apparently bowie wrote this on a long train ride from nyc to la. the shifting sound at the beginning is very much a train. this is when bowie re-invented himself as the thin white druke - a starving, cocaine-riddled (but gorgeous) pale specimen. the cocaine part is about coke: how you feel like a million buck and are entirely unaware of the illusions your mind is creating.
apparently bowie wrote this on a long train ride from nyc to la. the shifting sound at the beginning is very much a train. this is when bowie re-invented himself as the thin white druke - a starving, cocaine-riddled (but gorgeous) pale specimen. the cocaine part is about coke: how you feel like a million buck and are entirely unaware of the illusions your mind is creating.
@broken sound wow broken sound 2001, that is an excellent interpretation. Hello 👋 from 2025
@broken sound wow broken sound 2001, that is an excellent interpretation. Hello 👋 from 2025