 Genius Meanings
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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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Carla Bruni – Absolute Beginners
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I've nothing much to offer / There's nothing much to take / I'm an absolute beginner / And i'm absolutely sane / As long as we're together / The rest can go to hell / I absolutely
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David Bowie – Life on Mars? (Live, Glastonbury, 2000)
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[Intro] / This one goes back to about the same time period as a, Changes / I'm very fearful tonight as I got struck down by laryngitis earlier this week / So if I give out and if
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Bing Crosby & David Bowie – Peace On Earth / The Little Drummer Boy
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The Christmas duet bridging two generations of music, marrying the classic croons of Bing Crosby with the avant-garde style of David Bowie.
This rendition of “Little Drummer Boy
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David Bowie & Mick Jagger – Dancing in the Street
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The song first got popular by a version of Martha and the Vandellas in 1964.
Bowie and Jagger recorderd a cover of this in 1985 to raise money for the Live Aid famine relief cause
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David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust (Live, Glastonbury, 2000)
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[Intro] / Oh yeah / [Verse 1] / Now Ziggy played guitar / Jamming good with Weird and Gilly / And the Spiders from Mars / He played it left hand / But he made it too far / Became
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David Bowie – That's Motivation
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Do you hear what I hear? / Do you see what I see? / Colin, I want you to use your imagination / You wake up one morning and you ask yourself / Why am I so exciting? / What makes me
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David Bowie – "Heroes" (Live, Glastonbury, 2000)
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[Verse 1] / You, you will be mean / And I, I'll drink all the time / 'Cause we're lovers, yeah, that is a fact / Yes, we're lovers, and that is that / [Chorus] / Though nothing
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David Bowie – Wild Is the Wind (Live, Glastonbury, 2000)
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[Verse 1] / Love me, love me, love me, love me, say you do / Let me fly away with you / [Refrain] / For my love is like the wind / And wild is the wind / Wild is the wind / [Verse
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David Bowie – "Heroes" (Single Version)
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[Verse 3] / I, I wish you could swim / Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim / [Chorus] / Though nothing, nothing will keep us together / We can beat them forever and ever / Oh
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David Bowie – The Man Who Sold the World (Live, Glastonbury, 2000)
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[Verse 1] / We passed upon the stair / We spoke of was and when / Although I was not there / He said I was his friend / Which came as some surprise / I spoke into his eyes, "I
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David Bowie – Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
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This song was originally recorded in July 1981, having been written by David Bowie and his producer Giorgio Moroder, for the film “Cat People”, which was released in 1982.
The
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David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes (Single Version)
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[Verse 1] / Do you remember a guy that's been / In such an early song? / I've heard a rumour from Ground Control / Oh no, don't say it's true / They got a message from the Action
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David Bowie – China Girl (Live, Glastonbury, 2000)
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[Chorus 1] / I couldn't escape this feeling with my China Girl / I'm just a wreck without my little China Girl / I hear her heart beating, it's loud as thunder / I saw her stars
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David Bowie – Life on Mars?
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“Life on Mars?” is often considered one of the true masterpieces of the Bowie Canon. Originally released on the Hunky Dory album in 1971, it was made a single in 1973 during the
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David Bowie – Hallo Spaceboy (Live, Glastonbury, 2000)
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[Spoken Intro] / Come on, girl / [Verse] / Hallo Spaceboy / You're sleepy now / Your silhouette, so stationary / You're released but your custody calls / And I want to be free
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David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes (Live, Glastonbury, 2000)
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[Intro] / This song is not like any of the ones so far / This one is called "Ashes to Ashes" / [Verse 1] / Do you remember a guy that's been in / In such an early song / I've heard
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David Bowie – Let's Dance (single version)
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Ah, ah, ah, ah / Let's dance / Let's dance / Let's dance / Put on your red shoes and dance the blues / Let's dance / To the song they're playin' on the radio / Let's sway / While
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David Bowie – I'm Afraid of Americans (Live, Glastonbury, 2000)
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[Spoken Intro] / What a wonderful evening, please be safe / I really mean it, we really love you a lot / We really do / [Verse 1] / Johnny's in America / Lo-Teks at the wheel / No
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David Bowie – Starman (Live, Glastonbury, 2000)
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[Intro] / One for you to keep warm with / Keep warm with this / I feel love in this room / But I do [?], I do / Hey, now now / Hey, now now / [Verse 1] / Didn't know what time it
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David Bowie – The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell (Edit) [2021 Remaster]
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Nov 26, 2021 ... Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning. Ask a question. When did David Bowie ... 65. Absolute ...
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David Bowie – "Heroes" (Live at BBC Radio Theatre, London, 27th June, 2000)
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You, you can be mean / And I, I'll drink all the time / 'Cause we're lovers, and that is a fact / Yes we're lovers, and that is that / Though nothing, will keep us together / We
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David Bowie – As the World Falls Down
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“As the World Falls Down” is the song sung by David Bowie during Labyrinth when Jareth and Sarah dance at a masquerade. The scene ends with Sarah rejecting him and breaking out of
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Camané (Ft. David Fonseca) – Space Oddity
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[Intro - Instrumental] / [Verse 1] / Ground Control to Major Tom / Ground Control to Major Tom / Take your protein pills and put your helmet on / Ground Control to Major Tom
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David Bowie – Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)
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Lead single off the 2014 Bowie compilation album “Nothing Has Changed”, and track 4 of Bowie’s 2016 album “Blackstar”. The lyrics are a modern retelling of the 17th century John
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David Bowie & Gail Ann Dorsey – Planet of Dreams
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Nothing on smoke today / Nothing dies on the wing / Wing's been losing time / An anarchy born in pain / Pain that comes and goes / It goes against all you see / You see I got
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David Bowie – Stay (Live, Glastonbury, 2000)
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[Intro] / Time this one was written, 1975 / Guy played the album with me on that frozen station / Was Earl Slick / [Verse 1] / This week has past me so slowly / The days fell on
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David Bowie (Ft. Lenny Kravitz) – Buddha of Suburbia (feat. Lenny Kravitz) [2021 Remaster]
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[Verse 1] / Living in lies by the railway line / Pushing the hair from my eyes / Elvis is English and climbs the hills / Can't tell the bullshit from the lies / Screaming along in
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David Bowie – Magic Dance
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[Intro] / You remind me of the babe (What babe?) / The babe with the power (What power?) / The power of voodoo (Who do?) / You do (Do what?) / Remind me of the babe / [Verse 1] / I
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David Bowie – Modern Love (Single Version)
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I know when to go out / I know when to stay in / Get things done / I catch the paper boy / But things don't really change / I'm standing in the wind / But I never wave bye bye
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David Bowie – Don't Let Me Down & Down (Indonesian Vocal Version) [2021 Remaster]
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[Verse 1] / Still I keep my love for you / No place to hide no way to fall / Nowhere to lie no world so wide / [Chorus] / I'm sick and tired of telling you / Don't let me down and
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David Bowie – Within You
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How you turn my world, you precious thing / You starve and near exhaust me / Everything I've done, I've done for you / I move the stars for no one / You've run so long, you've run
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David Bowie (Ft. Queen) – Under Pressure
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Mmm num ba de / Dum bum ba be / Doo buh dum ba beh beh / Pressure pushing down on me / Pressing down on you, no man ask for / Under pressure that burns a building down / Splits a
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David Bowie – All the Young Dudes
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[Verse 1] / Billy rapped all night about his suicide / How he'd kick it in the head when he was 25 / Don't want to stay alive when you're 25 / Wendy's stealing clothes from
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David Bowie – Never Let Me Down (7" remix edit)
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When I believed in nothing I called her name / Trapped in a high-dollar joint in some place I called her name / And though my days were slipping by / And nights so cruel I thought
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David Bowie – Underground
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[Verse 1] / No one can blame you / For walking away / But too much rejection / No love injection / Life can't be easy / It's not always swell / Don't tell me truth hurts, little
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