Comments on: Jump They Say

By: Slave

Slave — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 03:21:38 +0000

Bowie’s funeral wreath message sounds very similar to the speech Rutger Hauer gives at the end of Blade Runner.
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I’ve seen sea beams glisten at the Tanhauser Gates. All those moments will be lost… in time…like tears in rain. Time to die.”
The film came out summer 1982 and three years later Terry died.

By: Valérie Collec-Clerc

Valérie Collec-Clerc — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 12:49:24 +0000

In reply to Bowiebug. I do understand the reaction of David's aunt .... His half brother's tragedy was not part of his private life and that private of hiswhole family. As for me, I like the song for itself and don't link it to Terry but rather to David himself .

By: Bowiebug

Bowiebug — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 23:58:28 +0000

Love this song, probably my favourite from the 90’s. I’d never heard that live version before — ‘hey, that’s really something’!

I thought it was funny to see his aunt’s comments — which were quite uncalled-for. A songwriter writes about whatever he feels affected to write about, and it’s not his fault he physically resembles his half-brother! Besides, it isn’t exactly obvious that the song is about anything in particular, it’s a typically oblique Bowie-impression of it rather than a ‘macabre’ trying-to-sell-hit-records type of thing.