The Bridge

[Verse 1]

I've watched her from the river banks

I knew her when she danced with dreams

White doves were there to dress her hair

And so was Madelaine

[Verse 2]

At night, the people's faces danced

Like pearls colliding on the breast

Of fat Marie whose thunder laugh

Was just a thread from crying

[Verse 3]

Her sailors stained her cobblestones

With wine and piss and death desire

And sometimes blood for Madelaine

Whose laughter was the night

[Bridge]

Her girls would lift their dresses high

And breathe the stars and kiss the sky

She'd smother them with whispers then

Embrace them with her sighs

[Verse 4]

Before the bottle dulled my eyes

And made me so I couldn't stand

I'd overact and play the clown

When Madelaine would cry

[Outro]

And now I watch from riverbanks

I watch it weave its memories

White doves turned gray and flew away

And so did Madelaine