I Can't Give Everything Away (track)
by David Bowie
Year: 2016
From the album ★ [Blackstar] (track #7)
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I Can't Give Everything Away appears on the following album(s) by David Bowie:
- ★ [Blackstar] (track #7) (this album) (2016)
- Legacy (track #40) (compilation) (2016)
- I Can't Give Everything Away (2002-2016) (track #118) (compilation) (2025)
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| 01/27/2026 21:28 | kinginsomniac12 | 5,498 | 100/100 | |
| 01/14/2026 18:20 | FrancK | 4,629 | 82/100 | |
| 01/14/2026 15:26 | Exist-en-ciel | 81,005 | 71/100 | |
| 09/03/2025 19:13 | BurndenAce | 5,116 | 78/100 |
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lleon79 10/06/2022 03:03 | #290228
Such a powerful song. I've cried to this. What a way to say goodbye by saying that it will never be enough in one's life, and that there will always be things unsaid, things not donde, but as he says in Moonage Daydream: it's not about how long you live, but what you did with your life. That's why, I think, it's the more powerful: even having lived such a life, giving so much to people, he still feels the need to tell us he couldn't give everything he had to give away. Rest in peace David.
This song is the most like his older 70s work and not just because of the harmonica sample. I would've hated if the entire album were just a rehash of Bowie's older work but as a final send-off, it works perfectly.
Onater 01/09/2017 09:06 | #182076
Is that the harmonica from A New Career In A New Town?
This one puts the exclamation point on his entire amazing catalog. It gets me every time I hear it. So beautifully constructed and performed. Very strong.
DeusExMackia 02/06/2016 13:45 | #158873
This song is like saying goodbye to a friend you'll never see again, but you know that there's nothing you can do to change things.
Space-Dementia 01/15/2016 03:29 | #156559
Definitely one of the best on the album. It's such a spectacular end to an excellent final album.
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