Counting Crows
Frou Frou
Butterfly Boucher & David Bowie
Dashboard Confessional
Lipps, Inc.
Rich Price
Eels
Pete Yorn
Tom Waits
Joseph Arthur
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Jennifer Saunders
Eddie Murphy & Antonio Banderas
Jennifer Saunders
The additional vocals done by David Bowie were produced separately by his long term producer Tony Visconti, who worked with him from his 1969 initially self-titled album all the way to 2016’s ★ (Blackstar).
[Intro: Butterfly Boucher]
Oh yeah
Mmm
[Verse 1: Butterfly Boucher]
Still don't know what I was looking for
And my time was running wild, a million dead-end streets
Every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test
[Chorus: Butterfly Boucher]
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Don't want to be a richer one
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Just gonna have to be a different one
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
[Interlude: Butterfly Boucher]
Oh yeah
[Verse 2: David Bowie]
I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream of warm impermanence and
So the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
They're immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through
[Chorus: Both]
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Don't tell them to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Where's your shame? You've left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you can't trace time
[Bridge: Both]
Strange fascination, fascinating me
Ah, changes are taking the pace I'm going through
[Chorus: Both]
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Oh, look out, you rock 'n' rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Pretty soon now you're gonna get older
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
[Outro: Both]
I said that time may change me
But I can't trace time
Changes was written by David Bowie.
Changes was produced by Tony Visconti & Robin Eaton & Butterfly Boucher & Brad Jones.
Butterfly Boucher released Changes on Tue May 11 2004.
Here are Bowie’s thoughts about how his contribution came about:
Butterfly Boucher, A very good up-and-commer from Oz, sent her recording of Changes over to me at the Paradise Island gig. She had already been commissioned by SHREK 2 to provide a song.
They then asked me if I would be willing to sin...