THE WATER TOOK HER AWAY song lyrics
by Joel Sattler
she was so full of happiness
at the beginning of her life
prepared to be a bride
prepared to be a wife
put on her long white dress
and went down to the river
to take a picture of the joy
that her wedding bells would give her
the photographer was ready
the day a lovely day
she stood there in the shallows
and the water
my only daughter
the water
took her away
she stepped off of the shore
and turned and smiled at us
the bottom only one foot deep
her face all full of trust
believing that her love
and her heart was safe and strong
and the future was without an end
but she was wrong, oh she was wrong
because her dress was thick and heavy
as we saw her in dismay
and the clear blue dragged her down
as the water
my only daughter
the water
took her away
there is no telling when the end
will come for you at last
and even in the midst of friends
tomorrow's all that's left of the past
and we tried to pull her out
but the current was too cold
as the cloth filled up with wet
as we watched her fate unfold
and no matter how we cried
and no matter how we prayed
we had to watch her as she died
as the water
the water
my only daughter
the water took her away
and now we all stand
at the top of the waterfall
and see her body floating
deep down into the call
like a white flag waving under
and we wonder yes we wonder
how long it will be
until the each of we
surrender
surrender
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A great song moralizing the tragedy of flights of fancy like being photographed in your wedding dress in water.
I don't think the last two words, "surrender, surrender," fit the story very well because I don't think she surrendered. Perhaps her husband and his assistant did.
Those were the chilling last words of a beautiful Canadian bride who drowned in a river during a photo shoot last week after her wedding dress became soaked and dragged her under, a friend told a Canadian news agency. Maria Pantazopoulos, 30, was having a photographer take shots for a "trash the dress" photo series when she waded into a river near Dorwin Falls in Rawdon, Quebec, at around 2 p.m. Friday, authorities said. Maria Pantazopoulos, 30, who was swept away in the current near Dorwin Falls in Rawdon.
Meant to evoke high-glamor fashion shoots, "trash the dress" photos feature brides posing in gritty or natural settings like beaches, forests or city streets. Pantazopoulos was married on June 9, but wanted to immortalize the moment with a collection of playful snapshots, a friend said. Her husband, Billy, wasn't there for the shoot.
"She's a really fun girl, and she just didn't want her wedding dress sitting in a box in the closet," family friend Leeza Pousoulidis told the Montreal Gazette. "She said 'I want to have fun with my wedding dress. I want to have great pictures and memories of me in my wedding dress.'" Louis Pagakis, her photographer, was taking some shots near the edge of the river when Pantazopoulos said she wanted to go in.
"At one point, she told him, 'I want you to take some photos of me floating in the water,'" Anouk Benzacar, the photographer's wife and a friend of the bride, told Canada's QMI Agency.
Real estate agent Maria Pantazopoulos, 30, drowned after her wedding dress got soaked and she was dragged into the river near a rushing waterfall in Canada. The garment quickly became soaked, and the deceptively quick tides swept the young bride downstream. Pagakis jumped in to try to save her, but the water-logged garment's pull was like "an anvil" and pulled them both under, local police told QMI. "She was screaming and scratching and trying to stay above water," Benzacar told the agency. "[Louis] tried to swim with her, but she was pulling him down. "She was too heavy. He couldn't breathe anymore," she said.
Pantazopoulos' body was found four hours later by a local scuba diver, who joined rescuers after hearing about the incident, CBC News reported. Pagakis and his assistant were treated at a local hospital for shock. Family members didn't speak to the media after the accident, but Pousoulidis, the friend, told the Montreal Gazette they were "destroyed."
Pantazopoulos was a real estate agent and had recently bought a house with her husband in Laval, near Montreal, The Gazette reported. The two were looking forward to starting a family.
Local authorities told QMI that swimming was forbidden at the spot where Pantazopoulos drowned because the tides were too strong. Mario Michaud, a wedding photographer in Montreal, told CTV that a bride he photographed at the river in May nearly suffered the same fate. "Brides think they are going to get a beautiful picture, but they don't realize how heavy a wet wedding dress can be," he said.
I have actually read about this really had happened in the news a few months ago. A bride was unable to get herself out of danger of being dragged away by the water because her gown was too heavy. The relatives couldn't save her either because of the heavy gown she was wearing. This described that incidence so well. I'm so sorry this had happened. Most heartbreaking moment!!!!
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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I don't think the last two words, "surrender, surrender," fit the story very well because I don't think she surrendered. Perhaps her husband and his assistant did.
Ron
Monday, August 27, 2012
"I can't anymore, it's too heavy."
Those were the chilling last words of a beautiful Canadian bride who drowned in a river during a photo shoot last week after her wedding dress became soaked and dragged her under, a friend told a Canadian news agency. Maria Pantazopoulos, 30, was having a photographer take shots for a "trash the dress" photo series when she waded into a river near Dorwin Falls in Rawdon, Quebec, at around 2 p.m. Friday, authorities said. Maria Pantazopoulos, 30, who was swept away in the current near Dorwin Falls in Rawdon.
Meant to evoke high-glamor fashion shoots, "trash the dress" photos feature brides posing in gritty or natural settings like beaches, forests or city streets. Pantazopoulos was married on June 9, but wanted to immortalize the moment with a collection of playful snapshots, a friend said. Her husband, Billy, wasn't there for the shoot.
"She's a really fun girl, and she just didn't want her wedding dress sitting in a box in the closet," family friend Leeza Pousoulidis told the Montreal Gazette. "She said 'I want to have fun with my wedding dress. I want to have great pictures and memories of me in my wedding dress.'" Louis Pagakis, her photographer, was taking some shots near the edge of the river when Pantazopoulos said she wanted to go in.
"At one point, she told him, 'I want you to take some photos of me floating in the water,'" Anouk Benzacar, the photographer's wife and a friend of the bride, told Canada's QMI Agency.
Real estate agent Maria Pantazopoulos, 30, drowned after her wedding dress got soaked and she was dragged into the river near a rushing waterfall in Canada. The garment quickly became soaked, and the deceptively quick tides swept the young bride downstream. Pagakis jumped in to try to save her, but the water-logged garment's pull was like "an anvil" and pulled them both under, local police told QMI. "She was screaming and scratching and trying to stay above water," Benzacar told the agency. "[Louis] tried to swim with her, but she was pulling him down. "She was too heavy. He couldn't breathe anymore," she said.
Pantazopoulos' body was found four hours later by a local scuba diver, who joined rescuers after hearing about the incident, CBC News reported. Pagakis and his assistant were treated at a local hospital for shock. Family members didn't speak to the media after the accident, but Pousoulidis, the friend, told the Montreal Gazette they were "destroyed."
Pantazopoulos was a real estate agent and had recently bought a house with her husband in Laval, near Montreal, The Gazette reported. The two were looking forward to starting a family.
Local authorities told QMI that swimming was forbidden at the spot where Pantazopoulos drowned because the tides were too strong. Mario Michaud, a wedding photographer in Montreal, told CTV that a bride he photographed at the river in May nearly suffered the same fate. "Brides think they are going to get a beautiful picture, but they don't realize how heavy a wet wedding dress can be," he said.
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Sandie