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Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) Lyrics
Sue, I got the job
We’ll buy the house
You’ll need to rest
But now we’ll make it
Sue, the clinic called
The x-ray’s fine
I brought you home
I just said home
Sue, you said you wanted writ
“Sue the virgin” on your stone
For your grave
Why too dark to speak the words?
For I know that you have a son
Oh, folly, Sue
Ride the train I’m far from home
In a season of crime none need atone
I kissed your face
Sue, I pushed you down beneath the weeds
Endless faith in hopeless deeds
I kissed your face
I touched your face
Sue, Good-bye
Sue, I found your note
That you wrote last night
It can’t be right
You went with him
Sue, I never dreamed
I’m such a fool
Right from the start
You went with that clown
We’ll buy the house
You’ll need to rest
But now we’ll make it
The x-ray’s fine
I brought you home
I just said home
“Sue the virgin” on your stone
For your grave
For I know that you have a son
Oh, folly, Sue
In a season of crime none need atone
I kissed your face
Endless faith in hopeless deeds
I kissed your face
I touched your face
Sue, Good-bye
That you wrote last night
It can’t be right
You went with him
I’m such a fool
Right from the start
You went with that clown
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Submitted by
adieuadeer On Oct 12, 2014
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With the news of Bowie's death, who or what is Sue in this song?
This song has such a sense of foreboding about it. The drum and bass feel, his vocal emphasis, and lyrics like “I pushed you down beneath the weeds” make it sound there’s some sort of date-rape going on.
But hearing it more and reading the lyrics (which seem right), it tells more a story of cuckolded love and the anguish of the cuckold. A tenuous relationship where she must have agreed to go with him and he’s thrilled (“I just said home”) but she has this very dark response (wants “Sue the virgin” on her grave?). Some sort of medical message, pregnancy maybe?
All the foreboding and violent imagery (and the parenthetical part of the title!) makes me wonder if he kills her “off screen” as it were.
Anyway, I must thank my wife Sue for knowing I liked Bowie and getting this CD for my birthday just after he passed. We may never know the meaning and that would be fine with him.