Lyrics and music by David Bowie
Silhouettes and shadows watch the revolution No more free steps to heaven Just walkie-talkie - heaven or hearth Just big heads and drums - full speed and pagan And it's no game I am barred from the event I really don't understand the situation So where's the moral People have their fingers broken To be insulted by these fascists it's so degrading And it's no game Documentaries on refugees, couples 'gainst the target Throw a rock against the road, and it breaks into pieces Draw the blinds on yesterday, and it's all so much scarier Put a bullet in my brain, and it makes all the papers And it's no game Children round the world, put camel shit on the walls They're making carpets on treadmills, or garbage sorting And it's no game
The second last English verse is based on a song Bowie wrote in the mid-late 60's, Tired Of My Life.