Credits

• Writers: Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey and Russell Senior
• Producer: Alan Smyth and Pulp
• Engineer: Alan Fisch

• Jarvis Cocker: vocals, Hopf guitar
• Russell Senior: slide guitar
• Candida Doyle: Farfisa (various sounds), backing vocals
• Steve Mackey: bass
• Nick Banks: drums
• Alan Smyth and Jarvis Cocker: sampled tremolo strings (FZ-10)

Lyrics

Take me down to the river
where I would not go before
Through the trees and the rushes
to a place we both know

And I'm feeling much younger
as I kneel on the ground
Dip my toe in the water
of the river where I watched you drown

Na na na, na na nana, nana na, na na na, na na nana, na na, na na na, na na nana, nana na, la nana nana na na

Oh, when the river ran dry that next year
I could not find your body
Now I'm standing here, ready at last
to dive down and reach you again

And I long to be with you
now these cold nights have come
Oh, I go down to the river
but the river will stop for no one
Though I ask it, it keeps flowing on
When I ask it, it tells me you're gone

Lala, la la la, la la la, la lala, la la la, la

Related pages

• Song list