and as proof there's mad people on songmeanings.net discussing/trying to figure out his lyrics.
life on mars: "i believe this song is about a young girl from a disfunctional home who escapes her life through movies. Let's call her "mickey mouse". So in teh second verse Mickey has grown up and become a frumpy old maid and she's a blue collar worker, her life is crap and not even the films she took solace in calm her but she still contiues to watch them wishing she lived in that world"
young americans: "American bombards people with a litany of flashy expectations -Ford Mustangs, Barbie dolls, Daddy's heroes (Sports, Hollywood, etc.) material success, etc., but the disconcerting reality is that few people ever attain this tantalizing vision of success, because it's unrealistic, and when their adult lives turn out to be about divorce, alimony, and general failure, they are just confused. The speaker of Bowie's song asks questions like ""We live for just these twenty years
Do we have to die for the fifty more?"
life on mars: "i believe this song is about a young girl from a disfunctional home who escapes her life through movies. Let's call her "mickey mouse". So in teh second verse Mickey has grown up and become a frumpy old maid and she's a blue collar worker, her life is crap and not even the films she took solace in calm her but she still contiues to watch them wishing she lived in that world"
young americans: "American bombards people with a litany of flashy expectations -Ford Mustangs, Barbie dolls, Daddy's heroes (Sports, Hollywood, etc.) material success, etc., but the disconcerting reality is that few people ever attain this tantalizing vision of success, because it's unrealistic, and when their adult lives turn out to be about divorce, alimony, and general failure, they are just confused. The speaker of Bowie's song asks questions like ""We live for just these twenty years
Do we have to die for the fifty more?"
