Lyrics

Madame:

Madame we have got to go
Before the waters flush us down
The patter of rain -- The pity of rubes
forsaken in their cubes -- Madame we have got to leave

Down, down, down -- The rivers threaten what's not tied down
Down, down, down

Madame we are ignorant fools
Screaming in nobodys ears but our own
Sparrows and jays and finches and bees
were laid to rest with the seas -- Madame we are as weak as the leaves

Down, down, down -- The rivers threaten what's not tied down
Madame you're too late -- Madame you're too late

Now we try to wash away
All these feelings left behind in foreign skies
You try to wash away the feelings below
Madame you're too late

Madame the clothesline pins are (all) gone
The bags that stopped the water have blown
away to the sands -- just pray that the lands
not all gone when the waves recede
Madame that's it I'm going to leave

Down, down, down -- Muddy rivers threaten what's not tied down
Madame you're too late -- Madame you're too late

But should we try again for all these feelings left behind again
For all these feelings left behind again for all these feelings left behind in foreign skies -- unfamiliar to me -- try to wash away all these feelings left behind the blood red sky -- you try to washu`