Quicksand

I'm closer to the Golden Dawn

Immersed in Crowley's uniform

Of imagery

I'm living in a silent film

Portraying Himmler's sacred realm

Of dream reality

I'm frightened by the total goal

Drawing to the ragged hole

And I ain't got the power anymore

No I ain't got the power anymore

[Verse 2]

I'm the twisted name on Garbo's eyes

Living proof of Churchill's lies

I'm destiny

I'm torn between the light and dark

Where others see their targets

Divine symmetry

Should I kiss the viper's fang

Or herald loud the death of Man

I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought

And I ain't got the power anymore

[Chorus]

Don't believe in yourself

Don't deceive with belief

Knowledge comes with death's release

Ah! Ah!

I'm not a prophet or a stone age man

Just a mortal with potential of a superman

I'm living on

I'm tethered to the logic of Homo Sapien

Can't take my eyes from the great salvation

Of bullshit faith

If I don't explain what you ought to know

You can tell me all about it

On the next Bardo

I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought

And I ain't got the power anymore

[Chorus]

Don't believe in yourself

Don't deceive with belief

Knowledge comes with death's release

Ah!

Ah!

Don't believe in yourself

Don't deceive with belief

Knowledge comes with death's release

Ah!

Ah!

• David Bowie