Man Who Sold The World (Studio Version)-David Bowie

We passed upon the stair, we spoke of was and when
Although I wasn't there, he said I was his friend
Which came as some surprise I spoke into his eyes
I thought you died alone, a long long time ago

Oh no, not me
I never lost control
You're face to face
With The Man Who Sold The World

I laughed and shook his hand, and made my way back home
I searched for form and land, for years and years I roamed

I gazed a gazely stare at all the millions here
We must have died alone, a long long time ago

Who knows? not me
We never lost control
You're face to face
With the Man who Sold the World

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[DanBlabbers]

Because Kurt Cobain sings it in am american angsty way. David Bowie sings it refined and intellectually very hard to explain or see and understand but its outof this world.

[elfidanto]

Cobain version is AWESOME !

[MrNeekappa]

@Hacker73 nice spamming of wikipedia there

[sandelic1]

People, you have to understand that the point of cover is not to compete with the original. It's a hommage to influence, to artist and to say that cover version is better then the original is really stupid. Kurt would be the first one to spit you in the face.

[Michalkov81]

Non esistono versioni migliori, questa canzone è: scritta , cantata, prodotta, interpretata, pensata, ideata,  da Bowie ..

[Hacker73]

The song's title is similar to that of Robert A. Heinlein's 1949 science fiction novella "The Man Who Sold the Moon", with which Bowie was familiar. However, the song has no similarities with the story of the book. The persona in the song has an encounter with a kind of doppelgänger, as is suggested in the second chorus where "I never lost control" is replaced with "We never lost control".

[Hacker73]

Beyond this, the episode is unexplained: as James E. Perone wrote,

Bowie encounters the title character, but it is not clear just what the phrase means, or exactly who this man is. … The main thing that the song does is to paint — however elusively — the title character as another example of the societal outcasts who populate the album.

In common with a number of tracks on the album, the song's themes have been compared to the horror-fantasy works of H. P. Lovecraft.

[Hacker73]

The lyrics are also cited as reflecting Bowie's concerns with splintered or multiple personalities, and are believed to have been partially inspired by the poem "Antigonish" by William Hughes Mearns:

“ Last night I saw upon the stair

A little man who wasn’t there

He wasn’t there again today

Oh, how I wish he’d go away…”

[hertrudis11]

Bowie el maestro, Cobain el aprendiz

[mrphJuice]

I'm out!

[chongkina]

The older I get the more this song means to me.

[Shaftlenaze]

Kurt Cobain loved David Bowie.