 Genius Lyrics
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David Bowie – Space Oddity
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‘Major Tom’ is a fictional character created by David Bowie for this song in 1969. That same year marked the first moon landing, so space was “in”; this was a year after Stanley
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David Bowie – Lazarus
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Originally written for an eponymous off-Broadway production revisiting the character Thomas Gerome Newton 30 years after The Man Who Fell To Earth, the film adaptation of which
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David Bowie – Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
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Often used as a closing song for the Ziggy and Aladdin Sane tours, Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide is not only the thematic death of Ziggy Stardust on the album, but the real life end to the
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David Bowie – Suffragette City
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David Bowie’s love for Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground had already been well established by the time the Ziggy Stardust album came out in 1972 – the previous year, on Hunky
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David Bowie – Rebel Rebel
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David Bowie’s 1974 single that did well in the UK (#5) but not in the US charts (#64). However, it became a huge concert favorite and a staple on classic rock stations. The song
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David Bowie – I'm Afraid of Americans
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A satire on American corporitisation, homogenization, aggressiveness and mass culture. Bowie explained the background to the song:
I was traveling in Java when [its] first
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David Bowie – Station to Station
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David Bowie was painfully and intimately aware of the tension between the desire to experience deep feelings and the desire to attain cold safety–frequently by being an alien
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David Bowie – Lady Stardust
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“Lady Stardust” acts as both a tongue-in-cheek tribute to Marc Bolan and an account of Ziggy Stardust’s musical and artistic inspiration. The song describes an androgynous man
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David Bowie – Oh! You Pretty Things
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Written and recorded by Bowie as a demo, the song was first released by Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits fame. As a solo artist, it was Noone’s first album and first single
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David Bowie – Cracked Actor
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This track, taken from the album “Aladdin Sane” is about an aging movie star’s sexual encounter with a prostitute.
Alan Yentob filmed a documentary of David Bowie while on tour in
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David Bowie – Little Wonder
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[Verse 1] / Stinky weather, fat shaky hands / Dopey morning Doc, grumpy gnomes / [Refrain] / Little wonder then, little wonder / You little wonder, little wonder you / [Verse 2
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David Bowie – I Can't Give Everything Away
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At the beginning we can hear in the background a harmonica theme taken from “A New Career in a New Town,” Bowie’s song from the 1977 album Low. A song about moving on and starting
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David Bowie – Heat
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[Verse 1] / Then we saw Mishima's dog / Trapped between the rocks / Blocking the waterfall / The songs of dust / The world would end / The night was always falling / The peacock in
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David Bowie – Little Wonder
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[Verse 1] / Stinky weather, fat shaky hands / Dopey morning Doc, grumpy gnomes / [Refrain] / Little wonder then, little wonder / You little wonder, little wonder you / [Verse 2
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David Bowie – New Killer Star
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The song released in 2003, is a grim look at the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In true Bowie fashion, he foresees an apocalypse.
However, Bowie is trying to put a positive spin on
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David Bowie – Girl Loves Me
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Of all the tracks on Blackstar, none is more opaque than “Girl Loves Me”. The song’s lyrics are half Nadsat, the language used in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, and half
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David Bowie – Drive-In Saturday
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“Drive-In Saturday” is the third track on 1973’s Aladdin Sane. The track was released as a single later that year, reaching #3 on the charts.
Per Bowie during the Ziggy Stardust
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David Bowie – I'd Rather Be High
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[Verse 1] / Nabokov is sun-licked now / Upon the beach at Grunewald / Brilliant and naked just / The way that authors look / Clare and Lady Manners drink / Until the other cows go
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David Bowie – Absolute Beginners
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This track was the theme song to the 1986 movie Absolute Beginners. It came during a difficult commercial period for Bowie, and marked one of his more successful singles in the 80s
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David Bowie – Pallas Athena
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Written by David Bowie as “Tao Jones Index” on Black Tie White Noise. Tao as in “D” for David, and as in Taoism (Bowie’s original name was Jones).
The lyrics are chanted in a non-
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David Bowie – Modern Love
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David Bowie’s hit single from 1983, a song he claimed was inspired by Little Richard, especially the “back and forth” lyrics.
The first track and third single from the Let’s Dance
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David Bowie – Blue Jean
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A 1984 hit (UK – #6, US – #8) that according to David Bowie –
‘Blue Jean’ is a piece of sexist rock ‘n roll. [laughs] It’s about picking up birds. It’s not very cerebral, that
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David Bowie – Sound and Vision
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“Sound and Vision” is the most immediate reward on Low, more familiar in its funk stutter-steps and sultry crooning.
In an interview, Bowie went in depth on the meaning behind the
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David Bowie – Survive
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[Verse 1] / Oh my, naked eyes / I should have kept you, I should have tried / I should have been a wiser kind of guy / I miss you / [Verse 2] / Give me wings, give me space / Give
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David Bowie – John, I'm Only Dancing
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David Bowie wrote the song in response to a derogatory comment made by John Lennon about Bowie’s cross-dressing.
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David Bowie – Something in the Air
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[Verse 1] / Your coat and hat are gone / I really can't look at your little empty shelf / A ragged teddy bear / It feels like we never had a chance / Don't look me in the eye / We
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David Bowie – Dollar Days
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“Dollar Days” is 6th track on David Bowie’s twenty-fifth and final studio album, Blackstar (stylized as ★). It was released on 8 January 2016, the date of Bowie’s 69th birthday and
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David Bowie – If You Can See Me
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If you can see me I can see you / I could wear your new blue shoes / I should wear your old red dress / And walk to the crossroad, so take this knife / And meet me across the river
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David Bowie – Starman
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The first single from David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars album, “Starman” is arguably one of the most influential and iconic songs in the
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David Bowie – I Dig Everything
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I've got the village I love / I walk along beside the garbagemen and I dig everything / I wave to the policemen, but they don't wave back / They don't dig anything / Ain't had a
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David Bowie – John, I'm Only Dancing (Again)
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Bowie drastically overhauled “John, I’m Only Dancing” when recording began on the album that would become Young Americans. Initially, Bowie intended for the new track to appear on
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David Bowie – Hang on to Yourself
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Hang on to Yourself is the 8th track off of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars.
It was originally written in 1971 by David and released as a single
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