Race To The Bottom lyrics

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 racing

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 racing

The radio silence and the anarchists

Are gathering names, dates and lists for burning

It's a long way down to the bottom that we've been racing

Oh, how you move me, but 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 racing

Piss on the streets after dark in Paris

Even on dear Joan of Arc, she knows

It's a long way down to the bottom and we've been racing

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 racing

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 racing

Even the clouds that send the rains down on us

See a horizon that goes way beyond us

They keep drifting away, drifting away

While down in the dark in the tick tock alleys

Time's running out and there's still bills to tally

We keep chipping away, chipping away

Sliding 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 racing

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 racing

• Artist:Glen Hansard
• Album:This Wild Willing