Memory of a Free Festival Lyrics

Lyric discussion by raindog_mx 

Cover art for Memory of a Free Festival lyrics by David Bowie

i think this is about a drug orgy but then theres the slight possiblity that i am absolutely stupidly wrong.. yet i'm honored to be the first person to comment this song and humor appart i'd like to add that this is one of my more beloved hymns and damn it i don't know why,

I think it sounds so good because he really felt whatever he's trying to say. I mean that he felt, deep in his bones, was the experience he's expressing in the song and that is why the music resonates, he was expressing his truth, in other words, and one's truth always resonates, comes through, even though we can't understand many times. We can feel it, what they felt, in a way, in the way it infiltrates our emotional wiring, or whatever. If it is some universal truth an artist has expressed, and we can only feel the message, as...