A new lyric music video for David Bowie's new song "I Can't Give Everything Away" will surely tug at the heartstrings of the late rock icon's devoted fans.
The trippy, animated clip, created by artist Jonathan Barnbrook, is mostly black and white until the last quarter. It then transforms into a colorful kaleidoscope and also projects a nostalgic image—an astronaut, or rather, a "starman," one of the singer's nicknames and the title of his iconic 1972 song. The man could also be Major Tom, the name of the astronaut referenced in Bowie's songs "Space Oddity", "Ashes to Ashes", "Hallo Spaceboy" and "Blackstar."
Sample lyrics of "I Can't Give Everything Away" include "I know something is very wrong / The post returns for prodigal songs / With blackout harks with flowered muse / With skull designs upon my shoes / I can't give everything / I can't give everything / Away / I can't give everything / Away,"
Bowie, one of the most celebrated musicians of all time, died at age 69 on Jan. 10 after battling cancer. "I Can't Give Everything Away" is featured on Bowie's final album, Blackstar, which was released two days before he died.
Barnbrook's iconography and typeface were used for the record's artwork.
"This is really a very simple little video that I wanted to be ultimately positive," Barnbrook said in a statement Rolling Stone posted Wednesday. "We start off in black and white world of ★ [Blackstar], but in the final chorus we move to brilliant color."
"I saw it as a celebration of David—to say that despite the adversity we face, the difficult things that happen such as David's passing, that human beings are naturally positive, they look forward and can take the good from the past and use it as something to help with the present," he said. "We are a naturally optimistic species and we celebrate the good that we are given."
Blackstar reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart while its previous single "Lazarus" reached No. 40 on the Hot 100 Singles Chart. The lyrics of the song and its music video allude eerily allude to death.