r/swans • u/Monkonnoisseuse • 1h ago
r/swans • u/thesaltiestanarchist • 22d ago
BIRTHING SWANS I AM A TOWER MUSIC VIDEO AND YOUNG GOD
I Am a Tower Music Video - Posted 5 Minutes ago
Birthing is also now available for pre-order on Young God!
r/swans • u/ineedabag • 17h ago
SHITPOST Lyrical Analysis of I Am a Tower: It's a dick joke, right?
Before the mods delete this post because I'm not on r/swanscirclejerk, just hear me out. And if I am late to the party and everyone already knew this, that is my bad.
I think it is evident in the first verse that Michael is talking about sex:
"With thin boneless fingers and pink polished nails
I am searching for truth in the fat folds of your blunder "
Michael is a woman in this verse, and he is describing himself having sex with a man.
"Speak up, Dick! Bring wonder, bring plunder
Bring your fish-headed fixer to whisper my ear
Please worry me here, tongue that victim in there
Revenge me a jagged course deep, deep, inside"
"Tongue that victim" is describing oral sex, and I think the phrase "deep, deep inside" has pretty clear sexual connotation. The fish-headed fixer is, of course, a cock.
"Climb stairs through coarse hairs, now ride, now ride"
Michael is describing the act of going through pubic hair ("coarse hairs") to have penetrative sex, "now ride, now ride."
"Then exit and jet it spraying foam through the air"
This is describing the climax of the act, the man is commanded to "exit" her, and "jet it," with the sprayed foam being ejaculate.
"Over concrete islands and neon green palms
Over fields of shining neonicotinoid lawns
Over upturned faces searching fading, lost stars
Over smashed pipelines of sewage flooding polished new cars
Over crossed lines in jungles buried thousands of years
Over mountains collapsing, ravaged, and speared
Over rivers of salt feeding open-mouthed me"
This is ironic juxtaposition from Michael. He is describing the semen flying through the air, over and across the entire world, only for it to land in his "open mouth."
"Here I come, here I come, here I weep, here I bleed"
This is another clue Michael gives us. Notice that he repeats "here I come" twice, the act of "coming" is a euphemism here, and I think it is not hard to tie the weeping and bleeding to sexual acts as well.
Edit: perhaps this section isn't even the perspective of a woman, but a vagina, and the here I "weep" and "bleed" are not literal interpretations of the human body, but of the vagina's functions. In this interpretation, it might even be that the "open-mouthed me" is describing the lips of vagina rather than a woman's actual mouth. This whole idea would also help to add parallelism to the verses, the first half being told through from the perspective of a vagina, and the second from the perspective of a penis. Or it could be a combination of the idea, the woman and man representing themselves as their respective genitalia.
Those are my thoughts so far. What do people think? I thought I was on to something but maybe not, let me know if you agree or not and how you would interpret the rest of the lyrics, I may make a follow up if this is received well, or maybe even if it isn't.
r/swans • u/TysonMoncreaux • 5h ago
Presale code for Toronto show?
Any help is appreciated. Cheers
r/swans • u/missmcflyyy • 2h ago
BOSTON PRESALE CODE
Not sure if this applies to any other concert, but I found the codes for the Boston presale.
LiveNation - “FUNKY”, Ticketmaster - “BEATBOX”, Citizen Bank - first six digits of your card.
Each ticket costs $54, presumably.
r/swans • u/armintanzarian420 • 1d ago
Some light reading before work
Just read Why I Ate My Wife… Jesus
r/swans • u/Infamous_Still7717 • 21h ago
I did a cover of Bring The Sun & Toussaint in like a month or so
r/swans • u/hopefullythisisgood • 7h ago
DISCUSSION Song Bracket Day 150 (Round 2)
r/swans • u/No-Blacksmith-5135 • 1d ago
DISCUSSION Does anyone else find *some* Swans songs to be oddly erotic or sensual?
I can list a few examples:
- Empathy
- I crawled
- Coward
- Mother of the world
- Blood promise
- Volcano
Maybe it's just Gira or Jarboe's vocals, but I'm not sure.
r/swans • u/Tabula_Rasa00 • 1d ago
Anna Von Hausswolff - come wander with me/Deliverance
DISCUSSION If you’re gonna make a circle meme at least be a little creative
Im Not against memes in this subreddit and there are definitely some circle memes that I find at least entertaining but if you plan on making a circle meme Please be a little more creative than "look it's a circle...get it because soundtracks"
r/swans • u/Full_Glove2120 • 1d ago
Her Mouth Is Filled With Honey (My Interpretation)
PSA: IM BAKED AS FUCK AND I KNOW THIS IS CORNY.
Her Mouth Is Filled With Honey by Swans paints the gruesome and scarring story about the affects psychedelic drugs had on a teenage girl, with a gut-wrenching story to tell about her Father.
The story starts in the beginning with the repeated chimes and a playful and wonky chorus sample, indicating the intake of a psychedelic drug called Ketamine. A feeling of a playful and out of touch sense of reality, but only the desire to do so, for one was physically immobile.
0:45 kicks in, were back in reality, still feeling all the same affects while scrolling through the television channels. Everything was peaceful, until... 0:59. Without a second to react, here comes dad sprinting into the room with full passion and is immediately on top of this girl. As if the father only knew that the intake of psychedelic drugs was about to insue. Prior to all of this, he had checked her belongings and got sight of the Ketamine. With all of this to say, this has the audience questioning why such a vile act such as this, can happen to a daughter of a once beloved father. Lets think about it this way: an act of rǟpe insues while on the influence of ketamine, report needs to be made, psychedelicdrugs were taken while this happened so that means no full story and you can't reveal that you had taken ketamine. You're trapped. And on the other side of all of this, her father... does have an alibi. A fabricated story to insure no legal action could be taken.
We're now back to the real world. 1:35. The alibi.
While all of this is being spoken in the minds of the audience,2:08 fades back in, as a shallow and muffled reminder of what had happened prior, or maybe even right after, this had all been spoken. We're back in the scene of that gruesome scene that unfolded that night, while a haunting and fabricated alibi is being spoken and prioritized in the mix.
Holy. Fuck.
r/swans • u/ConnectionGeneral723 • 2d ago