Lyrics to
Red Money

This version of Red Money was released by David Bowie in 1979.

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Oh, can you feel it in the way
That a man is not a man?
Can you see it in the sky
That the landscape is too high?

Like a nervous disease
And it’s been there all along
It will tumble from the sky
It’s been there all along

Project cancelled
Tumbling central
Red Money

Can you hear it fall
Can you hear it well
Can you hear it at all

I was really feeling good
Reet Petite and how d’ya do
Then I got the small red box
And I didn’t know what to do
‘Cause my fingers
could not grope
And I could not give it away
And I knew I must not drop it
Stop it, take it away

Project cancelled
Tumbling central
Red Money

Project cancelled
Tumbling central
Red Money

Can you hear it at all
Can you hear it at all

Red Money

Such responsibility
It’s up to you and me

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About Lyrics and Red Money by David Bowie

The lyrics to Red Money are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that David Bowie used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to Red Money have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only David Bowie and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Red Money by David Bowie. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Red Money" means the words set to the music of Red Money, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by David Bowie. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Red Money and the lyrics to Red Money are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of David Bowie who came here looking just for the lyrics to Red Money, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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