Does anyone actually understand what Michael Gira is singing about? Most of the time I sure as hell don't, well at least from White Light and forward.
>I NEED LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE
what did he mean by this?
Seriously though, I get it. I like his lyrics not because I get them but because somehow they fit and the words and sentences are imaginative and vivid enough for me. Most of the time I can't make sense of them but I like them.
muscles
OXYGEN
OXYGEN
BREATHEEEEE I CAN'T BREATHEEEEE
swans' lyrics nowadays can be seen as the same as their music, kind of just a mantra or phrase that repeats until any meaning it might have had to begin with disappears
that said with songs like 'some things we do' I think the mundanity and repetition serves to emphasise how meaningless everything we do is - when he says 'we love' over and over again it feels like he's exposing love as something that doesn't really exist despite us tricking ourselves into feeling it
I dunno though who cares
If it's early Swans, he's singing about rape, if it's latter, then he's singing about God
>>60959798
Someone less privileged then you should use you.
>>60959816
Someone weaker then you should rape you.
>>60959833
You should be violated.
>>60959876
You should be raped.
>>60959816
I get what you mean. I always figured it has with him doing so much acid in his early teens that made him express himself artistically in that cryptic way.
>>60959899
And the 90s?
>>60959923
ebin
>>60959925
I think Children of God was the turning point in their themes and lyrics. I dunno.
>>60959876
I think you're spot on.
>>60959899
In all eras of Swans he is singing about the same things, Gira writes songs out of the basest of human instincts, desires, and fears.
