You Feel So Lonely You Could Die Lyrics

[Verse 1]
No one ever saw you moving through the dark
Leaving slips of paper somewhere in the park
Hidden from your friends, stealing all they knew

Love is thrown in airless rooms, then vile rewards for you

[Pre-Chorus]
And I'm gonna tell, yes, I've gotta tell
Gotta tell the things you said
When you're talking in the dark
And I'm gonna tell the things you've done
When you're walking through the park

[Chorus 1]
Some night on the thriller’s street
Will come the silent gun

You've got a dangerous heart
You stole their trust, their moon, their sun
There'll come assassin's needle on a crowded train
I bet you feel so lonely you could die

[Verse 2]
Buildings crammed with people, landscapes filled with wrath
Gray concrete city, rain has wet the street
I want to see you clearly before you close the door
A room of bloody history, you made sure of that
[Pre-Chorus]
I can see you as a corpse hanging from a beam
I could read you like a book
I can feel you falling
I hear you moaning in your room
Oh, see if I care
Oh, please, please make it soon

[Chorus 2]
Walls have got you cornered
You've got the blues, my friend
And people don't like you
But you will leave without a sound, without an end
Oblivion shall own you
Death alone shall love you

I hope you feel so lonely you could die
Feel so lonely you could die
You feel so lonely you could die

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Genius Annotation

Tony Visconti who produced the album said he believed that this song concerned the fall of the Soviet Union. Some of the references later (an assassins needle on a crowded train etc) suggest that it’s either about a very specific individual – perhaps the assassin who killed Georgi Markov – or more generally about the people who were informants in the Stasi in Germany or in the USSR who informed on their friends and family. If this is true, then this is a very strongly worded attack on that type of person – someone who did terrible things, possibly believing it was for the right reasons, who finds themselves roaming a world in which they’ve become disconnected from everyone around them – someone who Bowie finds disgusting and thinks should kill themselves.

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