The Next Day is the twenty-fourth studio album by David Bowie. The album was announced on January 8th, 2013, Bowie's sixty-sixth birthday. It is Bowie's first album of new material in ten years, since 2003's Reality, and surprised fans and media who believed he had retired. The Next Day Extra, an additional disc featuring four more tracks, and remixes of songs from the original album, was released eight months later in November. The Next Day was met with critical acclaim, and earned Bowie his first number-one album in the UK since 1993's Black Tie White Noise. The cover art for Read Full BioThe Next Day is the twenty-fourth studio album by David Bowie. The album was announced on January 8th, 2013, Bowie's sixty-sixth birthday.
It is Bowie's first album of new material in ten years, since 2003's Reality, and surprised fans and media who believed he had retired. The Next Day Extra, an additional disc featuring four more tracks, and remixes of songs from the original album, was released eight months later in November. The Next Day was met with critical acclaim, and earned Bowie his first number-one album in the UK since 1993's Black Tie White Noise.
The cover art for the album is an adapted version of Bowie's 1977 album, "Heroes". Designed by Jonathan Barnbrook, who also designed packaging for Heathen and Reality, the obscuring of the photograph connotes "forgetting or obliterating the past". Barnbrook explained the cover, saying: "If you are going to subvert an album by David Bowie there are many to choose from but this is one of his most revered, it had to be an image that would really jar if it were subverted in some way and we thought "Heroes" worked best on all counts."
It is Bowie's first album of new material in ten years, since 2003's Reality, and surprised fans and media who believed he had retired. The Next Day Extra, an additional disc featuring four more tracks, and remixes of songs from the original album, was released eight months later in November. The Next Day was met with critical acclaim, and earned Bowie his first number-one album in the UK since 1993's Black Tie White Noise.
The cover art for the album is an adapted version of Bowie's 1977 album, "Heroes". Designed by Jonathan Barnbrook, who also designed packaging for Heathen and Reality, the obscuring of the photograph connotes "forgetting or obliterating the past". Barnbrook explained the cover, saying: "If you are going to subvert an album by David Bowie there are many to choose from but this is one of his most revered, it had to be an image that would really jar if it were subverted in some way and we thought "Heroes" worked best on all counts."
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The Next Day
David Bowie Lyrics
Look into my eyes he tells her
I'm gonna say goodbye he says yea
Do not cry she begs of him goodbye yea
All that day she thinks of his love yea
They whip him through the streets and alleys there
The gormless and the baying crowd right there
They can't get enough of that doomsday song
They can't get enough of it all
Listen
Listen to the whores he tells her
He fashions paper sculptures of them
Then drags them to the river's bank in the cart
Their soggy paper bodies wash ashore in the dark
And the priest stiff in hate now demanding fun begin
Of his women dressed as men for the pleasure of that priest
Here I am
Not quite dying
My body left to rot in a hollow tree
Its branches throwing shadows
On the gallows for me
And the next day
And the next
And another day
Ignoring the pain of their particular diseases
They chase him through the alleys chase him down the steps
They haul him through the mud and they chant for his death
And drag him to the feet of the purple-headed priest
First they give you everything that you want
Then they take back everything that you have
They live upon their feet and they die upon their knees
They can work with satan while they dress like the saints
They know god exists for the devil told them so
They scream my name aloud down into the well below
Here I am
Not quite dying
My body left to rot in a hollow tree
Its branches throwing shadows
On the gallows for me
And the next day
And the next
And another day
Here I am
Not quite dying
My body left to rot in a hollow tree
Its branches throwing shadows
On the gallows for me
And the next day
And the next
And another day
Here I am
Not quite dying
My body left to rot in a hollow tree
Its branches throwing shadows
On the gallows for me
And the next day
And the next
And another day
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: DAVID BOWIE
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Gael García
Look into my eyes he tells her
I'm gonna say goodbye he says yea
Do not cry she begs of him goodbye yea
All that day she thinks of his love yea
They whip him through the streets and alleys there
The gormless and the baying crowd right there
They can't get enough of that doomsday song
They can't get enough of it all
Listen
Listen to the whores he tells her
He fashions paper sculptures of them
Then drags them to the river's bank in the cart
Their soggy paper bodies wash ashore in the dark
And the priest stiff in hate now demanding fun begin
Of his women dressed as men for the pleasure of that priest
Here I am
Not quite dying
My body left to rot in a hollow tree
Its branches throwing shadows
On the gallows for me
And the next day
And the next
And another day
Ignoring the pain of their particular diseases
They chase him through the alleys chase him down the steps
They haul him through the mud and they chant for his death
And drag him to the feet of the purple-headed priest
First they give you everything that you want
Then they take back everything that you have
They live upon their feet and they die upon their knees
They can work with satan while they dress like the saints
They know god exists for the devil told them so
They scream my name aloud down into the well below
Here I am
Not quite dying
My body left to rot in a hollow tree
Its branches throwing shadows
On the gallows for me
And the next day
And the next
And another day
Here I am
Not quite dying
My body left to rot in a hollow tree
Its branches throwing shadows
On the gallows for me
And the next day
And the next
And another day
Here I am
Not quite dying
My body left to rot in a hollow tree
Its branches throwing shadows
On the gallows for me
And the next day
And the next
And another day
Yasmine
The fact that he doesn't give a single fuck and does whatever he wants with his music and videos is what makes him legendary to me.
The 2nd Coming
Tbh, I learned a valuable lesson about repentance after his passing. Very smart man😎
MattyMatt
@Phillip S Agreeded, a talented artist .
Phillip S
Agreeded, a talented artist .
MattyMatt
Ok (Jakob's principles btw . Rule #35 here.)
Leander X
That's an honest review. Thank you Yasmine. It's very true. He just did his thing. I love that.
Junkie Tom
David Bowie is transcendent. This video exposes what people do not want to see, it's amazing. One of the best videos of 2013.
Khurram Aziz
AbSOLutely
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Nathan Peacher
I love how he breaks the fourth wall at the very end to thank Gary and Marion and Everybody. It reminded me of the way 'Jazzin' For Blue Jean' ends, when it becomes apparent that we are indeed watching a music video being shot, as the camera zooms out to show the crew and Bowie is heard discussing the ending with the director (as well as lamenting about the long shoot).
Mad WarHammers
They were his friends in real life, he thanked them for playing their parts in the video. 4th wall, I don't think he saw it that way. The video was over. But it is rare when it comes to his music videos.