Genius Meanings
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David Bowie – China Girl
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In 1976, David Bowie and Iggy Pop co-wrote China Girl while in France just prior to their “Berlin Era”. The song itself originally appeared on Iggy’s 1977 album The Idiot, which
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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 – China Girl (Live at the Elysée Montmartre, Paris on 14th October, 1999)
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[Intro] / Oh-oh-oh-oh, little China Girl / Oh-oh-oh-oh, little China Girl / [Verse 1] / I could escape this feeling with, with my China Girl / I'm just a wreck without my little
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David Bowie – China Girl (long version)
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Oh, little China girl / Oh, little China girl / I couldn't escape this feeling with my China girl / I feel a wreck without my little China girl / I hear her heart beating loud as
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Iggy Pop – China Girl
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China Girl was co-written with David Bowie, who helped Iggy find financial stability for the first time in his life by later recording his own version for his smash hit record Let’
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Anna Ternheim – China Girl
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I could escape this feeling with my china girl / I feel a wreck without my little china girl / I hear her heart beating, loud as thunder / Saw their stars crashing / I'm a mess
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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 – Let's Dance
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“Let’s Dance” is the first single and titular track from David Bowie’s 1983 album Let’s Dance, and first for EMI Records. Produced by Nile Rodgers of Chic, It was a direct shift
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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 – 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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David Bowie – Survive (Live at the Elysée Montmartre, Paris on 14th October, 1999)
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[Intro] / Um, this song is a new song and it's from 'hours...' and it's called... it's quite pertinent actually, it's called "Survive" / [Verse 1] / Oh my, naked eyes / I should
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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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David Bowie – Nite Flights (Moodswings Back to Basics Remix)
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There's no hold / The moving has come through / The danger passing you / Turns its face into the heat and runs the tunnels / It's so cold / The dark dug up by dogs / The stiches
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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 – The Drowned Girl
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[Verse 1] / Once she had drowned and started her slow descent / Down the streams to where the great rivers broaden / Oh, the open sky shone most magnificent / As if it was acting
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David Bowie – Criminal World
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[Verse 1] / You never told me of your other faces / You were the widow of a wild cat / And now I know about your special kisses / And I know you know where that is at / I guess I
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David Bowie – The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell (Live at the Kit Kat Klub, New York, 19th November, 1999) [2021 Remaster]
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What to wear / What to say / What to do / On a sunny day / Who to phone / Who to fight / Who to dance with / On a Sunday night / I'm reaching the very edge, you know / I'm reaching
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Baal's Hymn
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Whilst his mother's womb contained the growing Baal / Even then the sky was waiting quiet and pale / Naked, young, immensely marvellous / Like Baal loved it, when he came to us
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