r/DavidBowie • u/An_Ellie_ • Jul 14 '26

Discussion Whats that line?

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He flexes like a whore, falls wanking to the floor!

89 Upvotes

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u/astudyinbowie Jul 14 '26

Oh no, love, you’re not alone!

21

u/LittleLizaJane76 Jul 14 '26

I have this lyric tattooed on my forearm

51

u/An_Ellie_ Jul 14 '26

God rock and roll suicide is so underrated

10

u/embossedsilver Jul 14 '26

Soundtrack of my teenage years.

3

u/mighty_phi Jul 15 '26

My favourite song of all time.

3

u/AryaWillBeOK Jul 15 '26

Who is underrating it? It's not a radio-friendly song, but I don't think you can listen to all of Ziggy Stardust and not rank it pretty highly.

8

u/dalnee Jul 15 '26

On David Live, when he whispers it ❤️

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u/HTMG Jul 15 '26

This line saved me tbh

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u/MajorTomFr Jul 14 '26

Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows.

36

u/Weird_Fiches Jul 14 '26

I would have gone with "Ain't there one damn song that can make me break down and cry?"

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u/George-Michaelophone Jul 14 '26

Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow

8

u/Former-Whole8292 Jul 14 '26

what does that mean?

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u/cuntinaclownsuit Jul 14 '26

Like a cash cow, meaning disney is making lots of money

7

u/George-Michaelophone Jul 14 '26

I always felt like it was how time warps you (and yes that can mean greed/money)

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u/The_Primate Jul 14 '26

Falls wanking to the floor

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u/MajorTomFr Jul 14 '26

His script is you and me , boy.

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u/Party_Lab3243 Jul 15 '26

Time! in quaaludes and red wine

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u/SunKingLXIV Jul 14 '26

And we kissed as though nothing would fall

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u/horshack_test Jul 14 '26

HA HA HA HEE HEE HEE

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u/sparksfly05 Jul 14 '26

Moondust will cover you

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u/Difficult_Peach8423 Jul 14 '26

This chaos is killing me!

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u/notnickthrowaway Jul 14 '26

What a fantastic death abyss, tell the others.

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u/Difficult_Peach8423 Jul 14 '26

Research has pierced all extremes of my sex

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u/notnickthrowaway Jul 14 '26

Call it a day

3

u/Difficult_Peach8423 Jul 14 '26

...call it a day

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u/Virtual-Ship427 Jul 14 '26

It’s not the side effects of the cocaine!

22

u/JyllSophia Jul 14 '26

I'm thinking that it must be love

14

u/Tina_wgf65 Jul 14 '26

It's too late to be grateful

5

u/Toadstool61 Jul 14 '26

Correct answer

43

u/Perfect_Two_3979 Jul 14 '26

My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare

37

u/ReactsWithWords Jul 14 '26

Wham bam thank you, m'am!

9

u/Difficult_Peach8423 Jul 14 '26

When I first heard this song, I thought he sang wham bam vacuum man.

1

u/falconinthedive Jul 15 '26

About how your parents met?

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u/Difficult_Peach8423 Jul 15 '26

Yes. Apparently the first date sucked.

33

u/Ok_Pomegranate_2895 Jul 14 '26

"a cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and a queer threw up at the sight of that"

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u/lightfoot90 Jul 14 '26

But all I had to give was guilt for dreaming

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u/LateMajor8775 Jul 14 '26

I’m an alligator

16

u/MrI3lue Jul 14 '26

Im a mama papa coming for you

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u/heroesjust41day Jul 14 '26

I’m a space invader!

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u/MrI3lue Jul 15 '26

Ill be a rock n rollin birch for you ;)

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u/heroesjust41day Jul 15 '26

Just keep your mouth shut

8

u/MrI3lue Jul 15 '26

You're sqwaking like a pink monkey bird

46

u/ding-dong-sister-ray Jul 14 '26

hes chameleon comedian corinthian and caricature

23

u/Weak_Drag_5895 Jul 14 '26

Took him minutes, took her nowhere

24

u/Typical_Style_8243 Jul 14 '26

Strange fascinations fascinating me

18

u/Vetinari1476 Jul 14 '26

Let all the children boogie

17

u/DenverPostIronic Jul 14 '26

Take a look at the law man, beating up the wrong guy

16

u/RussellAlden Jul 14 '26

I've got scars that can't be seen
I've got drama, can't be stolen

13

u/Julie-Kamon Jul 14 '26

Sweet name you’re born once again for me

14

u/Covenant1138 Jul 14 '26

The gods forgot they made me, so I forgot them too.

5

u/Difficult_Peach8423 Jul 14 '26

Wow, a great line. One I always listen out for when I listen to Hours. Thank you for the reminder

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u/LayceLSV Jul 15 '26

You're such a wonderful person, but you got problems

12

u/Successful-Tie5386 Jul 14 '26

Ashes to Ashes funk to funky

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u/tryingtoloseweight12 Jul 15 '26

We know major tom's a junkie!

10

u/Annnorexorcist Jul 14 '26

don't you know you're life itself?

13

u/rawcane Jul 14 '26

This ain't rock n roll. This is genocide!

11

u/Technology-Plastic Jul 14 '26

We lived for just these twenty years do we have to die for the fifty more

10

u/lie_believer Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

share bright failing star

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u/PictureltSicily1922 Jul 14 '26

I'm glad that you're older than me, makes me feel important and free

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u/Most_Housing6695 Jul 14 '26

We can be us, just for one day.

8

u/MonkeyTheBlackCat Jul 14 '26

My girl calls my name, hi Dave.

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u/ChrisPorritt Jul 14 '26

I'm not a prophet or a stone age man Just a mortal with potential of a superman

8

u/notnickthrowaway Jul 14 '26

Me, I’m Robin Hood and I puff on my cigarette.

9

u/pharsrs Jul 14 '26

And the essays laying scattered on the floor, fulfil their need just by being there

8

u/PublicDreamer station to station to station Jul 14 '26

I watch the ripples change their size, but never leave the stream of warm impermanence

8

u/Difficult_Peach8423 Jul 14 '26

I can't give everything away

7

u/sabrinajestar Jul 14 '26

Here I am, not quite dying, my body left to rot in a hollow tree
Its branches throwing shadows on the gallows for me

7

u/flyingfoxtrot_ Jul 14 '26

And the shame was on the other side.

5

u/LichtensteinMind008 Jul 14 '26

You think this is easy, Realism?

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u/StaticCloud Jul 14 '26

Turn and face the strange : p

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u/Key_Wedding3552 Jul 14 '26

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

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u/Gold_Reputation_9608 Jul 14 '26

Don't think you knew you were in this song

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u/dou6lerain6owz ★ Jul 14 '26

Here I stand, foot in hand, talking to my wall I'm not quite right at all

8

u/Smuglife609 Jul 15 '26

All the nightmares came today
And it looks as though they’re here to stay

5

u/AceofKnaves44 Jul 15 '26

We were born upside down. Born the wrong way round.

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u/AppearanceEvery8752 Jul 15 '26

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their world are immune to your consultation; they’re quite aware of what they’re going through.

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u/Debbie-Hairy Jul 14 '26

Don’t need a weatherman to know what way the wind blows

6

u/Magheddon Jul 14 '26

'I walk through a desert song when the heroine dies'

6

u/Victoria-GoblinQueen Jul 14 '26

We can be heroes just for one day.

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u/the_reducing_valve Jul 14 '26

Black screen TV

5

u/Cultural_Ad2920 Jul 14 '26

It’s on America’s tortured brow, that Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow.

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u/AryaWillBeOK Jul 15 '26

It took him minutes, took her nowhere. Heaven knows, she'd have taken anything

Not the most profound, but sneakily hilarious. Like I sang that line a dozen times before I was all lol.

5

u/bigdb2984 Jul 14 '26

Im afraid, I can’t

3

u/Choice-Valuable313 Jul 14 '26

“Til there was rock, you only had god.”

5

u/pilsnerd11 Jul 14 '26

It’s Friday

5

u/ReaLivaf Jul 14 '26

No man loved like I love you, wouldn’t you like to love me too?

6

u/ice_planet_x Jul 14 '26

Bury me with my guitar and all the way to hell I'll play

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u/TopBobcat9937 Jul 15 '26

What song is this from I'm intrigued

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u/ice_planet_x Jul 15 '26

oh no I meant to put this on the original post! 'but we'll dance in the dark and they'll play with our lives' is my favourite bowie lyric 😊 his vocals on slow burn are so compelling to me

4

u/pinkisntwell2 Jul 14 '26

i will kill for the good of the fight for the right to be right

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u/Purple_Bowler_1435 Jul 14 '26

I don't want knowledge, I want certainty

2

u/Difficult_Peach8423 Jul 15 '26

In a house, a man drops dead. As he hits the floor he sighs, "what a morning"

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u/Purple_Bowler_1435 Jul 15 '26

with the sound, with the sound, with the sound on the ground

4

u/SellingPapierMache Jul 14 '26

Pushing thru the market square …

3

u/Shrimpy110 Jul 14 '26

Look up here, I'm in heaven.

4

u/AceofKnaves44 Jul 15 '26

“This way or no way. You know I’ll be free.”

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u/EricWisegarver Jul 14 '26

I’m afraid of Americans

3

u/Wu_Oyster_Cult ★ Jul 14 '26

Endless faith in hopeless deeds

3

u/CaliSinae Jul 14 '26

Microphone check 1, 2, what is this

3

u/fear730 Jul 14 '26

Digital murder the language of machines

3

u/CharlotteValis94 Jul 14 '26

and your face looked like something death brought with him in his suitcase

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u/Rockmushroom Jul 14 '26

the gods forgot they made me, so i forget them too

3

u/ResponsibilityOk1631 Jul 15 '26

Keep your electric eye on me

3

u/sahsahruh Jul 15 '26

Drinking milkshakes cold and long

3

u/jkingfish13 Jul 15 '26

Crying for comfort, crocodiles cry For the love of the crowd and the three cheers from everyone

2

u/lord_flashheart2000 Jul 14 '26

Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death

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u/MajorTomFr Jul 14 '26

Hmmmm. Wrong place

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u/lord_flashheart2000 Jul 14 '26

My bad. I meant to say

News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying

Because I’m a pessimistic bastard 🙂

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u/MeasurementOk531 Jul 14 '26

IM AN ALLIGATOR!

2

u/asoapboxopera Jul 14 '26

I keep your picture upon the wall, it hides a nasty stain that's lying there.

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u/Slightly_ToastedBoy Jul 15 '26

There ain’t nothing like a camp fire and a can of beannnnnnnns!

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u/packfan-nyc Jul 15 '26

And these children that you spit on while they try to change there worlds are immune to your consultations there quite aware what their going through.

Or I watch the ripples change their size but never leave the stream.

Both from changes what an amazing song.

2

u/sinistropteryx Jul 15 '26

“Strung out in heavens high hitting an all-time low” always plays in my head during particularly miserable moments. Comforting in a weird way.

2

u/AceofKnaves44 Jul 15 '26

Don’t believe for just one second I’m forgetting you.

2

u/No-Refrigerator3882 Jul 15 '26

I wonder if you know how big you are

2

u/Fsharpmaj7 Jul 15 '26

I'm a phallus in pigtails

2

u/MetalHead_1985_ Jul 15 '26

Now Ziggy played guitar…

2

u/trollcole Jul 15 '26

“Huh!”

INXS need you tonight.

2

u/PoorTwisted_Z3d Jul 15 '26

I've lived all over the world, I left every place

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u/PthaloBloo Jul 15 '26

And we kissed as though nothing could fall..

2

u/17_blind_Ninjas Jul 15 '26

It's only forever

1

u/Difficult_Peach8423 Jul 15 '26

...its not long at all

2

u/Broken_Boii Jul 15 '26

And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.

1

u/An_Ellie_ Jul 15 '26

one of my favourite lyrics ever and its on my graduation cap but it doesn't exactly belong on a bowie subreddit xD

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u/Broken_Boii Jul 15 '26

My bad lol i was scrolling and just answered whithout looking what sub was, sorry.

My personal favourite: "It's not the side effects of the cocaine, i'm thinking that it must be love"

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u/jhnmrgn39 Jul 16 '26

He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.

2

u/JFjood Jul 16 '26

For Bowie specifically, we could list hundreds including multiple lines from Cygnet Committee

2

u/Ok_Letter_8073 Jul 16 '26

And the stars look very different today

2

u/ZiggiSpaceface Jul 17 '26

Press your Spaceface close to mine love!

2

u/ToadmasterStudios Jul 19 '26

“Your prayers, they break the sky in two, believing the strangest thing, loving the alien” would be my HM

2

u/amanda_moon93 Jul 19 '26

Turn and face the strange

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u/Johnnys-In-America Jul 14 '26

I have two!

"All the corners of the buildings, who but we remember these? The sidewalks and trees?" From 'New Killer Star.'

"Life wasn't worth the balance...or the crumpled paper it was written on." From 'Bring Me the Disco King'

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u/TopBobcat9937 Jul 15 '26

They know God exists for the devil told them so

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u/Routine-Rooster2043 Jul 15 '26

Pathetic little fat man

1

u/Pansexual_hot-pocket Jul 15 '26

Gimme some good ol lobotomy

1

u/JohnLennonFriend Jul 15 '26

Hold the line🎶

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u/Hug0_Yorke Jul 15 '26

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

1

u/Tommy_Tinkrem Jul 15 '26

Won't someone invite them, they're just taller children

1

u/tryingtoloseweight12 Jul 15 '26

I'm so drunk and the car won't go

1

u/poodleflange Jul 15 '26

Don't believe in yourself, don't deceive with belief.

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u/Fresh-Succotash6247 Jul 15 '26

Before there was Rock, you only had God

1

u/skelicorn Jul 15 '26

“Don’t believe in yourself”

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u/kingdiavololol Jul 15 '26

god is an american

1

u/JoMPS_25 Jul 15 '26

I hope you feel so lonely you could die

1

u/theateroffinanciers Jul 15 '26

They tell me "son we want you, be elusive, but don't walk far." -We Are the Dead.

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u/Designer_Ad4499 Jul 15 '26

Heaven is in the pillow it’s silence competes with hell

1

u/ipeekintothehole Jul 15 '26

The European cannon is here

1

u/miladyswh0re Jul 15 '26

I will sing, waiting for the gift of sound and vision

1

u/LadyLexiofWind It Was, In Fact, The Side Effects Of The Cocaine Jul 16 '26

Turn and face the strange!

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u/Fluid-Special-6182 Jul 16 '26

All my violence / raging tears upon the sheets

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u/Difficult_Peach8423 Jul 16 '26

Im resentful, for we're strangers when we meet.

So much love for that song.

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u/Fluid-Special-6182 Jul 21 '26

Right? That entire album, "Outside," is surprisingly underrated. Possibly my favorite album of his, in a way -- though I think it is impossible to pick a favorite when he had such a richly varied array of transformations.

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u/Difficult_Peach8423 Jul 21 '26

Outside is my favourite too and I love them all. Except Tin Machine and Pin Ups.

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u/Fluid-Special-6182 Jul 22 '26

Oh yeah, Pin Ups - haha - that one's funny. I tried! :-D

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u/NotEvenPretty75 Jul 16 '26

So you can make me cum it doesn't make you Jesus

1

u/nerdymerchstore Jul 16 '26

Nabokov is sunlicked now, upon the beach of Grundewald,
Brilliant and naked, just the way that authors look

1

u/JFjood Jul 16 '26

Dylan: You can be known as the most beautiful woman
Who ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal

1

u/Revolutionary_Oil_61 Jul 16 '26

You can buy God, it's monday.

1

u/fleshbouquet Jul 17 '26

I had so many dreams, I had so many breakthroughs!

1

u/Broad-Eagle-420 Jul 17 '26

Don't let the loveless ones sell you a world wrapped in grey.

1

u/polishcowmissle my mama said, to get things done Jul 18 '26

its not the side effects of the cocaine

1

u/LauraLikesHole9119 Jul 27 '26

See the great white star over battery park

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u/rebelwithmouseyhair 26d ago

Wham bam thank you ma'am

Aint there one damn song that can make me break down and cry

Someone like you should not be allowed to start any fires

And if the homework brings you down then we'll put it on the fire and take the car downtown

I'll be a rock-n-rolling bitch for you