David Bowie - Quicksand

Hunky Dory

Lyrics:

I'm closer to the Golden Dawn
Immersed in Crowley's uniform
Of imagery
I'm living in a silent film
Portraying
Himmler's sacred realm
Of dream reality
I'm frightened by the total goal
Drawing to the ragged hole
And I ain't got the power anymore
No I ain't got the power anymore

I'm the twisted name
on Garbo's eyes
Living proof of
Churchill's lies
I'm destiny
I'm torn between the light and dark
Where others see their targets
Divine symmetry
Should I kiss the viper's fang
Or herald loud
the death of Man
I'm sinking in the quicksand
of my thought
And I ain't got the power anymore

[CHORUS]
Don't believe in yourself
Don't deceive with belief
Knowledge comes
with death's release

I'm not a prophet
or a stone age man
Just a mortal
with the potential of a superman
I'm living on
I'm tethered to the logic
of Homo Sapien
Can't take my eyes
from the great salvation
Of bullshit faith
If I don't explain what you ought to know
You can tell me all about it
On, the next Bardo
I'm sinking in the quicksand
of my thought
And I ain't got the power anymore

[CHORUS]

Category:

Music

Tags:

• david
• bowie
• hunky
• dory
• quicksand
• folk
• rock

[bobbybowman1]

I'm not a prophet,

or a stone age man

Just a mortal

with the potential of a Superman.

I'm living on.

[YourFaceWillDie468]

Why the two-and-a-half minutes of silence?

[StonedOrcs]

"Don't believe in yourself, don't deceive with belief,

knowledge comes with death's release"

[LeLimeLine]

God plays this while sitting at the edge of the Universe.

[PuddingAtheist]

I once said that Jack White is the David Bowie of this generation but here is the difference.

White perfected himself every album

Bowie Invented himself every album

[chingchangchongfly]

@dfg297lpopdirk Your statement to me is self-contradictory. And to say that great literature/poetry/lyrics mean whatever you want them to mean is a great insult to the minds that wrote them. 

[dfg297lpopdirk]

@chingchangchongfly no your wrong the song is what ever it is you want it to be and thats the meaning of it

[upyerrzzz1]

@teknohead1970 HAHAHAHA! Thanks, I needed that. SOAD aren't flip compared to the immortal genius that is DB.

[1973ziggystardust]

Finally some music that makes you feel different than the usual emotion used in songs like love and parties. I love this song for when I am inspired, down, or having a bad day of pain. I now regret that I didn't get to Hunky Dory faster.......at least I can enjoy it for as long as I live.

[RotnRoll77]

@namordespuesdelnamor You're not real.

[namordespuesdelnamor]

boys, dont listen to this music that tells you to dont belive in yourselves, listen you justin bieber or katy perry , they sing about love and trust ,not about evil things