This I Believe #33

...that in David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust", the phrase "making love with his ego" was intended to have an instrumental, rather than comitative or reciprocal, reading.

Comments

[Hamilton Lovecraft]

Interestingly, I'd never considered any other interpretation til just now.

[Lance]

Wait, really? I always interpreted it as "He and his ego were making love". I mean, the lyrics don't make any sense if you interpret...er, if the sentence...er. The lyrics don't make any sense.

[RhiannonStone]

I like this. Although I still like the way I misheard it when I was little better; I thought it was, "Making love with mosquitoes." It made sense! Because they were spiders!