"The Fallen"
- You may be looking for the comic story of the same name.
"The Fallen" was a lost song written by David Bowie, the epic closing track on Profile, the destroyed second half of his double album Low/Profile. The song ran for 8 minutes and 18 seconds and featured "soaring" guitar and piano with Bowie’s funereal vocals laid subtly over the top. It was inspired by the devastation caused by the Nemenoids when they attacked Berlin, written as a tribute to the dead.
Bowie became inspired to write the song when, during a cigarette break after the Nemenoids had made their first attack on Bowie's recording studio, Iris Wildthyme showed him the aftermath of the attack; corpses littered around a fountain in a square close to the studio. He was appalled by the sight, resulting in an emotional outburst, and he uttered the words:
The bleak and ignored remnants of the fallen
Cast like pallid stones into the fountain of the world
This couplet grew into the full song, becoming Profile's defining track.
In 2006, almost a minute of instrumental music appeared on the internet, thought to be a fragment from the introduction to "The Fallen", but could not be verified due to its quality and lack of vocals. (PROSE: Low/Profile [+]Loading...["Low/Profile (short story)"])
