Midge Ure - The Man Who Sold The World (1982)

We passed upon the stair
Although I wasn't there
He said I was his friend
Which came as some surprise
I spoke into his eyes
I thought you died alone
A long long time ago

Oh no, not me
I never lost control
You're face to face
With the man who sold the world

I laughed and shook his hand,
And made my way back home
I searched for form and land
For years and years I roamed
I gazed a gazely stare
And all the millions here
We must have died alone
A long long time ago

Who knows? not me
We never lost control
You're face to face
With the man who sold the world

[r]

I love the part where a man with a red bionic arm answers a call while laying on a pile of money, saying: " I did it Kaz, I sold the world "

[trinoply]

hideo kojima rly looked at this song and said "I need to make half a game about this"

[Spiralboy]

The moment when you wake up in a Chiprean hospital, missing one arm, with more questions than answers. My favourite moment of the game.

[blackmoss]

That feel when you stare down your clone and you realize you're both monsters of your own making

[mr.s]

This song really makes you feel like you're coming out of a 9-year coma.

[javelin]

"I'm Big Boss, and you are too."

[Praxus]

All the original comments..

You're all diamonds,

[BillyCrash]

I'm afraid it's been... nine years.

[themanwhosoldtheworld]

This seems like a nice song, they should put it in an epic stealth game.

[totallyreal]

We have to rebuild the comment-section here
For our lost brothers

[dracopo]

The original video wasn't deleted.
It only faked its death.

[HazyBlackest]

This song REALLY makes you FEEL like you betrayed humanity and befriended a defective robot to hunt down your evil clone.

[mr.battle]

"Boss, you killed a child?! ... Amazing, mission complete! That right there is why you're the best, Boss! The one and only!"

[DukeJon]

Of all the Mide-Ure covered David Bowie songs that feature in the opening prologue of an action stealth game developed by a Japanese video game designer, this one is probably in my top five

[masonchurch]

POV: "Punished Prighozin" waking up 8 years from now

[Zoochiini]

This is probably my favorite version of the man who sold the world, it sounds so different than the others

[ifailsometimes]

Repost:
"Roses are red,
Violets are not,
This is Pequod... Coming in hot"

[bas]

As a metro cop deployed in City 17, this is what I and the boys listen to in those boring times we don't kill rebels.

[AwwLivSos]

Boss get down! That's an enemy gunship. A single burst from its machine gun can cut a man in half. Tread carefully Boss.

[josemiguelcadenarey]

Why am i listening to this... Just to suffer?