In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
It's the darkest hour, you're twenty two
The voice of youth, the hour of dread
The darkest hour and your voice is new
Love is lost, lost is love
Your country's new
Your friends are new
Your house and even your eyes are new
Your maid is new and your accent too
But your fear is as old as the world
Say goodbye to the thrills of life
Where love was good, no love was bad
Wave goodbye to the life without pain
Say hello
You're a beautiful girl
Say hello to the lunatic men
Tell them your secrets
They're like the grave
Oh, what have you done?
Oh, what have you done?
Love is lost, lost is love
You know so much, it's making you cry
You refuse to talk but you think like mad
You've cut out your soul and the face of thought
Oh, what have you done?
Oh, what have you done?
Oh, what have you done?
Oh, what have you done?
The voice of youth, the hour of dread
The darkest hour and your voice is new
Love is lost, lost is love
Your country's new
Your friends are new
Your house and even your eyes are new
Your maid is new and your accent too
But your fear is as old as the world
Say goodbye to the thrills of life
Where love was good, no love was bad
Wave goodbye to the life without pain
Say hello
You're a beautiful girl
Say hello to the lunatic men
Tell them your secrets
They're like the grave
Oh, what have you done?
Oh, what have you done?
Love is lost, lost is love
You know so much, it's making you cry
You refuse to talk but you think like mad
You've cut out your soul and the face of thought
Oh, what have you done?
Oh, what have you done?
Oh, what have you done?
Oh, what have you done?
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very interesting...this song in my experience of it is that someone has died and everything they once knew is...new. One soul/consciousness...as you like, has a new body and experiencing all new things except one - fear - that remains over from the past life and continues to haunt this new life. (Tendencies and predilections remain habitual from life to life if they are not shifted...if you like).
As far as ‘love is lost’, to me she has lost her heart and true will somehow, just as she had in the previous life (my extrapolation), due to fear, and it persists in this new life. She marries (or due to lust, simply has sex as was going on the entire video) with someone ‘above’ her (“greater men”) , all the wrong reasons, thus love is lost and now she has a child (“Say hello, your beautiful girl”) and her world is no longer carefree (“wave goodbye to the life without pain”). Her early life was carefree because she was born wealthy (“Your maid is new...”), now “what have you done”....everything changes and will probably impact her greatly, why the uncomfortable mood as, dastedden (below) observed.
(i like the reconstituting bodies in the beginning, like electronic reincarnation until a final body and form appears, but then even those bodies appear fractured (fractured emotions, fractured mind, fractured love...) once formed, monotone colors...love is lost. brilliant. sad...)
@suomynona The people I had sex with for which I've apparently been pilloried (?!) were inferior to me which is why they didn't last or transpose into proper relationships but the leeches were going to gather around in the circumstances, neither post end 1992, was I going to be able to attract anyone of calibre. Bowie effectively made me celibate and loveless by publicly humiliating me to the enth degree. Don't you think most people want ' the right fit' in a partner who will go the distance? <br /> . Unfortunately that wasn't an option open to me. Also you didn't read the lyrics properly. It wasn't "your beautiful girl" but "you're A beautiful girl" If you're going to be a Bowie fan read and listen properly to the lyrics!! However I tragically have a head start in this regard. 22. because his pre-pubescent chatelaine, Marianne, had been by his side for the past 22 years. It's all so obvious if you think about it. And I'm supposedly the cretin!!
@suomynona The people I had sex with for which I've apparently been pilloried (?!) were inferior to me which is why they didn't last or transpose into proper relationships but the leeches were going to gather around in the circumstances, neither post end 1992, was I going to be able to attract anyone of calibre. Bowie effectively made me celibate and loveless by publicly humiliating me to the enth degree. Don't you think most people want ' the right fit' in a partner who will go the distance? <br /> . Unfortunately that wasn't an option open to me. Also you didn't read the lyrics properly. It wasn't "your beautiful girl" but "you're A beautiful girl" If you're going to be a Bowie fan read and listen properly to the lyrics!! However I tragically have a head start in this regard. 22. because his pre-pubescent chatelaine, Marianne, had been by his side for the past 22 years. It's all so obvious if you think about it. And I'm supposedly the cretin!!