Swans

"People Like Us"

"People Like Us"


We're drifting goodbye
On a rust-colored cloud
Oh fallopian friends
Abandon us now
Our systems are full
Of bones ground to dust
The sky shows a bruise
Where our fingers have touched

Come suck on this vine
It tangles and nets
Come swallow the wine
We squeezed from our breast
The ocean is shifting
We're sailing amok
The methane is rising
To heaven above

We're tracing our shape
On the walls of your house
We're surfing the sand
That spills from your mouth
We're calling for more
Cause nothing is left
The words are all gone
There's more to be said

Send us away
On ships made of silk
Send us to fly
Black skies washed with milk
People like us
We need a dream to escape
People like us
We need to sleep to awake

"Picture Of Mary Ann"

"Picture Of Mary Ann"


These are the hands
that hold the sun
this is the water
where our life was first begun

these are the eyes
that saw you lying there

And this is the mind
that will always remember

I hold your hand
with a heavy heart of lead
the sky is black and gold
and the moon is shining red

I see you Mary Anne
but I'm not really here

I see you Mary Anne
what have I become?

This is the sound
of a world without a name
and here is the ocean
where history was raised
and I was a young man
sailing on the sea
and this was a new world
and every child was free

No we're not standing here
on the poison shore

Love is the empty place
where loneliness is born

I see you Mary Anne
We never knew ourselves

I see you Mary Anne

We're not really here

I see your [?] (anyone know?)

What have we become?

"Power And Sacrifice"

"Power And Sacrifice"


I want power, because it feels good
I want power - I'll wash America with blood
I want power: a clear blue light in the sky
I feel power, running through my veins and out my eyes

And into empty, godforsaken minds without reality
I feel power, I feel a sacrifice
I am dead to right or wrong

I want power, just like our father knew
I want power, I'll put my hands in you
I want power, though the Earth is lost and spinning
I feel power, buried in the ground
Where twenty million died like heroes
Stealing this same power that I'm feeling

I feel power, I feel a sacrifice
Now my blood is feeling clean
And I feel the power burning like a spear inside of me
I feel good, I feel right, I feel a sacrifice

"Power For Power"

"Power For Power"


Use sex for control
Use power for power
Use hate for freedom
Use money for cruelty
Use money for cruelty

Take control and keep it
Take control and keep it
Don't let go
Don't let go

He was your friend
She was your friend
He was your friend
She was your friend
They were wrong, they were wrong
They were wrong, they were wrong
Turn against them
Turn against them

Sex
Power
Money
Hate

Take control and keep it
Take control and keep it
Don't let go
Don't let go

Power for power
Power for power
Power for power
Power for power's sake
Power for power
Power for power's sake
Power for power
Power for power's sake
Power for power
Power for power's sake
Power for power
Power for power's sake
Power for power
Power for power's sake
Power for power
Power for power's sake
Power for power
Power for power
Power for power
Power for power's sake

"Raping A Slave"

"Raping A Slave"


Why be ashamed of hatred
There's nothing wrong with burning
I work hard for everything I own
Everything I own chokes me when I sleep

Why be ashamed of burning
Why be ashamed of burning
You do what you want
Then you cut out your heart

You do what you want
You burn out your heart
You burn out my heart
Then you eat my heart
You cut out your heart
Then you eat your heart

You burn it
Then eat it
You burn it
Then you eat it

"Real Love"

"Real Love"


My man walks on hands and knees
I am his first and only child
He is mine
He is my saint
He brings me roses and incense
And he closes my mind
He closes my mind
With real love
Real love
Real love
Real love
I will kiss the ground
Where he left a taste
of his strength of mind
Take me down
Take me down now
Take me down
Into the cold dead earth
Take me down
Take me down there
In your hands again
Take me down
Take me down
With real love
Real love
Real love
Real love
When I dream that sweet dream
When I forget where I am
I will always remember
Your hand on my shoulder
Pulling me down
Pulling me down
Into the cold dead earth
Take me down
Take me down
Take me down
Take me down there
With real love
Real love
Real love
Real love

"Red Velvet Wound"

"Red Velvet Wound"


And what do I do
With the gift you held me as entered me
The one no one else would buy
They would not accept the filthy premise of your most terrible innocence
Oh, oh ho ho
So let them say, how were you wild
For what you really were was tender
Yes how you screamed, all through the night
Yet silent tears streamed down in morning light
Most beautiful, my lonely sinner

"Reeling The Liars In"

"Reeling The Liars In"


Reeling the liars in.
We are reeling the liars in.
We are removing their face, collecting their skin,
we are reeling the liars in.

We are burning them in a pile.
We are burning them in a pile.
The only true thing, the place to begin,
is to burn up the liar pile.

Now the sun will hide beneath the ridge tonight.
Clear flames of revenge will lick the black sky.
And I, I will sing as you eat their tongues.
For I am the saint who will lead them to us…

So I'm reeling the liars in, reeling the liars in,
Here is my hand, now drive the nail in, I am reeling the liars in.
Here is my tongue, now cut out my sin, we are reeling the liars in.
There is only one way. One place to begin. By reeling this liar in.

"Right Wrong"

"Right Wrong"


Wrong, right (wrong, right)
Wrong, right (wrong, right)
Wrong, right (wrong, right)
Wrong, right (wrong, right)
Wrong, right (wrong, right)
Wrong, right (wrong)
Wrong, right (wrong)
Wrong, right (wrong, right)
Wrong, right (wrong, right)

Use your body to get satisfaction
Use your body to get satisfaction
Use your body to get satisfaction
Use your body to get satisfaction
Satisfy the dog, satisfy the dog
Satisfy the dog, satisfy the dog
Satisfy the dog, satisfy the dog
Satisfy the dog, satisfy the dog
Use your hands to build things
Use your hands yo break things
Satisfy the dog
Satisfy the dog
Wrong, right
Wrong or right
Wrong or right
Wrong or right
Wrong or right
Wrong or right
Wrong or right
Wrong or right
Wrong or right
Satisfy the dog
Wrong or right
Wrong or right
Wrong or right
Wrong or right