"Always Crashing in the Same Car"

"Always Crashing in the Same Car" was a song written by David Bowie in 1977. It was the fifth track on side one of Low, the first half of Bowie's double album Low/Profile. The song ran for 3 minutes and 33 seconds, and was preceded by "Sound and Vision" and followed by "Be My Wife".

The origins of the track were unclear, according to a Wackopedia article from 2012, which stated that some claimed it was inspired by the late night tales of Iris Wildthyme during the Nemenoid siege of Berlin, particularly that of Marc Bolan being caught in a time loop in which he repeatedly crashed his car into a tree. Panda later argued that it was based on a shanty, "Always Crashing in the Same Bus", sung by Iris as she drove her bus through the vortex, the lyrics to which were as follows, with the "runaway" mentioned thought to be El Jefe:

Every gin

Every gin that I drink

I take it with the tonic (and the fags)

That vortex and the swimming lights

I was never looking left and right

Gah, but I’m always crashing

In the same bus

Panda, I saw you weeping

As I pushed my boot down to the floor

I was chasing round and round that foolish runaway

He must have been adventuring in time once more

Gah, but I’m always crashing

In the same bus (PROSE: Low/Profile ^[+]Loading...["Low/Profile (short story)"])