CHORUS
Because you're young
You'll meet a stranger some night
Because you're young
What could be nicer for you
And it makes me sad
So I'll dance my life away
A million dreams, a million scars
I thought about this part again and came up with what could possibly something that ties in with what notthattartagain said about this being a song written for his son Zoe/Zowie. At the time the song was written Zoe was still in his single-digit years while Bowie was "mounting the hill" (in his case 30 was the year he went over the hill...it's why he was able, or why at all, to write "Up the Hill Backwards" which has an excellent interpretation on its page on this site...Read That First.) This is about Bowie standing at what he feels to be the culturally understood year that is the end of Youth while looking down upon the place his young son has and the all of the climbing he has ahead of him. It's another point of self-reflection on aging and death in the frame of paternal advice. Read through it again.. it's almost fully self-centered, which is perfectly fine since the most ego-centric advice can sometimes be more rich than some watered down "selfless" advice that essentially cuts the Self out of the picture in an attempt to console by sleight-of-hand. As a man who has squeezed out a copy of himself in child he can do nothing but realize his place on the linear progression of human life. The action of contemplating the nature of his son's own youth puts his own into view.
@envelope not sure what makes you think your conjecture overrules what Bowie said repeatedly about his own song but okay. The track was dedicated to the boy.
@envelope not sure what makes you think your conjecture overrules what Bowie said repeatedly about his own song but okay. The track was dedicated to the boy.
CHORUS Because you're young You'll meet a stranger some night Because you're young What could be nicer for you And it makes me sad So I'll dance my life away A million dreams, a million scars
I thought about this part again and came up with what could possibly something that ties in with what notthattartagain said about this being a song written for his son Zoe/Zowie. At the time the song was written Zoe was still in his single-digit years while Bowie was "mounting the hill" (in his case 30 was the year he went over the hill...it's why he was able, or why at all, to write "Up the Hill Backwards" which has an excellent interpretation on its page on this site...Read That First.) This is about Bowie standing at what he feels to be the culturally understood year that is the end of Youth while looking down upon the place his young son has and the all of the climbing he has ahead of him. It's another point of self-reflection on aging and death in the frame of paternal advice. Read through it again.. it's almost fully self-centered, which is perfectly fine since the most ego-centric advice can sometimes be more rich than some watered down "selfless" advice that essentially cuts the Self out of the picture in an attempt to console by sleight-of-hand. As a man who has squeezed out a copy of himself in child he can do nothing but realize his place on the linear progression of human life. The action of contemplating the nature of his son's own youth puts his own into view.
@envelope not sure what makes you think your conjecture overrules what Bowie said repeatedly about his own song but okay. The track was dedicated to the boy.
@envelope not sure what makes you think your conjecture overrules what Bowie said repeatedly about his own song but okay. The track was dedicated to the boy.