Best line in a Bowie song

"he flexes like a whore, falls wanking to the floor" from "Time". One of the few songs I can think of with that word in the lyrics.

"Don't look at the carpet, I drew something awful on it" Breaking Glass.

"Put a Bullet In My Brain -- And It MAKES ALL THE PAYPAZ!"

"And if the homework brings you down, then we'll throw it on the fire and take the car downtown". Shame about the song being a filler song though, as I like the lyrics.

"It's not the side-effects of the cocaine; I'm thinking that it must be love."

(station to station)

"Oh caress yourself, my juicy, For my hands have all but withered"

"Worst line in a Bowie song" would be so much more entertaining.

THE HINTERLAND THE HINTERLAND WE'RE GONNA SAIL TO THE HINTERLAND

Probably have many of the same lines, though... (xp)

My favourite Bowie lines are down to the way he sings them rather than the actual lyrics - it's currently tied between 'Smiling and waving and looking so fine' (from Five Years) and 'And the wrong words make you listen in this criminal world' from Fantastic Voyage.

'There's a taste in my mouth and its no taste at all'

Queen Bitch

"Worst line in a Bowie song" would be so much more entertaining.

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, January 6, 2008 7:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

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What song's that from?

"And if the homework brings you down, then we'll throw it on the fire and take the car downtown". Shame about the song being a filler song though, as I like the lyrics.

Kooks is a great little song, it just has the misfortune to fall between Life on Mars? and Quicksand.

Share bride failing star
Care-line
care-line
care-line
care-line driving me
Shirley, Shirley, Shirley own

Share bride failing star

I was Stone and he was Wax.
He could scream and still relax.
Unbelievable.
And our talk was old and dust would flow
through our veins and lo! it was midnight
Back at the kitchen door.
Like the grim face on the cathedral floor.

Oops, I forgot And we frightened small children away after Unbelievable.

Anyways. "The Bewlay Brothers" has got to be one of Bowie's high points as a lyricist.

He's chamelion, comedian, corinthian and caricature.

I love that line too. Everything rolls off the tongue so well in that song.

"Kooks" easily makes my top five favorite Bowie non-singles ever

No one needs anyone, they don't even just pretend

"cause you can never really tell... when somebody wants something you want to" from "Stay" on "Station To Station".

"Let me put your arms around your neck / gee, it's hot, let's go to bed"

"To be insulted by these fascists... is so degrading!"

Well, she could have been a killer if she didn't walk the way that she do/and she do

"we'll buy some drugs and watch a band / we'll jump in the river holding hands"

or

"i'm not a prophet or a stone age man / just a mortal with potential of a superman"

or

"oh shadow love was quick and clean, life's a well thumbed machine /
i saw you watching from the stairs, you're everyone that ever cared"

and so on!

As long as we're together, the rest can go to hell

It's not the side-effects of the cocaine

But nothing else would explain such arcane lyrics, surely?

"Cyprus is my island"

... too many to mention tho

"Learning to live with someone's depression/We'll get by, I suppose/It's a very modern world" always amuses me to no end, that's from Lodger's "Fantastic Voyage"

He's chamelion, comedian, corinthian and caricature.

-- chap, Sunday, January 6, 2008 9:43 PM

I knew i'd know it if i saw it.

"this ain't rock and roll, this is genocide!"

"when the kids had killed a man I had to break up the band"

and "Panic In Detroit" is filled with gems:

"He looked a lot like Che Guevara"

"He laughed at accidental sirens that broke the evening
gloom"

"I screamed and ran to smash my favorite slot machine,
and jumped the silent cars that slept at traffic lights"

Heh, I was gonna mention that Che Guevara line. But I also really love the sublimely ridiculous "She's a total blam-blam!"