4:17
single, 1987
Written by David Bowie and Erdal Kızılçay
This song was written for Tina Turner, who released it a year earlier. It's a lightweight, nonspecific ode to the mysteries of girls, how they "come and go" and cause pain. Bowie paraphrases the famous Blade Runner quotation to describe his narrator's view of the ephemeral nature of these girls: "My heart suspended in time / Like you vanish like tears in the rain." It's not one of his finer moments, and the keyboard and saxophone combine in a overblown yet watered-down neo-soul, but of course Bowie's magnificent voice carries this thing to the finish line.
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