SWANS White Light From the Mouth of Infinity Better than You I'm so glad I'm better than you, I'm so glad I'm better than you are. I'm so glad I'm better than you, I'm so glad I'm better than you are. Sit here. Now look in the mirror - Something's wrong, your face is distorted. Feel the flow: there's blood in your body. And you can see clearly every heartbeat you make. Close your eyes, touch your mouth in the mirror - That's the wound that is made where the past meets the future. I'm so glad I'm better than you, I'm so glad I'm better than you are. I can see clearly through this veil of reality. And I can remember the feel of your skin. No you never knew me and you never will When nothing's there, nothing is concealed. I'm so glad I'm better than you, I'm so glad I'm better than you are. I'm so glad I'm better than you, I'm so glad I'm better than you are. Power and Sacrifice I want power, because it feels good. I want power - I'll wash America with blood. I want power: a clear blue light in the sky. I feel power, running through my veins and out my eyes And into empty, godforsaken minds without reality. I feel power. I feel a sacrifice. I am dead to right or wrong. I want power, just like our father knew. I want power, I'll put my hands in you. I want power, though the earth is lost and spinning. I feel power, buried in the ground where twenty million Died like heroes stealing this same power that I'm feeling. I feel power. I feel a sacrifice. Now my blood is feeling clean. And I feel the power burning like a spear inside of me. I feel good. I feel right. I feel a sacrifice. You know Nothing 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 this ordinary place You know nothing, you know nothing at all How could you know, you'll never know anything at all You'll never know, you'll never know anything at all You know nothing, you know nothing at all I saw you standing in the fire, beneath a crimson moon The ocean whispered on the sore, and echoed in the ruins Inside your body is a clear blue light, and time was made from this Your shadows swallow everything it feels. You punish us with bliss You know nothing, you know nothing at all How could you know, you'll never know anything at all You'll never know, you'll never know anything at all You know nothing, you know nothing at all Song for dead time 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 Will We survive I'll drink the moonlight from your hands I'll swim an ocean filled with sorrow No lover please don't go We can crucify tomorrow Let the sunlight feed the air Let it fill our lungs with lies We'll be memorized by shadows But our loneliness will survive Now the sugar in your soft voice Makes the sweetness in your weeping And the black rose that you swallowed Feeds the solitude you're dreaming No I'll never taste your tears again In the darkness that we're breathing in Now the sun will kill the garden In a universe that is bleeding. Love will save you Love will save you when the ocean splits itself in two Love will save you when the cold wind blows right through you Love will save you when the poison eats the precious air And love will save you from the snake that crawls around down there But it won't save me Love will save you from the evil and the greed of ignorant men And love will save you from the guilt you feel when you betray your only friend Love will save you from yourself when you lose control And love will save you from all the lies your lover ever told you But it won't save me Love will save you from the truth when you think you're free Love will save you from the cold light of boring reality Love will save you from the corruption of your lazy-minded soul And love will save you from your selfish and distorted goals But it won't save me Love will save you from the black night and the lightning and the ghost Love will save you from your misery, then tie you to the bloody post Love will save you from the hands that pull you down beneath the sea Love may save all you people, but it will never, never save me No it won't save me Failure 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 in the mirror tells me It's no surprise that I'm Pushing the stone up the hill of failure They tempt me with violence They punish me with ideals And they crush me with an image of my life that's nothing but unreal Except on the goddamned slaveship of failure I'll drown here trying to get up for some air But each time I think I breathe I'm laid on with a double share of the punishing burden of failure I don't deserve to be down here But I'll never leave And I've learned one thing You can't escape the beast In the null and void pit of failure When I get my hands on some money I'll kiss it's green skin And I'll ask it's dirty face "Where the hell have you been?" "I am the fuel that fires the engine of failure." I'll be old and broken down I'll forget who and where I am I'll be senile or forgotten But I'll remember and understand You can bank your hard-earned money on failure I saw my father crying I saw my mother break her hand On a wall that wouldn't weep But that certainly held in The mechanical moans of a dying man Who was a failure My back hurts me when I bend Because I carry a load My brain hurts me like a knife-hole Because I've yet to be shown How to pull myself out from The sucking quicksand of failure Some people live in hell Many bastards succeed But I. I've learned nothing I can't even elegantly bleed Out the poison blood of failure Song for the sun 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, never, never, never, never, never be You used to be there when I'd cry, though you'd not see fit to comfort me I don't need you anyway, and I'll never call you back to me But I miss the way your body looks when you lay there naked next to me But I won't cry, no, I will survive the light of the sun as it enters me Let it come right in, let the sun come in Let the sun come in, let it come in Let it come on it, let the sun come in Let the sun come in, let it come in Now they say that hell is a place where memory's dead and the only thing left is this moment moving further away But I will always try to remember the way you moved your lips against mine in the lonely bed If I forget who you were then, I will lose what I am now Forever and ever and ever and ever again But I won't cry, no, I will survive the light of the sun as it enters me Let it come right in, let the sun come in Let the sun come in, let it come in Let it come on it, let the sun come in Let the sun come in, let it come in Miracle of Love 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 bed of lies How will they hold what they can never perceive And how do they love what they fail to perceive One second in your memory is a miracle of love One heartbeat in your body is a miracle of love White light on a black sky is a miracle from above One lonely moment in your arms is the miracle of love When she breathes When she comes here then we'll see Then we'll know then we'll breathe In her shadow, the sun was born In her shadow a new world will form When she breathes when she breathes When she imagines that she breathes is me When she breathes when she thinks it once In the field steel grass will grow And from heaven she'll rain down the sun And turn the living into sand And we breathe her holy air And we walk this poison place Made from an emptiness where time was never Dreamed by one mind so sad as mine When she breathes when she breathes When she thinks it once when she breathes in me Why are we alive? 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 In fact I can't remember why we are alive 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?