You Feel So Lonely You Could Die

Album: The Next Day (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • This melodramatic soul-drenched waltz-time piano ballad finds Bowie singing a kiss off to a would-be suicide, whose depression appears to have been brought on by the loneliness of a city. "I can see you as a corpse, hanging from a beam... Oh, see if I care, Oh please make it soon," he croons.
  • The song title is taken from a lyric from Elvis Presley's first hit, "Heartbreak Hotel". Bowie shares his birthday, January 8th, with The King.
  • Critics have compared the tune's mournful tone to that of "Five Years" and the song concludes with the drum pattern of the Ziggy Stardust track.

Comments: 1

  • Mark Devey from EnglandThis song is David Bowie pleading with David Jones to carry on after his heart attack, or leave without a sound without an end. It's one of his most beautiful & personal songs.
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