The dark pits of one's self...
Ever since the first time I heard this song, when I was fourteen, I was overwhelmed by the feeling of total loneliness its final verse conveyed, repeated over and over and over again...
My mama said to get things done, you better not mess with Major Tom...
Major Tom had left Earth on a space flight in the far 1968, in Bowie's first successful song, Space Oddity, only to return as a completely changed man, after being lost in space for god knows how long, half insane, devastated by the drugs that he probably took to make his nightmares go away, a misfit to all of society, abandoned by everyone. It was 1980, the song was Ashes to ashes.
It's just so bleak, so stark, so harsh, and so terribly filled with loneliness.
My mama said to get things done, you better not mess with Major Tom...
Major Tom had left Earth on a space flight in the far 1968, in Bowie's first successful song, Space Oddity, only to return as a completely changed man, after being lost in space for god knows how long, half insane, devastated by the drugs that he probably took to make his nightmares go away, a misfit to all of society, abandoned by everyone. It was 1980, the song was Ashes to ashes.
It's just so bleak, so stark, so harsh, and so terribly filled with loneliness.