A Small Plot of Land

Around this period, this album in particular, he dealt with the topic of insanity; the "small plot of land" is probably referring to a padded room with the allusion to a dead man in a grave being calculated. "But the will to live is dead" would imply the character is still alive. "He's less than with us" weighs in favor of the insane man interpretation. I think it's really his and the conflicting "family reaction" to his brother being insane. "The fool is dead" if tied to the tarot concept would imply that the ability for new beginnings is no longer available to this person's mind and they are stuck in their perpetual hallucinations. Extremely touching song.

this is about dead man and his grave, small plot of land is all that belongs to him after his death

an alternate "strings-only" version of this song appears on the soundtrack to the film Basquiat (in which Bowie also portrayed Andy Warhol)

I'm pretty sure this song is about Basquiat himself. All of your interpretations seem to be right, but due to the fact the basquiat died of a heroin overdose at age 27 and was probably pittied much, even though he was an amazing neo classic artist, small plot of land makes perfect sense now. More specifically, it's most likely about basquiat being in a small plot of land shooting up the herion and booom....suicide! and while this is happening, he is in a room like some guy said earlier. Then again it does sound very much like bowie could be talking about his crazy brother. eh I think both interpretations are coinciding; were meant to be coinciding.

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