David Bowie: Life on Mars Meaning

Life on Mars Lyrics

It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling "No"
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And...

1. anonymous

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   Mar 28th 2008 !⃝

   I think that this song is definitely about a tortured society, with everything going downhill. Things that used to be good are either gone, or have gone bad. lets not underestimate the power of an artist such as David Bowie. He was obviously a great artist, because the job of an artist is to make us think, and he has definitely got us all thinking.
2. anonymous

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   Feb 13th 2008 !⃝

   I think this song is about being stuck in the rut of everyday life. It also points out how robotic humans are and how society stops people from being different.
3. anonymous

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   Jun 29th 2007 !⃝

   Okay, first things first, David Bowie = not normal. However the song still makes sense. The song is about corruption in the 70's. How everything is just boring, patriotism no longer exists, media speculation runs the country and how everybody hates everybody. The viewpoint is just from a girl living in a typical Northern English town. Her parents hate her and all she sees is just scum and villany. The life on Mars is media speculation that doesn't even concern her because she will never escape her life. Well that's what I think anyway.
4. anonymous

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   Mar 14th 2007 !⃝

   After listening to this song, thinking on the lyrics, I always thought it was about violence in the media, and people becoming dulled and accepting of it. The promotion of violence in movies leads people to being jaded towards it, and it becomes more commonplace. Perhaps this girl has lived it too many times, seen it too many times, and the song is the wish for hope of a more innocent society elsewhere.
5. anonymous

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   Mar 11th 2007 !⃝

   I believe this song is about a girl who is aspiring to become an actress. Her father supports her but her mother wants what is best for her. The girl goes to California and she tries her best to be an actress but she never seems to make the cut.
6. anonymous

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   May 15th 2006 !⃝

   This song is about life imitating art, or is it the other way around? Oh shit... I think I have just slipped into a David Bowie state of mind.
7. anonymous

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   Apr 30th 2006 !⃝

   The girl seems to be sick of everyday life on planet earth. She's asking the question is there life on Mars so she can live there.
8. anonymous

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   Jul 25th 2005 !⃝

   This is a very hard song to understand, but I always believed it to be about this girl who keeps doing everything the same and never changes. When he says "For she's lived it ten times or more", and "But the film is a sadd'ning bore 'Cause I wrote it ten times or more." Although this is my interpretation, i still have trouble completely understanding this song.
   
9. jim morrison

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   Jun 18th 2005 !⃝

   This song is about escapism, a little girl takes a look at the "sailors fighting in the dance hall..." although this is a best guess, Bowie is known to be notoriously hard to understand at this period

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway

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