What do you think Down by the Water means?

PJ Harvey - Down by the Water Meaning

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Album cover for Down by the Water album cover

Song Released: 1995


Down by the Water Lyrics

I lost my heart
Under the bridge
To that little girl
So much to me
And now I'm old
And now I holler
She'll never know
Just what I found

That blue eyed girl
(that blue eyed girl)
She said "no more"
(she said "no more")
That blue eyed...

  1. anonymous
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    Apr 1st 2012 !⃝

    I read somewhere that P.J. Harvey read a story in the newspaper about a mother who found out her 14 year old daughter wasn't a virgin anymore so she drowned her own daughter then P.J. Harvey wrote the song about that story.


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