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Blackout Lyrics

Get Drunk
Get Drunk

Breathe In
Breathe In

Don't Breathe
Don't Breathe

Blackout
Blackout

Don't Talk Until You're Spoken To
Don't Talk Until You're Spoken To

Don't Breath
Don't Breath

Blackout
Blackout
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Cover art for Blackout lyrics by Swans

Gira is known to have a 'complicated' relationship with alcohol, so this subject matter makes sense. Compare these lyrics with Alcohol The Seed (from The Great Annihilator) and there are some obvious thematic parallels. I always pictured the "Don't talk until you're spoken to" part being said aloud by the subject of the song while in a state of abusive inebriation, while the rest is sort of an internal monologue.

Cover art for Blackout lyrics by Swans

I would say it is the master telling his slave to shut up and stop thinking and just keep on working like a machine.

Cover art for Blackout lyrics by Swans

It's about being stoned and waking up forgetting what the heck happened.

Cover art for Blackout lyrics by Swans

Its about a nice night with a bunch of people who doesn't like you, just doing what you have to

 
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