The Drowned Girl

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  • Released:1982
  • Genres: Pop Rock
Lyrics "The Drowned Girl"

Once she had drowned and started her slow descent 
Down the streams to where the great rivers broaden 
Oh, the open sky chant most magnificent 
As if it was acting as her body's guardian 

 

Wreck and duck weed slowly increased her weight 
By clasping her in their slimy grip 
Through her limbs, the cold blooded fishes played 
Creatures and plant life kept on, 
thus obstructing her last trip 

 

And the sky that same evening, grew dark as smoke 
And its stars through the night, 
kept the brightness still soaring 
But it quickly grew clear when dawn now broke 
To see that she got one further morning

 

Once her pallid trunk had rotted beyond repair 
It happened quite slowly that she 
gently slipped from God's thoughts 
First with her face, then her hands, 
right at the last with her hair 
Leaving those corpse-choked rivers just one more corpse

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