I love how the song keeps going and fades out in the end. It makes me feel like the song perpetually repeats. It's like David Bowie chose to share this song with us. We can't hear it after it fades out but it doesn't stop.
Other interpretations make more sense. I took the song to be welcoming a child into a world and took "if you stay you won't be sorry" in two ways. In one way, a lot of things can go wrong in a pregnancy in which a baby could be lost. Paradoxically, I took it as though the choice was being given to the baby. I suppose when you welcome someone, they have a choice to accept the welcome, whereas to our knowledge, a baby doesn't choose to be born.
I take some of the lines like "look at what they did to this old fool" to refer the (unintentional or otherwise) damage schools do to children, whether specific to Bowie or in general. I think the song also speaks to an awareness that I don't think many parents have of the needs of a child and how much of an impact the parents have on their children in the things the want to pass along and things they pass along that they don't mean to pass along.
I love how the song keeps going and fades out in the end. It makes me feel like the song perpetually repeats. It's like David Bowie chose to share this song with us. We can't hear it after it fades out but it doesn't stop.
Other interpretations make more sense. I took the song to be welcoming a child into a world and took "if you stay you won't be sorry" in two ways. In one way, a lot of things can go wrong in a pregnancy in which a baby could be lost. Paradoxically, I took it as though the choice was being given to the baby. I suppose when you welcome someone, they have a choice to accept the welcome, whereas to our knowledge, a baby doesn't choose to be born.
I take some of the lines like "look at what they did to this old fool" to refer the (unintentional or otherwise) damage schools do to children, whether specific to Bowie or in general. I think the song also speaks to an awareness that I don't think many parents have of the needs of a child and how much of an impact the parents have on their children in the things the want to pass along and things they pass along that they don't mean to pass along.
@nutshell02 I totally agree with what you said and how you said it!!!
@nutshell02 I totally agree with what you said and how you said it!!!