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The Next Day, 2013
Written by David Bowie
I was not much interested in Bowie as a young man, but the older I get the more I come to think of him as a towering genius. Thing song seems to be the plans of a school shooter, Valentine, who is telling the narrator what will happen. "It's in his scrawny hands / It's in his icy heart / It's happening today." The song doesn't go into the reasons why Valentine might feel this way, just that he resents the football stars and dreams of having the world at his mercy. I think Bowie could have approached this subject with something a little more complex, but that's nitpicking because I think Bowie has the talent to do better.
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