The Daily Bowie #23 - "The Heart's Filthy Lesson"

The Daily Bowie #23 - "The Heart's Filthy Lesson"

I think I've lost my way

(Heart's filthy lesson, Heart's filthy lesson)

I'm already five years older I'm already in my grave

I breathed a sigh of relief when Outside debuted in 1995. After Never Let Me Down and two Tin Machine albums, I continued my "have faith in Bowie" mantra, but my faith was shaken.

1993's Black Tie White Noise was a good omen, but I did not immediately adore it as I did some of his other work, notably Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps).

But then, he teamed again with Brian Eno, fresh off producing U2, and they created Outside, which not only seemed to connect strongly to Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) but it blazed new trails. I also had just returned to the WMU English department after a five year absence, and one of my students wrote an in-depth analysis of Outside.

LINK: DAVID BOWIE

LINK: OUTSIDE - 1995

LINK - "THE HEART'S FILTHY LESSON"

LINK - PUSHING AHEAD OF THE DAME - "THE HEART'S FILTHY LESSON"




I had forgotten that "The Heart's Filthy Lesson" was used in the credits of the film Se7en.

FROM PUSHING AHEAD OF THE DAME (link above):
What was the heart’s filthy lesson? Bowie once said it was knowing the certainty of one’s impending death (the lesson is that the heart will stop one day). But the heart’s also filthy because it’s a blood-sponge. The center of our bodies is a grisly instrument, a ceaselessly throbbing muscle that we pretty up into a shiny red icon used to symbolize our soul, our ability to love, the best of our natures. So there’s a trace of Bowie’s Gnostic leanings in his song’s title phrase—the body’s a prison and we grant nobility to our jailer, making a happy god of our dirty waterworks.

From 1995's album OUTSIDE

"The Heart's Filthy Lesson"

"The Hearts Filthy Lesson"

(Heart's filthy lesson) 

There's always the Diamond friendly

Sitting in the Laugh Motel

The Heart's filthy lesson

With her hundred miles to hell

Oh, Ramona - if there was only something between us

If there was only something between us

Other than our clothes

Something in our skies

Something in our skies

Something in our blood

Something in our skies

Paddy, Paddy

Who's been wearing Miranda's clothes?

It's the Heart's filthy lesson

Heart's filthy lesson

Heart's filthy lesson

Falls upon deaf ears

(Heart's filthy lesson)

It's the Heart's filthy lesson

Heart's filthy lesson

Heart's filthy lesson

Falls upon deaf ears

Falls upon dead ears

(Heart's filthy lesson)

Oh Ramona, if there was only some kind of future [x2]

And these cerulean skies

Something in our skies [x2]

Something in our blood

Something in our skies

Paddy, Paddy?

Paddy oh Paddy, 

I think I've lost my way

(Heart's filthy lesson, Heart's filthy lesson)

I'm already five years older I'm already in my grave

(Heart's filthy lesson, Heart's filthy lesson)

I'm already (x3)

(Heart's filthy lesson, Heart's filthy lesson)

Will you carry me?

Oh Paddy, I think I've lost my way

Paddy, what a fantastic death abyss (2)

(Heart's filthy lesson)

It's the Heart's filthy lesson

Tell the others

(Heart's filthy lesson)

It's the Heart's filthy lesson

Paddy,

What a fantastic death abyss

Tell the others

(Heart's filthy lesson)

It's the Heart's filthy lesson

Paddy, 

what a fantastic death abyss

(Heart's filthy lesson)

It's the Heart's filthy lesson

Tell the others

Apparently, Friday is the day that I share the Bowie list.

THE DAILY BOWIE LIST
1601.20 - The Daily Bowie #0 - "Space Oddity" - SPACE ODDITY - 1969
1601.21 - The Daily Bowie #1 - "Ashes to Ashes" - SCARY MONSTERS - 1980
1601.22 - The Daily Bowie #2 - "Cat People" - LET'S DANCE - 1983
1601.23 - The Daily Bowie #3 - "Sons of the Silent Age" - HEROES - 1977
1601.24 - The Daily Bowie #4 - "Running Gun Blues" - THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD - 1970
1601.25 - The Daily Bowie #5 - "Sound and Vision" - LOW - 1977
1601.26 - The Daily Bowie #6 - "Fill Your Heart" - HUNKY DORY -1971
1601.27 - The Daily Bowie #7 - "We Are The Dead" - DIAMOND DOGS - 1974
1601.28 - The Daily Bowie #8 - "Yassassin" - LODGER - 1979
1601.29 - The Daily Bowie #9 - "Time" - ALADDIN SANE - 1973
1601.30 - The Daily Bowie #10 - "Where Are We Now?" - THE NEXT DAY -2013
1601.31 - The Daily Bowie #11 - "Sunday" - HEATHEN - 2002
1602.01 - The Daily Bowie #12 - "Loving the Alien" - TONIGHT - 1984
1602.02 - The Daily Bowie #13 - "The Loneliest Guy" - REALITY - 2003
1602.03 - The Daily Bowie #14 - "Young Americans" - YOUNG AMERICANS - 1975
1602.04 - The Daily Bowie #15 - "Thursday's Child" - 'HOURS...' - 1999
1602.05 - The Daily Bowie #16 - "Buddha of Suburbia" - THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA - 1993
1602.06 - The Daily Bowie #17 - "Please Mr. Gravedigger" - DAVID BOWIE - 1967
1602.07 - The Daily Bowie #18 - "Sorrow" - PINUPS - 1973
1602.08 - The Daily Bowie #19 - "Golden Years" - STATION TO STATION - 1976
1602.09 - The Daily Bowie #20 - "I'm Afraid of Americans" - EARTHLING - 1997
1602.10 - The Daily Bowie #21 - "Pallas Athena" - BLACK TIE WHITE NOISE - 1993
1602.11 - The Daily Bowie #22 - "Glass Spider" - NEVER LET ME DOWN - 1987
1602.12 - The Daily Bowie #23 - "The Heart's Filthy Lesson" - OUTSIDE - 1995

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Rest in peace, David. We miss you.

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1602.12 - 14:10