This song has such a sense of foreboding about it. The drum and bass feel, his vocal emphasis, and lyrics like “I pushed you down beneath the weeds” make it sound there’s some sort of date-rape going on.
But hearing it more and reading the lyrics (which seem right), it tells more a story of cuckolded love and the anguish of the cuckold. A tenuous relationship where she must have agreed to go with him and he’s thrilled (“I just said home”) but she has this very dark response (wants “Sue the virgin” on her grave?). Some sort of medical message, pregnancy maybe?
All the foreboding and violent imagery (and the parenthetical part of the title!) makes me wonder if he kills her “off screen” as it were.
Anyway, I must thank my wife Sue for knowing I liked Bowie and getting this CD for my birthday just after he passed. We may never know the meaning and that would be fine with him.
This song has such a sense of foreboding about it. The drum and bass feel, his vocal emphasis, and lyrics like “I pushed you down beneath the weeds” make it sound there’s some sort of date-rape going on.
But hearing it more and reading the lyrics (which seem right), it tells more a story of cuckolded love and the anguish of the cuckold. A tenuous relationship where she must have agreed to go with him and he’s thrilled (“I just said home”) but she has this very dark response (wants “Sue the virgin” on her grave?). Some sort of medical message, pregnancy maybe?
All the foreboding and violent imagery (and the parenthetical part of the title!) makes me wonder if he kills her “off screen” as it were.
Anyway, I must thank my wife Sue for knowing I liked Bowie and getting this CD for my birthday just after he passed. We may never know the meaning and that would be fine with him.