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Space Oddity Lyrics
Ground control to Major Tom
Ground control to Major Tom Take your protein pills and put your helmet on Ground control to Major Tom Commencing countdown, engines on Check ignition and may God's love be with you Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five Four, three, two, one, liftoff This is ground control to Major Tom You've really made the grade And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare This is Major Tom to ground control I'm stepping through the door And I'm floating in a most peculiar way And the stars look very different today For here Am I sitting in a tin can Far above the world Planet earth is blue And there's nothing I can do Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles I'm feeling very still And I think my spaceship knows which way to go Tell me wife I love her very much (She knows) Ground control to Major Tom Your circuits dead, there's something wrong Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you . . . Here am I floating round my tin can Far above the moon Planet earth is blue And there's nothing I can do |
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01-21-2002
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05-28-2002
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06-01-2002
12-03-2008
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06-02-2002
this song, written during the height of the space race, is more about bowie's looming alienation than space travel. this is a romanticized conception of casting out from the normal crowd and becoming something new and different. something bowie still succeeds in doing.
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06-10-2002
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06-15-2002
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07-26-2002
But I could be wrong.
Anyway, this song creeps me out. I love it.
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07-31-2002
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08-04-2002
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08-14-2002
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08-21-2002
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08-27-2002
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04-07-2003
But umm...wow...it's totally different from what you guys heard lol.
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04-18-2003
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04-22-2003
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04-24-2003
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04-24-2003
11-21-2008
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04-28-2003
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04-30-2003
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05-08-2003
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06-19-2003
Anyway, I've always heard it was about a drug overdose, and it makes perfect sense to me. He takes his pills, he's ready for liftoff, he goes into orbit, but something goes wrong and he can't find his way back to Earth. I don't know about any actual evidence to that effect, but I've always thought it was a great way to look at it. It's also a really unique song (despite the fact that it's about drugs) because most drug-related songs of the time were about good trips and opening your mind, while "Oddity" highlights the darker, deadlier side of drugs while still managing to make it seem romantic and even heroic to lift off and never come back.
I'm not going to try to say I know Bowie personally and he told me, or anything stupid like that. It just always seemed to fit. I guess I'll cast my vote with the heroin people above.
Either way, it's a great, classic song.
10-15-2009
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04-10-2004
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04-16-2004
10-15-2009
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04-29-2004
whatever it is about, great song.
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05-12-2004
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