12/16/2023 0 Comments Quicksand lyrics![]() But, of course, it came home to me very clearly and crystalline when I came back to England. For two hours I delighted in the nourishing vision of the moonlight trembling on her gleaming, darkhoney limbs as she wrote pages of nonsense lyrics and. The idea that it was about putting Jews in concentration camps and the complete oppression of different races completely evaded my extraordinarily f-ed up nature at that particular time. My interest in them was the fact that they supposedly came to England before the war to find the Holy Grail at Glastonbury and this whole Arthurian thought was running through my mind. The irony is that I really didn’t see any political implications in my interest in Nazis. Hahahaha! That’s when I had his biography in my raincoat so the title showed. I’m always very suspicious of anybody who says they’re into Crowley because they’d better have a pretty fair handle on Greek and Latin otherwise they’re talking bullshitīrett Anderson: You mention him in ‘Quicksand’.īowie: Yes… Haha! Caught out! Well, that’s before I tried reading him. None were new to Bowie – he had touched upon Buddhism and the occult on ‘After All’ Nietzsche on ‘The Supermen’ and ‘Oh! You Pretty Things’ – but here was his most explicit exploration, with namechecks for Aleister Crowley, Heinrich Himmler, Winston Churchill, and wartime spy Juan Pujol (codenamed Garbo by the British).īowie: I didn’t get into Crowley by the way, because he uses too much Greek. The lyrics make reference to several of Bowie’s interests of the time: the occult, World War Two, Buddhism, and Nietzche’s concept of the Übermensch. ![]() His time as a cultural figurehead was to follow, but here he took a giant step forward. Bowie knew – or at least suspected – that he had “the potential of a superman”, and ‘Quicksand’ – as with ‘Changes’, ‘Life On Mars?’, and ‘The Bewlay Brothers’ – shows him pushing through beyond his previous capabilities to discover newfound powers and realise his potency as a songwriter and performer. It is delicious irony, then, that a song lamenting a lack of inspiration serves as one of Hunky Dory’s most inspired moments. The titular quicksand is the arena where his inspiration and songwriting skills might flounder and fail. As long as I'm livin' all I know is go get it. Chorus: Big Scoob I ain't never been a quitter, they don't come no realer. The song is, at its heart, a moment of self-doubt for the 24-year-old Bowie, who fears his powers of creativity rested on unstable ground. Nobody black is packing up tryna go back to Africa. Kooks, Queen Bitches And Andy Warhol, Ken Sharp
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