Dalam lagu "What's Really Happening," David Bowie mengkritisi dampak negatif modernisasi dan teknologi pada kemanusiaan. Lirik lagu ini menunjukkan keprihatinan mendalam tentang keterasingan, kebimbangan, dan hilangnya rasa tujuan dalam dunia yang semakin serba digital. Bowie mempertanyakan keadaan yang telah mengarah pada kehancuran hubungan dan keraguan diri yang merajalela.
What's Really Happening Lyrics
David Bowie
Grown inside a plastic box
Micro thoughts and safety locks
Hearts become outdated clocks
Ticking in your mind
[CHORUS]
What's really happening?
what tore us apart?
What's really happening?
What's really happening?
what tore us apart?
What's really happening?
Now it's time to close our eyes
Now it's time to say goodbye
Now it's time to face the lie
That we'd never cry
[CHORUS]
All the clouds are made of glass
And they're slowly sinking
Falling like the shattered past
Were we built to last?
[CHORUS]
Micro thoughts and safety locks
Hearts become outdated clocks
Ticking in your mind
[CHORUS]
What's really happening?
what tore us apart?
What's really happening?
What's really happening?
what tore us apart?
What's really happening?
Now it's time to close our eyes
Now it's time to say goodbye
Now it's time to face the lie
That we'd never cry
[CHORUS]
All the clouds are made of glass
And they're slowly sinking
Falling like the shattered past
Were we built to last?
[CHORUS]
