“Sweet Thing” is the first song in David Bowie’s planned 1984 triptych; consisting of “Sweet Thing” / “Candidate” / “Sweet Thing (Reprise),” the three song suite was once at the center of Bowie’s fledgling attempts to create a theatrical stage production based on George Orwell’s genre-defining dysto...
[Verse 1]
It's safe in the city
To love in a doorway
To wrangle some screams from the dawn
And isn't it me
Putting pain in a stranger?
Like a portrait in flesh, who trails on a leash
Will you see that I'm scared and I'm lonely?
So I'll break up my room, and yawn and I
Run to the centre of things
Where the knowing one says:
[Chorus]
"Boys, Boys, it's a sweet thing
Boys, Boys, it's a sweet thing, sweet thing
If you want it, boys, get it here, thing
For hope, boys, is a cheap thing, cheap thing"
[Verse 2]
I'm glad that you're older than me
Makes me feel important and free
Does that make you smile, isn't that me?
I'm in your way, and I'll steal every moment
If this trade is a curse, then I'll bless you
And turn to the crossroads of Hamburgers, and
[Chorus]
"Boys, Boys, it's a sweet thing
Boys, Boys, it's a sweet thing, sweet thing
If you want it, boys, get it here, thing
For hope, boys, is a cheap thing, cheap thing"
Sweet Thing was written by David Bowie.
Sweet Thing was produced by David Bowie.
David Bowie released Sweet Thing on Wed Apr 24 1974.