I believe the line "Ooh, how I sighed when they asked if I knew his name!" to be a somewhat oblique nod to Peter's denial of Jesus in the Gospels - i.e. "Ooh, how I lied when they asked if I knew his name!".
Nicholas Pegg suggests that the line "I smiled sadly for a love I could not obey" is paraphasing Lord Alfred Douglas' quote "I am the love that dare not speak its name." - I think quoting a wider selection of the poem that line is from (Two Loves) sheds more light still on the song:
"[...]I fell a-weeping, and I cried, 'Sweet youth,
Tell me why, sad and sighing, thou dost rove
These pleasent realms? I pray thee speak me sooth
What is thy name?' He said, 'My name is Love.'
Then straight the first did turn himself to me
And cried, 'He lieth, for his name is Shame,
But I am Love, and I was wont to be
Alone in this fair garden, till he came
Unasked by night; I am true Love, I fill
The hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame.'
Then sighing, said the other, 'Have thy will,
I am the love that dare not speak its name.' "
@petroleum Lady StarDust LSD. Divine feminine/masculine. Bowies music is so spiritual and I believe he is a Lyran starseed. A starman. yeshua, Syrian starseed, I believe.
@petroleum Lady StarDust LSD. Divine feminine/masculine. Bowies music is so spiritual and I believe he is a Lyran starseed. A starman. yeshua, Syrian starseed, I believe.
I believe the line "Ooh, how I sighed when they asked if I knew his name!" to be a somewhat oblique nod to Peter's denial of Jesus in the Gospels - i.e. "Ooh, how I lied when they asked if I knew his name!".
Nicholas Pegg suggests that the line "I smiled sadly for a love I could not obey" is paraphasing Lord Alfred Douglas' quote "I am the love that dare not speak its name." - I think quoting a wider selection of the poem that line is from (Two Loves) sheds more light still on the song:
"[...]I fell a-weeping, and I cried, 'Sweet youth, Tell me why, sad and sighing, thou dost rove These pleasent realms? I pray thee speak me sooth What is thy name?' He said, 'My name is Love.' Then straight the first did turn himself to me And cried, 'He lieth, for his name is Shame, But I am Love, and I was wont to be Alone in this fair garden, till he came Unasked by night; I am true Love, I fill The hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame.' Then sighing, said the other, 'Have thy will, I am the love that dare not speak its name.' "
@petroleum Lady StarDust LSD. Divine feminine/masculine. Bowies music is so spiritual and I believe he is a Lyran starseed. A starman. yeshua, Syrian starseed, I believe.
@petroleum Lady StarDust LSD. Divine feminine/masculine. Bowies music is so spiritual and I believe he is a Lyran starseed. A starman. yeshua, Syrian starseed, I believe.