Crucial Track for September 12, 2025

"Lazarus" by David Bowie

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The mood and tone of this song are PEAK late-era Bowie, with what seem to me to be more than a few direct callbacks to Heathen's excellent "Slip Away". And the lyrics here hit particularly hard, given that Bowie wrote them when he knew he was at the very end of his life. I don't believe in an afterlife, but somehow I can imagine that if anyone were to live on in the fabric of the universe, it would be David Bowie.