After All Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Chard121 

Cover art for After All lyrics by David Bowie

Great song. I particularly like the lines referring to adults as just older children. It makes me think about the social chaos of misunderstanding the world as a child. Then, as teenagers, you start to understand the world better. The average person at that point still has a very skewed of reality. Then upon adulthood humans are expected to be responsible and intelligent, but really they're no better than kids. In fact, they're just a more evolved and complicated form of the nonsense that is childhood. The world is full of insanity. Religion, which actually believes in magic, politics, a massive back and forth shifting of control via manipulation, tyrants who claim they are a god born under a double rainbow and say they have made 7 holes in one their first time ever playing golf, countries committed to destroying each other because we never really learned to share or respect our fellow man.