Swans - Failure
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2017
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"I can't even elegantly bleed" must be one of the most self-hating lyrics I've ever heard
Kind of. It's followed by "out the poison blood of failure", which means he actually wants to get out of it. Bleeding in this context is meant to be purification, like when people used leeches to suck the impurities from your blood.
Loathing and sorrow worldly contention
@@zorochii flagellation purge thorns heal yet hurt
@@zorochii Exactly, my friend in suffering ...
I only wish that the song ended EXACTLY there and didn't go for the refrain. But I didn't make it, did I? lol
Michael Gira wasn't on Rolling Stone magazine's list of greatest singers, which makes the list a failure.
I'd consider that a success
@@justken1337 for him at least
He talks through the whole song. Hardly Janis Joplin
@@adamfuckindrover Nah, he's even better.
@@adamfuckindroverjanis who
"and they tempt me with violence, and they punish me with ideals. And they crush me with an image of my life that is nothing but unreal"
Reality
hi kirk
@@ionlyusepics hi
@@UntitledKirk you noticed me😃 ive seen you in comment sections for like 4 years
@@ionlyusepics haha yeah i comment a lot
This song has some of the most potent lyrics I've ever heard. Each line paints a vivid picture in my mind of a man below rock bottom.
I too listened to this song on Acid
Read about the 2003 suicide of Englishman Boyd Taylor. It will rock your core. This song must be playing in that man's mind since he was 14 years old....
@@connervandellen1411 good lord man, that's insanity.
@@Dilberto88 That takes some topping... but there are often good reasons for the self perpetuator, if it is evidentially so premeditated and non-impulsive, and that one was done correctly. A studied work of art in auto-euthanasia. He has my understanding.
Every facet of Swans is beautiful. Some are terrifying, some are jarring, some are uncomfortable, some are ethereal, some are ephemeral, some are lofty, some are dreamy, but they are all beautiful. An exploration of the human experience itself.
Well spoken, my good sir!
Art is meant to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
Why don't you marry em
Absolute classic. "I can't even elegantly bleed."
"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 its green skin
And I'll ask its 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 lie in Hell
Many bastards succeed
But I, I've learned nothing
I can't even elegantly bleed
Out the poison blood of failure
it is not failure, it is recognition of the shit of our world. That shit can cause things to grow
Some people lie in Hell....
probably one of the greatest feel-bad songs i’ve ever heard. the lyricism is masterful and really illustrates the morbid nature of humanity, and i get goosebumps every time I hear the (sort-of) chorus. for a six-minute track which alternates between two short musical segments the whole time, i’m surprised that i don’t get bored listening to this song, and it’s easily one which is in the Swans’s top ten tracks of all time.
His voice is like some kind of magnet or witchcraft than doesn't allows me to stop listening until the song its over
His voice is literally made for gothic music its unbelievable.
Yep, It's about that fucking time again.
Your comment had me dying from laughter
Your comment had me eating my own Monsters.
It is kind of a relief when you realize you are never leaving the hole.
I have accepted it.
FIGHT.
Black Hole.
Trying to push the boulder up the hill of failure. All is senseless...
i listen to this song and for a very long time it felt like a perfect image of my mind and my life and my future, but it starts to feel too pathetic to accept after a while. too painful, so i can't even sit in my hole and rot. so now i am trying to do something, and maybe i am less conscious of my decay. time will tell if i achieve anything
Da hole can SOCK ME!
@@karisumataichou Good luck with that. I tried. Da hole won...
"my back hurts me when I bend"
Me too, Michael, me too....
2024 🎉 Swans, brilliant!!
Band davvero unica...li ascolto da 30 anni...mai abbandonata la loro musica di quegli anni ...sfornavano capolavori. Seguo anche i lavori recenti ma in quegli anni erano ispiratissimi. Saluti da Napoli (Italia)
Darkest song ever written.
This is what living on earth dancing to a corrupt system sounds like. All generations will find something relatable here.
I'm getting back to this song from time to time. When I'm in public transport (bus, tram), and listening to this song, I'm looking at the faces of the passengers. Their faces are sad. And I'm thinking of their lives, thinking of my own. Been listening to Swans for 10 years or so. This song is special for me.
''I'm the fuel that fires the engines of failure''
Beautiful line to describe the money
yanquiuxo ohh, you see money in it? Sad... Or is it hilarious? Wait, could it be both?
it's not that i see it, he was talking about it, that line is like the answer that money itself gives to him... it's sad
yanquiuxo so you really think that it is money he is talking about/from?
yanquiuxo money gives you answers?
yanquiuxo it seems that you forget something...
This song describes how i felt after I graduated high school.
accurate
Same
Lol! Awesome. 😂👍
Hope you found your way, dude.
You're definitely not alone.
You know nothing
Swans: they crush me with an image of my life that is unreal except on the goddamned slave-ship of failure
Burger King: Sir would you care to order this is a drive through
This song has a significant place in my life for years
I relate to every word of this song. It hit me straight in the chest when I first heard it over a decade ago when I was still in high school.
I’ve dropped 2 of my 5 college courses this semester after failing 2 last semester, I’ll still keep going but dear lord it feels like something really doesn’t want me to
Nitro, keep with it. I've felt that way all my life, it doesn't stop, it does however, seem to be more bearable, perhaps it's only familiarity that's working, but bearable.,
I can't listen to SWANS on anything but top volume
Me too!! With headphones
@@kevinspencer4163 you fucking people make me sick
think about your ears!
The song that most exactly describes my life...
Next to Love Will Save You. Shit happens.
How can one pull oneself out
FAILURE
Mine too, sadly.
Swans are extreme in every possible way.
Extreme loud in theire beginning, extreme catchy in theire next stage, extreme dark yet extreme beautyfull.
I always avoided them because of all the horrorstorys about their early Works like filth or cop.
Man, was i ignorant!!
And were extremely shit at Arctangent festival last year.
And even after so many years of feeling this. ...I'm still dying here trying ..........
It doesn't get better.
[Verse 1]
And 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 lead weight of failure
[Verse 2]
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 am
Pushing the stone up the hill of failure
[Verse 3]
And they tempt me with violence
And 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
[Verse 4]
And 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
[Verse 5]
I don't deserve to be down here
But I'll never leave
And I, I've learned one thing
You can't escape the beast
In the null and void pit of failure
[Verse 6]
When I get my hands on some money
I'll kiss its green skin
And I'll ask its dirty face
"Where the hell have ya been?"
"I'm the fuel that fires the engines of failure"
[Verse 7]
And I'll be old and broken down
And 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
[Verse 8]
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
[Verse 9]
My back hurts me when I bend
'Cause I carry a load
And my brain hurts like a knife-hole
Because I've yet to be shown
How to pull myself out from the sucking quicksand of failure
[Verse 10]
Some people lie in Hell
Many bastards succeed
But I, I've learned nothing
I can't even elegantly bleed
Out the poison blood of failure
This feels like someone's dragging a serrated knife down the center of my torso. I love it.
everything is so well mixed and mic'd. huge props to gira and thirlwell.
Wait Thirwell helped with this?
@@youtubeuserdan4017 yep he was engineer for this album. as far as i know it was the only collaboration between them apart from cop!
@@frogspawn_johnson37that awesome. I love them both.
First heard this song on the local punk radio show in 1992. Was a very dark time in my life. Didn't know who it was but it was engraved in my mind deeply all these years. So good.
The most truthful song eveR....
More brutal than any Swan song to this day. A gaze down into the abyss. And it stares back at you.
I listened to this album for the first time today and this song really stuck out and resonated with me. Great stuff
we all don't deserve to be down here...but we'll all never leave...
When I met Pat Essex it was my first day washing Kegs at Bell’s Brewery. I had washed over a hundred Hoff-Stevens kegs that day. You’d drill out the wood bung and stick a long screw driver into to pull it out. It was winter and the steaming “caustic” agent burned your lungs as you moved the keg through the three stations (hot water, caustic and cold rinse). I got done late because I didn’t know what I was doing. I walked into the bar to get my shift beer and a tall really good looking man with the same dumb blue coveralls was leaning against the bar. I’m saying he was handsome as an observation. A fact. He asked me to help him cellophane an open fermenter. When we finished he gave me a ride home in a hick looking Ford truck from the ‘80s. Again just am observation. He put a clear cassette tape into the stock tape player. This song plays. We don’t speak. I knew the Swans. How did this all fucking American and what was so bad about his life? It reinforced in me that everyone has pain. Some wallow in it. It feels good to feel that darkness sometimes. You hold to it and know that somehow you feel more in touch with Sisyphus. But we’re surrounded by others with different sized rocks and different sized hills.
Still so absolutely beautiful a song !!
"I don't deserve to be down here/But I'll never leave."
One of the most heartbreaking songs I've heard in the last
thirty years. Anybody who have found themselves in debt, will
recognise the mordant sentiments expressed in this brilliant
track. The flipside of Iggy's "Success".
Thanks for posting it. I saw the group in 1992, and this track
brought the audience to a standstill. A few were openly weeping.
Rob Jones If you can get the live video that'd be amazing.
Thanks for the recommendation.
Swans were a magnificent band onstage.
Rob Jones weeping? This song is hilarious 😂...
Try Mihály Víg - Valuska or Mono - Yearning or WEG - Bless Yourself Bleed for weeping about something very special (but you have to listen and if you can't because it doesn't reach your heart, to push that volume way up) .
This song was about Michael's father.
Heard the items you mentioned, very interesting indeed.
It isn't the league of Swans' aforementioned track or Billie Holiday's
"For All We Know", Leonard Cohen's "The Partisan", Nick Drake's
"Riverman" and Sinatra's "It's A Lonesome Old Town" from his
classic "suicide" album " Only The Lonely".
Rob Jones Who was his father? And do you know, if his father could laugh about himself? And what about you? And you?
If you like sad music, there is an unknown duo called Little Eskimo Jesus. Maybe you can laugh a bit there..
"My brain hurts like a knifehole"
Lyrics...as I wrote them... feel it with every bone in my body... I can't even elegantly bleed ..🖤🖤🖤.
The most immediately arresting song I've ever encountered. An absolute masterpiece.
The song I sing along with on my birthday.
this song sounds like ugly truths.. just what i wanted
I can’t imagine anyone who would not be affected by this.
This masterpiece describe what I am, what I think and what I feel in this time of my life...
Did you change after you wrote that?
i know this song it have been with me since the 90s .and just find it fantastic ..and im married ,have a house and a car and a job that pays pretty good ,,but it sure is not happiness ,happiness was youth ,freedom,candle lights ,music,cheap wine ,pizza in a worn down apartment and no worries at all .
change
So your happiness was an illusion?
Selective memory. Worries are relative and our brain adapts to different levels of stress+worry so it equals out. If you long for the future or the past you'll always be miserable.
@@vincebelanger361 i guess you are right, life has never been miserable, well I had a miserable period when my mother died, but that is just normal, other than that it is just like life has become a routine and I'm not a big fan of that :), don't even need an alarm clock to wake me up in the morning to get to job :D and that is scary :)
@@isaacp.m.305 all good for 50 years i guess im The elder now and must take it from that 🙉😂
Perfect description of samsara
This song is cure for depression, if you know how to listen..
Wow im just now hearing swans and im in love hell yea
I don't deserve to be down here
But I know I'll never leave
On the god damn slave ship of failure!
This song is the anthem of what it’s like to live in 2019
Mr Walkway way too much coincidence about stepping voluntary to this song,relating to it and reading your comment in this right time of my life.Damn,gotta find a way out
What is your anthem in 2020?
try 2020 ... its a humdinger.
Nah, it's the anthem of just living
2023. You still with us bro?
Amazing! I love Swans!
Thank you
Idk if there’s any other song that i feel as deeply as this one.
Incredible song
Just the perfect song
This is one of the most devastating songs that I have ever heard.
How he managed to go through this and come out alive is beyond me.
It’s not necessarily autobiographical
@@spacefertilizer What do you think?
@@superkatarsis I don’t think it is. He might pick some instances from his own life, but as a whole he’s just telling us stories.
@@spacefertilizer Maybe, none of us know.
Dignity whatever you're going through
But we all are yet to be SHOWN. ..! ♡♡♡ ThankYoU Mr. Gira.............♡
awesome
Still brilliant, since yesterday!!!
the best band. Respect Mr Gira and Friends
Gives many joy and pleasure .I saw SWANS on autumn 2017 in Bologna but I need more ...another vision with THEM and with You Michael .
IMPAGABLE, y SUBLIME !!
This song commanded my reevaluating my life, my experiences, brutal honesty about who I've become and how much did I influence negativity into that. I've been listening to Swans and Michael Gira since the mid eighties (one of my good decisions) and I always get a positive vibe from listening to and following this music. Not intending to sound like the 'oh how you changed my life with your music' crowd, but my taste did in fact change for better.
Probably the greatest song ever written.
love you, too
Well said Diego.
love you too uncle gira 😘
I am Openly Weeping. For so many things.
Kristine Kearney do those things relate to you?
♡
an anthem for 2020
I can't believe I grew up to be sad
this... god damn song.
I CANT EVEN ELEGANTLY BLEED.
Swans give a spiritual and beyond the realms kinda sound.
My goal in life is to never relate to this song.
james guillory I will laugh for you when you can.
good luck
We might as well never have been born at all, I had a brain haemorrhage in 2010 when I was thirty, will be forty this year and sometimes wish that I would have died that night.
Isn't it like we all have moments in life when we relate to it?
@@gerrypeacemaker9407 i hope you're doing better from when you wrote this.
This is Game Over music
Finest moment in the history of western culture.
I listen to this every night before bed, whenever I manage to sleep at least, to remind myself of what I truly am.
relateble
Going down that path...
Regardless, great song, as the album as a whole.
Man, let me subtitle this master-piece so I can share it's greatness with my friends
Just one of a few albums that I couldn't get into...... I'll give it another try in year 2019
let us remember
Hurtful Truth
I miss this epoch
🖤
"You can't escape the Beast"
And you can't fade the gangster
Damn.
You can bank your hard earned money on failure
ACE!!!!!!!!!!!!
One new years night I was spending with my boyfriend and friend we were all doing nothing and as soon as it turned midnight i put this song on to bring in the new year. Better than auld lang syne. Lol.
Wow I’m sad now
You will never be crushed like this by anything. Listen to your grindcore or emo or anything in a mosh pit. You will not be destroyed the way Swans can to you. And always have and will.
this vinyl is every time on heavy rotation (no pun intended) on my stereo. ps: i would like an EU shop to buy from, anyway... bye.
Hey, my theme song!
How I feel exactly.
papà
Fuck me. Bukowski could have written this, brilliant
This is what post-nut guilt sounds like
Mr. Gira, you are and outstanding musician, but this doesn't give me neither joy nor pleasure
I dont think its supposed too. For me it feels rotten in a strangely alluring way.