Go back and listen to the song again with this in mind: The man is a junky. he blasts off, gets high and over doses. "your circuits dead... there's something wrong, can you hear me major Tom?" Brilliant in it's simplicity really, but that is all.
He even re-visits the theme and admits it in "Ashes To Ashes".
Go back and listen to the song again with this in mind: The man is a junky. he blasts off, gets high and over doses. "your circuits dead... there's something wrong, can you hear me major Tom?" Brilliant in it's simplicity really, but that is all. He even re-visits the theme and admits it in "Ashes To Ashes".