The Drowned Girl by David Bowie
The Drowned Girl by David Bowie

The Drowned Girl

David Bowie * Track #48 On Sound + Vision [2003 Version]

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The Drowned Girl by David Bowie

Release Date
Sat Feb 13 1982
Performed by
David Bowie
Produced by
Tony Visconti & David Bowie
Writed by
Kurt Weill
About

“The Drowned Girl” is a musical setting of a 1920 poem of the same name (“Vom ertrunkenen Mädchen”) by Bertolt Brecht about the murder of German communist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. After the abortive Spartacist Uprising in 1919, a paramilitary death squad, under orders from the far-right opposi...

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The Drowned Girl Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Once she had drowned and started her slow descent
Down the streams to where the great rivers broaden
Oh, the open sky shone 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

[Verse 2]
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

The Drowned Girl Q&A

Who wrote The Drowned Girl's ?

The Drowned Girl was written by Kurt Weill.

Who produced The Drowned Girl's ?

The Drowned Girl was produced by Tony Visconti & David Bowie.

When did David Bowie release The Drowned Girl?

David Bowie released The Drowned Girl on Sat Feb 13 1982.

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