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| David Bowie – Red Sails Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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Nah, nuff of this everything is about homesexuality ffs. its about the Soviet invasion of eastern and central Europe. The album is 'Lodger' a temporary stay, and Bowie has already dealt with travel etc, so this adds another dimension to the album. Sailor cant dance like you - Russian Dancing Bear! The graffiti on the wall, which wall? The Berlin Wall.............'Action boy' - Soldier, its directly addressing the inflated might that propelled the Soviet Union, and as we know, once of the places he detested. An issue he failed to address on Heroes. Hinterland is the land far far away beyind the edge of the country. |
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| David Bowie – Strangers When We Meet Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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Well I think really, if you look a little closer, its about empty wanton liaisons arranged over the internet. Which I guess Bowie would have predicted even then. Towards the end of the song we see the 'steely resolve' to do it waning and it appears, like all wanton liasons, to be a bad idea that goes wrong. For instance there is no courting in this relationship, no trendy bar, a blank screen tv - usual for hotel rooms, the whirling room, clothes strewn, by the placements in the song we can perhaps see this was Bowie's focus. A brilliant piece of art. the reference to the opera Rheingold clinches it for me - which deals with the chase for unworldy love which is not ever there. It prefigures internet dating and how empty it is. And of course, in real human terms, all people who convene like this are strangers when they meet. |
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