The Passenger
By Iggy Pop
In 1977, and with the collaboration of Ricky Gardiner,
James Newell Osterberg Jr (Better know as Iggy Pop) wrote the punk-rock song
The Passenger, for the album Lust For Life. As I know, Iggy Pop found the
inspiration to compose this song from a Jim Morrison’s poem. The poem recalls
on the state of people going and coming, not from the material point of view
but in a spiritual way. As long as we move through places, landscapes,
situations, sensations, feelings, persons, sounds, smells, memories, the life itself,
we can realize how bit by bit we find ourselves.
It is curious how the fact that moving away from your
home, friends and family makes you see the things different. You begin to
appreciate all these things in a higher level. Probably, this is the kind of
test we should face in order to reach the happiness someday. I think we will be
able to know the meaning of happiness solely when you know perfectly what
sadness means.
The song has been used in several TV and Radio shows
and ads. It’s one of the Iggy Pop’s most remembered songs, and it has more than
20 covers from others bands around the world. Something quite remarkable in
this song is the participation in the chorus of the British singer Davie Bowie.
The vocals are very strong, and despite the song’s melody is somewhat
plane, it is enough to arouse your mood.
"I stay under glass
I look through my window so bright
I see the stars come out tonight
I see the bright and hollow sky
Over the city's a rip in the sky
And everything looks good tonight "
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