"Enter Galactic, see me to be you"
EQUALS
"Press your space-face close to mine, Love"
"Life On Mars" most likely has parallels to the meaning of the line "Mars happy nation" in that "Mars" as defined and referenced by Bowie in these two songs is representative of the "world of images" that is mass-media. ***___Check my interpretation of "The Letter (Battle For Britian)" to see my short-takes on "The Last Thing You SHould Do" which is about reducing life to seen-moments in media... as if they had already been lived and not thought through. Mars would be the place where all these archetypal posturings for hierarchy stature have been turned into "Law" and life is merely a click track with the scripts all handed out... a pre-destined experience... a "happy nation" of everyone all in lock-step worshipping the rules to sustain the mere Image of a well-oiled machine... but it certainly isn't actual living of life. Not the kind of life that made Bowie who he is... nor the life of those that used this method (meditation). Great things happen, little wonders, when you jam a wedge in between the cracks and try something not meant to work by the rules. From "Battle for Britain(The Letter)", the line, "On a better day, I'll take you by the hand / And I'll walk you through the doors" is Bowie's offer of showing you his prescriptions in code/lyric form when you're mentally up to noticing them yourself.
"Enter Galactic, see me to be you" EQUALS "Press your space-face close to mine, Love"
"Life On Mars" most likely has parallels to the meaning of the line "Mars happy nation" in that "Mars" as defined and referenced by Bowie in these two songs is representative of the "world of images" that is mass-media. ***___Check my interpretation of "The Letter (Battle For Britian)" to see my short-takes on "The Last Thing You SHould Do" which is about reducing life to seen-moments in media... as if they had already been lived and not thought through. Mars would be the place where all these archetypal posturings for hierarchy stature have been turned into "Law" and life is merely a click track with the scripts all handed out... a pre-destined experience... a "happy nation" of everyone all in lock-step worshipping the rules to sustain the mere Image of a well-oiled machine... but it certainly isn't actual living of life. Not the kind of life that made Bowie who he is... nor the life of those that used this method (meditation). Great things happen, little wonders, when you jam a wedge in between the cracks and try something not meant to work by the rules. From "Battle for Britain(The Letter)", the line, "On a better day, I'll take you by the hand / And I'll walk you through the doors" is Bowie's offer of showing you his prescriptions in code/lyric form when you're mentally up to noticing them yourself.