The Man Who Sold the World (David Bowie cover)

I think it's about the man pretends to be another person for ingratiating others. It happens all the time when we enter into a new group. By time to time, we all forget what we are at the beginning. so the two man in this song can be explained by the "real me" and "fake me"

We passed upon the stair
We spoke of was and when

• with his friend, they look back on past / recall past

Although I wasn't there He said I was his friend

• although the real me wasn't there, fake me was there and it was fake me deal with his friend

Which came as a surprise I spoke into his eyes

• his eyes says :

I thought you died alone A long long time ago

• "I thought real you died alone a long time ago"

Oh no, not me

• the one died was not fake me

We never lost control

• he never leaks out the real me at the wrong time

You're face to face With The Man Who Sold The World

• the real me sold the world to fake me/ when somebody look at him ---- with man sold the world it is actually with the man look at himself

I laughed and shook his hand And made my way back home I searched for form and land For years and years I roamed

• for years he searched for find place with fake mask on his face

I gazed a gazeless stare

• inside him, real me watch the fake me outside We walked a million hills
• he has passed through many journeys (physical or mental

I must have died alone A long, long time ago

• the real me must has gone ago

Who knows? Not me

• I don't know what is wrong this world

I never lost control

• never lost control when to take off the mask

You're face to face to the Man who Sold the World

• they both the man who sold the world

Who knows? Not me We never lost control You're face to face of the Man who Sold the World

• because his friend is also with fake mask

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And we all are, don't even try to deny