So, I was listening to 'Jump They Say'--by David Bowie--for unspecified reasons.
(Okay, one of my favorite authors mentioned it in her livejournal while dissecting Bowie's ********.)
About halfway through that song, my heart just about ******** stopped.
And not even in a creepy way.
In a
I just started listening to the lyrics.
way.
About halfway through I was like
WAIT
what is this about.
And I got it in one clear horrible moment of lucidity that
it was about a suicide.
And that, to no defined extent, freaked the hell out of me.
Because--I don't know--because it's a pop song.
It's not even a ballad. It's a catchy little David Bowie dance tune.
About a jumper.
what.
WHAT DAVID BOWIE WHAT
YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO MAKE PEOPLE FLIP BALLS WITH YOUR CATCHY DANCE TUNES.
P.S.
I watched one of his interviews in 1999 and MY GOD that man was STILL SEXY. I mean, he had to be at least fifty but he looked damn good for it.
