The title track of Birthing (2025).
This song has been teased and played for almost two years before its release date, being the first new composition on the setlist of Swans 2023 concerts.
It is sectioned in multiple parts that were improved over the multiple live shows of the different legs of Th...
[Instrumental]
(Vocalizing)
[Verse 1]
In light your skin is golden
The truth remains unspoken
The door was closed but opens
With mind and limb interwoven
[Chorus]
I'll go now, I'll go now
I'll go now, I'll go now
[Verse 2]
Through a tunnel carved in the air, I am falling
I can hear them, voices calling
Children singing, laughing, screaming without meaning
Colors shifting, vaporizing
Sifting oceans here in my hands disappearing
[Chorus]
Will it end? Will it end?
Will it end? Will it end?
To begin at the end
Will it end? Will it end?
Does it endlessly end in the end?
Will it end? Will it end?
Does it end? Will it end?
Does it end? Will it end?
Will it end? Will it end?
[Interlude]
Pay attention motherfuckers
Srekcufrehtom noitnetta yap
Srekcufrehtom noitnetta-
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
I saw you, I saw you
Beneath the sea
I saw you, I saw you
Behind the air, above the sky
I saw you
[Instrumental]
Birthing was written by Michael Gira & Larry Mullins & Phil Puleo & Christopher Pravdica & Dana Schechter & Kristof Hahn.
Birthing was produced by Michael Gira.