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Author Nicholas Pegg speculated that the lines "platforms, blank looks, no books" and "rise for a year or two then make war" alluded to the Nazi regime. The lyrics have been interpreted as a third-person revisitation of the themes of psychotic withdrawal explored on Bowie's previous album Low ("Pacing their rooms just like a cell’s dimensions"), as well as referencing the characters from his 1970 song " The Supermen" ("They never die they just go to sleep one day") on the album The Man Who Sold the World. Sons of the silent age Stand on platforms blank looks and note books Sit in back rows of city limits Lay in bed coming and going on easy terms Sons of the. īiographer David Buckley remarked on the song's "doomy sax-driven verses set incongruously aside cheesy choruses". Bowie himself indicated that Sons of the Silent Age could at one stage have been the title for the album, rather than "Heroes".
According to Brian Eno, it was the only song on the album composed prior to the recording sessions, all others being improvised in the Hansa by the Wall studio. " Sons of the Silent Age" is a song written by David Bowie in 1977 for the album "Heroes". All in all, 'Heroes' is yet another phenomenal and near-flawless work from this. Honestly out of all the albums in Bowies excellent run from 1970-80, this album may just be the most experimental. 1977 song by David Bowie "Sons of the Silent Age" And to close off the whole thing, we get The Secret Life Of Arabia, another lyrical masterpiece as well as another very unique cut off this album.