love is your love
We're certain to succeed
If our love song
Could fly over mountains
Can sail over heartaches
Just like the films
If there's reason
To feel all the hard times
To lay down the hard lines
It's absolutely true
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Bop-bop-ba-ooh
Thank you
In 1971, when I first played here
Um, I stayed at Worthy Farm House
Which some of you probably know
Uh, with a couple of other people
Uh, huge bottle of tincture of cannabis
Uh, from a London dodger, for medicinal reasons
And got out to the stage about 5:30 in the morning
'Cause there was no curfew in those days, you see
This curfew business is all new stuff
And when I hit the stage, uh
Nobody knew any of my songs
I had just written this one called, Oh! You Pretty Things
And there was this Dutch girl
There's this Dutch girl that jumped up with me
The stage was about that high
And there was about three-thousand people
And she came up, and she started singing
Oh! You pretty universes, more beautiful univer-
Thank you, bless you
She stayed my entire session
And it's the only thing I
Why I'm telling you this is, um, uh
You're not here tonight, are you dear?
Please, please don't come up
Written by: David Bowie

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