The "love of a hoochie-coochie woman" that "calling from inside"... this is the same "woman" he invokes in "Sorrow". Starting back with his "Kether to Malkuth" reference in "Quicksand" any reference to a benevolent female is an invocation of the first "station" below the up-most station of Kether in the kabbalistic Tree of Life, aka the Sephiroth/Sefirot which happens to be the feminine principle station of Binah. In "Sorrow" we hear of "long blond hair" that kept him from sleeping, "with your long blond hair I couldn't sleep last night". Now what could metaphorically be liked to "long blond hair"? Streams of sun light. And if Binah is the foremost feminine nourishing agent at the outmost reaches in the universe-totale that is represented by Kether, then the astral Sun is Binahs astronomical habitation. And with all things, "that which is above is also below"... so this series of stations and paths are also inside each of us. "Binah on the inside" is the thing the main character finds at the "top of the mountain"; it is what allows him see all that he sees. As in many of Bowie's songs, he is referencing his own practice of meditation(Kether, top of the mountain) and the mindfulness through exacting these visions in the real world(Malkuth). Binah is special in this respect in that "she" is that "inner light", much like the Sun, that allows us to see the visions of our own thoughts. You may have heard of the "philosopher's stone"... well this is it... the "black sun", the "Starry faced virgin", the "black country rock". Absolutely central to understanding any of Bowie's lyrics.
The "love of a hoochie-coochie woman" that "calling from inside"... this is the same "woman" he invokes in "Sorrow". Starting back with his "Kether to Malkuth" reference in "Quicksand" any reference to a benevolent female is an invocation of the first "station" below the up-most station of Kether in the kabbalistic Tree of Life, aka the Sephiroth/Sefirot which happens to be the feminine principle station of Binah. In "Sorrow" we hear of "long blond hair" that kept him from sleeping, "with your long blond hair I couldn't sleep last night". Now what could metaphorically be liked to "long blond hair"? Streams of sun light. And if Binah is the foremost feminine nourishing agent at the outmost reaches in the universe-totale that is represented by Kether, then the astral Sun is Binahs astronomical habitation. And with all things, "that which is above is also below"... so this series of stations and paths are also inside each of us. "Binah on the inside" is the thing the main character finds at the "top of the mountain"; it is what allows him see all that he sees. As in many of Bowie's songs, he is referencing his own practice of meditation(Kether, top of the mountain) and the mindfulness through exacting these visions in the real world(Malkuth). Binah is special in this respect in that "she" is that "inner light", much like the Sun, that allows us to see the visions of our own thoughts. You may have heard of the "philosopher's stone"... well this is it... the "black sun", the "Starry faced virgin", the "black country rock".
Absolutely central to understanding any of Bowie's lyrics.