Swan, Swan Filmography

• Las flores del vicio
  1979, role: actress , character name: Yo Yo

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Amnesia - Swans
• Beautiful Child - Swans
• Act 111 - Swans
• A Screw Holy Money - Swans
• 24 Hours - Swans
• (she's A) Universal Emptiness - Swans
• Clay Man - Swans
• Yrp - Swans
• Nobody - Swans
• Stay Here - Swans
• Greed - Swans
• Laugh - Swans
• A Fool - Swans
• Untitled - Swans
• Why Hide - Swans
• Why Are We Alive - Swans
• Mother's Milk - Swans
• Money Is Flesh - Swans
• See No More - Swans
• Thank You - Swans
• Stupid Child - Swans
• Red Velvet Wound - Swans
• Red Rose - Swans
• Mother/Father - Swans
• Your Property - Swans
• Young God - Swans
• You Need Me - Swans
• Volcano - Swans
• Turned To Stone - Swans
• Trust Me - Swans
• Unfortunate Lie [Instrumental Version] - Swans
• Twenty Four Hours - Swans
• This Is Mine - Swans
• The Sound - Swans
• The Most Unfortunate Lie - Swans
• The Great Annihilator - Swans
• The Golden Boy That Was Swallowed By The Sea - Swans
• Miracle Of Love - Swans
• Song For Dead Time [MG Version] - Swans
• Song For Dead Time [J. Version] - Swans
• Sex, God, Sex - Swans
• Saved - Swans
• Right Wrong - Swans
• Real Love - Swans
• One Small Sacrifice - Swans
• Nothing Without You - Swans
• No Cure For The Lonely - Swans
• New Mind - Swans
• My Own Hands - Swans
• My Buried Child - Swans
• Let It Come Down - Swans
• Killing For Company - Swans
• Job - Swans
• God Loves America - Swans
• Like A Drug (Sha La La La) - Swans
• Identity - Swans
• I Crawled - Swans
• I Am the Sun - Swans
• Hypogirl - Swans
• Her - Swans
• Helpless Child - Swans
• Heaven - Swans
• Half Life - Swans
• Freak - Swans
• Empathy - Swans
• Cop - Swans
• Final Sacrifice - Swans
• Cry Me a River - Swans
• Coward - Swans
• Blood Promise - Swans
• Blood On Your Hands - Swans
• Blood And Honey - Swans
• Blind Love - Swans
• Blackmail - Swans
• Big Strong Boss - Swans
• Can't Find My Way Home - Swans
• Blackout - Swans
• Animus - Swans
• All Lined Up - Swans
• Alcohol The Seed - Swans
• Anything For You - Swans
• Another You - Swans
• A Hanging - Swans
• Shimmer - Swans
• Song For Dead Time - Swans
• She Lives - Swans
• Raping A Slave - Swans
• Power For Power - Swans
• Power And Sacrifice - Swans
• Our Love Lies - Swans
• Ode To V - Swans
• Not Logical - Swans
• Mona Lisa Mother Earth - Swans
• Low Life Form - Swans
• Love Will Save You - Swans
• Love Of Life - Swans
• Like A Drug - Swans
• Lavender Girl - Swans
• Celebrity Lifestyle - Swans
• Cache Toi - Swans

The Sun Is An Acid Eye
We're Corroded With Pleasure Inside
There's A Hole In Your Thin White Skin
Now We'll Never Be Clean Again
Our Hands Are Two Broken Claws
We Scrape At The Ground For Hours
I Buried This Sound In The Floor
To Gain Control Of This Feeling
(Amnesia)
And This City's A Crowded Room
And The Earth Is A Closing Tomb
In My Hand Is Your Perfect Womb
When You Breathe Your Breath Is Obscene
My Heart Is A Lead Box
Ideas Are Shutting Locks
The Air Was Just Turned Off
And You're Sucking From This Machine
(Amnesia)
The Sun Will Not Rise Today
You Children Will Stay Where You Lay
The Oil Is Black And It's Thick
And Sex Is A Void Filled With Plastic
The President's Mouth Is A Whore
When There's Murder The Audience Roars
There's No Room Left For The Strong
Everything Human's Necessarily Wrong:

(Gira, Westberg, Parsons, Kizys)
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 not a dangerous man
I love a child
I love a beautiful child
I love a child
I love a beautiful child
I will hold this child in my arms
And caress his soft head
Listen to him cry
Listen to him cry
I can kill the child
The beautiful child
I will kill the child
The beautiful child
This is my life
This is my choice
This is my damnation
This is my only regret
This is my life
This is my life
This is my sacrifice
This is my life
This is my only regret
That I ever was born
This is my sacrifice

As your hands tightened around your throat
I knew that this time you would kill me
And like all the times before
When I didn't struggle
Because there was no use
Again I succumbed
Again the mask melts away

"A Screw (Holy Money)" by The Swans
Keep your head on the ground, push your all up. Move around, shake it, cry,
cry, cry, cry. Open your mouth, here's your money. Open your mouth, thi$ feel$
good. Here is your money, this is love. open your mouth, here is your money.

24 hours, split three ways.
Because you bought one third, you own everything.
Shut off the possibility, and wipe out the imagination.
Now the world stands still.
I'll take it with me to my grave.
Wrap your hands around my neck.
Now choke me slowly, but I won't die.
I know one thing, and one thing only: you are what you learn to need.
I'll surround myself with things that look like me.

And She Sits There By The Wall
Making Holes Where I Just Stood
And Her Hands They Touch Her Face
Like Her Face Is Made Of Wood
And She Holds On To A Memory
Of Something I Never Said
But She Still Can't Quite Remember
If My Eyes Are Blue Or Dead
She's The Mother Of Us All
She's The Victim Of My Sadness
And The More She Tries To Know It
The More She'll Never FIll It
She's A Universal Emptiness
A Universal Emptiness
She's A Universal Emptiness
And A Total Lack Of Faith
And I Saw Her Once Before
Down On Her Bended Knees
Through A Window Of The Church At Night
Confessing To The Broken Priest
She Is Holy, As All Women Are
And She Suffers Like A Saint
Yeah She Touched My Hand With Cruelty
But I Was Punished Far Too Late
She's The Mother Of Us All
She's The Victim Of My Sadness
And The More She Tries To Know It
The More She'll Never FIll It
She's A Universal Emptiness
A Universal Emptiness
She's A Universal Emptiness

get into this car. get into this car.
bow your head down. your flesh is soft.
your flesh is clay. flesh is easy to shape.
flesh is easy to shape. get into your cell.
get into your bed. your flesh is soft.
your flesh is clay. flesh is easy to shape.

I give you money,
You're superior.
I don't exist:
You control me.
You're corrupt,
You're deformed,
You're corrupt:
You control me.
Own me, own me,
Own me, own me,
I'm your property...
You're corrupt,
You're deformed.
You corrupt,
You deform me.
Own me, own me,
Own me, own me:

I Mean Nothing To Myself.
I Mean Nothing To Myself.
I'm Nothing, I'm Nobody.
I Hate My Body, I'm Stuck In Myself.
I'm Nothing, I'm Nobody.
I Don't Move, I'm Stuck In Myself.
I Hate My Body, I'm Stuck In Myself.
I'm Nothing, I'm Nobody.
I'm Nothing, I'm Nobody.
Glory!glory!glory!
Glory!glory!glory!

be strong
be hard
resist temptation
stick your hand in your eye
close your fist
resist
flex your muscles
walk on this line
look straight ahead
flex your muscles
be hard

You're Body Is Warm.
You're Hiding Yourself.
Sleep On This Bed.
Cover Yourself.
Nothing Will Go Wrong.
Protect Yourself.
Sleep On This Bed.
Hold On To Yourself.
Nothing Will Go Wrong.
Nothing Will Go Wrong.

choking while laughing
the dog splits open
his steel heart cracks
and his blood pumps out on the sidewalk
you laugh out loud
the sound hangs in the air
and discolors the walls
and poisons your mind
it sticks to your mind [x2]
bolt the door shut
and sit down at the table
while hiding your teeth
your insides split open

I'll Lie To Myself.
I'll Lie To Myself.
I'll Lie Down Here.
I'll Lie Down Here.
I'll Lie Down Beside You.
I'll Lie Down Beside You.
I'll Believe In Myself.
I'll Believe In A Lie.
I'll Cut Off My Right Hand And Stand In Your Shadow.
I'll Lie To Myself.
I'll Lie To Myself.
I'll Crawl All Over Myself And Stand In Your Shadow.
I'll Crawl All Over Myself And Stand In Your Arms.
I'll Lie To Myself.
Let Me Go.
Let Me Go.

Instrumental

My Heart Pumps
My Legs Move
I Sit Down
I Rot
I Hide My Stink
I Follow Directions
I Know How To Work
I Keep My Mouth Shut
I Know My Place
I Hide My Stink
I Need You More Than I Hate Myself
You Hurt Me Then You Hurt Yourself
Why Hide The Lie

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 don't see you in my line of sight

And I'll sleep in the sea
And I'll wait there beneath the mud
And forgotten dreams and disease
And what's the secret I'll drain from your soul
And sweet is the sugar I'll drink from your skull
And where is the wound that shines the blue light

Money's Flesh.
Money's Flesh In Your Hand.
This Money's Flesh.
This Money's Flesh In Your Hand.
When You Pay, Your A Servant.
You Deserve It.
You Deserve It.
Money's Easy To Get Out Of Your Flesh.
Money's Easy To Get Out Of Your Flesh.
Flesh Is Easy To Get When You Work For Your Money.
Flesh Is Easy To Get When You Work For Your Money.
When You Get Pain:you Deserve It.
When You Get Pain:you Deserve It.
You Deserve It.
You Deserve It.
You Deserve It.
You Deserve It.

See God's Sun Go Down Behind That Hill
See God's Sons Go Down That Lonely Road
See God's Sun Fall Behind That Hill In Darkness
See God's Sons Go Down That Godforsaken Road
Then See Us Need More
Then See No More
Then See No More
Then See No More
See Us Deliver Where Other Men Will Fail
See Us Hold Heaven While Others Burn In Hell
See Us God's Sons, Guarding Heaven's Gate
Then See Our Sun Go Black Because We Made One
Mistake
Then See Us Need More
Then See No More
Then See No More

Talk To Me
Tell Me The Truth
This Sells Sour
Burn My Face
This Smells Sour
Burn Me Now

I'm Your Stupid Child.
I'm Your Stupid Naked Child.
I'm Your Stupid Helpless Child.
I'm Ashamed Of What I Am.
I Like The Way That Feels.
I Like The Way That Burns Me.
I Like The Way That Dulls Me.
I Like The Way That Cuts Me Down.
I'm Your Stupid Child.
I'm Your Stupid Child.

And what do I do,
With the gift you present to me,
The one no one else would buy?
They would not accept the filthy premise of your most terrible innocence.
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 through morning light,

Put your hand on my shoulder.
Turn me around.
I'm helpless, I'm spinning.
Turn me around.
Turn me around.
I'll open myself, and I'll never close.
The red rose in my hand is my gift to you.
Turn me around, turn me around.
Put your hand on my shoulder and turn me around.
Over and over, turn me around.

Mother/Father
Hey hey,
Now mother father
Hey hey
Now my bloody mind
Hey hey
Now killer father
Hey hey
Now mother mind
There s a place in space where violence and love collide inside
And solid is wide
And heat is cold
And birth is death
And creation and time are made from destruction
From fucking destruction
Fucking destruction
Fucking destruction
Fucking destruction
Hey hey
Now mother father:
Now ride! now ride!

i give you money. you're superior.
i don't exist. you control me.
you're corrupt. you deform me.
you own me. you own me.
i worship your authority.
i worship your authority.
you're deformed. you're corrupt.

I Don't Know Where I Am
I'm Dancing In My Corpse
I Don't Remember Anything
I'm Wearing Your Flesh
Your Flesh Is My Face
I Love Your Face
I Wrap Your Flesh Around My Face
When I Wear Your Flesh I Love Myself
When I Wear Your Flesh I Love Face
I Wrap Your Flesh Around My Flesh
Then I Love My Flesh
I Love Your Face
All I Can Do Is Kill
All I Can Do Is Kill

I'm Sorry
I'm Sorry
I Won't Do It Again
I'm Sorry I Love You
I Won't Do It Again
I'm Sorry
I Need You
I Love You More Than Myself
I'm Sorry
I'm Sorry
I Won't Do It Again
I Am Your Only Friend
I Am Your Only Friend
A Screw (Holy Money)
Keep Your Head On The Ground
Push Your Ass Up
Move Around
Shake It
Cry
Cry
Cry
Cry
Open Your Mouth
Here's Your Money
Open Your Mouth
This Feels Good
Here Is Your Money
This Is Love
Open Your Mouth
Here Is Your Money
Holy Money
Holy Love
Holy Money
Holy Love

Your lipstick smear across your face,
Now toss your hair in dirty grace.
Pink leather strap on your guitar,
Now spread your legs - how bright you are.
Mmmmmm,
They all know your name, Collie,
Claw your way to fame...
There's a star in her eyes and she knows it,
There's a star in her mind year she shows it,
There's a star in her eyes and she knows it,
A star in her mind yeah she grows it...
And every evening the sun comes up when she goes down,
And every evening the mud fills up her bridal gown.
The little girl inside of you,
Has made her dreams come true.
And tonight you take the stage.
You wear a dress of blood and lace.
You left a stain where you have kneeled
But Collie, you're still invisible...
Your lipstick smear across your face,
Now toss your hair in dirty grace.
Pink leather strap on your guitar,
Now spread your legs just like a star...
And I'd like to eat her breasts and know God,
And I'd like to taste her flesh and grow hard,
And I'd like to eat her breasts and grow God,

When you are old and tired, and sickness breeds in you, I hope you forget me
then, forget what I've done to you.
You were my only friend.
Then I was half alive.
That's more than I could ever ask, but I took your trust and ruined you.
If you were here with me in this room, I'd stand right in front of you, and
beg you to forget, I was ever inside you.
You were the only thing I ever owned, worth anything at all, and still I
took your heart and held it and turned it to stone.
When you are sick and tired, and you're confined to your memory, throw me
out of your mind:

(Gira, Westberg, Jarboe)
Because I love you
I give you this
Don't be afraid of this
You can trust me now
Though we will deceive ourselves
You can trust me now
You can trust me now
Don't be afraid of this
It's not unusual
It's not unusual
Because I love you
You can trust me now
You will never know
You will never know
You can not trust me now
Don't be afraid of this
You can trust me now
It's not unusual
You can not trust me now
You will never know
It's not unusual

Instrumental

Twenty four hours, split three ways
Because you bought one third, you own everything
Shut off the possibility, and wipe out the imagination
Now the world stands still
I'll take it with me to my grave
Wrap your hands around my neck
Now choke me slowly, but I won't die
I know one thing, and one thing only
Tou are what you learn to need
I'll surround myself with things that look like me
I'll take them with me to my grave

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 Get Dirty I Spit Them Out
I Own This
I Own This
It's Mine

And wide are your delusions,
Deep red is the space behind your eyes,
Closed forever is the door to your troom,
But inside there lives the sound,
You despise,
But I love...
Mother, I was wrong.

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?

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

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

She holds a key to the room down there
And I, I will follow, but I'll never fall in
Yeah, we'll suffer for nothing, and we'll never forgive
God said to no one to do what he did
One second in your presence is a miracle of love
One second denied is a miracle of love
The young man is weakness in a lover's disguise
The woman is strong in her warm-bitter lies
How will they hope what they can never percieve?
And how do they love what they fail to decieve?
One second in your memory is a miracle of lies
One heartbeat in your body is a miracle of love
White light on a black sky is a miracle from above

Now the past is untrue, and this breath is a lie
And the sun is an emptiness, that burns through the sky
And this ground it will slide down, down into the sea
And when this body dies, no man will ever breath one word
Of ignorance, for me
So bury your trust beneath the ground with me
And lay your loneliness down for the sun to consume
Now the earth bleeds cold water, in my open hands
But their bodies bleed poison, and they swallow the sand
And we'll walk to the river, where we will die of a thirst
And my fate, it's no question: every fool he is broken
Beneath the same holy curse
So bury your trust beneath the ground with me
And lay your loneliness down for the sun to burn, to sand

Now the past is untrue, and this breath is a lie
And the sun is an emptiness, that burns through the sky
And this ground it will slide down, down into the sea
And when this body dies, no man will ever breath one word
Of ignorance, for me
So bury your trust beneath the ground with me
And lay your loneliness down for the sun to consume
Now the earth bleeds cold water, in my open hands
But their bodies bleed poison, and they swallow the sand
And we'll walk to the river, where we will die of a thirst
And my fate, it's no question: every fool he is broken
Beneath the same holy curse
So bury your trust beneath the ground with me
And lay your loneliness down for the sun to burn, to sand

I will pray
I will pray
I will go down low
And I will pray to you
Down as low as I can go
I will go there and I will pray to you
I will beg you
I will beg you lord
I will deny myself
I will deny you lord
Though I've done nothing wrong
Never in my live
No no no no no
I will beg you lord
And I will pray for you to forgive me now
I will go down to the centre of the earth
And I will curl up in flames
And I will beg you lord
Take me in your cruel arms
Take me down home
And will say
"Come into me, lord, come in now
Come on in
Praise the lord!
Praise God!"
Come into my heart, sweet lord
Come into my heart
I am open
I am torn apart
I am naked
And I am impure
I am sexless
I am foul
I am ignorant
And I am hateful
Forgive me lord
Come in
Come on in
Praise God
Praise the lord
Praise god
Praise the lord

Now I've Got Nothing To Look At
And I've Got No Pain To Deny
And I've Got No Body To Bleed For
And I've Got No Sun To Pull Down From The Sky
But I'm Saved, Yeah I'm Saved
And I Don't Understand It, I'm Saved
If Mercy Were To Hold Me Closely
And Hide Me In Her Place Of No Pain
The Angels Would Throw Down The Water
They Cried From One Hundred Million Eyes
And I Have A Feeling That's Growing
Somewhere Behind My Sleeping Mind
Yeah I'm Saved, I'm Saved
Yeah I Don't Know Why, But I'm Saved
When Sunlight Falls On Your Shoulder
You Look Like A Creature From Heaven
You're Holy When You Open Your Eyes
And Look Up Inside That Sheltering Sky
And You're An Angel, I'll Never Betray You
But I'll Always Be A Lonely Child
Yeah Still I'm Saved
I'm Saved
Yeah I Don't Deserve It

wrong or right
it's not right
wrong or right
it's wrong
use your body to get satisfaction [x2]
satisfy the dog, satisfy the dog [x2]
use your hands to build things
use your hands to break things
right or wrong
it's not right
right or wrong
it's right

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 there
With real love
Real love
Real love

Oh Jesus, oh jesus: you're my only girl.
You're my only god.
Oh jesus, oh jesus: I follow you now, forgive me now.
I'll 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.
Oh jesus, you're my only girl.
I'll look into your eyes, until I lose my mind.
Get out of my mind.
Get out of this place.
The air is gone.
You're my only girl.
You're my only god.
If I drink your blood, I will be like you.
Girl I want to be like you.
I will lose my mind.
You're my only god.

I'm weak and I'm slow, when you are near.
Defeated, I'll disappear.
I left myself, beneath your skin.
What were you?
Who was I then?
Look over there, against the wall.
There's a memory there: red hands, blood and hair.
I don't know where you are.

She'll go down there to nowhere soon
She'll stand there still with her head in the moon
I will be her nowhere man
We're not named until the end
Ooh ooh
That girl was so much better than me
But it always goes wrong
There's no cure for the lonely
With loneliness she'll sink in the sand
I feel the heat go out of her hand
We were born with our face to the wall
We only have one chance to crawl
When we laid down there I held your hand
And never feel your body again
Ooh ooh
Cut down the preacher, he just lies
Burn all the books that closed my mind
Destroy it all, it's all untrue

(Gira, Westberg, Parsons, Kizys)
In the place
Where no one knows
Where they were before
Or what they're doing where
They are now
I will be there
With my eyes wide open
I will be there
(I will be there)
I will be ready
To receive
The new mind
Now I am a man
Now I am a man
But I'm nothing now
And God is mine
Yeah God is mine
Yeah my sin is me
And God is mine
Now I am ready
Now I am ready
To receive
The new mind
Now people get ready
People get ready
The sex in your soul will damn you to hell
The sex in your soul will damn you to hell
Damn you to hell
Damn you to hell
I will be there
I will be there
When he calls my number I will be there
Let the light come in
Damn you to hell
Let the light come in
Damn you to hell
Now save your soul
Damn you to hell
Now save your soul
Damn you to hell
Save your soul
Save your soul
Save your soul