La sombra que persigue - Life on Mars?

Cuando Bowie hizo esta canción (1973), se imaginó a una jovencita que después de una riña familiar va al cine y se sopla una de alienígenas. La chiquilla encuentra consuelo en la línea final de la película que se pregunta: Is there life on Mars? Bueno hoy se sabe que sí, que sí hubo vida en Marte, muchas bacterias. Una pena que hoy los humanos nos asemejemos tanto a la vida marciana.

It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
And her mummy is yelling "no"
But her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
As she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen
But the film is a saddening bore
Cuz she's lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
If they asked her to focus on
Sailor's fighting in the dance hall
Oh man
Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man
Wonder if they'll ever know?
They're in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now that workers are struck for fame
Cuz Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
Cuz I've written it ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on
Sailor's fighting in the dance hall
Oh man
Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man
Wonder if they'll ever know?
They're in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?