This is by far the best cover of this magnificent song that I have ever heard. In JD Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye," the character Holden Caulfield says that when he reads a good book he wants to sit down with the writer and have a talk with him and perhaps become friends. I feel that way with Jasper.
It's a God-awful small affair To the girl with the mousy hair But her mummy is yelling, "No" And her daddy has told her to go But her friend is nowhere to be seen as she walks through her sunken dream To the seat with the clearest view And she's hooked to the silver screen But the film is a saddening bore For she's lived it ten times or more She could spit in the eyes of fools As they ask her to focus on Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man, just look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man, i wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars? It's on America's tortured brow That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow Now the workers have struck for fame 'Cause Lennon's on sale again See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads Rule Britannia is out of bounds To my mother, my dog, and clowns But the film is a saddening bore 'Cause I wrote it ten times or more It's about to be writ again As I ask you to focus on Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man, look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man, i wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars?
THIS WAS EXTRAORDINARY. This made me cry, and I am a hard bitten man who rarely feels anymore. God bless you Jasper. You deserve so much more success than the miserable elites in today's music industry
This song comes packaged with emotion such that covers just need to follow the feel to be beautiful. So many performers of Life on Mars make me well up, and Jasper is around the top of that list. Anggun another. Thanks David Bowie for producing such rich magic.
