Author Nicholas Pegg speculated that the lines 'platforms, blank looks, no books' and 'rise for a year or two then make war' alluded to the Nazi regime. The lyrics have been interpreted as a third-person revisitation of the themes of psychotic withdrawal explored on Bowie's previous album Low ('Pacing their rooms just like a cell’s dimensions'), as well as referencing the characters from his 1970 song ' The Supermen' ('They never die they just go to sleep one day') on the album The Man Who Sold the World. īiographer David Buckley remarked on the song's 'doomy sax-driven verses set incongruously aside cheesy choruses'. Bowie himself indicated that Sons of the Silent Age could at one stage have been the title for the album, rather than 'Heroes'. Below is a table of the meta data for Sons of the. Sons of the Silent Age - 1999 Remaster has a BPM/tempo of 112, is in the key A Maj and has a duration of 03:18. It is track 4 in the album Heroes (1999 Remaster). According to Brian Eno, it was the only song on the album composed prior to the recording sessions, all others being improvised in the Hansa by the Wall studio. Sons of the Silent Age - 1999 Remaster is a song by David Bowie released on 14th October 1977. ' Sons of the Silent Age' is a song written by David Bowie in 1977 for the album 'Heroes'. 1977 song by David Bowie 'Sons of the Silent Age'

Sons of the silent age lyrics