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Slip Away (6:04)

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Oogie waits for just another day
Drags his bones to see the Yankees play
Bones boy talks and flickers gray
Oh, they slip away

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  • drlovebkk

    John Lennon had told Bowie about this show (which was once labelled 'Its' so bad,it's good')and soon afterwards Bowie became a great fan. In 1981 Bowie visited a Uncle Floyd performance in The Bottom Line in New York. Initially Floyd Vivino didn't know who Bowie was and didn't agree to meet him backstage.

    18 Apr 11:02am Reply

  • rhondabowlin

    Oh so good.

    17 Apr 5:46am Reply

  • electricden

    1982 was when Bowie saw the American children's programme, "The Uncle Floyd Show", which included a skeleton puppet called Oogie, on cable. As the show soon finished soon afterwards, and so no longer exists on TV, Bowie is here imagining that maybe, as an electronic signal, going out across space, that it might still exist, and that the moment he saw will therefore be preserved somehow forever, hence, "down in space, it's always 1982". It probably has other meanings to Bowie, but that's the literal one.

    26 Feb 12:27pm Reply

  • kuuttipiiras

    We were dumb but you were fun

    15 Jan 11:17am Reply

  • lyle_catcliffe

    @davidbowiegirl I don't think its correct, but I always read into that lyric of Bowie realising (through hindsight) that everything he did up to 1982 was considered "genius" and how he now thinks if he ended/ revised his career at that point, he would have had a *completely* flawless legacy in 2001.

    14 Jan 7:35am Reply

  • Haytes

    wonderful

    26 Sep 2012 Reply

  • cjkisaragi

    Perfection!

    31 Mar 2012 Reply

  • davidbowiegirl

    Oh yeah, I've always wondered what is this reference to 1982? Does it really mean something?

    30 Oct 2011 Reply

  • spierdalai

    Down in space it's always 1982.

    10 Sep 2011 Reply

  • Leonstan

    Really a masterpiece, a black diamond ! What a sadness and power. " twinkle, twinkle, uncle Floyd na na na na na ..." ! Marvellous !

    30 May 2011 Reply

  • missmetal86

    <3

    12 May 2011 Reply

  • pokeydevlin

    The "woah woah" takes me back to earlier Bowie I just can figure where & when

    17 Nov 2010 Reply

  • Mukavajoonas

    Down in space it's always 1982.

    23 Apr 2010 Reply

  • davidbowiegirl

    *twinkle twinkle uncle Bowie* One of my favourites from the album <3

    24 Jul 2009 Reply

  • ChiliLady

    <333

    19 May 2009 Reply

  • nihilismexe

    This song is so splendid. Aghhh!

    6 Apr 2009 Reply

  • czarniecki

    n'oublie pas de maintenir les mains chaudes

    21 Feb 2009 Reply

  • IndefiniteCure

    this song is really beautiful

    21 Dec 2008 Reply

  • GinSonicGin

    ..don't forget to keep your head warm...

    2 Oct 2008 Reply

  • thomascourt

    Blows me away every listen

    23 Sep 2008 Reply
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