David Bowie

No Plan

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Here, there's no music here
I'm lost in streams of sound
Here, am I nowhere now?
No plan

Wherever I may go
Just where
Just there
I am

All of the things that are my life
My desires
My beliefs
My moods
Here is my place without a plan

Here
Second Avenue
Just out of view
Here
Is no traffic here?
No plan

All the things that are my life
My moods
My beliefs
My desires
Me alone
Nothing to regret
This is no place, but here I am
This is not quite yet

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mellow_harsher On Jan 08, 2017

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by tuscan3000

9y ago

I've read a few comment elsewhere which seem to think this is Bowie knowingly singing beyond the grave. I don't think it is, judging by his final line 'this is not quite yet'. I think he's trying to convey exactly where he was when he wrote this, the uncertainty, not knowing when he's going to die exactly. He, as does everyone, spent his whole life making plans for whatever's next but at the stage he wrote this I imagine he's almost in limbo, neither here nor there. He's considering exactly what he was, what he is, where he is and he's unsure of it all. this is not quite yet, not quite death.

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