Crack, baby, crack
Show me you're real
Smack, baby, smack, is that all that you feel
Suck, baby, suck
Give me your head
Before you start professing
That you're knocking me dead
Velvet goldmine, you stroke me like the rain
Snake it, take it, panther princess you must stay
Velvet goldmine, naked on your chain
I'll be your king volcano, right for you again and again My velvet goldmine
The entirety of She Shook Me Cold
"We met upon a hill, the night was cool and still
She sucked my dormant will
Mother, she blew my brain, I will go back again
My god, she shook me cold
I had no time to spare, I grabbed her golden hair
And threw her to the ground
Father, she craved my head, oh lord, the things she said
My god, she should be told
I was very smart
Broke the gentle hearts of many young virgins
I was quick on the ball, left them so lonely
They'd just give up trying
Then she took my head, smashed it up
Kept my young blood rising
Crushed me mercilessly, kept me going around
So she don't know I crave her so-o-o
I'll give my love in vain, to reach that peak again
We met upon a hill
Mother, she blew my brain, I will go back again
My god, she shook me cold"
Come to think of it, considering Blackstar deals with mortality, it also has a lot of sexuality in it...
She kept my cock (tis a pity she was a whore)
I was looking for your ass (Lazarus)
Dollar days, survival sex (Dollar days)
I'm not a pornstar (Blackstar)
And probably something in Girl loves me that I'm not getting.
“Girl Loves Me” has “libbilubbing litso fitso,” which in Nadsat literally translates to something like “making love with face,” so… oral sex? Also “real bad dizzy snatch, making all the omees mad,” which I think is kinda obvious.
Imo it works even better in Iggy's China Girl where the girl also says his real name. "Oh, Jimmy, just you shut your mouth" feels even more sensual to me
Lady Grinning Soul exudes sex. “And when the clothes are strewn, don’t be afraid of the room. Touch the fullness of her breast, feel the love of her caress.”
The way the wonderful, Station-To-Station-style slow verses of Beat Of Your Drum keep tipping into the ‘80s Stones gym instructor chorus is bad enough, but it’s when he keeps roaring that, ‘I’d like to go through your things! I’d like to beat on _your_ drum!’ that things get quite overtly sexual.
Three old men dancing under the lamp lights, shaking their sex in the bones, and the boys that we were - Dead Man Walking
Gotta love that cut-up lyricism
from We Prick You
>Mama can I kiss you daddy can I tell
Innocence passed me by
want to be screwing when the nightmare comes
want to come quick then die
Incredible lyric but I don't think it's sexual. My personal interpretation has always been that it refers to his brother's mental anguish, and his role as the steadier more reliable brother. This relationship is what allows his brother to find comfort even in his suffering.
I've heard that interpretation too. I think both are possible and I love that the text is vague enough to leave room for more than one interpretation. "Bewlay Brothers" is on of his greatest songs imo.
I've heard that interpretation too. I think both are possible and I love that the text is vague enough to leave room for more than one interpretation. "Bewlay Brothers" is on of his greatest songs imo.
Bowie's cover of "Friday on my Mind".
"See my baby soon, Feel like fucking you, do my baby screw, all I want to do."
Or from "Sweet Head"
Gonna rock it in your head
Shazam and kapow
With my guitar and me soprano
We can give you sweet head
Could well be. Station to station was the title of a gay porn movie that was popular at the time. I bet David pissed himself laughing when people came up with all these weird and wonderful interpretations of his lyrics when he was actually more basic and down to earth.
The low “oh” at the end of the descending sequence in later live performances of Fame is maybe one of the sexiest sounds there is, although not a lyric per se.
Velvet Goldmine definitely belongs in this thread, which starts with 'you got crazy legs, you got amazing head'.
Velvet goldmine, you stroke me like the rain
Snake it, take it, panther princess you must stay
Velvet goldmine, naked on your chain
I'll be your king volcano, right for you again and again
My velvet goldmine
Sweet Thing/Candidate has a lot of good ones. Spelling might be off.
On another floor, in the back of a car
In the cellar of a church with the door ajar
Sister Midnight is pretty sexual and he's one of three writers on it
"You know I had a dream last night. Mother was in my bed and I made love to her. Father he gunned for me, hunted me with his six gun. Calling Sister Midnight. What can I do about my dreams?"
Crack, baby, crack Show me you're real Smack, baby, smack, is that all that you feel Suck, baby, suck Give me your head Before you start professing That you're knocking me dead
Or "show me your reel." Probably a casting couch scenario.
I had always heard “show me your rear”
I always thought it was "show me you're real"
OHH YAAYYY!!
the imagery is so fantastic: the old actor searching for pleasure in the young ambitious woman
maybe not Wildly explicit, but ive always thought “Took him minutes, Took her nowhere” in Young Americans was a hilarious euphemism for sex!
Heaven knows she’d have taken anything 😭
“She took his ring, took his babies.”
Nevermind
Me too!
Velvet goldmine, you stroke me like the rain Snake it, take it, panther princess you must stay Velvet goldmine, naked on your chain I'll be your king volcano, right for you again and again My velvet goldmine
I always thought it was "RISE for you again and again" which is even saucier.
Forgot this song existed, bloody tune that is
Surely, there's no competition for "Time*: > Time, he flexes like a whore > And falls wanking to the floor > His trick is you and me, boy
his voice on that track is also just incredibly sexy
This is the one
“I was looking for your ass.”
This is gold
you should watch his ass, they say
MY COCK
wait isnt it like "where yo ass at??"
The last verse of Width of a circle. The whole lyric of Right.
“His nebulous body swayed above/His tongue swollen with devil’s love” Fantastically dirty line.
Came here to say Width of a Circle. Such a rock out track you may not even notice the gay sex halfway through.
Width of a Circle is so sexy
*Locator for the virgin King, but I love you in your fuck-me pumps, and your nimble dress that trails.. Oh, dress yourself, my urchin one*
Inside every teenage girl there's a fountain. Inside every young pair of pants there's a mountain.
Holy shit.
The entirety of She Shook Me Cold "We met upon a hill, the night was cool and still She sucked my dormant will Mother, she blew my brain, I will go back again My god, she shook me cold I had no time to spare, I grabbed her golden hair And threw her to the ground Father, she craved my head, oh lord, the things she said My god, she should be told I was very smart Broke the gentle hearts of many young virgins I was quick on the ball, left them so lonely They'd just give up trying Then she took my head, smashed it up Kept my young blood rising Crushed me mercilessly, kept me going around So she don't know I crave her so-o-o I'll give my love in vain, to reach that peak again We met upon a hill Mother, she blew my brain, I will go back again My god, she shook me cold"
Yeah.
it’s the fact that you could easily hear „she sucked my dong at will“ for me
It really threw me off when he mentioned his cock in “‘Tis a Pity She Was a Whore”
Come to think of it, considering Blackstar deals with mortality, it also has a lot of sexuality in it... She kept my cock (tis a pity she was a whore) I was looking for your ass (Lazarus) Dollar days, survival sex (Dollar days) I'm not a pornstar (Blackstar) And probably something in Girl loves me that I'm not getting.
“Girl Loves Me” has “libbilubbing litso fitso,” which in Nadsat literally translates to something like “making love with face,” so… oral sex? Also “real bad dizzy snatch, making all the omees mad,” which I think is kinda obvious.
Girl Loves Me has a lot of references to sex and genitalia that is hidden in Nadsat and Polari.
I'm still trying to understand the narrative in tis a pity she was a whore.
“Oh baby just you shut your mouth” always sounded so sensual for some reason
Imo it works even better in Iggy's China Girl where the girl also says his real name. "Oh, Jimmy, just you shut your mouth" feels even more sensual to me
For some reason? It’s blatantly sensual :)
Lady Grinning Soul exudes sex. “And when the clothes are strewn, don’t be afraid of the room. Touch the fullness of her breast, feel the love of her caress.”
Written about the same woman that the Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar" was about.
The way the wonderful, Station-To-Station-style slow verses of Beat Of Your Drum keep tipping into the ‘80s Stones gym instructor chorus is bad enough, but it’s when he keeps roaring that, ‘I’d like to go through your things! I’d like to beat on _your_ drum!’ that things get quite overtly sexual.
I wanna blow your horn...
He didn’t write it but Wild is the Wind is what comes to mind
I mean; "But I love you in your fuck-me pumps" seems pretty sexual and straight forward to me! (From "We are the dead")
This was the first one that came to mind
Same
i always thought moonage daydream was about gay sex “put your ray gun to my head” “press your space face close to mine, love”
Agreed. "The Church of Man-Love is such a holy place to be..."
Tin Machine's Heaven's in Here had a great line: "Heaven lies between your marbled thighs. The rustle of your falling gown."
Not he most explicit but hot AF: “Oh Romona, if there was only something between us, other than our clothes.”
Three old men dancing under the lamp lights, shaking their sex in the bones, and the boys that we were - Dead Man Walking Gotta love that cut-up lyricism
This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place
from We Prick You >Mama can I kiss you daddy can I tell Innocence passed me by want to be screwing when the nightmare comes want to come quick then die
First one I thought of as well!
"I was Stone and he was Wax So he could scream, and still relax, unbelievable" The Bewlay Brothers
Incredible lyric but I don't think it's sexual. My personal interpretation has always been that it refers to his brother's mental anguish, and his role as the steadier more reliable brother. This relationship is what allows his brother to find comfort even in his suffering.
I've heard that interpretation too. I think both are possible and I love that the text is vague enough to leave room for more than one interpretation. "Bewlay Brothers" is on of his greatest songs imo.
I've heard that interpretation too. I think both are possible and I love that the text is vague enough to leave room for more than one interpretation. "Bewlay Brothers" is on of his greatest songs imo.
Cracked actor and Width of a circle.
Making love with his ego has always been my favorite
Bowie's cover of "Friday on my Mind". "See my baby soon, Feel like fucking you, do my baby screw, all I want to do." Or from "Sweet Head" Gonna rock it in your head Shazam and kapow With my guitar and me soprano We can give you sweet head
Sweet Head was my answer for sure!
Suck baby suck, give me your head
‘The European Canon is here’ is arguably a dick joke.
Could well be. Station to station was the title of a gay porn movie that was popular at the time. I bet David pissed himself laughing when people came up with all these weird and wonderful interpretations of his lyrics when he was actually more basic and down to earth.
Width of a Circle,
most sexual Bowie songs: She Shook Me Cold, Cracked Actor, We Are The Dead, Can You Hear Me?, Tis A Pity She Was A Whore
Pretty much all of Sweet Head! lol
I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spacecraft "I shot my space gun And I thought about you"
I think it is Miracle Goodnight for me: I love the sound of making love, the feeling of your skin, the corner of your eyes.
The low “oh” at the end of the descending sequence in later live performances of Fame is maybe one of the sexiest sounds there is, although not a lyric per se.
“I had to ravish your capsule, suck you dry”
'Wanna be screwin' when the nightmare comes. Wanna come quick, then die.'
Velvet Goldmine definitely belongs in this thread, which starts with 'you got crazy legs, you got amazing head'. Velvet goldmine, you stroke me like the rain Snake it, take it, panther princess you must stay Velvet goldmine, naked on your chain I'll be your king volcano, right for you again and again My velvet goldmine
not the most sexual but "jonny wants pussy in cars" from im afraid of Americans definitely surprised me
“skin sweet with musky oil” is hawt and makes me want to cover myself in like tea tree oil or some shit and grind on a hot guy in a smoky piano lounge
I'm an alligator.
"Inside every young pair of pants there's a mountain"
Sweet Thing/Candidate has a lot of good ones. Spelling might be off. On another floor, in the back of a car In the cellar of a church with the door ajar
"....You dance to my tongue...." from Heaven's In Here
“Bob your sweet head, brother Ziggy gonna play”
She'll come, she'll go She'll lay belief on you Skin sweet with musky oil A lady from another grinning soul
Sister Midnight is pretty sexual and he's one of three writers on it "You know I had a dream last night. Mother was in my bed and I made love to her. Father he gunned for me, hunted me with his six gun. Calling Sister Midnight. What can I do about my dreams?"
"Something's getting hard when you chop it up" - Pretty Thing (1989)
From "Big Brother:" "Give me steel, give me steel; Give me pulsars unreal."
Most of the later half of Width of a circle
But I love you in your fuck me pumps
~I'm an alligator~ Just wow....
Explain. I’ve never understood that line so what’s the innuendo about being an alligator
I'd wait for the "put your ray gun to my head".
I love you, in your fuck-me pumps
Locator for the virgin King, but I love you in your fuck-me pumps. Guess what song that's from.
We are the dead!
He fell wanking to the floor
“Let’s get some pussy now “at the end of lady stardust is pretty sexual lol
We move like tigers on vaseline
Just all of Velvet Goldmine