The Slider Song Album Quotes

“BALLROOMS OF MARS"

"You gonna look fine
Be primed for dancing
You're gonna trip and glide
All on the trembling plane
Your diamond hands
Will be stacked with roses
And wind and cars
And people of the past

I'll call you thing
Just when the moon sings
And place your face in stone
Upon the hill of stars
And gripped in the arms
Of the changeless madman
We'll dance our lives away
In the Ballrooms of Mars

You talk about day
I'm talking 'bout night time
When the monsters call out
The names of men
Bob Dylan knows
And I bet Alan Freed did
There are things in night
That are better not to behold

You dance
With your lizard leather boots on
And pull the strings
That change the faces of men
You diamond browed hag
You're a gutter-gaunt gangster
John Lennon knows your name
And I've seen his”
― Marc Bolan, The Slider Song Album

“SPACEBALL RICOCHET"

"I'm just a man
I understand the wind
And all the things that make the children cry

With my Les Paul
I know I'm small
But I enjoy living anyway

Book after book
I get hooked everytime
The writer talks to me like a friend

What can I do
We just live in a zoo
All I do is play the spaceball ricochet

Deep in my heart
There's a house
That can hold just about all of you

I bought a car
It was old but kind
I gave it my mind and it disappeared

I love a girl
She is a changeless angel
She's a city it's a pity that I'm like me

I said how can I lay
When all I do is play
The spaceball ricochet

I'm just a man
I understand the wind
And all the things that make the children cry

With my Les Paul
I know I'm small
But I enjoy living anyway, yes too

Deep in my heart
There's a house
That can hold just about all of you

How can I lay
When all I do is play
The spaceball ricochet

Oh Baby, the spaceball ricochet
Oh Mama, the spaceball
Oh, do the spaceball ...”
― Marc Bolan, The Slider Song Album