David Bowie has countlessly bewildered us with the meaning behind his elusive lyrics. They have been deciphered by various people, including authors, and everyone interprets them as something different. The Bewlay Brothers from David Bowie's album Hunky Dory has underlying themes of drug use, religion, and sexual undertones. Bowie has never fully explained this song as he says it is extremely personal to him and has once said that it is closely resembles his relationship with his half brother. In the first verse Bowie sings “And so the story goes/ They wore the clothes They said the things/ To make it seem improbable/ The whale of a lie like the hope it was.” ( The Bewlay Brothers.) Bowie uses internal rhyming with in the first two lines referring from “goes” and “clothes.” Bowie also uses a hyperbole in the last line comparing his lie to one the size of a whale. The verse to this song is very straightforward and there is not much room for interpretation here.…show more content… After building them up he knocks them back down though, he starts talking about how they had bought their position with their sweet trust. When he says “and the world was asleep/ to our latent fuss” He is trying to say that it did not matter what was said or done because the world was not ready to hear what was going to be
