David Bowie - Baal's Hymn Lyrics






Whilst his mother's womb contained the growing Baal
Even then the sky was waiting quiet and pale
Naked, young, immensely marvellous
Like Baal loved it, when he came to us

That same sky remained with him in joy and care
Even when Baal slept peaceful and unaware
At night a lilac sky, a drunken Baal
Turning pious as the sky grows pale

So through hospital, cathedral, whiskey bar
Baal kept moving onwards and just let things go
When Baal's tired, boys, Baal cannot fall far
He will have his sky down there below

When the sinners congregate in shame together
Baal lay naked, revelling in their distress
Only sky, a sky that will go on forever
Formed a blanket for his nakedness

And that lusty girl, the world, who'll laughing yield
To the men who'll stand the pressure of her thighs
Sometimes gave him love-bites, such as can't be healed
Baal survived it, he just used his eyes

And when Baal saw lots of corpses scattered round
He felt twice the thrill, despite the lack of room
"Space enough" said Baal, "then I'll thicken the ground
Space enough within this woman's womb"

Any vice for Baal has got its useful side
It's the man who practices it, he can't abide
Vices have their point, once you see it as such
Stick to two for one will be too much

Slackness, softness are the sort of things to shun
Nothing could be harder than the quest for fun
Lots of strength is needed and experience too
Swollen bellies can embarrass you

Under gloomy stars and this poor veil of tears
Baal will graze a pasture till it disappears
Once it's been digested to the forest's teeth
Baal trod singing for a well earned sleep

Baal can spot the vultures in the stormy sky
As they wait up there to see if Baal will die
Sometimes Baal pretends he's dead, but vultures swoop
Baal in silence dines on vulture-soup

When the dark womb drags him down to its prize
What's the world still mean to Baal, he's overfed
So much sky is lurking still behind his eyes
He'll just have enough sky when he's dead

Once the Earth's dark womb engulfed the rotting Baal
Even then the sky was up there, quiet and pale
Naked, young, immensely marvellous
Like Baal loved it when he lived with us





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  1. M.... ....

    Whilst his mother's womb contained the growing Baal
    Even then the sky was waiting quiet and pale
    Naked, young, immensely marvellous
    Like Baal loved it, when he came to us

    That same sky remained with him in joy and care
    Even when Baal slept peaceful and unaware
    At night a lilac sky, a drunken Baal
    Turning pious as the sky grows pale

    So through hospital, cathedral, whiskey bar
    Baal kept moving onwards and just let things go
    When Baal's tired, boys, Baal cannot fall far
    He will have his sky down there below

    When the sinners congregate in shame together
    Baal lay naked, revelling in their distress
    Only sky, a sky that will go on forever
    Formed a blanket for his nakedness

    And that lusty girl, the world, who'll laughing yield
    To the men who'll stand the pressure of her thighs
    Sometimes gave him love-bites, such as can't be healed
    Baal survived it, he just used his eyes

    And when Baal saw lots of corpses scattered round
    He felt twice the thrill, despite the lack of room
    "Space enough" said Baal, "then I'll thicken the ground
    Space enough within this woman's womb"

    Any vice for Baal has got its useful side
    It's the man who practices it, he can't abide
    Vices have their point, once you see it as such
    Stick to two for one will be too much

    Slackness, softness are the sort of things to shun
    Nothing could be harder than the quest for fun
    Lots of strength is needed and experience too
    Swollen bellies can embarrass you

    Under gloomy stars and this poor veil of tears
    Baal will graze a pasture till it disappears
    Once it's been digested to the forest's teeth
    Baal trod singing for a well earned sleep

    Baal can spot the vultures in the stormy sky
    As they wait up there to see if Baal will die
    Sometimes Baal pretends he's dead, but vultures swoop
    Baal in silence dines on vulture-soup

    When the dark womb drags him down to its prize
    What's the world still mean to Baal, he's overfed
    So much sky is lurking still behind his eyes
    He'll just have enough sky when he's dead

    Once the Earth's dark womb engulfed the rotting Baal
    Even then the sky was up there, quiet and pale
    Naked, young, immensely marvellous
    Like Baal loved it when he lived with us

  2. P.... ....

    If I ever go to war, I'm blasting THIS!

  3. p.... ....

    Whilst his mother's womb contained the growing Baal
    Even then the sky was waiting quiet and pale
    Naked, young, immensely marvelous
    Like Baal loved it, when he came to us
    That same sky remained with him in joy and care
    Even when Baal slept peaceful and unaware
    At night a lilac sky, a drunken Baal
    Turning pious as the sky grows pale
    So through hospital, cathedral, whiskey bar
    Baal kept moving onwards and just let things go
    When Baal's tired, boys, Baal cannot fall far
    He will have his sky down there below
    When the sinners congregate in shame together
    Baal lay naked, reveling in their distress
    Only sky, a sky that will go on forever
    Formed a blanket for his nakedness
    And that lusty girl, the world, who'll laughing yield
    To the men who'll stand the pressure of her thighs
    Sometimes gave him love-bites, such as can't be healed
    Baal survived it, he just used his eyes
    And when Baal saw lots of corpses scattered round
    He felt twice the thrill, despite the lack of room
    "Space enough" said Baal, "Then I'll thicken the ground
    Space enough within this woman's womb"
    Any vice for Baal has got its useful side
    It's the man who practices it, he can't abide
    Vices have their point, once you see it as such
    Stick to two for one will be too much
    Slackness, softness are the sort of things to shun
    Nothing could be harder than the quest for fun
    Lots of strength is needed and experience too
    Swollen bellies can embarrass you
    Under gloomy stars and this poor veil of tears
    Baal will graze a pasture till it disappears
    Once it's been digested to the forest's teeth
    Baal trod singing for a well earned sleep
    Baal can spot the vultures in the stormy sky
    As they wait up there to see if Baal will die
    Sometimes Baal pretends he's dead, but vultures swoop
    Baal in silence dines on vulture-soup
    When the dark womb drags him down to its prize
    What's the world still mean to Baal, he's overfed
    So much sky is lurking still behind his eyes
    He'll just have enough sky when he's dead
    Once the Earth's dark womb engulfed the rotting Baal
    Even then the sky was up there, quiet and pale
    Naked, young, immensely marvelous
    Like Baal loved it when he lived with us

  4. p.... ....

    Sounds a bit like Tommy Steele.

  5. S.... P....

    Whinnie the pooh Hails Satan

  6. R.... H....

    ah_ hm , much 2 * 2 march through - no , one more .... - ah_ hmm

  7. S.... D....

    Tu nous manques David...

  8. w.... j....

    What an extraordinary, beautiful, courageous human being. There will never be another like David Robert Jones. We are blessed to always have his voice. Bowie forever! ❤️

  9. L.... D....

    Whilst his mother's womb contained the growing Baal
    Even then the sky was waiting quiet and pale
    Naked, young, immensely marvellous
    Like Baal loved it, when he came to us

    That same sky remained with him in joy and care
    Even when Baal slept peaceful and unaware
    At night a lilac sky, a drunken Baal
    Turning pious as the sky grows pale

    So through hospital, cathedral, whiskey bar
    Baal kept moving onwards and just let things go
    When Baal's tired, boys, Baal cannot fall far
    He will have his sky down there below

    When the sinners congregate in shame together
    Baal lay naked, revelling in their distress
    Only sky, a sky that will go on forever
    Formed a blanket for his nakedness

    And that lusty girl, the world, who'll laughing yield
    To the men who'll stand the pressure of her thighs
    Sometimes gave him love-bites, such as can't be healed
    Baal survived it, he just used his eyes

    And when Baal saw lots of corpses scattered round
    He felt twice the thrill, despite the lack of room
    "Space enough" said Baal, "then I'll thicken the ground
    Space enough within this woman's womb"

    Any vice for Baal has got its useful side
    It's the man who practices it, he can't abide
    Vices have their point, once you see it as such
    Stick to two for one will be too much

    Slackness, softness are the sort of things to shun
    Nothing could be harder than the quest for fun
    Lots of strength is needed and experience too
    Swollen bellies can embarrass you

    Under gloomy stars and this poor veil of tears
    Baal will graze a pasture till it disappears
    Once it's been digested to the forest's teeth
    Baal trod singing for a well earned sleep

    Baal can spot the vultures in the stormy sky
    As they wait up there to see if Baal will die
    Sometimes Baal pretends he's dead, but vultures swoop
    Baal in silence dines on vulture-soup

    When the dark womb drags him down to its prize
    What's the world still mean to Baal, he's overfed
    So much sky is lurking still behind his eyes
    He'll just have enough sky when he's dead

    Once the Earth's dark womb engulfed the rotting Baal
    Even then the sky was up there, quiet and pale
    Naked, young, immensely marvellous
    Like Baal loved it when he lived with us

  10. N.... S....

    I've been trying to find this song for nearly 30 years. Thank you so very much!

  11. D.... T....

    Such a cool dude. I wish I spoke like him and I'm a chick 😂

  12. J.... E....

    Demonic. Every Jew and Christian should be outraged at this trash. BAAL is the bad guy in the Jewish Torah, hated by G-d. David Bowie is a demon.

    J.... E....

    David Bowie died for your sins.

    J.... E....

    If David Bowie is a demon, then I would happily pledge him my soul. He is the angel of music.

    J.... E....

    Natalie, at this point, you have nothing to pledge. Your future was robbed (stolen) from your (once) innocent mind, a long time ago. Natalie, why does being innocent bother you so? You rebel with tatts and body mutilation..err, piercings, huh? David's (jewish name) victims all end up the same. Natalie, why does the term, "turn the other checks" piss you off? Ms Nat, you're a beautiful girl. He (Jesuha) doesn't judge and loves you. You can go back. David on the other hand, is pot ash.

  13. L.... P....

    Baal was written by Bertolt Brecht (this is for the God botherer on the comments) David Bowie lived a 'life of sin' in your eyes. Okay, let's look at that logically. He was 'blessed' with being able to write fantastic songs, play instruments and bring joy to millions through music and live shows. After he'd been mixed up in The L.A. scene where cocaine nearly ruined him, he took himself to Europe to get clean. He stayed in the studio, creating more ground-breaking albums and again, toured the world, year-to-year. He actually 'found' Jesus in that period, but felt more akin with Buddhism; Buddhism that teached reality and compassion around 600 years before Jesus walked the Earth. Having 'matured' and being clean of drugs, he lived a fairly normal life, music being his passion and right up until his death, he was busy creating music that grand-parents and young kids would enjoy.
    Now you write anti-Christian comments as though you are the authority on God. Shame on you. Do you really think everyone who met, worked with, married and was raised by David, thought he was a devil worshipper? Are you that removed from reality?
    I bet you believe rock music is also from 'the devil'. If there was a creator God (and there is zilch proof of that since we've been on Earth...around 4 to 500,000 years) then that God would probably be most happy that one of its children was using music to bring humans together; indeed, music is the most 'spiritual' thing humans have, whether rock/funk/indie/pop or classical.
    What have you done with your time on Earth.....yeah, wrote stupid derogatory statements about people you've never met, nor know nothing about. You've also got a video on your channel about Dynamo the magician...the guy is a working class dude born without a pot to piss in from Bradford! Have you seen his family, his grand-ma? Do you know how he dedicates his career to his beloved grand-dad? He's a magician...not Satan's little helper. You - on behalf of everyone else on here - need help - or to stay away from computers. (By the way - pictures not used on the Baal photo session - show David clearly wearing his crucifix...a pretty poor 'devil worshipper')

    L.... P....

    Cut all the BS. Who is your god? Baal or Yahweh?

    L.... P....

    It's all true, apart from 'Baal' & 'Yahweh' of course. Some person, some faceless person, I might add, writing that Bowie was a 'Satanist' is purely ridiculous. Trolls and people typing from their mother's basement aside, writing such derogatory statements about people they've never met is awful; the same people who profess to believe in a creator God often have no compassion, intellect or any of the standards that they preach. They think that they are the gatekeepers to their God's 'gates of paradise' and that they get to insult other human beings. They are blinded by their own intolerance and as far away from their creator God as one could be - that is, if they aren't actually worshipping the 'dark side' themselves.

    L.... P....

    Bowie was an occultist. Not a Satanist though.
    Baal meant Lord of the Manor and was an honorary title. After early Hebrews mercilessly slaughtered opposing divinity cults many old gods merged together under the title Baal as a method of survival against the propaganda of their oppressors.
    I'm not an anti-Semite, but to say that monotheism has caused more torture and blood shed than any other religious system is no exaggeration.

    L.... P....

    Actually, I've been waiting for the Messiah to come. And he has arrived: All praise BOB DOBBS! MASTER OF SLACK!

  14. R.... ....

    This is the first single I bought;I was 12.I saw the play on the Beeb.Brecht ,and now Weill too, fill my head all the blinking time.Watching David  made me forget about trying to break free from the poverty we lived with;I just wanted to walk the road for the rest of my life;wanted to spit a things in suits.David Bowie let me release the individual.(What words can one use to REALLY say:thank you?).

  15. S.... C....

    What voice, passion & intonations! A great theatrical piece, with a great story , it suits him so well.He did Peter & the wolf too. Thanks David Bowie, you were & still are the soundtrack of my life.Hope you are in that place, where your blue birds fly. Rest in Peace.

  16. O.... C....

    fucking absolutely magnificent!

  17. D.... ....

    Great orchestration by Dominic Muldowney, if I remember rightly.

  18. Z.... F....

    I wonder if they'll release it on CD. They really should

    Z.... F....

    Ziggy Freecloud it will be released in a cd format as a part of the A new career in a new town box set

  19. K.... ....

    Nothing 'strange' about this.. It's just wonderfully delivered and takes me back to my youth

    K.... ....

    Why would you want to kill bilderburg? They are all Baal worshipers wanting to bring Baals hell upon the earth.

  20. J.... B....

    It's like I'm listening to a really intense Disney song.

  21. D.... M....

    i can't believe this whole EP just fell under the radar for me, its fantastic!

    D.... M....

    I know - How can I get it? I want this entire play/ album in my collection so I can listen on my stereo -

    D.... M....

    I found it! :D ..
    on a second hand market!

    D.... M....

    It made number 29 in the charts in March 1982. I doubt something as left-field as this would stand a chance of doing that in today's frightfully generic mainstream. I must admit that,having not read Brecht,what it was really about was a mystery to me.

  22. S.... P....

    How does he kill it every time? And what's this with videos uploaded 11/11/11 Is this the third I've noticed since the new moon? All from different corners of the web. Things are getting strange again....goodie.

  23. p.... a....

    wow, never heard before. Strong song.

  24. B.... S....

    Have any of you noticed how different the mox is compared to what was used in the TV play?

  25. T.... ....

    I love when Bowie gets all theatrical.

  26. a.... ....

    Unique. Truly great. Yet, he was who he was. Odd, different....thankfully so!!

  27. T.... T....

    Baal was one of the names of Satan ...

    T.... T....

    +The Truth Is From God (TheTruthIsFromGod) You are exceptionally fucking stupid.

    T.... T....

    God, you're a moron.

    T.... T....

    +The Truth Is From God, you're preaching to the living dead. They hate life, light. Nothing we say will change their ways, as they have no mind these days. Their innocent birth minds were given over to Baal early in life. They claim we have guns and icy hands, while they use "strange" rot like Bowie as bait to grab the innocent minds; pull them down with their Baal beast that sexual rips into their shitter rectums. We're not here to preach life, light to the living dead -- we're here to let the living dead know, that we know, they are dead.

    T.... T....

    Religious mind-fuckery... Always ready to piss in everyone's Corn Flakes. What miserable lives you must lead behind your fake, self-righteous grins. Interestingly, you say "...like Bowie as bait to grab the innocent minds", when the ensnarement of young minds (and occasionally bodies) of our young is your primary recruitment tool, and this; "...that sexual rips into their shitter rectums" says more about your warped, criminal minds than anything else.

    T.... T....

    so many retarded comments...This is drama by Brecht where Bowie played Baal drunken poet

  28. M.... E....

    Is the complete play available? I remember seeing it when it was first broadcast MANY years ago (1982 I think). Bowie gave an excellent performance of a difficult role, perfectly capturing the "verfremdung" or "alienation technique" which is essential for Brecht. In this song he demonstrates perfect Brechtian style.

    M.... E....

    they are called 'zonks' ; the songs

    M.... E....

    it is part of a dvd set you can buy for too much money or shamefully pirate it on vimeo or daily motion

  29. J.... L....

    My friend goodbye.

    J.... L....

    Don't be sad. You'll meet him in hell one day with his lord, Baal.

  30. C.... C....

    About passing over!!!...:)O(:...

  31. S.... ....

    Goodbye Mr Jones. You are one of the greats.

  32. K.... K....

    Ba'al Hadad is an exceptional god.

    K.... K....

    god of the toilets. enemy of the Jewish G-d Yahweh.
    That makes you an anti-Semite.

    K.... K....

    Yahweh is a deciever and murderer

    K.... K....

    you are retarded,not that baal,this is drama by Bertold Brecht u fucking idiot

  33. B.... F....

    when we say baal in Dutch it means, i hate to do it or i hate that

  34. j.... ....

    Just amazing, tingles all over including the spine every time I listen to this.

  35. h.... ....

    "He'll just have enough sky when he's dead!!" What a great line...
    And when David says "vultures", you can actually hear he's smiling.

    h.... ....

    you'd smile too if you tried vulture soup.

  36. P.... J....

    One of David's finest readings of a song;his phrasing is stunning.Moves the hell out of me and I wish this was more widely known

    P.... J....

    phrasing? you mean rhyming..
    nonsense like a child.
    ow he was so wild.
    you could not see
    what he did to thee
    rest in hell bowie
    rest with your dark lord baal
    for you know he

  37. T.... ....

    Amazing!!! Bowie makes Brecht's play twice as brilliant :D Love this EP

  38. a.... r....

    Excelente canción. Hay un Baal en cada uno.
    Brecht+Bowie= genial