Swamp Of Sadness

Album: Passage du Désir (2024)
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  • Spend my days in a haze, floating 'round in the Marais
    Nights under the bright lights at Mignon on Beaumarchais
    Rouge wave gets me mumbling, then tumbling it takes me
    Bouncing and rolling like a cork lost out at sea
    Endless nights that haunt and taunt eternal seemingly
    How the sirens come to me
    But they're not real, just temptation in the deep

    They all sing along to a luring song of prey
    Melody washes over but can't make out a word they say
    Tied my mooring mind behind, but it snapped back from the fray
    So I row against the undertow, drifting, my anchor away

    A drunken sailor lost and lonely in a sad and magic swamp
    Saint Michel protecting me from everything I want
    But darkness falls like thunder and that old dragon wins
    Running 'round in circles, trying to reach the end
    Trying to break the cycle of solitude and sin
    Here come those sirens again

    They all sing along to a luring song of prey
    Melody washes over but can't make out a word they say
    Tied my mooring mind behind, but it snapped back from the fray
    So I row against the undertow, drifting, my anchor away

    Pull the wax out of my ears, tie me to the mast headlong
    My heart's free of fear, so let me hear that siren song
    Play it loud and sing it proud and make it last so long
    'Cause the night goes on and on forever

    They all sing along to a luring song of prey
    Melody washes over but can't make out a word they say
    Tied my mooring mind behind, but it snapped back from the fray
    So I row against the undertow, drifting, my anchor away Writer/s: JS Simpson
    Publisher: Wixen Music Publishing
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