Lyric discussion by --WRINGER-- 

Cover art for 306 lyrics by Emilie Autumn

To me it sounds like a cult thing.... like, the cult sucks you in a destroys you and then you commit suicide which is the 306 and the 16 the part about the water and how long it takes to drown is how she chose to kill herself and she's still unidentified behind the cathedral because the people in the cult were with her when she did it, and then they brought her body back and dumped it there and perhaps she was really popular in the cult, which is why she says she's overglorified and maybe she had reasons other than the cult to kill herself, but she did it with a group of kids from the cult, which is the part about how at least her reasons were hers

It's simple history about the Seine river. "The river was a popular site for suicides and the disposal of bodies of murder victims.[20] In 2007, 55 bodies were retrieved from its waters; in February 2008, the body of supermodel-turned-activist Katoucha Niane was found there.[20] In the late 1700s and early 1800s over the space of six years 306 bodies were retrieved, the highest number in one day being 16. They were kept in the morgue for many years, and some were never identified."