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What's Really Happening?

Lyrics and music by David Bowie, Reeves Gabrels and Alex Grant.

 

VERSE (x2)
  Grown inside a plastic box 
  Micro thoughts and safety locks 
  Hearts become outdated clocks 
  Ticking in your mind 

CHORUS
  What's really happening?  What tore us apart?
  What's really happening?

  What's really happening?  What tore us apart?
  What's really happening?

Now it's time to close our eyes 
Now it's time to say goodbye 
Now it's time to face the lie 
That we'd never cry 

CHORUS

All the clouds are made of glass 
And they're slowly sinking 
Falling like the shattered past 
Were we built to last? 

CHORUS

 

The actual recording of this song for the hours... album took place on 24 May 1999 at the Looking Glass Studios in New York, NYC, USA.  The full session of over three hours was broadcast over the Internet.  Bowie's first fan-collaborative effort. Music written and composed by Bowie, and verse lyrics chosen via a contest by Internet users hosted on www.davidbowie.com. Available as a bootleg Making hours...