 Genius Meanings
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David Bowie – Breaking Glass
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“Breaking Glass” owes everything to guitarist Carlos Alomar in the left channel, who delivers the lead with a swagger to rival Mick Ronson and T. Rex
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Nick Lowe – I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass
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There is a myth surrounding this song that Lowe is mocking David Bowie’s “Breaking Glass” (partly because Lowe has a history of mocking Bowie, having named his 1977 EP Bowi as
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David Bowie – Breaking Glass (Live 1978)
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[Intro] / [Verse 1] / Baby, I've been / Breaking glass in your room again / Listen / [Verse 2] / Oh don't look on your carpet / I drew something awful on it / See / [Verse 3] / You
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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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Lana Del Rey – Oooh Baby
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“Oooh Baby” is an unreleased song by Lana Del Rey. The song was written and produced with Eg White. It was recorded in 2009 and leaked on August 8, 2012. The song contains samples
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David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust (Live '73) [Stereo]
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Oh / Oh, yeah / Ziggy played guitar / Jamming good with Weird and Gilly / And the Spiders from Mars / He played it left hand / But made it too far / Became the special man / Then
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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 – Warszawa
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The first of the four neo-instrumentals which populated side two of David Bowie’s mold-breaking Low album, “Warszawa” was titled for the Polish city which Bowie visited during 1976
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David Bowie – 1984/Dodo
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Someday they won't let you, now you must agree / The times they are a-telling, and the changing isn't free / You've read it in the tea leaves, the tracks are on tv / Beware the
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David Bowie – "Heroes"
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During his Berlin Period, Bowie spied Tony Visconti kissing backing vocalist Antonia Maaß by the Berlin Wall. Their love was doomed, as Visconti was married.
I thought, of all the
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David Bowie – London Bye Ta Ta
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[Chorus] / London, bye, ta-ta / Strange young town / London, bye, ta-ta / Brought me down / Don't like your new face / That's not nice / Got to go far, far / London, bye, ta-ta / [
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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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David Bowie – The Prettiest Star (1970 Version)
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[Verse 1] / Cold fire, you've got everything but cold fire / You will be my rest and peace child / I moved up to take a place / Near you / [Verse 2] / So tired, it's the sky that
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David Bowie – Art Decade
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The pun of the title – “art decayed” – reflects David Bowie’s own concern with his artistic inspiration needing some rejuicing, as could be seen on another song from the Low album
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David Bowie – Warszawa (Live 1978)
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[Audience Cheering] / [Instrumental Intro] / Sula vie dilejo / Sula vie milejo / [Violin Solo] / [Instrumental Break] / [Audience Applause]
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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 – Ziggy Stardust (Live 1978)
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[Verse 1] / Oh yeah / Ziggy played guitar / Jamming good with Weird and Gilly / And The Spiders from Mars / He played it left hand / But made it too far / Became the special man
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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 – Zeroes
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[Intro] / Yeah Yeah / Yeah Yeah / Yeah Yeah / [Verse 1] / You've arrived in the land of a thousand different names / And the fabulous sons have crashed their planes in flames / Now
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David Bowie – Rock 'n' Roll Suicide (Live '73)
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Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth / You pull on your finger, then another finger, then your cigarette / The wall to wall is calling, it lingers, then you forget / Ohhh
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