Due to a couplet in the song I'm convinced this song is aimed at La Garvey but knowing what I know generally I'd have come to that conclusion anyway. Where Bowie says "You're in the boat babel , we're in the water" makes me think of an incident in front of my flat at the canals edge about a year or so b4 the album came out. I'd heard Bowie say he 'loved me' and Marianne called him a bastard or something and pushed him into the canal. There was a great commotion and people pulled him.out and I heard him say "I'm soaking". I didn't see what happened but it was clear from the sounds what was going on. Often I heard people, usually young women and girls getting excited and screaming "Bowie" at sight of him. He was on my tail for half his life if truth be known.
Due to a couplet in the song I'm convinced this song is aimed at La Garvey but knowing what I know generally I'd have come to that conclusion anyway. Where Bowie says "You're in the boat babel , we're in the water" makes me think of an incident in front of my flat at the canals edge about a year or so b4 the album came out. I'd heard Bowie say he 'loved me' and Marianne called him a bastard or something and pushed him into the canal. There was a great commotion and people pulled him.out and I heard him say "I'm soaking". I didn't see what happened but it was clear from the sounds what was going on. Often I heard people, usually young women and girls getting excited and screaming "Bowie" at sight of him. He was on my tail for half his life if truth be known.