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Bowie has written many “songs of dust,” as he recorded the entirety of his 1976 LP Station to Station under the influence of cocaine.
And I tell myself, I don't know who I am David Bowie – Heat
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Bowie has chosen several personas over the years, and it’s safe to say he hasn’t settled on one (yet).
Will come the silent gun David Bowie – You Feel So Lonely You Could Die
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Bowie delivers an ominous threat to this unnamed woman. She better watch her back, because one of these nights she’ll be shot dead with a silent pistol, leaving no trace of evidence.
You will set the world on fire
I can work the scene and
I can see the magazines David Bowie – (You Will) Set the World on Fire
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Bowie’s romantic life has been pervasive with women who truly set the world on fire. His first wife, Angela Bowie, was an American cover girl, model, actress and musician.
His second (and current) wife is is Somali-American model Iman. A pioneer in the field of ethnic cosmetics, she is also noted for her charitable work.
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Dance has indubitably been an important part of ceremony, rituals, celebrations and entertainment since before the birth of the earliest human civilizations.
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As Bowie would say in his 1983 album and song of the same name, “Let’s Dance.”
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The girl moves naturally and effortlessly, akin to the organic flow of water:
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Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach (16 July 1855 – 25 December 1898) was a Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist. He is known for his poem “Silence: it is the Voice that Trails.”
Like the moon needs poetry
You need me The Magnetic Fields – Come Back from San Francisco
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Stephin Merritt at his most sardonically ironic: the wind doesn’t need the trees, the trees use the wind to spread pollen. The moon doesn’t need poetry, poets depend on the moon because they need something to write about. In similar fashion, it seems the boy doesn’t need the narrator, the narrator needs the boy. Looks like a tale of unrequited love.
But upon even closer inspection, one realizes the trees don’t even need the wind. They can spread pollen and reproduce through other environmental methods. And poets can write about many topics besides the moon. Although they may be weaker, trees and poets would both survive without the wind and the moon. Likewise, the narrator doesn’t really need the boy. The narrator is just emotionally dependent on him right now, even though he can survive without his beau.
The narrator and the boy don’t need each other, they just happen to rely on one another.
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This is the most difficult of the references to place. It could be a reference to Kate Moss, an English supermodel and socialite famous for her controversial private life, high profile relationships, party lifestyle, and drug use. Alternative, it could refer to Kate Winslet, one of Britain’s most successful Hollywood actresses, best known for playing the lead role in Titanic.
This could possibly be a reference to Kate Middleton (officially known as Catherine, Duchess Of Cambridge) or Kate Upton, an American model.
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