David Bowie — The Width Of A Circle BBC Live Session

On this next number in addition to John Cambridge on drums And Tony Visconti on bass and, of course David on guitar, we have - uh- Mick Ronson, who'll be playing lead guitar whose recorded on Michael Chapman LPs as you've heard Michael Chapman LPs One of my favourite singers And the first thing that the full band will be doing Is called 'The Width of a Circle': [Instrumental introduction] [Verses 1] In the corner of the morning in the past I would sit and blame the master first and last All the roads were straight and narrow And the prayers were small and yellow And the rumour spread that I was ageing fast Then I ran across a monster Who was sleeping by a tree And I looked and frowned And looked again at me: [Verses 2] Woah Well, I said hello And I said, "Hello?" And I asked, "Why not?" And I replied "I don't know" So we asked a simple black bird Who was happy as can be Well he laughed insane And quipped Khalil Gibran So I cried for all the others Until the day was nearly through For I realized that God's a young man too Yeah, yeah, yeh [Electric guitar solo to extended instrumental outro] That one was called 'The Width Of A Circle' Are you going to be doing gigs with this band? Ha-ha, no; oh they're all looking at me, or rather, yes, we're going to be doing some gigs, aren't we Michael? Michael doesn't really know he's just come down from Hull and I met him for the first time about two days ago through John, the drummer whose worked with me once ... I see, but you're planning to go on the road as it were, yes? Yes, uh, surely ...