All Lined Up Swans

I see them all lined up Like broken children at the wall Their skin is hanging off in sheets Each face is painted like a whore Their blood is shining in the sun Their wounds are powdered with white salt

I See Them All Lined Up Swans

I see them all lined up Like broken children at the wall Their skin is hanging off in sheets Each face is painted like a clown Their blood is shining in the sun Their wounds are powdered with white salt

Beautiful Child Swans

These are the things I hold onto These are the things I use to deceive myself I line them up in front of me I judge them carefully Then I throw them all away I throw them all away I am a small man I am

She Cries (For Spider) Swans

You can hear them out there They're gonna follow you down On the rocks In the air Inside your mind, they made you scared Of all the lies that have been told Of all the hearts now that have been sold Of

Swans Camera Obscura

There's flowers in my house And I bought them myself No surprises in the record collection You must have thought I was someone else I'm still afraid to get lost In a city I might explore But I'm

Reeling The Liars In Swans

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

Why Are We Alive? Swans

Now I'm not a man and I don't feel love And I don't see anything coming down from above But this world spins slowly and I see a light Rising up from behind the horizon up into the clear black sky But I

Why Are We Alive Swans

Now I'm not a man and I don't feel love And I don't see anything coming down from above But this world spins slowly and I see a light Rising up from behind the horizon up into the clear black sky But I

Song For A Warrior Swans

There is a growing Golden light a flower unfolding Behind the mirror of your eyes If an angel could hold it In his polished white hand I know he'd release it Like a bird to the sky Now you are the warrior

The Beggar Lover (Three) Swans

It's in the food I eat, in the air I breathe. It's in the people I love and they frighten me. I can see a black shadow shimmering just beneath their skin.

Red Velvet Wound Swans

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

This Is Mine (Young God EP) Swans

This is mine I own it I own this thing I hate everything that I don't own I own this I own this hole It's mine Get out of my hole It's mine It's mine When you touch my things, you spoil them When things

Meet Me Somewhere Nice Silver Swans

Do you like to hide inside somebody else’s dreams I don’t know how to be Was your shadow watching me?

The Memorious Swans

I see the turquoise lake spread out flat between the desert hills I feel the sun penetrate my skin I feel it melt the marrow in my bones I hear the engines grinding, relentless Crushing stone Crushing

Time Is Money (Bastard) (Time Is Money (Bastard) EP) Swans

Your body is private Your mind is sacred You should be violated You should be violated You should raped You should be raped I need you I need you I want them to do this to you I want them to do this to

A Piece Of The Sky Swans

and in love In petroleum plumes There's a floating slice of moon In your tooth and your claw and your unforgiving jaws Are you there In a burning white ship In the taste of her lips In the blood of the swans

God Damn The Sun Swans

When, when we were young, we had no history So nothing to lose meant we could choose Choose what we wanted then Without any fear or thought of revenge But then you grew old and I lost my ambition So I

Why Can't I Have What I Want Any Time That I Want? Swans

2] All wrong, wrong, wrong Wrong, wrong, wrong I am wrong in this skin But that's where my need for you begins With your nails through my hands On the hill that I till On the cross that I built Crying

Unforming Swans

Now I can't feel my fingers But I'm trying to breathe Where do I end?

You Know Everything Swans

And nothing is written in the book, reality is made by you And every lie that you pursue, eventually turns true And I was told that your eyes would shine a light up into space And infinity would then consume

You Know Nothing Swans

And nothing is written in the book, reality is made by you And every lie that you pursue, eventually turns true And I was told that your eyes would shine a light up into space And infinity would then consume

I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull Swans

Testing one, two, three Well well fuck, huh, I mean I just don't know what to say I'm very glad to be here with you tonight I'll be able to talk to you about some things that I know a great deal about

Blackmail (A Screw EP) Swans

Close your eyes Close your eyes Say the word I want to hear Come up behind me and hold on Close your eyes Close your eyes And close in around me Say you'll do anything for me Say you'll do what you don't

Blackmail Swans

Close your eyes Close your eyes Say the word I want to hear Come up behind me and hold on Close your eyes Close your eyes And close in around me Say you'll do anything for me Say you'll do what you don't

Little Mouth Swans

exist Teach the weak oh teach me please to cease to resist Through halls of glass through tunnels of chrome Through corridors of burnished stone Through fields of crystal and the shards of my bones May I

The Golden Boy That Was Swallowed By The Sea Swans

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

Eyes Of Nature Swans

No, we have never been here And we will never be gone I saw your voice rise up And cut into the heart of the sun I kissed the lips of a girl She took her first breath when this world was young I felt the

In The Eyes Of Nature Swans

No, we have never been here And we will never be gone I saw your voice rise up And cut into the heart of the sun I kissed the lips of a girl She took her first breath when this world was young I felt the

24 Hours Swans

bought one third you own everything shut off the possibility and wipe out imagination now the world stands still i'll take it with me to my grave wrap your bands around my neck now choke me slowly but i

Picture Of Maryanne Swans

these are the hands that hold the sun this is the water where life was first begun these are the eyes that saw you lying there this is the mind that will always remember i hold your hand with a heavy heart

The Beggar Swans

I'm sick of chewing at your heels I'm sick of licking up your spit What if I keep the power I give you? Will I then decide to live?

Minus Something Swans

There's been a lot of upsetting, very upsetting things that I can't allow to happen any more I have to be like a soldier and march away 'Cause I'm very delicate in a lot of ways, and things get to me and

Failure Swans

I, I've been lonely And I, I've been blind And I, I've learned nothing So my hands are firmly tied To the sinking leadweight of failure I've worked hard all my life Money slips through my hands My face

Faliure Swans

I, I've been lonely And I, I've been blind And I, I've learned nothing So my hands are firmly tied To the sinking leadweight of failure I've worked hard all my life Money slips through my hands My face

Our Love Lies Swans

love God save us now We believe in love We degrade ourselves But we dig our own grave Jesus Christ the Lord Save us now We believe in love We believe in love God save us now We believe in love You said all

Was He Ever Alive? Swans

When I die let me down In the field in the ground Where the water runs beneath me And the sky's red and falling down Round my eyes that I closed And the world that I know Is a shadow of a dream That left

Idylls of the King The Mountain Goats

This place with its old plantations These roads leading out to the sea This day full of promise and potential More clay pigeons for you and me All of them, all of them All of them, all of them All of them

Cop Swans

The punishment fits the crime Nothing beats humiliation Humiliation's a disease Nothing beats humiliation Nothing beats them like a cop with a club Nothing beats them like a cop in jail Nobody beats your

The Seer Returns Swans

life pours into my mouth There's a jagged deep crack in the crust of the earth, spreading from north to south Put your light in my mouth Ahh the mountains are crumbling Ahh the canyons are thundering All

The Other Side Of The World Swans

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

Song For The Sun Swans

The sun is rising over the buildings across the street The sun is God's face looking down at me as he cries for what he's done I will survive my life if I close my mind To all the things I could never,

The Child's Right Swans

See the cold water falling Across this child's face This ground will open up to him And swallow his disgrace He will go down there and suffer He will suffer like a Lamb His suffering is holy But his innocence

Yum Yab Swans

i saw a white finger on a barbed wire fence i knew it was dangerous but i took the risk and yes it was sweet so sweet to eat now see how the flesh is pricked and bleeds yeah it bleeds it bleeds yeah it

I'll Swallow You Swans

I love myself I was made for myself If I kissed you I lied I am made to be admired You made a mistake When you pressed your lips to mine I inhale what I see I steal what I breathe You are mine only mine

Eden Prison Swans

Within the walls of Eden Prison There is a mark upon a stone And in this place a life was written And there a stain was laid where I was born Now moving through the roots of trees Deep may their fingers

Yum-Yab Killers Swans

I saw a white finger on a barbed wire fence I knew it was dangerous but I took the risk And yes it was sweet so sweet to eat Now see how the flesh is pricked and bleeds Yeah it bleeds Yeah yeah it bleeds

The Beautiful Days Swans

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

Empathy Swans

You were wrong to resist me I was wrong to forgive Now I loathe my own weakness But you praise me for this There's a place in your future Where the wound will be healed And the children you injured Will

Power For Power Swans

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

Swans Prefab Sprout

Swans and their partners they stay Faithful forever or die on the water Foxes are only good for Ruffling feathers, leading lambs to the slaughter Swans effortlessly beautiful, take care!