You Feel So Lonely You Could Die

This melodramatic soul-drenched waltz-time piano ballad finds Bowie singing a kiss off to a would-be suicide, whose depression appears to have been brought on by the loneliness of a city. "I can see you as a corpse, hanging from a beam... Oh, see if I care, Oh please make it soon," he croons.

The song title is taken from a lyric from Elvis Presley's first hit, "Heartbreak Hotel". Bowie shares his birthday, January 8th, with The King.

Critics have compared the tune's mournful tone to that of "Five Years" and the song concludes with the drum pattern of the Ziggy Stardust track.