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Swans - The Glowing Man lyrics



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01. Cloud Of Forgetting

Walking out
Counting up
Breathing there
Reaching out
Reaching out

God, God
God
Leaving
Leaving now

Surrender! Surrender!
Take us! Take us!

The sun
A son
A child
A son

I see us
Take us!
I see us
Take us!

02. Cloud Of Unknowing

Ah I
I am, I am, I am, I am
Ah I am
I am not
I am not

Ave!
Ave!
Ave!
Ave!

I am calling
Calling
I am calling
Calling

Aaaah! Aaaah!

Monster eater
Jesus feeler, feeler (Jesus feeler)
Zombie (Zombie)
Zombie (Zombie)
Sucker, sucker (Sucker, sucker)
Zombie healer, healer (Zombie, zombie healer)
Monster eater (Eater)
Monster eater (I am washing)
I am washing (I am calling your son)
I am washing your skin
Your son, your skin
I am watching (I am washing)
I am calling (I am washing)
I am washing (Your skin)
I am watching (Your skin)
(Your son)
I am watching your skin (your son)
Your skin (Your son)
Your son
Your son
Your son
Your son

03. The World Looks Red / The World Looks Black

Push it away
The world looks red
People with fish eyes
The ground sucks
Walk on my fingertips
Displacing the fog (Silver, na na, silver)
The weight of my body (Silver, na na, silver)
Is too much to bear (Silver, na na, silver)
The memory drains (Silver, na na, silver)
The life from a dog (Silver, na na, silver, silver, silver)
An ocean of insects (Silver, na na, silver)
Works like a sheet (Silver, na na, silver, silver, na na)
The immoveable fact (Silver, na na, silver, silver)
Buries my mind (Silver, na na, silver, silver, na na)
Bury my mind (Silver, na na, silver)
Bury my mind (Silver, na na)
Bury my mind (Silver, na na)
Bury my mind (Silver, na na, silver)
In a horse-hair coat (Silver, na na, silver, silver)
In a pile (Silver, na na, silver)
On the floor (Silver, na na)
On the floor (Silver, na na)
On the floor (Silver, silver, na na, silver)
Bury my mind
Bury my mind (Silver, na na, silver)
Mother, bury my mind, mother, bury my mind
Mother, bury my mind, mother, bury my mind
Mother, bury my mind, mother, bury my mind
Mother, bury my mind, mother, bury my mind
Mother, bury my mind, mother, bury my mind
Mother, bury my mind, mother, bury my mind
Bury my mind, mother bury my mind
Bury my mind, mother bury my mind
Mother bury my mind, mother bury my mind
Mother bury my mind, bury bury my mind
Bury bury my mind, bury bury my mind
Bury bury my mind, bury bury my-

Follow the Sleeper Man, follow the Maker Man
Follow the Keeper Man, follow the Leaver Man
Follow the Sleeper Man, follow the Maker Man
Follow the Keeper Man, follow the Leaver Man
Follow the Sleeper Man, follow the Sleeper Man
Follow the Sleeper Man, follow
Follow, follow, follow, follow
Follow, follow, follow, follow
B-b-bombs are going, b-b-bombs are going
B-b-bombs are going, b-b-bombs are going
B-b-bombs are going, b-b-bombs are going
B-b-bombs are going, b-b-bombs are going
Follow the Sleeper Man, follow the Maker Man
Follow the Sleeper Man, follow the Maker Man
Follow the Sleeper Man, follow the Sleeper Man
B-b-bombs are going, b-b-bombs are going
B-b-bombs are going, b-b-bombs are going
B-b-bombs are going, b-b-bombs are going
B-b-bombs are going, b-b-bombs are going
Follow, follow, follow, follow
Follow, follow, follow, follow
Follow, follow, follow, follow
Follow, follow, follow, follow
Follow the Sleeper Man, follow the Maker Man
Follow the Sleeper Man, follow the Maker Man
Follow the Sleeper Man, follow the Maker Man
Follow the Sleeper Man, follow the Sleeper Man
Follow the Sleeper Man

04. People Like Us

We're drifting goodbye
On a rust-colored cloud
Oh fallopian friends
Abandon us now
Our cisterns 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 the muck
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 coming 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

05. Frankie M.

Frankie M
Frankie M
Frankie M
Frankie M

Live again
Live again
Rise again
Rise again
Who's your friend?

Frankie M
Frankie M
Frankie M
Frankie M
Frankie M

Clean your eye
There's a sign
There's some time
Clean your mind

Frankie M
Frankie M
Frankie M
Frankie M
Heroin
Heroin
Opium
Opium
Methedrine
Methedrine
MDMA
MDMA

Butterfly
Butterfly
Butterfly
Butterfly

Break a glass
Stab his eye
Choke his neck
Nothing's left

Butterfly
Butterfly
Butterfly
Butterfly

Frankie M
Frankie M
Frankie M
Frankie M
Now don't die
Now don't die
Now don't die
Frankie why

Now don't die
Now don't die
Now don't die
Now don't die
Now don't die
Now don't die
Now don't die
Now don't die
Now don't die

Now don't die
Now don't die
Now don't die
Now don't die
Now don't die
Now don't die

06. When Will I Return?

One, two, three, four

His hands are on my throat
My key is in his eye
I'm splayed here on some curb
Shards of glass
A starry night
When will this pig-man stop?
His stink is like a dog
My life is mine to keep
I still kill him in my sleep
The car door is open wide
The mouth of death still calls my name
I'll beat him on his face
And I stab with all my strength
And I scream until he goes
I scream until he's gone
Then I crawl across the road
Then I crawl across the road
When will I return?
When will I return?

(Aaaaaah)
Oh I'm alive
(Aaaaaah)
Oh I'm alive
(Aaaaaah)
Oh I'm alive
(Aaaaaah)
Oh I'm alive
(Aaaaaah)
Oh I'm alive
(Aaaaaah)
Oh I'm alive
(Aaaaaah)
Oh I'm alive
(Aaaaaah)
Oh I'm alive

07. The Glowing Man

He's a real go-getter, getter
He's a real heart-breaker, breaker
He's a real head-splitter, splitter

No no no no no no no!
No no no no no no no!
No no no no no no no!
No no no no no no no!
No no no no no no no!
No no no no no no no!

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

No no no no no no no!
No no no no no no no!
No no no no no no no!
No no no no no no no!
No no no no no no no!
No no no no no no yes!
No no no no no no yes!
No no no no no no no!
No!

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 tongue 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 making my body fly
Joseph is making my body fly
Joseph is me and you are a liar!
Joseph is me and, ah you are a liar!
Joseph is me and, ah you are a liar!
Joseph is me and, ah 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'm a nothing, nothing man
I'm a nothing, nothing man
I'm a growing, glowing man
I'm a growing, glowing man
I am a no-no-no-no-nothing man
I'm a no-no-no-no-nothing man

What is is is is is is is is is is is is is what?
What is is is is is is is is is is is is what?
What is is is is is is is is is is is is what?
What is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is is what?

08. Finally, Peace.

With glittering hands on collapsible land
We're praising the sun for the damage he's done
A ruinous eyesore, oh what is a mind for?
Just a knife in a lake, just an arrow in space
All creation is hollow, and a picture's a shadow
Just a symptom of love, with a lack of a cause
Now the city's dissolving, and heaven's inhaling
While the ocean is thinking of a surface reflecting:

Your glorious mind, your glorious mind
Your glorious mind, your glorious mind
Your glorious mind, your glorious mind
Your glorious mind, your glorious mind
Your glorious mind (Your glory is mine)
Your glorious mind (Your glory is mine)
Your glorious mind (Your glory is mine)
Your glorious mind (Your glory is mine)
Your glorious mind (Your glory is mine)
Your glorious mind (Your glory is mine)
Your glorious mind (Your glory is mine)
Your glorious mind (Your glory is mine)
Your glorious mind (Your glory is mine)
Your glorious mind (Your glory is mine)
Your glorious mind (Your glory is mine)
Your glorious mind (Your glory is mine)
Your glorious mind (Your glory is mine)
Your glorious mind (Your glory is mine)
Your glorious mind (Your glory is mine)
Your glorious mind (Your glory is mine)
Mine, mine
Mine, mine
Mine, mine
Mine, mine
Mine, mine