I’d Rather Be High
David Bowie * Track #8 On The Next Day
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I’d Rather Be High Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Nabokov is sun-licked now
Upon the beach at Grunewald
Brilliant and naked just
The way that authors look
Clare and Lady Manners drink
Until the other cows go home
Gossip till their lips are bleeding
Politics and all
[Chorus]
I’d rather be high
I’d rather be flying
I’d rather be dead
Or out of my head
Than training these guns on those men in the sand
I’d rather be high
[Verse 2]
The Thames was black, the tower dark
I flew to Cairo, find my regiment
City’s full of generals
And generals full of shit
I stumble to the graveyard and I
Lay down by my parents, whisper
Just remember duckies
Everybody gets got
[Chorus]
I’d rather be high
I’d rather be flying
I’d rather be dead
Or out of my head
Than training these guns on those men in the sand
I’d rather be high
[Bridge]
I’m seventeen my looks can prove it
I’m so afraid that I will lose it
I’d rather smoke and phone my ex
Be pleading for some teenage sex
Yeah
[Chorus]
I’d rather be high
I’d rather be flying
I’d rather be dead
Or out of my head
Than training these guns on the men in the sand
I’d rather be high
I’d Rather Be High Q&A
Who wrote I’d Rather Be High's ?
I’d Rather Be High was written by Tony Visconti & David Bowie.
Who produced I’d Rather Be High's ?
I’d Rather Be High was produced by David Bowie & Tony Visconti.
When did David Bowie release I’d Rather Be High?
David Bowie released I’d Rather Be High on Fri Mar 08 2013.
What has Tony Visconti said about the track?
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Visconti explained the tracks’s origins:
“I’d Rather Be High” is about a soldier who’s come out of the war and he’s just burnt out, and rather than becoming a human being again, I think he laments, “I’d rather be high/I don’t want to know/I’m trying to erase thes...