For Challenge # 076. Don't ask me why I didn't take the easy road, and just choose a card with an obvious analogue. 'Life on Mars?' is one of the most confusing songs I know. It's far more difficult to explain than 'I am the Walrus', since, after you listen to that song for a little while, you get the idea that Lennon is just messing with you. Life on Mars?, however, is obviously about something. But what the hell is it?

While wrapping my head around the song, I went to Wikipedia, and came across this quote by Bowie, which, yeah, that's certainly what the song is:

"A sensitive young girl's reaction to the media... I think she finds herself disappointed with reality... that although she's living in the doldrums of reality, she's being told that there's a far greater life somewhere, and she's bitterly disappointed that she doesn't have access to it".

There's more in the song than that... I once saw a really awesome AMV interpretation of it that combined Life on Mars to the anime Metropolis, and the original 1930s Metropolis. (Oh, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz71EoT1zZM . Keep in mind that the AMV is only the first half of the song.) and Wiki mentions that Bowie may have written the song on breaking up with a woman, so some of her personality is probably in the song.

But Bowie's summation stands as the best explanation. So I twisted it into an enchant creature that keeps a creature pinned down while its controller goes on to do greater and better things. You'll probably want to cast this on the smallest creature you have, which fits the theme nicely.

Bizarre.

Changed from Enchant Creature to Enchant creature you control. I'd prefer the card to be versatile, but it took too many words to get there.

Well, the song is bizarre, so I'll take that as me being on target.