(TV) Out of My Head Over You / Bowie Credit

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

Murray, I realize you're just parodying guys who abuse women.

You know it's always surprised me how little Bowie 
gets credit for writing one of the first songs that deals 
with the topic of wife-beating (the lyrics lose a lot of their 
impact without Adrain Belew's guitar):  
 
"Johnny is a man
And he's bigger than you
But his overheads are high
And he looks straight through when you ask him how the kids are

He'll get home around seven
'Cause the chevy's real old
And he could have had a cadillac
If the school had taught him right
And he could have married Anne with the blue silk blouse
He could have married Anne with the blue silk blouse

And the food is on the table
But the food is cold
Don't hit her

"Can't you even cook?
What's the good of me working when you can't damn cook?"

Well Johnny is a man
And he's bigger than her
I guess the bruises won't show 
If she wears long sleeves
But the space in her eyes shows through

And he could have married Anne with the blue silk blouse
He could have married Anne with the blue silk blouse
Shows through
Shows through
Shows through"

[Words and music by David Bowie,  
from album The Lodger originally released May 18, 1979] 

	Leo
-----Original Message-----
From: Murray Ramone 
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 11:22 AM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: RE: (TV) Slightly Off my head

>aye, I married the perfect woman
>she's a deaf mute who knows how to cook and clean
>of course, she wasnt like that when I first met her, ...
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