No Plan
(David Bowie)
Here there's no music here
I'm lost in streams of sound
Here am I nowhere now?
No plan
Wherever I may go
Just where
Just there
I am
All of the things that are my life
My desires
My beliefs
My moods
Here is my place without a plan
Here
Second Avenue
Just out of view
Here
Is no traffic here?
No plan
All the things that are my life
My moods
My beliefs
My desires
Me alone
Nothing to regret
This is no place, but here I am
This is not quite yet
(Appeared in the Lazarus theatre production at The New York Theatre Workshop, directed by Ivo van Hove, written by David Bowie and Enda Walsh).
(The Bowie studio version from the Blackstar recordings was worldwide premiered on BBC Radio 2 on 18th October 2016. Released on Lazarus Original Cast Recording on 21st October 2016).
Dearly beloved, we have gathered here today
To get through this thing called life
Electric word life it means forever and that's a mighty long time
But I'm here to tell you there's something else......