Deep Down in the Seine

Lyrics

[Chorus] Deep down in the Seine There's a glimmer of gold Of rusty ships Of diamonds and knives Deep down in the Seine There are bodies grown cold Deep down in the Seine Are tears of wives [Verse 1] Deep down in the Seine There's a glimpse of a flower It lives on the mud It lives on the slime Deep down in the Seine Are hearts of many Who hurt too much To live on to their prime [Verse 2] And there are the stones And whittled gray beasts The soul of the sewers Breathing in the slop The rings thrown in By women loved the least The feet cut off By a propeller's chop [Bridge] And the ill-fated fruit of sterile wombs The aborted things that no one knew Vomited up from the big city's gloom In these depths of the Seine are these things too [Chorus] Oh, merciful Seine Where the corpses disappear Oh, bed with your bedsheets Made of fog Oh, river of refuse No beacon to cheer A singer who soothes A harbor, a morgue [Verse 3] Receive the poor Receive the woman Receive the drunk Receive the fool Drown with your waves The sounds of their groans And carry their hearts And carry their hearts And carry their hearts Down among the stones [Chorus] Deep down in the Seine There's a glimmer of gold Of rusty ships Of diamonds and knives Deep down in the Seine There are bodies grown cold Deep down in the Seine Are tears of wives