Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Race To The Bottom, artist - Glen Hansard. Album song This Wild Willing, in the genre Иностранная авторская песня
Date of issue: 11.04.2019
Record label: plateau
Song language: English
Race To The Bottom |
Sliding along by the Seine, it’s May Day |
This song’s in my head once again |
It’s a long way down to the bottom we’ve been racin' |
Coughing my lungs up on rue des Irlandais |
Becoming a risk to myself |
It’s a long way down to the bottom and we’re racin' |
The radio silence and the anarchists |
Are gathering names, dates and lists for burnin' |
It’s a long way down to the bottom that we’ve been racin' |
Oh, how you move me, truly |
Oh, how you set my heart aglow |
I’m shadowing in with the crowds unnoticed |
Somebody painted an 'X' on my back |
It’s a long way down to the bottom and we’re racin' |
There’s piss on the streets after dark in Paris |
Even our dear Joan of Arc, she knows |
It’s a long way down to the bottom and we’ve been racin' |
Even the gods as they gaze down on us |
Know that there’s no one to be saved among us |
They keep turning away, turning away |
We’re singing along with the righteous people |
The bullets will rain down from the mosques and steeples |
They keep turning away, turning away |
A taste for the wine and a woman’s forgiveness |
Her man’s in decline, oh, it’s a nasty business |
It’s a long way down to the bottom that we’ve been racin' |
Our blood is no thicker than this water, my brother |
You’ll find out soon one way or the other |
It’s a long way down to the bottom that we’ve been racin' |
Even the clouds that send the rains down on us |
See a horizon that goes way beyond us |
They keep driftin' away, driftin' away |
While down in the dark in the tick-tock alleys |
Time’s running out and there’s still bills to tally |
We keep chippin' away, chippin' away |
Slidin' along with the bouquinistes |
Baldwin and Brecht and the distance between us |
It’s a long way down to the bottom that we’ve been racin' |
I’m rising up strong like a snake that’s charmed |
A handsome Parisienne on my arm |
It’s a long way down to the bottom that we’ve been racin', yeah |