Bowie, David - Warszawa Lyrics

How is this different than Art Decade? I want it playing behind the flipping thumb nails of my paintings!

.... LOW ..... written when he was COCAINE HIGH ..... in Hansa , by The Wall ......

He was, He is, He will always be a genius

I bought this....on a cassette. 40 years later, I bough the vinyl at the stalls in Cambridge.

I always thought it's in rememberance of the Warszawa ghettos

Te durne komentarze, nie chodziło mu o wygląd Warszawy w latach 70. tylko o jej tragiczna historię. Ale Polacy potrafią tylko opluć samych siebie. Nic nowego.

Homage to the victims .
Europa : what have you done ?
Marching boots
Piles of shoes .

*LOW* is so sublime... 💮
Still important after all these years... like a great painting.
David Bowie was the pioneer of Sound and Vision...
Thanks for posting!

What'sa matta you, you look so sad, shaddupa your face.

222 people are incorrect

Che dire? Uno dei più grandi maestri del rock mondiale..unico

trafił na inną planetę jaką była Polska w tamtym czasie. Stąd taka muzyka ...

I like the key changes of this song.

I once went to Warsaw
On a train, with Iggy Pop.
What I saw from the windows
Of the train,
Was depressing.

It is indeed depressing, especially in winter.

Vaguely Italian

Geniusmusic ! B

This song sounds like Lithuania, Bulgaria, Latvia, or any other Eastern European country.

By 1945 German forces destroyed 85% of Warsaw. A sad story like this song !

I just had a moment of I can't belive he's gone! 10/18/19 11:46pm NYC US time

wszystko w porządku

The song that inspired the band Warsaw, that later became Joy Division and then New Order.

Bowie meets Kraftwerk

eu sinto um vazio enorme, toda vez que eu volto aqui dnv e dnv... uma parte de mim quer viver aventuras desconhecidas outra parte que se isolar do mundo e sumir

somos varsóvia sempre

Ok. I m gonna share this. I was born the very same night 20 jun 76 when Ian and his mates attended in Manchester to a sex pistol s concert and decided to form a band facing Pistols attitude. And Warszawa was the choice to the band s name after the release of this masterpiece by Bowie & Eno. And so post punk was created! And so did i😀

All these years later, and it's still incredible...

3.00 am
In capital city.... anywere.....
On car.. with a great.....
Our f... city...
3:00 am
Listen.

Nobody mentions the 'Pre - Joy Division' band name

It's taken people about 40 years to finally realise that Low is a classic album and up there with Bowie's best work

major twin peaks vibes

Our whole life met here in this place, our autonomy our black star in Lazarus; ours of hours to be carbon again.

Milion razy ciekawsza była Warszawa w latach 70-tych niż obecna.

I am just crying, Poland sufferd so much in the past. Now we re just everywhere.

Jews suffered much more (I'm not even thinking about post-XX century). Poland just kind of was there, vanished, appeared again, like many other European countries.

@Dumny Polak z Wielkiej Lechii can we please stop talking about jews for a while and focused on Poles? The whole song is about that cold atmosphere in Warsaw caused by war, cant you feel the saddnes?

Greetings from Warszawa.

I once went to Warsaw (on a train with Iggy Pop)

Bowie came to Poland and he found depth of life! Beautiful!

80s before the 80s

Warszawa sounds like a beautiful and solemn commemoration of triumph through sacrifice and suffering. There are many rare songs on his Berlin years albums Low, Heroes, Stage and Lodger. They really showcase the genius of Bowie at peak, truly brilliant.

The band Joy Division was actually called Warsaw first! Inspired by David Bowie's song "Warszawa". To avoid confusion with the London punk band Warsaw Pakt, the band renamed themselves Joy Division in early 1978, borrowing the name from the sexual slavery wing of a German concentration camp!

So the song fits the pictures of Warsaw 1945. The city was purposely destroyed by the Germans to 90%!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca6sBaNsluo
City of Ruins (Warsaw of 1945)

Anyway, that's not Polish, what you hear in the song!

Bowie, Sing & play With Fripp & Eno...
(Warsaw)

Great . BM

Probably the saddest melody ever composed.

Tal vez es la melodía más triste jamás compuesta.

Bowie zafundował sobie wycieczkę Koleją Transsybersyjską, zaczynając od Wladywostoku. Warszawa to był ostatni przystanek przed powrotem do Zachodniego Świata. W porównaniu do ZSRR to był wtedy "prawie" Zachód, ale w porównaniu do Londynu czy Berlina Zachodniego był to ponury świat, taka biała, betonowa pustynia, szarzy ludzie, mało aut na szerokich ulicach. Ja tam byłem "dopiero" w 1976 ale od 1973 wiele się tam nie zmieniło. Smutek to raczej efekt dwóch tygodni podróży przez Syberię i Rosję niż samej Warszawy. Bowie pochodził trochę po mieście, coś kupił w księgarni. Szkoda że go już nie ma bo to był ekstremalnie kolorowy człowiek.

Thank you Youtube Algorithms, for not interrupting this masterpiece with random Chal Mendes that's very happy to do whatever he's doing and just wants to say thank you damn it, he's getting emotional about it.

Hi cilly

....Wir kinder.... vom Bahnhof Zoo.....

just blown away by his genius

warsaw is such a shitty city just like poland as a whole

@Remdey Fox Yeah, and you know what's far better than anime? Western animation.

@Tycini1 agreed, i hate anime

@Remdey Fox Then change your profile picture

@Tycini1 why would i do that?

Poland is not a city

There is no doubt that this song perfectly matches with some kind of post-apo vibe. Well, that is not weird considering post WW2 Soviet-occupied Poland (1944-1989) was seriously in a catastrophic state. THOUSANDS of square kilometres covered with contrete of monotonous, socialist realistic building structure. Tens of THOUSANDS of gray monochromatic blocks of flats. Another THOUSANDS of square kilometres of state-owned farmlands.

Amazing song, easy to learn aswell

This completely doesn't sound like other works of Bowie. This music is almost haunted.

I'm sick of having to grow.

i'm listening to this sound and 'the bells' (lou reed) day after day, year after year. I'm going crazy, for sure.

Bowie being Floyd

david nn si discute

Joy Division mieli kiedyś nazwę Warsaw dzięki tej piosence

Low is a masterpiece

Really miss david bowie 😢

Yeah-Yeah-Old-School-Crazi-😢 Kinda-Song-I Love You-David Bowie-My Name Iz Mr.Overnite-Millionaire-Mr.Mardric Lance-Age-48-Yeap!Yeap!!

Ah, stunning 240p...

This is perhaps my favourite Bowie-album, wonderful!!!

Nic w moim życiu nie wywarło na mnie takiego wrażenia, siedzę zalana łzami z sercem bijącym w oszalałym tempie.

This is some advanced shit. Way ahead of its time.

One of the finest tunes Eno made under his David Jones alias

Such a mysterious, primordial sound on this track. This reaches back into the earliest ages, into the ancient depths of time, way back, beyond the meager reach of our current understanding of history.
Back beyond, back beyond, back beyond...

I can only find a notes saying Bowie did the vocals. The first five lines yes, but the rest - 'Cheli venco deho' onwards? Does anyone know?
Mmmm-mm-mm-ommm
Sula vie dilejo

Mmmm-mm-mm-ommm

Sula vie milejo

Mmm-omm



Cheli venco deho

Cheli venco deho

Malio

Mmmm-mm-mm-ommm



Helibo seyoman

Cheli venco raero

Malio

Malio

'saying Bowie did the vocals' - by which I mean 'saying Bowie *sang* the vocals'

Incredible

*these are the most thought provokingly profound lyrics he EVER wrote*

how impressive

This is my favourite track from his album Low,released in January 1977,with a help from Brian Eno,and I still like it.

....... Eno told Mary Harron of Punk Magazine about the composition excitedly; ''The main theme inspired by a figure of three consecutive notes that Tony Visconti and Mary Hopkin’s four-year-old son Delaney kept playing on the studio piano.''

My Favorite Bowie Tune of all time. Love this tune and LOVE this ENTIRE album.

Passed on...dancing⚡🌌💫

best track for exploring dead virtual worlds

Warszawa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esJ_l1b_Ni0

WHAT An Amazing album !! Every song is Great ! Sounding like the 1980's in 1976 ???? STATION TO STATION was the last "Bowie" album and this was the First "Amazing" DAVID BOWIE ALBUM OF THE NEW ERA !!! WAY BETTER THAN HEROES ! As good as Lodger and Scary Monsters; THE GENIUS !!

I got this on vinyl. But sadly I couldn't understand this song. Anybody mind explaining the whole second side to me?

If you read the title it says the name of Polish capital city- Warszawa. Song Was made in 70's so i think it might describe the atmosphere There. The situation back Then Was really bad. Communist took over our country and made it socialst, so really poor at the same Time. There were only few things to buy in shops and still it Was really hard to get them. People were able to turn back on eachother every Day just to get something better etc. I hope i helped you, if that was what you meant. And if you have any other questions, ask Then.

@Dawid Masny yeah that helped. Thanks. Btw I knew Warszawa is the capital but I didn't know why he named the song that. Now I know. Thanks.

Heard this forty years ago - the music lifted me into a place of peace. Alone but yet not alone. Thanks Mr. Bowie.

Hauntingly beautiful.

So many emotions meanwhile listening to this song, masterpiece

I still wonder if he was human...

Play it T MY MF FUNERAL...im Outro ...peace

.......

Di grande suggestione, tragicità, eccezionale. Penso perfettamente riuscita nel trasmettere quanto sentiva.

Im glad I was born in 2003 in Poland. I have my peace.

I wonder what made him create a song like this

Situation in socialist Polish Cities. It Was really bad back Then, evetything Was just Grey, Black or White, There were only few, hard to get things in shops. The relations between People ( neighbours) were really bad, they could turn back on eachother to get smthg better etc. It's aswell possible that he meant Warszawa( Polish capital city- Warsaw) after the 2nd WW, which made City look like ruines.

Someone send me a link too this ugh well first i wish their was English caption for it second this should be in twilight zone episode i think hmm

The text doesn't have any sense/ doesn't mean anything i think. It's not in Polish for sure

Maravilhoso!

Tremendo

Sounds like it came straight from Twin Peaks.

great anti-communist song.

What does he know? Brian Eno

Hello my friends, this a new work for Bad Inflences serie, is my version for WARSZAWA (Bowie/Eno), thanks for listen and feel free to comment
https://youtu.be/w7S9SKowuNk

It reminds of Buddies Bowie I can just imagine him cross leg on the floor in his saffron robe karma man

https://youtu.be/gCOsYU15GT4

Bowie at his most weird and captivating. Miss him so much. Bloody genius

Poland is really thankful for that.

Does this remind you of dmc like the castle music of devil may cry

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