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And when she drowns
Within and in the fizzy gin, begins to sigh
"Good God oh my" I cry and die and lie beside
She is the apple in my eye
She talked to God
I couldn't cope
Or'd hope eloped
A dope she roped
This salty lie
And when she's dreaming, I believe
And when she's reading, I retreat
Can't believe her
Telling me she's dead again
Telling me she's dead against it
And deep my wound
Within for every second chance it was thy-tore
From deep within, despite the rain, my words are worn
She loves to talk into the phone
No matter who
No matter when
No matter where
No better than the faulty line
Within and in the fizzy gin, begins to sigh
"Good God oh my" I cry and die and lie beside
She is the apple in my eye
She talked to God
I couldn't cope
Or'd hope eloped
A dope she roped
This salty lie
And when she's reading, I retreat
Can't believe her
Telling me she's dead again
Telling me she's dead against it
And deep my wound
Within for every second chance it was thy-tore
From deep within, despite the rain, my words are worn
She loves to talk into the phone
No matter who
No matter when
No matter where
No better than the faulty line
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Submitted by
laurelinwyntre On Oct 02, 2007
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This is one of the non-instrumental songs on the Buddha of Suburbia. It has a great rhythm. It's obviously a hate song. Not a love song, but a hate song. He's telling the listener that she's 'dead against it.' Maybe she doesn't want to get back together with him? Who knows?
Y'know, I always took this as an honest love song, though the lyrics are intentionally cut-up muddly. Despite Bowie's chronic storytelling I do feel this is inspired by Iman. It's told with such fondness, and I think the closest to sense these lyrics make is as comments on the practical minutiae of a relationship. I never interpreted the title much but it could fit with that if I just say it's how lovers can have differing opinions.
Y'know, I always took this as an honest love song, though the lyrics are intentionally cut-up muddly. Despite Bowie's chronic storytelling I do feel this is inspired by Iman. It's told with such fondness, and I think the closest to sense these lyrics make is as comments on the practical minutiae of a relationship. I never interpreted the title much but it could fit with that if I just say it's how lovers can have differing opinions.
"The cut-up style that is obviously used on such tracks as Bleed Like A Craze, Dad (yes, it is a play on Krays) and Dead Against It springs from the Brion Gysin/William Burroughs school of Fucking with the Fabric of Time." -Bowie
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krays