Découvrez les paroles de la chanson « Life on Mars? » de David Bowie, accompagnées des explications de leur signification, d’anecdotes et de contexte.
Paroles de la chanson
It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling "No"
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks
through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen
But the film is a saddening bore
For she's lived it
ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man!
Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
It's on Amerika's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse
has grown up a cow
Now the workers
have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
'Cause I wrote it
ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on
Sailors
Fighting in the dance hall.
Oh man!
Look at those cavemen go.
It's the freakiest show.
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy.
Oh man!
Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show.
Is there life on Mars?
Dring-dring-dring….
(Mind the phone)
Explication des paroles de Life on Mars? de David Bowie
‘Life on Mars?’ est une chanson de David Bowie sortie en 1971, qui aborde le thème de l’aliénation et de la recherche de sens dans un monde dont les valeurs semblent se perdre. La chanson a été écrite dans un contexte de tumulte social et politique, alors que Bowie cherchait à exprimer son désarroi face à la société de son époque. Une anecdote intéressante est que les paroles de la chanson ont été influencées par une expérience personnelle de Bowie lors d’un voyage en Russie, où il a été confronté à un sentiment d’étrangeté et d’isolement. En conclusion, ‘Life on Mars?’ fait partie des chefs-d’œuvre de Bowie, symbolisant son talent pour explorer des thèmes profonds à travers sa musique.