Warszawa

Album: Low (1977)
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  • 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 Writer/s: BRIAN ENO, DAVID BOWIE
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Comments: 7

  • Jose from ColombiaThis songs is a good match with "Crystal Japan". Listening both songs back to back gives a scent of a strange brotherhood between them.
  • Zoozka from BratislavaYes! This is SO MUCH communist Warsaw! It must have been so awful in the 70's there. And well, David, it may remind you of mountains, as this is a folk song, with lyrics trying to sound Slavic - it seems pretty much to be gorals' song. They are people living in high Tatras. Fascinating talent for observation and mimicry He had.
  • Karol from Pori, FinlandThis track fits perfect to comunism, propaganda with it's monumental begining...working class heroes, totalitarianism...Then subtle change to polish folk inspired haunting melody...So sad in the meaning.

    And it's perfectly gray, as Warsaw was by that time.
  • Derek from Glasgow, United KingdomThe lyrics don't mean anything David - they were just made up by Bowie, so they aren't in another language or anything.

    Derek, Glasgow
  • David from Chicago, IlIn Warszawa, What do the words actually mean?
  • Joanna from KielceI'm just after listening to "Warszawa", and....well... in my opinion Bowie has got quite annoying voice, but that song is...good. I might like it.
    P.S. to be honest, that song don't fit to Warsaw: it rather "describe" Andes or some other mountains. But, in those times, Warsaw may had such a melancholious character( if a city may have a character...)
  • Brian from Fullerton (the Paris Of Oc), CaThe hugely influential English band Joy Division did their first recordings under the name Warsaw, a slightly abbreviated spelling of Warszawa (Ian Curtis was a huge Bowie fan, but did prefer Iggy Pop when it came down to the crunch). They later changed their name to avoid any confusion with a London based act named Warsaw Pakt. Or so the legend goes...
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