The Drowned Girl
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Uploaded by TheBowieChannel on Oct 30, 2009
Recorded in September 1981 at Hansa Studios, Berlin, for the television play 'Baal', written by Bertolt Brecht.
The 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 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".
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How beautiful. Brecht Bowie Berlin a tremendous mix.
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Afther a collection about 255 pieces of vinyl and 50 pcs of cd's and video and books about Bowie since the last 40 years of searching over europa, still this I saw never and my next birthday will be 65 !
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@PockyBebop Completely agree.
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Interesting... this makes me think of the painting Ophelia... a favorite of mine.
Ha! What goes down must come up! *lol*
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