Kooks Lyrics
Will you stay in our Lovers' Story
If you stay you won't be sorry
'Cause we believe in you
Soon you'll grow so take a chance
With a couple of Kooks
Hung up on romancing
And a funny old crib on which the paint won't dry
I bought you a pair of shoes
A trumpet you can blow
And a book of rules
On what to say to people when they pick on you
'Cause if you stay with us you're gonna be pretty Kookie too
Remember how they messed up this old fool
Don't pick fights with the bullies or the cads
'Cause I'm not much cop at punching
Other people's Dads
And if the homework brings you down
Then we'll throw it on the fire
And take the car downtown
And we'll watch the crazy people race around
my dad always sings this 2 me :)
I love this song. Something about Bowie's voice means a smile spreads to my face whenever I hear it.
To me, it's a sweet song that Bowie wrote after his son was born. He's telling him that he loves him and they're gonna look after him until he gets old enough, at which point he can either leave or stay with 'a couple of kooks' (his parents). He also talks about throwing homework on the fire, telling Zowie not to get too stressed about schoolwork and yeah, I reckon there's a reference to Bowie's eye getting damaged in their somewhere. It's very cute. Just my take on it.
Yes, the talented, handsome, angel-voiced Mr. B. wrote this for his little boy Zowie. Awwwww. He's telling his son that though he and his wife aren't parents out of a 1950s sitcom repeat, they are good parents with loving hearts and will do right by the boy. A great tune from a gifted and attractive gentleman
This makes me think of a care free hippy couple with their priorities straight and good hearts.
He wrote it for his son Zowie, when Zowie was a child. It's just about whether he'll stick around with his parents when he grows up or whether he'll be embarrassed of these 'kooks'.
Both his eyes are the same colour bluey-green, it's just that one of his pupils is permanently dilated, so it looks dark from a distance. See: http://panther1.last.fm/proposedimages/original/6/313/153103.jpg
Anyway, I adore this song. I wish my parents had had this sort of attitude. :D
This song will be playing, if and when I ever have a family of my own.
I love how the song keeps going and fades out in the end. It makes me feel like the song perpetually repeats. It's like David Bowie chose to share this song with us. We can't hear it after it fades out but it doesn't stop.
Other interpretations make more sense. I took the song to be welcoming a child into a world and took "if you stay you won't be sorry" in two ways. In one way, a lot of things can go wrong in a pregnancy in which a baby could be lost. Paradoxically, I took it as though the choice was being given to the baby. I suppose when you welcome someone, they have a choice to accept the welcome, whereas to our knowledge, a baby doesn't choose to be born.
I take some of the lines like "look at what they did to this old fool" to refer the (unintentional or otherwise) damage schools do to children, whether specific to Bowie or in general. I think the song also speaks to an awareness that I don't think many parents have of the needs of a child and how much of an impact the parents have on their children in the things the want to pass along and things they pass along that they don't mean to pass along.
@nutshell02 I totally agree with what you said and how you said it!!!
@nutshell02 I totally agree with what you said and how you said it!!!
And if you ever have to go to school Remember how they messed up this old fool
Is this a refrence to Bowie's left eye? I heard someone punched it and that's why it's weird.
i heard that he was punched by someone with a ring and that's what messed up his eye