The Tiger Lillies - Drowning Girl (Bertolt Brecht) lyrics
[The Tiger Lillies - Drowning Girl Bertolt Brecht lyrics]
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 it's 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
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 it's 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