The Drowned Girl Lyrics - David Bowie

1 Once she had drowned and started her slow descent

2 Down the streams to where the great rivers broaden

3 Oh, the open sky shone most magnificent

4 As if it was acting as her body's guardian

5 Wreck and duck weed slowly increased her weight

6 By clasping her in their slimy grip

7 Through her limbs, the cold blooded fishes played

8 Creatures and plant life kept on, thus obstructing her last trip

9 And the sky that same evening grew dark as smoke

10 And its stars through the night kept the brightness still soaring

11 But it quickly grew clear when dawn now broke

12 To see that she got one further morning

13 Once her pallid trunk had rotted beyond repair

14 It happened quite slowly that she gently slipped from God's thoughts

15 First with her face, then her hands, right at the last with her hair

16 Leaving those corpse-choked rivers just one more corpse