@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
It's floating through the abyss
Under the brig my head swings down
Beware her wrath, the image gone
The shell is crumbling, fix my frown
This spell would be clear in non-tradition
And stepping on these pieces of pain and smirk
And rape goes through to sin my eyes
And shapes know where the heartache will lurk
Forget the swan, a stone swims near
A stone has come, if I could cheer
Forget the swan
Forget the swan
Drifting among this rubble
I guess the waiting, wished I would
I found a box, untethered and true
Possession it understood
Forget the swan, a stone swims near
A stone has come, if I could cheer
Forget the swan
Forget the swan
How I tried to warn my neighbor
But the corn was much too high
In confusion up and threw him, woke up every day
But it's not too late brother, I'll still say you were mine
Forget the swan, a stone swims near
A stone has come, if I could cheer
Forget the swan
Forget the swan
Forget the swan, the dreams are gone
The pain goes on, they fly at dawn
Forget the swan
Forget the swan
Forget the swan
Forget the swan
Under the brig my head swings down
Beware her wrath, the image gone
The shell is crumbling, fix my frown
This spell would be clear in non-tradition
And stepping on these pieces of pain and smirk
And rape goes through to sin my eyes
And shapes know where the heartache will lurk
Forget the swan, a stone swims near
A stone has come, if I could cheer
Forget the swan
Forget the swan
Drifting among this rubble
I guess the waiting, wished I would
I found a box, untethered and true
Possession it understood
Forget the swan, a stone swims near
A stone has come, if I could cheer
Forget the swan
Forget the swan
How I tried to warn my neighbor
But the corn was much too high
In confusion up and threw him, woke up every day
But it's not too late brother, I'll still say you were mine
Forget the swan, a stone swims near
A stone has come, if I could cheer
Forget the swan
Forget the swan
Forget the swan, the dreams are gone
The pain goes on, they fly at dawn
Forget the swan
Forget the swan
Forget the swan
Forget the swan
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Forget the Swan Lyrics as written by Joseph Donald Mascis Jr
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I think it is simply about a swan. A swan in the form of a drug-induced hallucination. The swan is a metaphor for the hallucinogenic trip he's on. He is bordering more and more on insanity from his experience in his own mind, and finally the dystopic, "Forget the swan, the dreams are gone / The pain goes on, they fly at dawn" After the high has gone, the real pain of everyday life is back.
I‘ve always heard this one section like this:
“How I tried to warn my neighbor But the corn grew much too high In confusion ??? intrusion ??? But it's not too late brother, I'll still sell you a map”
To me this was kind of a stab at the sold out hippie hypocrites, who talk about being free and helping your brother, but in the end are just as if not more materialistic and selfish than their parents. Our hero says he tried to warn his neighbor but his lame excuse is the corn was growing too high (a metaphor perhaps of being too stoned). There is a line I can’t quite make out about confusion - perhaps the neighbor is confused and lost? The final line puts the cap on the materialism - our hero says to his “brother” (cuz the fake hippies will call you their brother, while they try to rip you off!) he’ll do them a “favor” and sell them a map. Gee, thanks, J.! LoL
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I always based the song off the line "forget the swan, a stone swims near", as if J is the swan and a bland little stone comes along and suddenly everyone forgets the swan and its true beauty
Lou sings, the swan could be Uma???? And J was in Amherst and there was alot of corn and Uma escaped his basement So J gave up