Up the hill backwards sounds like a way to approach an obstacle or problem opposite of how everyone else would. It is how an alienated person naturally goes about their day.
Why "it" has nothing to do with me if I can grasp (understand/get my hands around) it - I don't get.
The opposite would be: things I do not understand have something to do with me...so I am like things not understood...I am not a measureable defineable, reducible to x number of variables, understandable, graspable. I cannot be grasped. Therefore if I can grasp something, it is not like me.
@coo2kachoo "The possibility it seems to offer" is the "vacuum" created by a false freedom but as long as we feel "free" it'll be alright.
This is one of my lifelong Bowie albums. Between Station To Station and Diamond Dogs, all 3 have metaphors for the way society "tells you" to be or act.
Up the hill backwards, walking up a hill backwards seems easier but it isn't. Or pushing a car up a hill with a rope is pointless, David Bowie was well, well ahead of his time and more talented than any performer I've been grateful has blessed my life...
@coo2kachoo "The possibility it seems to offer" is the "vacuum" created by a false freedom but as long as we feel "free" it'll be alright.
This is one of my lifelong Bowie albums. Between Station To Station and Diamond Dogs, all 3 have metaphors for the way society "tells you" to be or act.
Up the hill backwards, walking up a hill backwards seems easier but it isn't. Or pushing a car up a hill with a rope is pointless, David Bowie was well, well ahead of his time and more talented than any performer I've been grateful has blessed my life since I was 10 (I'm 50 now).
This song is an acoustic style jam with electric guitar pkus notice the guitar work is angry, crying or screaming. Each song depicts that on Scary Monsters.
And to me, those albums Hunky Dory, Heroes and The Lodger sum up a handful of albums as must haves in any music collection for their poetry and his incredible vocals, hr is a crooner like Bing Crosby and blew the sh*t outta ol' blue eyes... IMHO of course, but I believe this song as this album is based on what "society" is (at least) supposed to be.
Keeps him running. <3
@J_Is_4_John
I am a Bowie fan and this might be my favorite.
I love the nonsense.
Up the hill backwards sounds like a way to approach an obstacle or problem opposite of how everyone else would. It is how an alienated person naturally goes about their day.
Why "it" has nothing to do with me if I can grasp (understand/get my hands around) it - I don't get.
The opposite would be: things I do not understand have something to do with me...so I am like things not understood...I am not a measureable defineable, reducible to x number of variables, understandable, graspable. I cannot be grasped. Therefore if I can grasp something, it is not like me.
It's got nothing to do with me if I can grasp it?
@coo2kachoo "The possibility it seems to offer" is the "vacuum" created by a false freedom but as long as we feel "free" it'll be alright. This is one of my lifelong Bowie albums. Between Station To Station and Diamond Dogs, all 3 have metaphors for the way society "tells you" to be or act. Up the hill backwards, walking up a hill backwards seems easier but it isn't. Or pushing a car up a hill with a rope is pointless, David Bowie was well, well ahead of his time and more talented than any performer I've been grateful has blessed my life...
@coo2kachoo "The possibility it seems to offer" is the "vacuum" created by a false freedom but as long as we feel "free" it'll be alright. This is one of my lifelong Bowie albums. Between Station To Station and Diamond Dogs, all 3 have metaphors for the way society "tells you" to be or act. Up the hill backwards, walking up a hill backwards seems easier but it isn't. Or pushing a car up a hill with a rope is pointless, David Bowie was well, well ahead of his time and more talented than any performer I've been grateful has blessed my life since I was 10 (I'm 50 now). This song is an acoustic style jam with electric guitar pkus notice the guitar work is angry, crying or screaming. Each song depicts that on Scary Monsters. And to me, those albums Hunky Dory, Heroes and The Lodger sum up a handful of albums as must haves in any music collection for their poetry and his incredible vocals, hr is a crooner like Bing Crosby and blew the sh*t outta ol' blue eyes... IMHO of course, but I believe this song as this album is based on what "society" is (at least) supposed to be. Keeps him running. <3 @J_Is_4_John