Space Oddity Lyrics Meaning

The track features a character named major tom an astronaut who travels into space and becomes lost during the journey.

Space oddity lyrics meaning. This song written during the height of the space race is more about bowie s looming alienation than space travel. The song tells the story of major tom a fictional astronaut who cuts off communication with earth and floats into space. David bowie space oddity lyrics meaning space oddity released in the uk in 1969 to coincide with the moon landing appeared on david bowie s self titled album. To write heroes lodger and low.

In a dry run for the sci fi tinged stardom he d achieve in the early 70s young folkie david bowie wrote his 1969 alienation anthem of an astronaut lost in space. Something bowie still succeeds in doing. This is a romanticized conception of casting out from the normal crowd and becoming something new and different. Space oddity is a play on the phrase space odyssey although the title does not appear in the lyrics.

Space oddity by david bowie. Space oddity came out in 1969 the same year american astronauts landed on the moon prompting many to think the lunar landing inspired the song.