Then we saw mission is dark
Trapped between the rocks
Blocking the waterfall
The songs of dust
The world would end
And night was always falling
The peacock in the snow
And I tell myself, I don't know who I am
And I tell myself, I don't know who I am
My father ran the prison (and the prison, in the prison?)
My father ran the prison
I can only love you by hating him more
That's not the truth, it's too big a word
He believed that love is theft
Love and war, the theft of love
And I tell myself, I don't know who I am
And I tell myself, I don't know who I am
My father ran the prison
My father ran the prison
But I am a seer, I am a liar
I am a seer, but I am a liar
My father ran the prison
My father ran the prison
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And I tell myself, I don't know who I am/My father ran the prison/My father ran the prison/But I am a seer, I am a liar
Bowie’s current voice on Earth, Tony Visconti, has said this apocalyptic slice of Scott Walker rock is “certainly not about [Bowie].” And it is crooned from the menacing perspective of a son whose “father ran the prison.” But then, how do you explain this segue: ‘And I tell myself, I don’t know who I am’.
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