Ma chanson préférée de David Bowie s'appelle "Five Years". C'est la piste d'ouverture d'un de ses meilleurs albums "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars".
Le thème de cette chanson pourrait constituer le point de départ d'un film sur la fin du monde : Un homme vient d'apprendre au JT que la terre va disparaître dans cinq ans. Submergé par un flot d'émotions, il ressent une immense empathie pour toutes les personnes qu'il croise.
Voici une excellente version enregistrée pour l'émission anglaise "Top of the pop"
Pushing thru the market square, so many mothers sighing
News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in
News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying
I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys electric irons and t.v.s
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people
I never thought Id need so many people
A girl my age went off her head, hit some tiny children
If the black hadnt a-pulled her off, I think she would have killed them
A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheels of a cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and a queer threw up at the sight of that
I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour, drinking milk shakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine, dont think
You knew you were in this song
And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor
And I thought of ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, youre beautiful, I want you to walk
Weve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
Weve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, thats all weve got
Weve got five years, what a surprise
Five years, stuck on my eyes
Weve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, thats all weve got
Weve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
Weve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, thats all weve got
Weve got five years, what a surprise
Weve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Weve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, thats all weve got
Five years
Five years
Five years
Five years
C'est une de ses plus remarquable, cette musique est assez apocalyptique qui raconte effectivement une sorte de fin du monde, on peut avoir un clip video de cette chanson sur ce lien : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T86qZ2DjCZk / dans le clip on voie bien sous une forme directe la chute et la destruction du monde. A la fin de la musique on a l'impression que la voie de Bowie se perd dans sa mélodie, et les violons entame une sonorité presque décadente.
RépondreSupprimer@fan&fou de bowie
RépondreSupprimerMerci pour le lien vers cette vidéo "alternative". J'avoue, qu'un de mes grands phantasmes et, un jour, de pouvoir réaliser un clip pour cette chanson que j'affectionne particulièrement.
J'ajoute le lien de la chaine Youtube "Ziggy Stardust TV" que j'ai découvert grâce à vous :
http://www.youtube.com/user/ZiggyStardustTV#g/a