| David Bowie – The Jean Genie Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| sticking with the Americana theme - there are several Marilyn Monroe references in here. Even the Jean Genie title could be Jean Genet or Norma Jean | |
| David Bowie – The Jean Genie Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| sticking with the Americana theme - there are several Marilyn Monroe references in here. Even the Jean Genie title could be Jean Genet or Norma Jean | |
| Genesis – One For The Vine Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I always took this song to have a kind of cyclical theme. The follower slips into a parallel universe or another life and becomes a leader. Then "he thought he recognised him by his walk and by the way he fell" - he recognises himself - and it's about to cycle all over again | |
| The Small Faces – All Or Nothing Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| written by Steve in a railway hotel in Leeds - this song is about, well, sex. Wanting to make it with his then girlfriend Susan | |
| David Bowie – Quicksand Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Very eloquent insights from all. David Beauy says..."Essentially, Bowie is singing with quiet resignation to the fact that life is a downward spiral (or a vat of quicksand) culminating in the ultimate realization upon one's death that it was all pointless" At the time my teenage thoughts were that there is a lot of Hitler in this song - perhaps contemplating his own suicide in the bunker I'm living in a silent film Portraying Himmler's sacred realm Of dream reality I'm frightened by the total goal Drawing to the ragged hole And I ain't got the power anymore No I ain't got the power anymore I'm the twisted name on Garbo's eyes Living proof of Churchill's lies I'm destiny I'm torn between the light and dark Where others see their targets Divine symmetry Should I kiss the viper's fang Or herald loud the death of Man I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought And I ain't got the power anymore It's clearly about a whole lot more too |
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