Conversation Piece

David Bowie

{Original}

Album Information
Album Name (Year): Heathen (SACD) (2002)
Record Label: ISO/Columbia Records
Billboard Chart: The Billboard 200
Entry Week (Position): 06/29/2002
Peak Position: 14	Weeks On Chart: 1
Songs On This Album: (Click For Lyrics) 1. Sunday 2. Cactus 3. Slip Away 4. Slow Burn 5. Afraid 6. I've Been Waiting For You 7. I Would Be Your Slave 8. I Took A Trip On A Gemini Spacecraft 9. 5:15 The Angels Have Gone 10. Everyone Says 'Hi' 11. A Better Future 12. Heathen (The Rays) 13. When The Boys Come Marching Home 14. Wood Jackson 15. Conversation Piece 16. Safe

Album Notes

This album also appeared on the following Billboard charts (Peak Position):
Top Canadian Albums (9)
Top Internet Albums (14)
AND
Spent 18 weeks on the British Charts starting 06/22/02, peaking at #5.
{Album Notes}

I took this walk to ease my mind
To find out what's gnawing at me
Wouldn't think, to look at me
That I've spent a lot of time in education
It all seems so long ago
I'm a thinker, not a talker
I've no-one to talk to, anyway

I can't see the road
For the rain in my eyes

I live above the grocers store
Owned by an Austrian
He often calls me down to eat
And he jokes about his broken English
Tries to be a friend to me
But for all my years of reading conversation
I stand without a word to say

I can't see the bridge
For the rain in my eyes
Ahhh-huh, h...uh, huh

And the world is full of life
Full of folk who don't know me
And they walk in twos or threes or more
While the light that shines above the grocer's store
Investigates my face so rudely
And my essays lying scattered on the floor
Fulfill their needs just by being there
And my hands shake, my head hurts
My voice sticks inside my throat
I'm invisible and dumb
No-one will recall me

And I can't see the water
Through the tears in my ey-y-yes

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Song Information
Song Written By: David Bowie
Track Number: 15	Track Length: 3:05
Billboard Chart: Song did not chart
Entry Week (Position): - -
Peak Position: - -	Weeks On Chart: - -

Song Notes

Bonus track on re-release of album in 1990.

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