Malvina Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems  

There's a Bottom Below

Notes: words and music by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1970 Schroder Music Company, renewed 1998. Malvina apparently first performed this song on a CBC television variety show very shortly after writing it on the way to the taping.

Chorus:
Do you think you've hit bottom?
Do you think you've hit bottom?
Oh, no.
There's a bottom below.

There's a low below the low you know.
You can't imagine how far you can go down.

(Chorus)

Every once in a while you'll rise and glow,
But that's only so they can let you go down.

(Chorus)

You sit at a party and watch the fun,
It don't touch you none cause you're off and gone, down.

(Chorus)

There's the nightmare kind where you fall and fall,
And you wake to find you haven't been dreaming at all.

(Chorus)

There's a low below the low you know.
You can't imagine how far you can go down.

(Chorus)

Malvina Reynolds songbook(s) in which the music to this song appears:
---- The Malvina Reynolds Songbook

Other place(s) where the music to this song appears:
---- Peter and Annie Blood-Patterson: Winds of the People [lyrics & guitar chords only] (Sing Out, 1980?)
---- Broadside No. 120 (July-August 1972)
---- Sing Out!, Volume 21(1) (1971), p. 25

Malvina Reynolds recording(s) on which this song is performed:
---- The Ultimate Pollution
---- Malvina
---- Ear to the Ground

Recordings by other artists on which this song is performed:
---- Jeannie Lewis: SouthHeart (Jeannie Lewis, 2003)