“Bow Down” is about the tension of yielding and resisting. It tangos with religious metaphors in terms to give oneself over to external forces.
[Verse 1]
I was a sailor
I was a sailor, and now I'm a boat
I was a car
I was a car, and now I'm the road
[Chorus]
And I was kneeling on the turnpike
With an angel down my throat
She said "You don't know what it's like
To bow down, down, down to Maria's dead bones"
(Down, down, down, down)
[Verse 2]
I was in love (I was in love)
I was in love, and now I'm in hell
With Maria's bones talking to myself
[Chorus]
You don't know what it's like
She said, "He with least money has the most to sell, sell, sell"
And she said, "I've met angels so deep undercover
That they'd sit on Solomon's throne
And you don't know what it's like
You don't know what it's like
You don't know what it's like
To bow down, down, down, down to Maria's bones"
[Outro]
You don't know what it's like
To bow down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down to the power of love, bow down
Bow Down was written by Cameron Winter & Dominic DiGesu & Emily Green & Max Bassin.
Bow Down was produced by Geese & Kenny Beats.