David Bowie
Lil’ Kim, Mýa, Christina Aguilera & P!nk & Missy Elliott
Fatboy Slim
Nicole Kidman & Natalie Mendoza & Caroline O’Connor & & Jim Broadbent
Valeria Andrews
Ewan McGregor & Alessandro Safina
Bono & Maurice Seezer & Gavin Friday
Nicole Kidman
Beck
Nicole Kidman & Jamie Allen & Ewan McGregor
Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor & Ewan McGregor & Nicole Kidman
José Feliciano & & Ewan McGregor
Rufus Wainwright
Nicole Kidman & Alka Yagnik & John Leguizamo
Massive Attack & David Bowie
Initially Beck was going to do the music for Baz Luhrmann’s movie Moulin Rouge!, but in the end Luhrmann decided to use pre-existing songs for the soundtrack and asked Beck to do this David Bowie cover.
[Verse 1]
As they pulled you out of the oxygen tent
You asked for the latest party
With your silicone hump
And your ten-inch stump
Dressed like a priest you was
Tod Browning's freak he was
Crawling down the alley on your hands and your knees
I'm sure you're not protected, for it's plain to see
The Diamond Dogs are poachers, and they hide behind trees
Hunt you to the ground they will, mannequins with kill appeal
[Chorus]
Will they come?
I keep a friend serene
Will they come?
Oh, baby, come onto me
Will they come?
Well, she's come, been, and gone
Come out of the garden, baby
You'll catch your death in the fog
Young girls, they call them the Diamond Dogs
[Verse 2]
In the year of the scavenger, the season of the bitch
Sashay on the boardwalk, scurry to the ditch
Just another future song, lonely little kitsch
There's gonna be sorrow
Try and wake up for tomorrow
The Halloween Jack is a real cool cat
And he lives on top of Manhattan Chase
The elevators broke, so he slides down a rope
Onto the street below
Oh Tarzan, go man, go
[Chorus]
Will they come?
I keep a friend serene
Will they come?
Oh, baby, come onto me
Will they come?
Well, she's come, been, and gone
Come out of the garden, baby
You'll catch a death in the fog
Young girls, they call them the Diamond Dogs
Girls, they call them the Diamond Dogs
[Outro]
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Diamond Dogs was written by David Bowie.
Diamond Dogs was produced by Timbaland.
Beck released Diamond Dogs on Wed May 16 2001.