[ti:Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise)] [ar:David Bowie] [al:Cracked Actor (Live, Los Angeles '74)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise|Live) - David Bowie [00:10.39]Written by:David Bowie [00:20.78]It's safe in the city to love in a doorway [00:29.20]To wrangle some screams from the dawn [00:35.63]And isn't it me putting pain in a stranger [00:43.98]Like a portrait in flesh who trails on a leash [00:48.87]Will you see that I'm scared and I'm lonely [00:56.91]So I'll break up my room and yawn and I [01:00.21]Run to the centre of things [01:05.00]Where the knowing one says [01:06.43]Boys boys it's a sweet thing [01:15.14]Boys boys it's a sweet thing sweet thing [01:25.01]If you want it boys get it here thing [01:33.46]For hope boys is a cheap thing cheap thing [01:44.82]I'm glad that you're older than me [01:48.93]Makes me feel important and free [01:53.09]Does that make you smile isn't that me [01:59.66]I'm in your way and I'll steal every moment [02:07.74]If this trade is a curse then I'll bless you [02:10.77]And turn to the crossroads of hamburgers and [02:15.18]Boys boys it's a sweet thing [02:23.50]Boys boys it's a sweet thing sweet thing [02:33.48]If you want it boys get it here thing [02:41.89]For hope boys is a cheap thing cheap thing [04:16.24]I'll make you a deal like any other candidate [04:21.84]We'll pretend we're walking home 'cause your future's at stake [04:26.44]My set is amazing it even smells like a street [04:29.66]There's a bar at the end where I can meet you and your friend [04:33.63]Someone scrawled on the wall I smell the blood of Les Tricoteuses [04:38.33]Who wrote up scandals in other bars [04:42.08]I'm having so much fun with the poisonous people [04:46.19]Spreading rumors and lies and stories they made up [04:50.27]Some make you sing and some make you scream [04:54.08]One makes you wish that you'd never been seen [04:57.71]But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache [05:01.81]Making bullet proof faces Charlie Manson Cassius Clay [05:05.96]If you want it boys get it here thing [05:14.44]So you scream out of line [05:16.32]I say I want you anyone out there any time [05:22.20]Tres butch little number whines hey dirty I need you [05:25.92]When it's good it's really good and when it's bad I go to pieces [05:29.80]If you want it boys get it here thing [05:38.15]Well on the street where you live I could not hold up my head [05:42.09]I give all I have in another bed [05:46.01]On another floor in the back of a car [05:49.74]In the cellar of a church with the door ajar [05:54.14]I guess we could cruise down one more time [05:57.79]With you by my side it should be fine [06:02.01]We'll buy some *** and watch a band [06:05.87]Then jump in the river holding hands [06:25.90]If you want it boys get it here thing [06:34.36]'Cause hope boys is a cheap thing cheap thing [06:45.44]Is it nice in your snow storm freezing your brain [06:53.78]Do you think that your lifes looks the same [07:00.47]Then let it be it's all I ever wanted [07:08.22]It's a street with a deal and a taste [07:10.76]It's got claws it's got me it's got you