| David Bowie – Song for Bob Dylan Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think considering this song follows the song "Andy Warhol" on the 1972 album "Hunky Dory," released one year after Edie Sedgwick's death, I see some refences to Warhol's Factory years and the involvement both Edie and Dylan had in it in those days. When the chorus goes "Here she comes again/ the same old painted lady/ from the brow of a superbrain" I think is a reference to Edie as the fake "painted" lady that was created by Warhol (the superbrain). I think the use of the word painted is clever, being that Warhol was a painter of sorts. Then the part that goes "She'll scratch this world to pieces/ as she comes on like a friend/ but a couple of songs/ from your old scrapbook/ could send her home again" is a reference to how Edie is falling apart from the heroin (amongst other substances) and creating havoc around her and if Dylan would talk to her and remind her of how great things use to be, then maybe he could save her |
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