Soul Love Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Child Of Music 

Cover art for Soul Love lyrics by David Bowie

It's about being alone and unloved when the rest of the world has a love of some sort. All Ziggy has is his romantism (love of love) and he knows that he's missing out, but he's unwilling to do anything, since he's afraid of getting hurt, but he'd do anything to be in love for just one second.

@Child Of Music your interpretation reminds me of a common theme from the original Star Trek series: human emotion is so engrossing, important, and significant that aliens are willing to go to great lengths to experience it however briefly. In Star Trek aliens lie, cheat, kill, betray their deepest principles to experience human emotions for a while.

Ziggy is a gentler kind of alien. He’s more like a hungry waiting outside a restaurant looking in and watching people dine. Watching with growing interest and longing.

The line “Idiot love will spark the fusion” sounds like biology: human beings are...