To me, Bowie seems to have captured the sound of a man having some sort of psychotic break. Kind of like "A Beautiful Mind" sort of thing. Literally breaking glass and scattering it about the room; drawing weird images on the carpet. He has moments of lucidity where he sees what he's doing and warns his significant other. Then his paranoia turns on that person and he begins to suspect that person's actually the one who has problems, which is why he'll never touch them. Oddly enough, in past live concerts, it almost sounds like he changes the chant midway from "I'll never touch you" to "Let me touch you."
To me, Bowie seems to have captured the sound of a man having some sort of psychotic break. Kind of like "A Beautiful Mind" sort of thing. Literally breaking glass and scattering it about the room; drawing weird images on the carpet. He has moments of lucidity where he sees what he's doing and warns his significant other. Then his paranoia turns on that person and he begins to suspect that person's actually the one who has problems, which is why he'll never touch them. Oddly enough, in past live concerts, it almost sounds like he changes the chant midway from "I'll never touch you" to "Let me touch you."
@themis2121 YES - It's very much The Matrix + Lawnmower Man + Twin Peaks + Eraserhead + Snow White and the Seven Dwarves = Breaking Glass
@themis2121 YES - It's very much The Matrix + Lawnmower Man + Twin Peaks + Eraserhead + Snow White and the Seven Dwarves = Breaking Glass