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MemberOvomorphApr-10-2012 5:01 AMJust fun analogy (or what?) - some tenuous parallels here, bearing in mind Bowie
was influenced an awful lot by H.P.Lovecraft for this song.
Been a fan of DB for 33 years now, so it's no idle off-google rumination and
association, just seems to be some common themes with the 'Old Ones'.
Look at these lyrics:
"The Supermen"
When all the world was very young
And mountain magic heavy hung
The supermen would walk in file
Guardians of a loveless isle
And gloomy browed with superfear their tragic endless lives
Could heave nor sigh
In solemn, perverse serenity, wondrous beings chained to life
Strange games they would play then
No death for the perfect men
Life rolls into one for them
So softly a supergod cries
Where all were minds in uni-thought
Power weird by mystics taught
No pain, no joy, no power too great
Colossal strength to grasp a fate
Where sad-eyed mermen tossed in slumbers
Nightmare dreams no mortal mind could hold
A man would tear his brother's flesh, a chance to die
To turn to mold.
Far out in the red-sky
Far out from the sad eyes
Strange, mad celebration
So softly a supergod cries
Far out in the red-sky
Far out from the sad eyes
Strange, mad celebration
So softly a supergod dies
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