| David Bowie – Be My Wife Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song is actually incredibly sad, once one knows the story behind it. David made it in response to his failing marriage with his then wife Angie, with whom he was separated. He'd been traveling and living a fragmented life for so long, and he was just breaking away from his drug addiction. It's not a story, it's not a metaphor, it's David revealing how lonely he was traveling all the time without a constant companion, and asking someone he was already married to to be his wife. He was regaining his stable mentality and was trying to reconnect with people again. He didn't have many friends at this time because all the people he knew previously only fueled the life he was getting away from by moving to Berlin. He was isolated. It was a simple song with a simple message: I'm lonely. Come be my companion. | |
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