Love Is Lost Lyrics

Lyric discussion by suomynona 

Cover art for Love Is Lost lyrics by David Bowie

very interesting...this song in my experience of it is that someone has died and everything they once knew is...new. One soul/consciousness...as you like, has a new body and experiencing all new things except one - fear - that remains over from the past life and continues to haunt this new life. (Tendencies and predilections remain habitual from life to life if they are not shifted...if you like).

As far as ‘love is lost’, to me she has lost her heart and true will somehow, just as she had in the previous life (my extrapolation), due to fear, and it persists in this new life. She marries (or due to lust, simply has sex as was going on the entire video) with someone ‘above’ her (“greater men”) , all the wrong reasons, thus love is lost and now she has a child (“Say hello, your beautiful girl”) and her world is no longer carefree (“wave goodbye to the life without pain”). Her early life was carefree because she was born wealthy (“Your maid is new...”), now “what have you done”....everything changes and will probably impact her greatly, why the uncomfortable mood as, dastedden (below) observed.

(i like the reconstituting bodies in the beginning, like electronic reincarnation until a final body and form appears, but then even those bodies appear fractured (fractured emotions, fractured mind, fractured love...) once formed, monotone colors...love is lost. brilliant. sad...)

@suomynona The people I had sex with for which I've apparently been pilloried (?!) were inferior to me which is why they didn't last or transpose into proper relationships but the leeches were going to gather around in the circumstances, neither post end 1992, was I going to be able to attract anyone of calibre. Bowie effectively made me celibate and loveless by publicly humiliating me to the enth degree. Don't you think most people want ' the right fit' in a partner who will go the distance? . Unfortunately that wasn't an option open to me. Also you didn't read...

@suomynona The people I had sex with for which I've apparently been pilloried (?!) were inferior to me which is why they didn't last or transpose into proper relationships but the leeches were going to gather around in the circumstances, neither post end 1992, was I going to be able to attract anyone of calibre. Bowie effectively made me celibate and loveless by publicly humiliating me to the enth degree. Don't you think most people want ' the right fit' in a partner who will go the distance? . Unfortunately that wasn't an option open to me. Also you didn't read...