Ο Bowie των late ‘90s ονειρεύεται συναντώντας τον ονειροπόλο Bowie των late ‘60s. Κι εμείς συνειδητοποιούμε ότι ο “22χρονος” δεν έχει να ζηλέψει τίποτα από τον ώριμο εαυτό του σε δημιουργική δύναμη και εκφραστικό βάθος, αν δεν συμβαίνει και το αντίθετο. 🟡 🟡 The late ’90s Bowie is dreaming, meeting the dreamy Bowie of the late ’60s. And we realize that the “22-year-old” has nothing to envy from his mature self in terms of creative power and expressive depth—if not the other way around.

00:00 IF I’M DREAMING MY LIFE – 1999
Was she never there?
Was she ever?
Was it air she breathed?
At the wrong time
All the flowers so
From the gallery
With the hymns of night
Singing, “Come to me.”
At the wrong time
On the wrong day
All the lights are fading now
If I’m dreaming all my life
If I’m dreaming all my life
Just one living chance
When the mother sighs
When the father steps aside
At the wrong time
Oh-oh
At the wrong time
On the wrong day
All the lights are fading now
If I’m dreaming all my life
If I’m dreaming all my life
Was she ever?
Was she ever here?
If I’m dreaming all my life
If I’m dreaming all my life away
Dreaming my life
Dreaming my
Dreaming my
Dreaming my
Dreaming my life
Dreaming my life away
Dreaming my life
Dreaming my
Dreaming my life away
Oh-oh


06:50 AN OCCASIONAL DREAM – 1969
I recall how we lived
On the corner of a bed
And we’d speak of a Swedish room
Of hessian and wood
And we’d talk with our eyes
Of the sweetness in our lives
And tomorrows of rich surprise
Some things we could do
In our madness
We burnt one hundred days
Time takes time to pass
And I still hold some ashes to me
An occasional dream
And we’d sleep, oh, so close
But not really close our eyes
‘Tween the sheets of summer
Bathed in blue
Gently weeping nights
It was long, long ago, long ago
And I still can’t touch your name
For the days of fate
Were strong for you
Danced you far from me
In my madness
I see your face in mine
I keep a photograph
It burns my wall with time
Time
An occasional dream
Of mine
An occasional dream
Of mine
An occasional dream
Of mine