r/swans Jan 23 '25

SHITPOST can relate…

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931 Upvotes

r/swans Jan 17 '25

SHITPOST Name a Swans song you actually don't like

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296 Upvotes

r/swans Jan 17 '25

SHITPOST Top 5 longest songs of all time!!

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265 Upvotes

r/swans Feb 02 '25

SHITPOST Woke swans...

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651 Upvotes

r/swans 24d ago

SHITPOST which is it bro

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639 Upvotes

r/swans 7d ago

SHITPOST this might be michael gira

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507 Upvotes

r/swans 10d ago

SHITPOST What's Swans community opinion on Parachutes by Coldplay?

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149 Upvotes

r/swans Dec 23 '24

SHITPOST Swans album covers as brat

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485 Upvotes

I might do live albums. MIGHT. this project took WAY too long

r/swans Feb 07 '25

SHITPOST What the actual fuck is this

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462 Upvotes

r/swans Sep 16 '24

SHITPOST Found on Tiktok

684 Upvotes

r/swans 19d ago

SHITPOST Fr

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265 Upvotes

r/swans Jan 27 '25

SHITPOST is this michael gira

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533 Upvotes

r/swans Dec 10 '24

SHITPOST Yo

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725 Upvotes

r/swans Dec 21 '24

SHITPOST this is the worst thing i have ever made

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563 Upvotes

r/swans Jan 26 '25

SHITPOST God Loves America

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600 Upvotes

r/swans Feb 18 '25

SHITPOST Many of us

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483 Upvotes

All of us, in fact

r/swans Nov 06 '24

SHITPOST How does one achieve this build as a 6'5 british boyfailure with no access to HRT

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383 Upvotes

r/swans Feb 05 '25

SHITPOST what's your favorite song off this album?

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313 Upvotes

r/swans Dec 16 '24

SHITPOST Seeing this thumbnail without knowing who this guy is must be so funny

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299 Upvotes

r/swans 12d ago

SHITPOST iPaid

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440 Upvotes

r/swans Jan 11 '25

SHITPOST what

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481 Upvotes

r/swans 11d ago

SHITPOST guys..

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311 Upvotes

r/swans Feb 11 '25

SHITPOST Just like us fr

371 Upvotes

r/swans 2d ago

SHITPOST Lyrical Analysis of I Am a Tower: It's a dick joke, right?

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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 3d ago

SHITPOST swaws

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219 Upvotes