| David Bowie – My Death Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I always think of this song as a love song. It is a song of a man who knows that he will eventually die, although unlike others I don't think that is necessarily to be soon. This can be shown in the lines My death waits like an old roué So confident I'll go his way Whistle to him and the passing time So he knows that death waits for him as it does for everybody. But he is not going immediately follow death. So he cheekily whistles at it and allows time to pass. It also shows in this line Throw him a dime for the passing time. Now it says passing as time that is currently going passed and will continue to pass. Not time that has passed.. I think it is a man talking about spending the rest of his life with a woman. My death waits there between your thighs Your cool fingers will close my eyes He is talking of his lover and that she will be there when he dies. Thus will be there all his life. He is talking about acknowledging death but not being afraid because she will be there beside him for his life. But what ever lies behind the door There is nothing much to do Angel or devil, I don't care For in front of that door, there is you |
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