When Bowie announced his forthcoming Glass Spider tour, If I remember correctly, he said that the show would tell a "story" or have a theme running through it.

I was listening to the Montreal show the other day and decided to listen to the "spoken" bits between the songs -and try to work out what they saying/telling.

Here is my transcript of the spoken bits:

They get cluster - Instantagious
Four Teenagers in a car
They fixed hose pipes from the exhaust into the windows – did you hear me
Right there in a cluster
You’re just not good enough
You’re just not educated and cooperative
and you’re not allowed to talk about nothing
cause you’re made from the wrong stuff
wrong stuff (chanted)
…Up the Hill Backwards

She says real friends don’t walk over real friends
She (can’t make it out)
I will be back when you get it together
I don’t intend to fall – it will be an accident
You mean you don’t live like that?
No
You’re not a friend?
Yes
We can’t have rock stars cross breeding with normal people
…Absolute Beginners

Ugly Time
Like falling on a knive
Ugly Time
Friends taking their life
Ugly Time
Like Government men
Beating on the door like a new future plan
Then there’s Thor son of Odin, undergod, heir of the realm eternal, the mightiest warrior in the nine worlds
…Fashion

I want to punch a whole in the sky
(foreign translation)
I want to touch the future
(foreign translation)
It’s chicken and feathers
(foreign translation)
It’s Rock n Roll
It’s like kissing a blow torch
(foreign translation)
It’s Rock n Roll
She doesn’t take lovers she takes hostages
(foreign translation)
It’s Rock n Roll
It’s madness
… All the Madmen


end of Big Brother…
Operators are standing by
(I can’t make out the next few lines)
… Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family)

Can any one help me with the missing bits?
And can anyone help explain them??

PS I notice that by Canada, Bowie was getting tired of the "pantomime" and that there were less spoken pieces between songs, Big Brother was the last and that was only half way through the show. Does anyone know what was removed?



Tell them they can laugh at me