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Venice Drowning Lyrics
Venice breeding
Shy chimeras
Of sex and violence
In the purple evening silence
Venice dreaming of a partner
Fill your arms
With breasts of marble
From the cradle to the table
Coax this naked treasure
From your saviour
Come swim into my love
Come swim into my life
Divine blasphemer
Tempting
Holy beads of jism
With the scarlet catechism
Her lips will answer (Oh, her lips will answer)
How to be
The perfect stranger
The perfect lover
Wanting
And as you'll discover
Giving
And as you'll discover being
Come swim into my love
Come swim into my life
Enter the sublime corrosion
Venice drowning in emotion
The body stirs
And is reanimated
Only briefly
But then life is very brief
(Entra in questa sublime corruzione)
(L'affogamento di Venezia nell'emozione) Swim into my love
(Vieni e nuota nel mio amore)
(Vieni e nuota nella mia vita) Swim into my life
Venice drowning
Venice drowning
Venice drowning
Venice drowning
Venice drowning
Venice drowning (Slowly disappearing)
(Slowly disappearing)
(Slowly disappearing)
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Venice drowning (Slowly disappearing)
(Slowly disappearing)
(Slowly disappearing)
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Venice drowning (Slowly disappearing)
(Slowly disappearing)
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Shy chimeras
Of sex and violence
In the purple evening silence
Venice dreaming of a partner
With breasts of marble
From the cradle to the table
Coax this naked treasure
From your saviour
Come swim into my life
Tempting
Holy beads of jism
With the scarlet catechism
Her lips will answer (Oh, her lips will answer)
The perfect stranger
The perfect lover
Wanting
And as you'll discover
Giving
And as you'll discover being
Come swim into my life
Enter the sublime corrosion
Venice drowning in emotion
And is reanimated
Only briefly
But then life is very brief
(L'affogamento di Venezia nell'emozione) Swim into my love
(Vieni e nuota nel mio amore)
(Vieni e nuota nella mia vita) Swim into my life
Venice drowning
Venice drowning
Venice drowning
Venice drowning
Venice drowning (Slowly disappearing)
(Slowly disappearing)
(Slowly disappearing)
(Slowly disappearing)
Venice drowning (Slowly disappearing)
(Slowly disappearing)
(Slowly disappearing)
(Slowly disappearing)
Venice drowning (Slowly disappearing)
(Slowly disappearing)
(Slowly disappearing)
(Slowly disappearing...)
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I think this is Simon's view on religion, assuming he wrote it. I heard that it was inspired by his and John's trip to Venice but it has a definite religious theme. I guess faith is like swimming out into the ocean to some, that's what the chorus makes me think of.
Very disturbing song.
What does this song mean to me?
Lust. Pure and simple. Prettied up with suggestive wordplay but... lust, nevertheless. The words, sensual decay, come to mind. I love the lyric in the second verse. "oh, her lips will answer" Naughty.
As far as the religious aspect of it, I don't know about that. If anything the song is deliberately profane.
Hmm... let me summarise what I say much more comprehensively in attached link.
Our creative footprint through sexual expression is a quest for immortality.
https://www.headfullofchopstick.com//2017/07/06/venice-drowning/