Frankie M is another song dedicated to someone. (Like Jim of ‘My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky’ or Nathalie Neal of ‘To Be Kind’). This person seems to be already dead, and the cause were drugs.
[Instrumental: 00:00 - 12:17]
[Refrain]
Frankie M, Frankie M
Frankie M, Frankie M
[Verse 1]
Live again, live again
Rise again, rise again
Who's your friend? Frankie M
[Refrain]
Frankie M, Frankie M
Frankie M, Frankie M
[Verse 2]
Clean your eye, there's a sign
There's some time, clean your mind
[Refrain]
Frankie M, Frankie M
Frankie M, Frankie M
[Verse 3]
Heroin, heroin
Opium, opium
Methedrine, methedrine
MDMA, MDMA
[Refrain]
Butterfly, butterfly
Butterfly, butterfly
[Verse 4]
Break a glass, stab his eye
Choke his neck, nothing's left
[Refrain]
Butterfly, butterfly
Butterfly, butterfly
Frankie M, Frankie M
Frankie M, Frankie M
Now don't die, ah, don't die
Now don't die, Frankie why?
[Outro]
Now don't die, now don't die
Now don't die, now don't die
Now don't die, now don't die
Now don't die, now don't die
Now don't die
Now don't die, now don't die
Now don't die, now don't die
Now don't die, now don't die
Frankie M. was written by Thor Harris & Christopher Pravdica & Christoph Hahn & Phil Puleo & Norman Westberg & Michael Gira.
Frankie M. was produced by Michael Gira.
Swans released Frankie M. on Fri Jun 17 2016.