David Bowie - The Bewlay Brothers (Lyrics)

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  • Опубликовано: 3 фев 2025

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  • @fishsupper1263
    @fishsupper1263 3 года назад +9

    Saw ziggy in Glasgow 1972, still breaks my heart I won't see him again.

  • @keithclews1819
    @keithclews1819 9 лет назад +148

    Brilliant ..The whole Hunky Dory Album is stand out

  • @Tedisntakidanymore
    @Tedisntakidanymore 3 года назад +29

    Hunky Dory had some of Bowie's most personal compositions, like this one. Words like spooky, moving and troubling come to mind. Hunky Dory, taken as a whole, was his best album, imho.

    • @markkumanninen6524
      @markkumanninen6524 2 года назад +6

      After five decades of listening to this mindless masterpiece I'm still moved to tears. It's an immensely sad song, only comparable to After All. As we know now, it refers to David's brother. I don't think DB ever got this personal again.

    • @spaceclown7650
      @spaceclown7650 Год назад +2

      I can't pick a best album by Bowie.
      Hunky Dory, Ziggy, Aladdin Sane, and Diamond Dogs all come to mind, each for slightly different reasons.
      Honorable mention to the album The Man Who Sold The World, for having my favorite Bowie song ever (The Supermen).

    • @virginiaviola5097
      @virginiaviola5097 10 месяцев назад +2

      Every ‘70’s album is perfection in its own way. Although Low and Lodger were a bit hit and miss. I once told David Bowie that David Bowie’s last great album was Heroes..only I had no idea that I was actually saying that to Bowie himself, and I curl up and die everytime I think of it, because it was not true. When Lazarus came out, and Bowie had passed I revisited Scary Monsters and Super Creeps, and so I lied, because that album is a masterpiece. I’m glad that he came back from being dead from 2004 until 2014 and left us with 2 and a half Bowie at his very best albums plus the musical he had always been intending to write since his teens.

  • @43cjd
    @43cjd 2 года назад +15

    My two favorite bowie albums, ziggy and hunky dory. How lucky were we to have lived in that time and experience it together?

  • @sergeantpete6295
    @sergeantpete6295 7 лет назад +48

    The mark of a really good song lyric is not some concrete message the artist wants to smash you over the head with, but wording and phrasing that is meaningful, but vague enough to allow each and every listener to fill in the gaps. This song is a brilliant example of that. Everyone who listens to it can apply it to their own experiences and make it their own.

    • @user-yz9kz6vt9y
      @user-yz9kz6vt9y 3 года назад +3

      I feel you, but I also think that it is important to find the true meaning that the artist intended. I like to know, for example, who these songs were written about. It helps me appreciate them so much more when I think I have figured out who the subjects are.

    • @gaynorgregory2528
      @gaynorgregory2528 3 года назад +2

      I’m pretty sure it’s about his relationship with his beloved older brother, who ended up in a psych hospital. But Bowie’s lyrics from many songs ARE as you say.

    • @gaynorgregory2528
      @gaynorgregory2528 3 года назад

      @@user-yz9kz6vt9y well I hope my comment helps. And I agree with you. Though as a young teenager, early on when I first loved Bowie, some of his lyrics felt like they were spoken directly to me, and I think generations of teens have had that experience, and then it kind of works not to always know. Some of us songs are far more obvious than others, and they have an obvious narrative. Major Tom, Starman. Then I think if you don’t know that Diamond Dogs was Bowie’s ‘stage musical’ album, you might get a bit confused? Anyway yeah, I agree. I’ve loved the times I’ve discovered what DB himself says his songs are about. Like this one for example.

    • @sergeantpete6295
      @sergeantpete6295 3 года назад

      @@gaynorgregory2528 Yes, I had heard that this was about his brother. Really though, it kind of proves my point. He was able to vent about his brother in a meaningful way, while still allowing people to apply it to themselves. Regardless, it has always been one of my favorite songs of his.

    • @skateboardingjesus4006
      @skateboardingjesus4006 2 года назад +1

      @@gaynorgregory2528 The song "Aladin Sane" is even more directly about his brother.

  • @mjb4983
    @mjb4983 7 лет назад +28

    Honestly , this broke my heart and it still does

  • @Count22
    @Count22 9 лет назад +39

    I imagine it was for his step-brother Terry who wound up in a mental institution until he threw himself in front of a train years later.What always got me was the way he becomes Terry at the end ..."lay me place". Still gives me chills.

    • @mirandakrachuk2417
      @mirandakrachuk2417 8 лет назад +1

      thank you very much through that information for years and years I've wondered about the song at least that's something I didn't know

    • @vickihayward6832
      @vickihayward6832 8 лет назад +5

      yes i read this was for/ in memory of his Brother Terry 😍Love this one .been listenin to this quite alot lately .This and several others goin round in my head. .

    • @willomina1990
      @willomina1990 3 года назад +1

      Hey!.....FYI, .Actually, David stated that the song refers to the time he was a 'shaven headed transvestite' travelling with the 'Lindsey Kemp mime troupe'......

    • @skateboardingjesus4006
      @skateboardingjesus4006 2 года назад +3

      " Oh my brother lay upon the rocks, he could be dead, he could be not,
      he could be you. He's comedian, chameleon, Corinthian and caricature".
      Still gives me tingles.

    • @truth4004
      @truth4004 Год назад +1

      LOL love it. @@willomina1990

  • @rosicroix777
    @rosicroix777 8 лет назад +54

    This song as well as most of the songs on Hunky Dory have always been some of my favorites. Came here to make sure of the lyrics, which are fantastic in the true sense of what fantastic means. After a bit of research most people say this is about Davids half brother who suffered from schitzophrenia, Bowie himself never said what the song was about concisely & only preformed the song a handful of times live ( and those were done after 2000 ). I always found that this as well as all the songs on Hunky Dory made the listener THINK, they were all done so nice & acousticley w/mostly classical type instruments & had such a beautiful clean sound that carried the emotion behind them so well. More info can be found in the Wikipedia article ( forgive me that I have not included a link please). I am still saddened by Davids passing as the world lost a true musical genious. Thank You Fritzes007 for posting this lyric video

  • @fishsupper1263
    @fishsupper1263 2 года назад +4

    Every now and again someone arrives in this world that is different, special, out of this world as we know it. Seen only once and never repeated. I give you David bowie. I will die knowing I was lucky to live in his time.

  • @jazminegorst4864
    @jazminegorst4864 9 лет назад +31

    This is a beautiful song

  • @billtaylor4224
    @billtaylor4224 9 лет назад +41

    When asked by an interviewer years ago what this song meant Bowie replied "Star Trek in a leather jacket". I remember reading that. I took it as "figure it out yourself".

    • @mirandakrachuk2417
      @mirandakrachuk2417 8 лет назад +1

      i wonder what he ment?

    • @mirandakrachuk2417
      @mirandakrachuk2417 8 лет назад +1

      obviously I've tried Googling it. I figure it's just like the song kind of says. it's most likely some people obviously knew some brothers that preach some crap that they believed in at one time learned otherwise and took action

    • @solnidor
      @solnidor 6 лет назад +2

      This is a song about a magician who left the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the struggle that another magician used, unsuccessfully, to try and bring him\her back into the Order.

    • @kryldon8146
      @kryldon8146 6 лет назад +1

      I’ve read many theories that say that the song is about Bowie’s schizophrenic half-brother Terry. Also possibly homosexuality

    • @neptunestardust
      @neptunestardust 6 лет назад

      kryldon
      About his brother who committed suicide.
      That’s one theory 🤷🏽‍♀️

  • @jonsey156
    @jonsey156 9 лет назад +26

    Haunting and compelling - Bowie needed to release tracks like this is order to reveal his darker side, Each hearing of this leaves me wondering ( and wanting) more !!! One of my favourite Bowie tracks !! ( amongst dozens)

    • @realzarbl414
      @realzarbl414 9 лет назад +2

      Fuckin A

    • @Scorhos
      @Scorhos 7 лет назад +4

      Robert Jones he revealed a dark side since the man who sold the world until alladin sane,but this is more clear,easier to get this side,on hunky dory.Is a mix of folk music with total counterculture lyrics and piano acts,wonderfully played by rick wakeman,by the way,with lyrics about tedious days or solitude.Ziggy is a dark character, weird and crazy,full of tension?Yes,but the mellodies are more pop,and the figurine opened a window of attention never saw before. Hunky Dory was a way for this.Beautiful way.

  • @arwensiriustinuvieljoestar6149
    @arwensiriustinuvieljoestar6149 7 лет назад +16

    So emocional, this piece of art is just faboulos, dedicated to his half-brother terry. It just have too much feeling, it makes me cry I dont know why...
    -" And my brother lays in the rocks,he could be death, he could be not... he could be you"
    That is one of the phrases that shock me the most.. brilliant genius.. David Bowie

  • @kazane4533
    @kazane4533 5 лет назад +7

    I love it love it love it!!!! It's the best I ever heard or read about being young in the sixties. This voice is a friend.

  • @truth4004
    @truth4004 Год назад +2

    Bowie truly has ALL THE BEST WORDS.

  • @ivankaramasov
    @ivankaramasov 3 года назад +5

    Brilliant and enigmatic. It seems so simple minded to try and find a definite meaning of the lyrics. So much of its power lies in its dreamlike quality.

  • @pascal4456
    @pascal4456 7 лет назад +7

    One of my favourite Bowie Songs!

  • @duckiwi
    @duckiwi 7 лет назад +20

    His best song - ever.

    • @ziadmoghazy8911
      @ziadmoghazy8911 6 лет назад

      ever heard about Blackstar ? or dollar days maybe ?

    • @moisevitek
      @moisevitek 6 лет назад

      @@ziadmoghazy8911 you re joking right

    • @alyzz9863
      @alyzz9863 6 лет назад +1

      @@moisevitek I doubt that. Blackstar is truly his magnum opus.

    • @moisevitek
      @moisevitek 6 лет назад +6

      @@alyzz9863 i really can't see a better song than bewlay bros. It's just perfect from start to finish and i'm not in the position to know what the lyrics were supposed to mean, but that's the beauty of it: the fact that the listener can interpret them how he feels and i personally think that the lyrics of this song are simply beautiful and just as ambiguous as they should, blackstar seems to be a little too deep and full of references, maybe it was his magnum opus but for me this song is one of the truly most beautiful songs i ve heard, plus the instrumental and musical structure is a delight, whereas blackstar has more of a dark themed sound that you have to be in a certain mood to be able to listen to.

    • @markkumanninen6524
      @markkumanninen6524 2 года назад

      I agree.

  • @lippy123445
    @lippy123445 9 лет назад +19

    BOWIE . LYRICAL GENIUS

  • @joenicholls461
    @joenicholls461 7 лет назад +24

    Weird early Bowie tune. Hunky Dory is genuine piece of art

    • @eevie7822
      @eevie7822 4 года назад

      He was singing about The Golden Dawn.

  • @32mybelle
    @32mybelle 8 лет назад +28

    This song is a bit Dylanesque in my opinion, until the last bit with the tracks over themselves. Bowie, you gave us all so much joy! ♡

  • @tornickin
    @tornickin 9 лет назад +16

    Music then and by some artists were so full of meaning and beauty and grace. David was more than an entertainer. His writing, art, poetry and vision were so first class. Today's music has regressed to talking about body parts.....there is something wrong with that. That's why when the greats like Jackson and Bowie (my 2 all time favs) shed their mortal coil the loss is not only of them but the death of real music.

    • @unknownpassenger4025
      @unknownpassenger4025 7 лет назад +5

      Fernando Romero There is certainly good music out there, but nothing stands out. Probably because I have really have high standards. David Bowie and few others are legends. If they where still musicians just as good as him all over the place now, he wouldn't be considered a legend. Legend's come rarely. We had our time with them, but that time is over. Though out there in this world, there's a few kids out there to become the next legends in music. It's only a matter of time. They won't be doing the music that is trending, or doing music a "favour" by doing something retro. They'll make music go forward.

  • @duantorruellas716
    @duantorruellas716 7 лет назад +10

    pure lyical genius, to me this song describes the realized vision of a world gone wrong in many ways, from war to corporate effects on free market trade, to the working class struggle of that time in light of unwanted social reforms.

  • @crystalbeth4825
    @crystalbeth4825 7 лет назад +9

    Bowie himself is said to have told producer Ken Scott that it was a track for the American market, because "the Americans always like to read things into things", even though the lyrics "make absolutely no sense".[2] Reflecting on the song in 2008, Bowie wrote, "I wouldn't know how to interpret the lyric of this song other than suggesting that there are layers of ghosts within it. It's a palimpsest, then."[3

    • @annwhite2346
      @annwhite2346 6 лет назад +8

      He knew what it was about, he just didn't want to talk about it.

    • @argynn
      @argynn 5 лет назад

      @@annwhite2346
      Exactly. As I said higher, he wrote it willingly to remain unexplained to the masses...Isn't it rather about a couple of (somewhat trashy) drug dealers being brothers and acting under disguise of some sect/hippy/intello "preachers" of the kind (as it was common back then in the late 60's) ?

    • @leedavis4202
      @leedavis4202 4 года назад +1

      @@argynn It's about Magic, and not the Abracadabra kind 😟

  • @mjreikiriot3302
    @mjreikiriot3302 9 лет назад +5

    soooo good after all these years...still so good. we all know some brothas like that :)

  • @tomthebomb557
    @tomthebomb557 3 года назад +2

    Part of the last verses lyrics:
    And my brother lays upon the rocks
    He could be dead, he could be not, he could be you
    He's chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature
    Shooting up pie-in-the-sky
    The Bewlay Brothers
    ...really kicks me in the heart knowing the context of this song and mental illness as a whole.
    A truly timeless and relevant song forever.

  • @lol-pe2nl
    @lol-pe2nl 6 лет назад +1

    Thats Bowie's Soul speaking with us... I can just say, it would have been great to meet u once... Miss u! ❤️

  • @3340steve
    @3340steve 8 лет назад +19

    DaMN this lyric is brilliant.

  • @marieblue
    @marieblue Год назад +1

    This is partly a fictionalized account of David Bowie’s relationship with his older schizophrenic stepbrother* Terry Burns (1937 - 1985), who was a huge influence on him.
    Bowie, Iggy Pop and Colin Thurston produced Pop’s 1977 LP “Lust For Life” under the pseudonym “Bewlay Bros.”
    Bowie related : “The only pipe I have ever smoked was a cheap Bewlay. It was a common item in the late ‘60s and for this song, I used Bewlay as a cognomen - in place of my own. This wasn’t just a song about brotherhood so I didn’t want to misrepresent it by using my true name. Having said that, I wouldn’t know how to interpret the lyric of this song other than suggesting that there are layers of ghosts within it. It’s a palimpsest then […]. Unlike the rest of the ‘Hunky Dory’ album [1971], which I had written before the studio had been booked, this song was an unwritten piece that I felt had to be recorded instantaneously. I had a whole wad of words that I had been writing all day. I had felt distanced and unsteady all evening, something settling in my mind. It’s possible that I may have smoked something in my Bewlay pipe. I distinctly remember a sense of emotional invasion.” 💙🎶💚
    Always loved, never forgotten, forever missed will you remain, David Robert Jones, a.k.a. David Bowie (1947 - 2016)… 🌹
    * The stepbrothers shared the same mother, but had different fathers.

  • @getitherething.2653
    @getitherething.2653 7 лет назад +4

    Love this song! Lol love all his songs, thanks for subtitles

  • @pauldesborough6845
    @pauldesborough6845 9 лет назад +40

    God that's good!

  • @jemmace2586
    @jemmace2586 2 года назад

    Poetic, prophetic and from the source of all consciousness.

  • @MaetelCho
    @MaetelCho 6 лет назад +6

    My God, I always love this song! >w

  • @UrbanSwagger
    @UrbanSwagger 4 года назад +2

    When I first heard this song, the concluding bit made me jump. Was alone with my eyes closed and suddenly thought someone was growling in my ear

  • @balance1182
    @balance1182 Год назад

    One of the peaks in the whole history of song lyrics. Period.

  • @kostasdrakopoulos9679
    @kostasdrakopoulos9679 9 лет назад +9

    Hymn!!!!!!!!!!Rest In Peace Ziggy hero Stardust

  • @jamesfraser2162
    @jamesfraser2162 2 года назад

    A truly solid book - unbelievably GOOD

  • @rnw2739
    @rnw2739 5 лет назад +4

    I wish the ending of this magnificent song, where those opposingly pitched voices urge "Please come away!" was at least 3 minutes longer...

  • @danielrochelle2044
    @danielrochelle2044 3 года назад +1

    Outstanding!

  • @samanthamurdock3752
    @samanthamurdock3752 4 года назад +1

    God..I miss my albums...

  • @user-ru6mq5sc5n
    @user-ru6mq5sc5n 3 года назад +1

    The Bewlay brothers actually signed a NBA contract this year. Small parts of this song need to be played at games. What are the odds.

  • @michaelirving4011
    @michaelirving4011 7 лет назад +1

    they just dont tell em like that anymore,sheer poetry

  • @user-yz9kz6vt9y
    @user-yz9kz6vt9y 4 года назад +2

    It could also be "in the night walk pavilion." That's what I hear. I noticed that sometimes, the printed lyrics in the CD inserts have mistakes in them, and I think that might have been deliberate.

    • @primepap
      @primepap 2 года назад

      I realized this. I was just listening to Ziggy Stardust and many people thought the lyrics are other things as well. Crazy eh?

  • @ingomeyer4153
    @ingomeyer4153 4 года назад +1

    Crying gnomes in the outro i dedicate to my brother ❤❤❤🎸

  • @mauriziodelpiccolo8361
    @mauriziodelpiccolo8361 7 лет назад +3

    Legend

  • @grahamemarlow4274
    @grahamemarlow4274 3 года назад

    A Masterpiece X X

  • @realzarbl414
    @realzarbl414 9 лет назад +2

    awesome

  • @jeffjensen2627
    @jeffjensen2627 Год назад

    Can't go to sleep until I listen to it

  • @rezlogan4787
    @rezlogan4787 2 года назад

    Sometimes, songs like these are the only possible way for inexplicable traumas to be understood. It’s unimaginable to watch your older brother hero go mad, try to take him in, lose your marriage as he worsens, and then resign him to a mental hospital. There’s just no words, and no one understands that kind of loss.
    I lost my fertility as a married young man. My libido changed. I eventually only had feelings for women younger than my wife, which confused and hurt us both. Then, I had no sexual feelings for anyone ever again. I was diagnosed as infertile before I was 35 years old. No doctor could tell me why. There was a long time I just wanted to die. My wife tried her best, but resented me for being unable to give her children. With fertility treatment we were able to have twins made from my own cells. But there will always be a part of me that feels empty that no one will ever understand, even the mother of my children and my own family. A loss beyond words.

  • @jisnotavailable
    @jisnotavailable 6 лет назад +3

    WOW!!!

  • @shanefarnsworth9353
    @shanefarnsworth9353 5 лет назад +1

    Yous are all right we were gone.to the free festival

  • @jMidair22
    @jMidair22 9 лет назад +1

    Oh, qué bien! Gracias parcero.

  • @roberthales2579
    @roberthales2579 3 года назад +1

    JUST WALKING THE DEAD YOU DIDN'T KNOW I COULD DO THAT

  • @2000spqr
    @2000spqr 6 лет назад +4

    Dedicated to those we lost in Iraq. Lt. Flowery. Spc. Flores. Pvt. Hamilton. Spc. Lara.

  • @mrlodwick
    @mrlodwick 7 месяцев назад

    So I went to sleep, this was played to me.
    I did not wake up, I was content.

  • @Count22
    @Count22 9 лет назад +1

    Nice job Fritzes007 '

  • @imnotcreative6824
    @imnotcreative6824 6 лет назад +5

    Can anyone heard the voice of the Gnome in the end? And by the end I mean the last lyrics after I'm starving for me gravy

    • @lindseyfs
      @lindseyfs 4 года назад +1

      I always giggled at that.
      Tribute to his life with his brother? It's a wee glimpse of his giving remembrance to him.

  • @NEVAB4
    @NEVAB4 Год назад

    。If this isn't the best creative masterpiece ever, excluding Bach, what is?

  • @Morporkshortman
    @Morporkshortman 3 года назад

    Need a whole song like how it goes at 4:09

  • @HeatherBonerRickard
    @HeatherBonerRickard 2 года назад +1

    March 16

  • @SupernovaSymie
    @SupernovaSymie 6 дней назад

    Sorry, its 'Twelve Men'....not Dwarf Men. Please tell me that was AI and not a person?

  • @nssteampunk4865
    @nssteampunk4865 6 лет назад +1

    70th comment: 2017 would have been his 70th birthday.

  • @roberthales2579
    @roberthales2579 3 года назад +1

    STONE TEMPLE LUXOR EGYPT KING DAVID LAZARUS

  • @duantorruellas716
    @duantorruellas716 8 лет назад +1

    the horror -- marlon brando , apocalypse now.

  • @numbynumb
    @numbynumb 9 лет назад +3

    11 comments, 11,333 views.

  • @robertandrewhales2356
    @robertandrewhales2356 2 года назад

    PVC INTERSTELLAR

  • @MrPeterMaurice
    @MrPeterMaurice 5 лет назад

    Check out WILL LEATHERBARROW's version! ruclips.net/video/Z69pu2EOV6k/видео.html

  • @andrewgill2561
    @andrewgill2561 9 лет назад +3

    I was told it was about the Vietnam war, which makes sense now I've seen the lyrics,

    • @andrewgill2561
      @andrewgill2561 9 лет назад +1

      Hunky Dory is my favourite Bowie album.

    • @andrewgill2561
      @andrewgill2561 9 лет назад +1

      +agstone Yorkstone hunky dory or pinups are my two favourite, so hard to pick just one. 👍

    • @도파민-m1w
      @도파민-m1w 9 лет назад +3

      +agstone Yorkstone where did you find the article from? 'cause I want to know about it too. without any former information, these lyrics are almost impossible to understand..

    • @duantorruellas716
      @duantorruellas716 7 лет назад +3

      agstone Yorkstone , i agree it has elements of that because of the line ," in our wings that bark , and teeth of brass. to me sounds like a gunship with 7.62 nato rounds on a belt.

    • @andrewgill2561
      @andrewgill2561 7 лет назад

      Duan Torruellas and flashing teeth of brass.

  • @robertandrewhales6472
    @robertandrewhales6472 Год назад

    PVCDEDEN TORAH COALLITIAN BBHUNTER ON GRUNGED TOPICAL

  • @mrtoad8589
    @mrtoad8589 3 года назад

    Read fake moon landings in there and the lyrics make sense