What does Moonage Daydream mean?

David Bowie: Moonage Daydream Meaning

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Album cover for Moonage Daydream album cover

Song Released: 1971


Moonage Daydream Lyrics

I'm an alligator, I'm a mama-papa coming for you
I'm the space invader, I'll be a rock 'n' rollin' bitch for you
Keep your mouth shut,
you're squawking like a pink monkey bird
And I'm busting up my brains for the words

Keep your 'lectric eye on...

  1. anonymous
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    Aug 10th 2018 !⃝

    HE is being communicated with some advanced technology in his head. They are casting illusions on him. The first lines of the song tell of some illusions. Hearing voices in your head can lead to assumptions of why this is happening.

  2. anonymous
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    Apr 22nd 2017 !⃝

    Not listern to much of David Bowie music, but get it now as means being watched and controlled i think, but moonage daydream has got me, had it with baba o riley the who , but hope people listern to bowie more im gonna

  3. anonymous
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    Dec 5th 2015 !⃝

    I have heard about the "cut up" method and he admitted that this was the way he did it, but it wasn't TOTALLY Random

  4. anonymous
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    Feb 21st 2014 !⃝

    Seduction *moist*

  5. anonymous
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    Jan 3rd 2012 !⃝

    This song doesn't mean anything, or everything you want. Bowie wrote it by using a method called "cut-up" which consist in cutting phrases and reorganized the different pieces randomly (or almost randomly).

  6. anonymous
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    Aug 29th 2011 !⃝

    Moonage Daydream is "the anthem" sung by Ziggy Stardust.


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