Question:
David bowie's "This is ground control to major tom," about gay sex?
2011-10-26 14:22:49 UTC
Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on

Interpretation: A man preparing for sex with another man

Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may God's love be with you

Interpretation: Insertion, Engines on as in start the "magic,"


Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five,
Four, Three, Two, One, Liftoff

Interpretation: Intercourse and going to the height of it. Lift off as in the climax.


This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

Interpretation: Ground control is the man under the other man having sex with him. He is telling his partner how great it was. Time to leave the capsule which means to uninsert. Probably because his wife is coming home.

"This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

The gay man's partner leaving the home. He is ecstatic about the sex. Everything looks better to him. Life is brighter

For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do

Interpretation: How the world sees homosexuals. He can't change the hate.

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much she knows"

Interpretation: He got a wife to hide his gayness. But he couldn't hide it anymore. His spaceship as in his inner self knows what it wants to do. He's following his heart. His wife knew about his gaynesss.

Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you....

Interpretation: The man's partner no longer sees him due to possible reasons. He left him and never saw him again.

"Here am I floating round my tin can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do."

Interpretation: See above.
Seven answers:
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2011-10-26 14:31:45 UTC
Sure... if you really want it to be.....











Or



Space travel TO THE MOON! in 1969

with the title Space Oddity an allusion to 2001: Space Odyssey

and influence of Pink Floyd's Astronomy Domine from '67





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Is there something you feel you need to tell us? Its ok to be yourself no matter which gender you feel attracted.
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2016-12-16 14:22:21 UTC
David Tom Gay
alissa
2011-10-26 14:43:46 UTC
No, it's very obviously about space travel.

And it's called "Space Oddity".
?
2011-10-27 03:01:38 UTC
You're over-interpreting this , but it is funny , I grant you that.
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2011-10-26 14:41:29 UTC
Where'd you come up with that?
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2011-10-26 14:28:21 UTC
I really can't tell whether or not you're trolling.
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2011-10-26 14:25:17 UTC
Everything is about gay sex.

EVERYTHING.


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