Lyric discussion by Sandysbird 

nah its about iggy pop. he and iggy went to berlin and got over their drug addictions together

@Sandysbird I agree it's BASED on Iggy Pop...but has nothing to do with Berlin. This song was written before the Berlin Trilogy.

@Sandysbird he wrote this years before he went to Berlin though you may be right about Iggy

@Sandysbird In Bowie's own words, "an Iggy-type character... it wasn't actually Iggy. The Complete David Bowie: pp.110-111

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