| David Bowie – The Man Who Sold the World Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I found out on wikipedia that Bowie himself commented on this song: Bowie commented: "I guess I wrote it because there was a part of myself that I was looking for. Maybe now that I feel more comfortable with the way that I live my life and my mental state (laughs) and my spiritual state whatever, maybe I feel there's some kind of unity now. That song for me always exemplified kind of how you feel when you're young, when you know that there's a piece of yourself that you haven't really put together yet. You have this great searching, this great need to find out who you really are." So reading this, for me it's kind of an image of what happens in our heads when we evolve and our personality evolves. Somewhere along the way things can remind us of our "older self", the way we thought before (for example as kids, teenager, young adults etc...), and also along the way we realize that although we think we changed a lot ("I thought you died alone a long long time ago"), these older selves are part of who we are too ("Oh no not me, I never lost control"). This is for the first verse. Then when experiencing those thoughts we also come to realize that although we long to find stability in our minds ("I searched for form and land ... "), ultimately the way we think will evolve by making new experiences, and our personality/way of thinking will continue to evolve. So who we believe we are at a particular moment in time is just one of many versions of ourselves that we will come to experience during our life "I gazed a gazley stare at all the millions here ...". For the part of "selling the world", I see it as every past versions of ourselves having "sold" the world to the next, ultimately for our own greater good, but sometimes constrained by society etc... (like when we have to stop acting like kids because we have more responsibilities to ourselves and others as we grow up etc... ) |
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