David Bowie

The Loneliest Guy

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Streets turn from walls
Empty smell, that's all
Weeds between buildings
Pictures on my hard drive
But I'm the luckiest guy
Not the loneliest guy

Steam on the floor
Shots by the mirror's frame
Clouds green and old
No sign, no nothing, now
But I'm the luckiest guy
Not the loneliest guy

All the pages that have turned
All the errors left unlearned, oh
But I'm the luckiest guy
Not the loneliest guy
In the world
Not me
Not me

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saturnine On Apr 09, 2004

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by pumkinhed

20y ago

This is the saddest sounding song I've heard in quite a while. David's voice on it is just haunting and fantastic.

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by Bowie

20y ago

hearing it live practically tore my heart right from my chest.

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by phaedrus 1

18y ago

This is surely autobiographical, and portrays the loneliness of a rock star, forced to view a sycophantic and untrustworthy world through the alien window of a computer. The price of immortality perhaps?

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by chickenpiggies

16y ago

I just listened to this song for the first time ever, and I've definitely heard it before, on a tv show or movie or something......and that's going to eat at me for a while. Might have even been a cover of it..

anyone have any ideas where I might have heard it?

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by chickenpiggies 16y ago

I saw him performing it during The Reality Tour on TV a couple years ago.

Nevermind folks :D

by ziggystardox

12y ago

Bowie said in an interview about this song, "That song is a very despairing piece of work--a guy qualifying his entirely hermetic, isolated existence by saying, "Actually I'm a lucky guy. I'm not really alone--I just have myself to look after." But in setting up the analogy of the city taken over by weeds, there is this notion that our ideas are inhabited by ghosts and that there's nothing in our philosophy--that all the big ideas are empty containers."

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by Epsilon Eridani b

4y ago

Rightly said- he was not the loneliest guy.

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