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I'm the cream
Of the great utopia dream.
And you're in the gleam
In the depths of your banker's spleen.

— David Bowie

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I'm the cream
Of the great utopia dream.
And you're in the gleam
In the depths of your banker's spleen." in the context of "Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "David Bowie" (Song lyrics, Space Oddity (1969)) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app
David Bowie

About David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 - 10 January 2016), known under his stage name David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger, painter, and actor. Bowie was a figure in popular music for over four decades, and was known as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s.