Get your head down to the ground
Shake it all around, a dirty sound
Get your knees into your face
And see if you can race real slow

It's a slow dive
When you dive slow
Ah, it's a low jive
Do the slow dive

Get your head down to the ground
And shake it all around, a dirty sound
Get your knees into your face
And see if you can race real slow

Now you jump back like a hound
Emit a howling sound
Dig those limbs into the floor
And holler out for more

And you revel in the dips
When your backbone slips
Takin' honeysuckle sips
From your rollin' hips

It shifts and shifts
It's a slow dive

(Slow dive)
When you dive slow
It's a low jive
Do the slow dive

It's a slow dive (slow dive)
When you come alive
It's a low jive
Do the slow dive

Slow dive, slow dive
Do the slow dive
Slow dive, slow dive
Do the slow dive

Slow dive, slow dive
When you dive slow
When you come alive
It's a low jive
Do the slow dive
Do the slow dive
Slow dive, uh

Get your head down to the ground
And shake it all around, a dirty sound
Get your knees into your face
And see if you can race real slow

It's a slow dive
When you dive slow
Oh, it's a low jive
Do the slow dive


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    SIOUXSIE: " 'Slowdive' was an improvised lyric...It's like, umm, if you're making music, what it amounts to is, because you're expressing something you can't say in words. So for me to explain what that is, is taking away something that you lose when you're just using speech. With music it should speak for itself. Source: Elektron Interview 20/12/82

    JJKelsallon December 01, 2012   Link

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