The Bewlay Brothers Lyrics

Lyric discussion by jtatfsu 

Cover art for The Bewlay Brothers lyrics by David Bowie

my god I don't know if I want to know completely. It seems purposefully shrouded in cryptic imagery about something dark in his past. I get the idea that he's talking about the older men that seduced him into a world of drugs and cross-dressing and what not. He talks about "dust in the veins" and "shooting up," and the whole thing is in the past tense and has a nostalgic ring to it. He says "we were so turned on by..." and "you thought we were fakers." He must be talking about older friends or just more experienced friends who showed them the morbid yet apparently somewhat beautiful underworld of heavy drugs and perverted sex that he was apparently a part of. One thing's for sure: this ain't the New Kids on the Block.