Up the Hill Backwards

Yay! Figured this one out: "A series of shocks - sneakers fall apart - earth keeps on rolling - witnesses falling" Look at Bowie's symbology: the lightning bolt. That stands for the Crown/Kether chakra which is "g-d" or the rest of the world which is taken in "in the flash of an image" of an objective element radiating its subjective meaning. So this flash/lightningbolt/"shock" in this case is that in the web-like interconnected view of reality, each node a person/sentient-perspective, well, at certain times in history this "implicitness" just out and out shocks some fool who understands and takes it somewhere. This Throne of Understanding is created by teh previous cultures that then gave way to that period and then birthed the exact moment for such an understanding to take place...so "It's got nothing to do with you" is so very true when you take into mind the thousands of factors that allowed say a Galileo or Planck or Einstein to be hit by the "idea bolt"...genetics disposition...education...cultural food staples...the land which all these cradle and made available. So very NOT one's choice in the worldview promoted in this song. One can look back upon things and say "yeah, I knew I was setting myself up for a moment of genius" ...but really...no one would have gone in "that" direction had they really not been urged by history's many lendings and the emergent need for some-thing to be found out. So then yes, "earth keeps on rolling" (passing of time..history)..."witnesses falling"(people that see others being hit by the bolt but falling for not being the ones that were so lucky to have been hit).