| David Bowie – Up the Hill Backwards Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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| David Bowie – The Secret Life of Arabia Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Take the first main phrase starting with "I was running...": that, as you may know from reading my other Bowie lyric interpretations, is about him reeling through another meditation session. The next phrase, or line, "you must see the movie" (meditational visions in the mind; "visualizations") followed by "the sand in my eyes", (really just, "what do you do when the sand is blowing in your eyes?" You close them, trying with tension) then capped with "I walk through the desert song(sun?) when the heroine dies"....well now, there are two interpretations I have: 1) if it's "song", then it's the actual music he creates in his mind while in this state of deep meditation, deep in the "desert mind", empty, "zen", whatever. or 2) if it's "sun", really the same thing as we've all seen the Ziggy pics of him with large sun-disk upon forehead(really a golden sphere within the mind [yes, drugs and meditation made this clearer for me]), then say, something a bit different...we could say that this desert is forbidding and harsh...it's the mind he's left with after the "heroin dies"...after a heroin trip trying to meditate...hard to do as the mind and body is wrung of its neurochemical richness and all other things within the body covered by flesh and the microscopic nature of cells along with that which is seen in the mind's eye but not ocular eyes, etc. (secret never seen). But the "heroine" here is one of the feminine aspects of the mind symbolized by female characters of the Tarot's major arcana and Sephira of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. Even the "Starry Faced Virgin, the Black Madonna" of the "wide night sky"(space) that plays cradle and birthplace of the other celestial bodies(the Sun being the Kether, Space being Binah..look it up). Anyways, when this "mother" no longer births anything, the world is a vast clean slate of a desert of a mind from which something will eventually grow just as an ever-green( a triangle, paired with its converse, inverted triangle, you get the start of david). Anyways, the Evergreen is the body through which, like crystals, grow the furried branches of nerves and veins to perceive. A bit disjointed in there, but you'll figure it out if you want. | |
| David Bowie – Sound and Vision Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Blue, electric blue mind you, is the color of the throat chakra... which cross-referenced with the correlating frequency from some page online gives us the following(note :BLUE of Throat chakra connection): 12.0 - Centering, doorway to all other frequencies [×] ; frequency of earth resonance (Hercules - a researcher); Centering, mental stability, transitional point, time seems faster [SS]; To stimulate mental clarity [ESR]; Associated with Throat/Vishuddha chakra (Color=Blue) (Body Parts=Thyroid, Lungs, Vocal Cords) (Effects=Expression/self in society)(Note=G) [OML] 12.0-36.0 Beta Range [per CRI] - dominant brainwave in alert/awake/anxious adults with their eyes open. Comes into play when "listening & thinking during analytical problem solving, judgment, decision making, processing information about the world around us." [CRI] 12.0-14.0 Learning Frequency - Good for absorbing information passively, when you plan to think about it later. [RA] That was from a page on binaural brainwave entrainment which is akin to reaching the same through meditation. "I will sing" (which could be about chanting as a means of meditation) and "waiting for the gift of sound and vision"(which, when done properly can put the mind into a state where closed eye colorations can be seen/perceived and then also the rise of "brain music" can take place...ever been near falling asleep and realized you were hearing music in your head and then, without much effort, you were in a sense "composing" it? I bet my life that this was one of Bowie's major components to his prolific music career). Enjoy. |
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| David Bowie – Up the Hill Backwards Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This connects to my last one. There's this quote from Bowie at this period (Scary Monsters) where he said he went travelling around the world and felt much more connected to things for it. In a sense, he sees the broad nature of the world in that certain opportunities are only available in certain ways and places. I think it's his way of deferring guilt for being so educated and rich which sprang from him being able to survive past third world childhood diseases and the providence of his good genes to be so intelligent/talented...in some sense of which he had "nothing to do with it". Wasn't he who chose to be the specimen he was born as which allowed him to become so successful a human... | |
| David Bowie – Up the Hill Backwards Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Yay! Figured this one out: "A series of shocks - sneakers fall apart - earth keeps on rolling - witnesses falling" Look at Bowie's symbology: the lightning bolt. That stands for the Crown/Kether chakra which is "g-d" or the rest of the world which is taken in "in the flash of an image" of an objective element radiating its subjective meaning. So this flash/lightningbolt/"shock" in this case is that in the web-like interconnected view of reality, each node a person/sentient-perspective, well, at certain times in history this "implicitness" just out and out shocks some fool who understands and takes it somewhere. This Throne of Understanding is created by teh previous cultures that then gave way to that period and then birthed the exact moment for such an understanding to take place...so "It's got nothing to do with you" is so very true when you take into mind the thousands of factors that allowed say a Galileo or Planck or Einstein to be hit by the "idea bolt"...genetics disposition...education...cultural food staples...the land which all these cradle and made available. So very NOT one's choice in the worldview promoted in this song. One can look back upon things and say "yeah, I knew I was setting myself up for a moment of genius" ...but really...no one would have gone in "that" direction had they really not been urged by history's many lendings and the emergent need for some-thing to be found out. So then yes, "earth keeps on rolling" (passing of time..history)..."witnesses falling"(people that see others being hit by the bolt but falling for not being the ones that were so lucky to have been hit). |
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| David Bowie – Up the Hill Backwards Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| ok....WTF. The end of my advice column just got truncated at an embarrassing point( about halfway through my full original intended post) and the last line at the end somehow ended up right there at the end most oddly. Whatever. You get the idea. There was a mentioned of Arjuna's web of perception/reality which ties in nicely with the inferred interconnectedness of perspectives. Also, the concept of "Love" for the last phrase being more akin to "Learning Realities & Evolving the Self " rather than "lovelydovey"...and how if one were to be disconnected from this web of realities by being removed from normal daytime peoples, you would have no chance at enacting the Verb of to Love and therefore "Love" would die and would also be "crippled" in this pursuit of development by the frozen static nature of one asleep. Perhaps not realizing the puffed up falsity of "Freedom"...or even the fullest of imaginations of what can be done with it...perhaps that is being "asleep" to the fullness of experience. Even so, without others to define your place in the "astral net" of existence...well, it's got nothing to do with -you-, but there is a place at the table if you'll just join in. | |
| David Bowie – Up the Hill Backwards Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The "up the hill backwards" part is about how we move forward through time; it all seems a difficult struggle and all we can see is that which we have already traversed below...and from that vantage the past looks usually as difficult as the climb at the moment. That last part, not so certain, but very much so on the chronology-based element of the title. "The vacuum created by the arrival of freedom" would be much like, say, something a retiree may face upon leaving work to a full "freedom"...but without any structure or purpose it can seem like so muc ha vacuum to so many you see them going right back to some type of job to have purpose and human contact. I think this relates in some manner to Bowie's own unbounded lifestyle which, having recognized this principle, is founded on his own strength of self-discipline to create the actual boundaries of his career and self. "Nobody down here can do it for me"...which appears in "When You Rock and Roll With Me" is part of the same concept. The end of that one line being "and the possibilities it seems to offer" would relate to the nature of choice from imagined, fantisized, researched, learned options for "how to be" and also, in the next line "it's got nothing to do with you" referencing the limited nature of actual "freedom", it being bounded only by those actual options available to your skill, class, talent, investedness, etc. "Land of the Free"...sure...you go out and get that job you can't afford to obtain...wow those people in conversation that are above your level of intelligence...get that hot size-queen at the bar with your undersized (>>>>> Anyone else have any ideas??? |
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| David Bowie – Up the Hill Backwards Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The "up the hill backwards" part is about how we move forward through time; it all seems a difficult struggle and all we can see is that which we have already traversed below...and from that vantage the past looks usually as difficult as the climb at the moment. That last part, not so certain, but very much so on the chronology-based element of the title. "The vacuum created by the arrival of freedom" would be much like, say, something a retiree may face upon leaving work to a full "freedom"...but without any structure or purpose it can seem like so muc ha vacuum to so many you see them going right back to some type of job to have purpose and human contact. I think this relates in some manner to Bowie's own unbounded lifestyle which, having recognized this principle, is founded on his own strength of self-discipline to create the actual boundaries of his career and self. "Nobody down here can do it for me"...which appears in "When You Rock and Roll With Me" is part of the same concept. The end of that one line being "and the possibilities it seems to offer" would relate to the nature of choice from imagined, fantisized, researched, learned options for "how to be" and also, in the next line "it's got nothing to do with you" referencing the limited nature of actual "freedom", it being bounded only by those actual options available to your skill, class, talent, investedness, etc. "Land of the Free"...sure...you go out and get that job you can't afford to obtain...wow those people in conversation that are above your level of intelligence...get that hot size-queen at the bar with your undersized (>>>>> Anyone else have any ideas??? |
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| The Cure – Jupiter Crash Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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yep, ezboy1000 has it. As much impact felt here as was discernible out there for something with so much anticipation built up around it. But oh yes..."Drawn too close and gone in a flash Just a few bruises in the region of the splash"... Saucy~~~~ |
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| David Bowie – Time Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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9 = Numerologically, "bowie" adds up to this number. The number 9 is generally considered an indicator of the arts. 25 = "kick it in the head when he was 25, don't want to be alive when your 25"... 25, a quarter of a century old..."we should be on by now" should have made something of one's self by this age. The last major phrase is about depression and how you can't get mentally "turned on" (also applicable: "should be on by now"). Meditation-wise, this sense of getting the mind turned on in a certain manner...he's desperate for it to come for time is wasting him away. All the other stuff is pretty straight forward about the nature of time and death. Oh, the phrase starting with "the sniper in the brain"...that relates to the nature of the mind worked towards and how it can just gorge itself on itself (regurgitate in vain) when so short-focused....need that turn on to go further than that which is in the mind already("dreams" in the last phrase which is alcutally a conversation with self, from several perspectives of how to view the value of "dreams" and the extent to which they are helpful or hindering). The comment above: "gay song!" .... The closest I could come to considering this a "gay song" is that it could easily appear in the musical Cabaret when it came out a number of years ago fronted by that actor that plays the emperor in "Titus" ;the foppy Scot with the greasy long bangs. |
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| David Bowie – Velvet Goldmine Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"You got crazy legs, you got amazing head You got rings on your fingers and your hair's hot red You got wit from my tongue, name on the sun I gotcha going to my breast Cause you're the only one, who uses school to pleasure" >>>This phrase, like the rest of the song, is all about himself. Rather proud of himself, ain't 'e? Come on, red hair? "uses school to pleasure" about his information/literature addiction. "You make me act real gone, you make me trawl along I had to ravish your capsule, suck you dry Feel the teeth in your bone, heal ya head with my own Why if I don't have you home, we'll have to fight alone Hang all together" >>>More of the "I understand myself on a deep level" spoutings. Really, read about the man. Occultism, yoga, etc. Get into it before you doubt my statements. "Velvet Goldmine, you stroke me like the rain Snake it, take it, panther princess you must stay Velvet Goldmine, naked on your chain I'll be your king volcano rise for you again and again My Velvet Goldmine" >>>All about how glorious it feels to be him doing what he does to feel like he does...and the necessity for upkeep both mind and body....keep that up and that inner energy self with continue to "erupt" every time. "You're my taste, my trip, I'll be your master zip I'll suck your hair for kicks, you'll make me jump to my feet So you'll give me your hand, give me your sound Let my sea wash your face, I'm falling, I can't stand Oooh! Put your mink on" >>>The last line can throw you as it's a minor monologue that expresses the point of self-indulgence of this self he has cultivated (in fact, turning away from or putting off any urge will dampen and dull the mind from it, fyi, thus he relishes any thought that cultivates further an excitement with this facet of himself; beauty/image). "master zip": one of the pet names for himself (see chorus). "Velvet Goldmine, you stroke me like the rain Snake it, take it, panther princess you must stay Velvet Goldmine, naked on your chain I'll be your king volcano rise for you again and again My Velvet Goldmine" >>>"Velvet Goldmine" is his mind. That's all. His "Black Country Rock" (see my explanation on that song's page). Don't worry kids, I too once thought the "velvet goldmine" he was talking about was his homo-sexed anus...then I got smart. |
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| David Bowie – Velvet Goldmine Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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LYRIC CORRECTION: "I'm falling UP I can't stand" |
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| David Bowie – A Small Plot of Land Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Around this period, this album in particular, he dealt with the topic of insanity; the "small plot of land" is probably referring to a padded room with the allusion to a dead man in a grave being calculated. "But the will to live is dead" would imply the character is still alive. "He's less than with us" weighs in favor of the insane man interpretation. I think it's really his and the conflicting "family reaction" to his brother being insane. "The fool is dead" if tied to the tarot concept would imply that the ability for new beginnings is no longer available to this person's mind and they are stuck in their perpetual hallucinations. Extremely touching song. |
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| David Bowie – Drive-In Saturday Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This one's actually about setting up for a DMT trip...look it up..."pour me out another phone" (generally in some type of ayahuasca concoction that is drank)[at the point this lyric is said there is a siren that goes from low to high in the background...this is key as during a DMT trip, you go from flat to "domed" very quickly with a similar rising tone in your ears]. The "strange ones in the dome", like I said, research, and you'll hear of what are termed "machine elves". The "don't forget to turn on the light" part goes with the physical nature of the trip: you want a dim light on in the room to gain a base level for either OEV or CEV (research!). Funny he actually got that in the lyrics! The "lend us a book we can read up alone" connects to the machinelfs..."objects are traded"...the objets are ideas it is believed. Go! Research! | |
| David Bowie – Dead Man Walking Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Earthling was by no means a "disco" album... give it another listen. Try "7 years In Tibet" and "Looking for Satellites". This song here "Dead Man Walking" is barely a dance song until after a remix with techno beats added; I get more of an IDM feel vibe from it (fast, programmed beats, but not very dance-y). Anyways, for a great visual and philosophically congruent component to the lyric "falling up" see the film "Izo". | |
| David Bowie – Black Country Rock Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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black country = mind rock = center meditate enough and you'll get some fortuitious developments that may view as crazy but you may adopt another point of view. Doesn't anyone pay attention to what the man did in his free time? He was an occult/magic/yoga FREAK!!! Nay, Aspirant. |
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| David Bowie – Big Brother Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Don't talk of dust and roses Or should we powder our noses?" This is advice to avoid the waste of time that contemplating the inevitable of death("dust and roses") or wasting too much time on ever decaying appearances of ourselves or things("or should we powder our noses?"). In essense: "Get to the root of things!", which would be "pulsars/pulses unreal" with the objective certainty of them, solidity, being "steel" that is demanded. The next phrase is more along the lines of telling of how one would remove themselves to seek such a state of mind to contemplate/experience such "steel pulses". You have to take these lyrics of Bowie's as monologues, conversations of the self with the Self. This whole album, 1984(and alot of his other work), may be a favorite book of his, but in the lyrics you can see him and his views woven in the manner he phrases these stories....they've become completely his own to describe completely a different thing (not society at large so much as one's individual, internal dealings with the very nature of being human). |
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| David Bowie – Beauty and the Beast Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Beauty--->the Body Beast---->the Body Dualistic euphemism for the Body and the b.s. and we have to go in our trials to discipline it. It has it's own desires apart from what we -think- we want (no right or wrong, or moralizing judgement here) it's just how it acts. Most of us are fugly trash compared to that ol baztard so we ca't really understand the Beauty part... ;) |
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| David Bowie – Sweet Thing Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I always took the "sweet thing" he mentions to be the "centre of things where the knowing one says..."; to me this is the same thing he's pointing out in "Black Country Rock": the center of the mind, the "rock of the black country"...the Amygdala/Pineal Gland at the center of the brain which controls sensations of fear (or lack). So "break up your room" (break down your "situation/room/space-you-take-up/self/body/position-amongst-it-all"), and yawn (evocative of sleep, but more just "close your eyes"), and meditate (to get to the center of things, figu./meta.---they both are met there where I mentioned). Hey, it's a "cheap thing"...so why not follow suit? A lot of the rest of the lyrics are putting terms to the control of undisciplined desires. The one that is "older than me" is the Body since it ages while the "me" is the internal, un-aging, conscious Self. The controlled, tempered, talky singing is the Self, while the loud, wailing parts are the Body. Makes sense when you've gone into meditation enough. Velvet Goldmine, Black Country Rock, Time...many of his lyrics are allegories speaking of the tribulations one faces in the study of the self...and for someone so advanced in yoga I don't see how else he could have cultivated such a knowledge. Man does not develop on coke and books alone... | |
| David Bowie – A Better Future Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"All that's plane, and all the sorrow" It should be "plain", not "plane"....well, either, as long as the "plane" referenced in mind is a metaphorical ideal near that of a 2D mathematical plane... "All that is flush/flat/unnoteworthy" |
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| David Bowie – After All Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Oh by jingo! I think I've got it!" Heard that before? ;) And then the futility of recognition... |
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