Time Will Crawl (*)

Once more I got stuck to a video- clip. I was watching the “best of Bowie” compilation and the idea for “Time will crawl” video caused me many sensations.

First of all, what a powerful artist David Bowie is. He goes far beyong black or white. He´s an enjoyable showman up and down, left to right, in and out.

… The video starts and finishes with an excellent choreography: Bowie dances miming figures. A gang is around pretending to hit him. He seems to shout the lyrics of the song while trying to escape from the struggle. There is a delicious tension in the interaction of the dancers, the music, the story itself, and the game of the cameras.

It is also important to say that a big creative brain as Tim Pope is, directed this fantastic 80´s video, which makes it extremely memorable!

Lyrics

Words and music by David Bowie.

I’ve never sailed on a sea
I would not challenge a giant

I could not take on the church
time will crawl -
till the 21st century lose.

I know a government man
he was as blind as the moon

He saw the sun in the night
he took a top-gun pilot.
He made him fly through a hole till he grew real old

And he never came down
he iust flew till he burst.

Time will crawl – till our mouths run dry

Time will crawl – till our feet arow small

Time will crawl – till our tails rall ofF

Time will crawl – till the 21st century lose.

I saw a black black stream full of white eyed fish

And a drowning man with no eyes at all.
I felt a warm warm breeze that melted metal and steel

I got a bad migraine that lasted three long years.
And the pills that I took made my fingers disappear.

Time will crawl
time will crawl

Time will crawl – till the 21st century lose.

You were a talented child
you came to live in our town

We never bothered to scream when your mask went an

We only smelt the gas as we lay down to sleep.

Time will crawl – and our heads bowed down

Time will crawl – and our eyes fall out

Time will crawl – and the streets run red

Time will crawl – till the 21st century lose.

Time will crawl – till our mouths run dry
. . .
Time will crawl – and our heads bowed down
. . .

Time will crawl – for the crazy child

Time will crawl – we’ll give every life

Time will crawl – for the crackpot notion

Time will crawl – till the 21st century lose.