DAVID BOWIE ~ SOUND AND VISION {HQ 24bit V Remaster}

I added a string sound I love, not because I think that the original needed something more, it was perfect as it was, I just wanted to play with the sounds a bit and perhaps make the harmony more apparent.
This song was supposed to be an instrumental piece but Bowie came back with some lyrics and even Tony Visconti's wife Mary Visconti sang in it. David as Tony Visconti reports was always "in the moment" and if something inspired him, he included it even the last moment.

I tried to do the same.

Bowie described the story behind the song, “a very sad song for me … I was trying very hard to drag myself out of an awful period of my life. I was locked in a room in Berlin telling myself I was going to straighten up and not do drugs anymore. I was never going to drink again. Only some of it proved to be the case. It was the first time I knew I was killing myself and time to do something about my physical condition.” A typical day of recording any one song off Low, including ‘Sound and Vision’, saw Bowie’s ensemble of musicians record the instrumentals. The rest of the band would then leave the studio, and Bowie would record his vocals, at times improvising the words and then shaving some off wherever needed.

In truth, as reflected in the process, the song provided Bowie with a place of reflection and solace. About ‘Sound and Vision’, Bowie said: “Ultimate retreat song…it was wanting to be put in a little cold room with omnipotent blue on the walls and blinds on the windows.”

Lyrics:

Ah
Ah

Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo

Don't you wonder sometimes
'Bout sound and vision?

Blue, blue, electric blue
That's the color of my room
Where I will live
Blue, blue

Pale blinds drawn all day
Nothing to do, nothing to say
Blue, blue

I will sit right down, waiting for the gift of sound and vision
And I will sing, waiting for the gift of sound and vision
Drifting into my solitude, over my head

Don't you wonder sometimes
'Bout sound and vision?