| David Bowie – Word on a Wing Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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To think of Bowie is to think of William Blake and Buddhism and remember that Bowie is Nietzschian in sentiment. Bowie is a atheist and an atheist doesn't always reject the idea of a god. He or she just asks for evidence and states that they have the right to refuse third party claims of conclusive evidence. William was a devout Christian but in controversy he rejected the state recognised church and even dared to question the wisdom of god. In his own way William Blake was a radical atheist but he was also a devout spiritualist and Christian. I don't think Bowie rejects the idea of a higher power or the need for rules so that anarchy does not descend and rule in destruction. But he does question an institutes right to claim that they represent this higher authority and so the spiritual and religious tone of this song is 'mock heroic'. It's sounds like a hymm and a prayer but look closely at the lyrics and he rejects the notions of a simple narrative and someone else's right to claim such a simple narrative hence the claim to a one all mighty power that the privaliaged can cling to. |
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| David Bowie – Seven Years in Tibet Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| It is based on the brain chemistry of sensory flooding and it is about irony. The most riddiculous suspension of belief while your real adventure might be sitting next to you while you are enraptured in this commercial rubbish. Bowie often composes songs while imagining himself in a cinema; the place most Westeners go to escape the madness of reality for a few hours. Look carefully at the lyrics - they don't make any sense unless you imagine yourself in a cinema with your dream partner that you are too scared to admit that you have just found your best chance at hapiness | |
| David Bowie – Seven Years in Tibet Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| It is actually Nitzschean in meaning. It means look to the Earth and not the stars for answers. | |
| David Bowie – Seven Years in Tibet Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I couldn't agree more. It's about shock at the real thing and the way the mind wont except genuine love. That you'd rather believe that you'd just been shot in the head while watching some daft movie. It is about the irony that you'd rather believe in some cinema flick and think that is all glamour and something to aspire to when the rather charming date you are with is probably the best thing in your life. Look at it's linking intertextuality in a lot of Bowie songs. Life on Mars, Drive in Saturday, She drives the big car, to name but a few. |
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