The song is actually about someone close to you who died. There is a quote that David Bowie said himself about the song.
""Everyone Says "Hi" everyone seems jolly in tone, but is about the passing away of somebody. It was a general song about losing someone in one's life and wasn't written about anyone specifically. I had the sense of when my father died, and it seemed he had only gone away for a while and it was some time for me to reconcile that he wasn't coming back."
yeah, I think I heard Bowie say in an interview at the time of release that it was specifically written with his father in mind, Lookimg at the lyrics again, I just realised how much the last verse paraphrases the last verse of Kooks,
eg
If the money is lousy:
You can always come home
c.f.
And if you ever have to go to school
Remember how they messed up this old fool
yeah, I think I heard Bowie say in an interview at the time of release that it was specifically written with his father in mind, Lookimg at the lyrics again, I just realised how much the last verse paraphrases the last verse of Kooks,
eg
If the money is lousy:
You can always come home
c.f.
And if you ever have to go to school
Remember how they messed up this old fool
or
If the food gets you leery, You can always phone
c.f.
And if the homework brings you down, Then we'll throw it on the fire...
or
If the food gets you leery, You can always phone
c.f.
And if the homework brings you down, Then we'll throw it on the fire
The song is actually about someone close to you who died. There is a quote that David Bowie said himself about the song.
""Everyone Says "Hi" everyone seems jolly in tone, but is about the passing away of somebody. It was a general song about losing someone in one's life and wasn't written about anyone specifically. I had the sense of when my father died, and it seemed he had only gone away for a while and it was some time for me to reconcile that he wasn't coming back."
yeah, I think I heard Bowie say in an interview at the time of release that it was specifically written with his father in mind, Lookimg at the lyrics again, I just realised how much the last verse paraphrases the last verse of Kooks, eg If the money is lousy: You can always come home
c.f. And if you ever have to go to school Remember how they messed up this old fool
yeah, I think I heard Bowie say in an interview at the time of release that it was specifically written with his father in mind, Lookimg at the lyrics again, I just realised how much the last verse paraphrases the last verse of Kooks, eg If the money is lousy: You can always come home
c.f. And if you ever have to go to school Remember how they messed up this old fool
or If the food gets you leery, You can always phone c.f. And if the homework brings you down, Then we'll throw it on the fire...
or If the food gets you leery, You can always phone c.f. And if the homework brings you down, Then we'll throw it on the fire