QUICKSAND

Uno dei brani più interessanti e misteriosi di David Bowie, tratto dal suo album migliore Hunky Dory.
Testo ricco di suggestioni, enigmi e metafore per lo più improntate ad un senso di cosmico pessimismo.
Anche la musica risente di questa atmosfera cupa addolcita però da un arrangiamento orchestrale sontuoso.
La mia versione è in tonalità di Mi maggiore a due voci ed è basata sull'intreccio delle chitarre e delle tastiere.

" I'm closer to the Golden Dawn
Immersed in Crowley's uniform
Of imagery
I'm living in a silent film
Portraying Himmler's sacred realm
Of dream reality
I'm frightened by the total goal
Drawing to the ragged hole
And I ain't got the power anymore
No, I ain't got the power anymore

I'm the twisted name on Garbo's eyes
Living proof of Churchill's lies, I'm destiny
I'm torn between the light and dark
Where others see their targets, divine symmetry
Should I kiss the viper's fang?
Or herald loud the death of Man
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought
And I ain't got the power anymore

Don't believe in yourself, don't deceive with belief
Knowledge comes with death's release

I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man
Just a mortal with the potential of a superman
I'm living on
I'm tethered to the logic of Homo Sapien
Can't take my eyes from the great salvation
Of bullshit faith
If I don't explain what you ought to know
You can tell me all about it on the next Bardo
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought
And I ain't got the power anymore

Don't believe in yourself, don't deceive with belief
Knowledge comes with death's release

Don't believe in yourself, don't deceive with belief
Knowledge comes with death's release"