The Memorious Songtext
von Swans

I see the turquoise lake spread out flat between the desert hills
I feel the sun penetrate my skin
I feel it melt the marrow in my bones
I hear the engines grinding, relentless
Crushing stone, crushing stone

Giant steel insect arms rise up in clouds of rust
Then they pivot and they groan as they violate and they thrust
Down we ride into the pit
First we′re swallowed, then we're folded into it

Inside our gouged mouth new home is a liquid that is velvet, black and slick
It slides down our throats and it fills up our lungs
Feeding young minds with thickened oil and blackened scum
Clawing blind, pounding rock, killing light with grit and grime
Breaking hands, marking time, sucking dust, oh, sucking dust
Sweating copper tears that are sent up in buckets to the crust


But way, way, way up high
There′s a square hole that opens out to the sky
Exhaling hollow thoughts that, like sparrows, now fly
Scattering tiny shadows over continents of pale and hardened mud
Following a clear and singing thread
That leads us backwards to a home that never really was

Deep in the guts of the earth, we work, we work
Deep in the heart of the hurt, we work, we work
Shoveling red powder and dirt, we work, we work
Digging a hole that leads to our birth, we work, we work
We were, we were, we were, we were
We are, we were, we are, we were

Because my eyes are made of glass
I drink the sand to sift the past
The shifting tides have come to rest
In shallow pools inside my chest

I am the man who drags his chains
Along the road that navigates
The shit, the slop, the butter and fat
My map is carved into my back


Reality is blazing bright
Beneath the sky, all creatures rise
With arms entwined, the livings, the dead
In matter, in mind, simultaneous
I praised your lips, I praised your skin
Our future stops where time begins

I remember, we were, we were
Gone forever, we were, we were
But remember, we were, we were
Gone forever, but we were, we were

We were, we were, we were, we were
We are, we were, we are, we were
We are, we were, we are, we were
We are, we were, we are, we were