Subterraneans - David Bowie

[Lafuggie]

Buag.

[sincronicidades]

ONE OF MY MY FAVOURITE SONGS SINCE MANY MANY YEARS AGO!!!!. Thanks a lot!!!!! It is no easy to find. Thank you very much!!!

[timlee19]

@sincronicidades - No problem!  Its one of mine too! Glad I could help out, all the best, Tx

[factotum2008]

brilliant!!!

[Phoenix87x]

Shivers... up and down the back of my spine.

[bluebrett70]

Brilliant!

[djdab]

this is the most unbelieveable aural landscape. stops time for me every time i hear it

[gildas2]

Forever low

[alarkinsane]

This song transports, and Phillip Glass thought enough of it (and Low and "Heroes") to create symphonies around them. I believe this song, and the Low album is the best, BEST album of the 1970's. It covers so much ground brilliantly, and Subterraneans is a gorgeous example of just how.

[TheCinemaization]

Brilliant song.

[seamusXX12]

i remember standing on the sidewalk when this song started playing on my ipod. it was rush hour at downtown so traffic was motionless and the sun started to set so it gave everything a goldish , yet aged look it seemed as if the world stood still for that 6 minutes. it may sound very minor to those of you reading this but that moment was almost magical.

[timlee19]

Wow, that sounds like a great moment - that's how this song should be listened to! Thanks for the comment seamusXX12

[TheKunig]

Just like I hear it seamus ....great comment !

[eliseandnicky]

David Bowie... is it any wonder that 'David' means 'beloved'?

[ivankaramasov]

Probably my favourite Bowie instrumental. It is so layered and complex, yet so emotional and touching. Incredible!

[musicistheproblem]

your so layered and complex, yet so emotional and touching. Incredible!

buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurn!!!­!!!!

[ivankaramasov]

Get some treatment.

[grachteendje]

@ivankaramasov , no don't take poison pills. Respect Nature, it straighten things out for you

[ignoranttwat]

it's not instrumental, the lyrics are...

Share bride failing star

Care-line

Care-line

Care-line

Care-line driving me

Shirley, Shirley, Shirley own

Share bride failing star

[ivankaramasov]

Those are "lyrics". They make no sense. It is an instrumental even

[ivankaramasov]

though there is a human voice in ther

[Sparkina]

I think the lyrics are

SHARE BRIGHT FAILING STAR (pain as bright as an exploded star. Mr. B wants to tell a pal about a breakup with a lady)

CAROLINE, CAROLINE, CAROLINE, CAROLINE (The woman he loves)

RIDING THERE, (riding the bus or tube)

SURELY, SURELY, SURELY ON, (slowly, steadily, moving on with her life and out of Our Hero's life)

SHARE BRIGHT FAILING STAR

So, the lyrics DO make sense. It's a song about a broken heart/relationship parting/romantic sorrow

[walbianco]

The words that Bowie use in Subterraneans are NOT intended to make any sense.

He used them only for their fonetic effect.

In the "Sound and Vision" documentary about mr. B., you can catch a short frame in which you can clearly read some lyrics of Subterraneans: "care-line, care-line, care-line", NOT "caroline..."

So the right words are:

Share Bright Failing Star

Care-line, care-line, care-line, care-line

bright in the shelly shelly shelly uhmmm

Share bright failing star..

[harrisongsrule]

i thought it was polish, like in warszawa

[TheKunig]

shelly shelly shelly uhmmm? - I think youre obviusly outa ya mind dude ......

[Sparkina]

The voice is human, but it doesn't sound quite human. It sounds like an ANGEL'S voice. Bowie is a beautiful gentleman with a beautiful voice!

[thefourtwentytheory]

That song certainly gives me the chills. It's so haunting yet so beautiful. David Bowie is a legend.

[Darohajo]

David Robert Haywood Jones I'm only a thin white woman was thursday's child. But I know there's something in the wind. Let me fly away with you. Waiting so long, I've been waiting so long. Come to my waiting arms. Give me more than one caress, satisfy this hungriness. Share my life. Falling in love with me. How I wish you would. With your kiss my life begins.