Swans

[fox69]

"The Beautiful Days"

"The Beautiful Days"


Y'know ...
Could do this for fifteen minutes or something
Talk to the man while he masturbates
You know, that was something I think I could, I could do
You know, and of course you don't even, you know, ever meet the man or see the man
You have to listen to him go on and say disgusting things
But I suppose there's things more disgusting if that's the way you're looking at it

 

[fox69]

"The Daughter Brings The Water"

"The Daughter Brings The Water"


In the screen
In the screen
The daughter in white water

In the screen
But not seen
Her hand describes the father

Stilted bones
Cloaked in foam
Squeeze laughter from the lather
Drink water from the daughter

Neither matter
Neither taste
Neither solid
Neither space
The daughter brings the water
The daughter brings clear water

 

[fox69]

"The Final Sacrifice"

"The Final Sacrifice"


Lord Jesus
Oh Jesus
You're my only god
You're my only girl

I follow you now
I follow you down
To a dirty black room
Where the air is gone
I'll lie down on the table
And I'll wait for you
To step inside me now
Come inside me now
Step inside me now
Come on
Come on in

Oh Jesus Christ
You're my only god
If I drink your blood
I will be like you
Girl I wanna be like you
I look into your eyes
And close my mind
Get out of my mind
Get out of my head

Oh Jesus
You're my only god

(Thank you very much.)

 

[fox69]

"The Glowing Man"

"The Glowing Man"


He's a real go-getter
He's a real heartbreaker
He's a real head-splitter

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!

He's a real mean keeper
He's a real deep teacher

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO: YES

Joseph is standing behind my back
Joseph is digging his hands in my chest
Joseph is drinking the light in my lung
Joseph is moving his tounge in my neck
Joseph is riding a vein in my head
Joseph is cutting my arm on his bed
Joseph is making my body fly
JOSEPH IS MAKING MY BODY FLY!

Joseph is me and you are a liar!
Joseph is me and you are a liar!

I am a Glowing Man I am!
I am a growing, Glowing Man!
I am a Glowing Man I am!
I am a growing, Glowing Man!
I am a nothing, No-Thing man!
I am a nothing, No-Thing Man
I am a growing, Glowing Man!
I am a growing, Glowing Man!
I am a no no no no no No-Thing Man!
I am a no no no no no No-Thing Man!

"What is, is what?"

 

[fox69]

"The Golden Boy That Was Swallowed By The Sea"

"The Golden Boy That Was Swallowed By The Sea"


And the endless crowds of people
They walk upon this stone
Where will their memory go
Where did their minds come from
And I was only a child
When I first looked in your eyes
And saw your body rise over the ocean

We saw the golden boy bleed love
Onto the sand like rain
While we were injecting colours
Into our open veins
And deep beneath the water
The dead black silence crawled

Far away across the ocean
The golden boy's beneath the sea
The golden boy swallowed by the sea

And love is sometimes violent
And violence has no constraint
And I can see inside you
Yes, I can feel what you think
And with this knife of silver
I will release your soul
And throw it out into the ocean

Nine million miles in a straight line
In a place just like this
In a ship on the water
Where no dimensions exist
My hands are holding your picture
And the image, it shifts
I tear it up and scatter it over the ocean
...The golden boy that was swallowed by the sea

 

[fox69]

"The Great Annihilator"

"The Great Annihilator"


One second burns for a billion years
And time is relative
And light is physical
We feel your body
We feel your feelings
We see the eye of god shine through the citadel
And space is empty behind the universe
The past and future were simultaneous.
Inside your body we feel your emptiness
The light we breathe in is your unconsciousness
And your body disappears,
Burning backwards through the years
And in your hands time was made
And through breathing
You'll erase it
But we can see forever.
Before love and hate
And we will fall right through the wall of the place where we were made
Right into the open mouth of the great annihilator

 

[fox69]

"The Most Unfortunate Lie"

"The Most Unfortunate Lie"


Someone was here before me
And they took the possibility away
And without any control or freedom
The elements were laid down in this way

And so my mind is slowly devoured
By the ideas to which it subscribes
And in the end, I'm left with nothing
Except the memory of believing my own lies
And where are you now, my most unfortunate lie

The light shows my face in the mirror
And my hand as it reaches to touch
The evidence of pain and delusion
And a mind which was never clear enough

I saw the sun rise in an ancient desert
Where this moment was first foretold
And the black water was thick as blood
And my hands, they were full of gold

And where are you now, the most lethal, all-consuming lie I ever told
Where are you now, my unfortunate, irreversible lie

 

[fox69]

"The Other Side Of The World"

"The Other Side Of The World"


I won't think it
I won't speak it
But I feel it
And I see it

And it comes down and surrounds us
With sensation
With perfection
Without purpose

And there's colour
And there's light
And there's movement
On the other side of the world

With each movement
New reactions cause sensations
Which move through us
And the warm wind kissed your body

And the sun was rising on the other side of the world
And there's colour
And there's light and sensation
On the other side of the world

Now I breathe it
And I see it before thinking
And it's perfect
Without purpose

And there's colour
And there's light
And they're rising
On the other side of the world

 

[fox69]

"The River That Runs With Love Won't Run Dry"

"The River That Runs With Love Won't Run Dry"


Oh my father, he was born beneath the water
And my mother, she was born to no one's daughter
And I, I was born beneath the dying sun
Born from the mouth of a river that would not run dry

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la lie
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la lie
Oh, the river that runs with love, it won't run dry
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la lie

Well, I awoke this morning in the blackest night
And a million stars were aching in the sullen sky
And I heard the great machines as they bled and cried
And I saw the end of the world, I had no question why

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la lie
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la lie
Hold on to the one you love and kiss her before she dies
Oh, the river that runs with love, it won't run dry

Oh, my father made the water when he cried
But the river that runs with love, it won't run dry
And the sun will burn a hole in the purple sky
But the river that runs with love, it won't run dry

 

[fox69]

"The Seer"

"The Seer"


I see it all
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