Fantasic Voyage

Album: Lodger (1979)
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Songfacts®:

  • In this song, Bowie fears the end of the world is nigh, yet he still sings of his faith in humanity: "In the event that this fantastic voyage should turn to erosion and we never get old, remember it's true, dignity is valuable, but our lives are valuable too." It was written around the time there was a severe deterioration in relations between the West and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
  • David Bowie described this in the Mail on Sunday June 29, 2008 as "almost quaint, this one. It has a strong feel of the '50s variety show to it." Bowie added in the same interview that this song's chord structure appeared on the Lodger album in two forms. "First, as it appears here and then further in as 'Boys Keep Swinging.' Both the tempo and top-line melody are rewritten."

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