A song about the uncontrollable course of time, with nature and love being the only constants. The speaker/"I" of the song seems to have been to Berlin before the wall came down and reflects about the events in and after 1989. He is overwhelmed by the power of history and clings to "fire", "rain", "you and me". Okay, the song mentions the club "Dschungel" — but does that suffice to interpret the lyrics as a reflection on Bowie's Berlin years during the late seventies? As Bowie fans we tend to look for autobiographical content, but to me there's not much of it in this song. Bowie has reached mastership in firing our imagination with a single word, a half line or a video image.
A song about the uncontrollable course of time, with nature and love being the only constants. The speaker/"I" of the song seems to have been to Berlin before the wall came down and reflects about the events in and after 1989. He is overwhelmed by the power of history and clings to "fire", "rain", "you and me". Okay, the song mentions the club "Dschungel" — but does that suffice to interpret the lyrics as a reflection on Bowie's Berlin years during the late seventies? As Bowie fans we tend to look for autobiographical content, but to me there's not much of it in this song. Bowie has reached mastership in firing our imagination with a single word, a half line or a video image.