Beautiful Child

Swans

(Gira, Westberg, Parsons, Kizys)
These are the things I hold onto
These are the things I use to deceive myself
I line them up in front of me
I judge them carefully
Then I throw them all away
I throw them all away
I am a small man
I am not a dangerous man
I love a child
I love a beautiful child
I love a child
I love a beautiful child
I will hold this child in my arms
And caress his soft head
Listen to him cry
Listen to him cry
I can kill the child
The beautiful child
I will kill the child
The beautiful child
This is my life
This is my choice
This is my damnation
This is my only regret
This is my life
This is my life
This is my sacrifice
This is my life
This is my only regret
That I ever was born
This is my sacrifice
Get out of my head



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    I always just thought that the child was himself, thus all the references to "things I hold onto" and "my sacrifice."

    He's destroying a more innocent part of himself. The child. Loss of innocence is a big part of their music; remember the Golden Boy Swallowed by the Sea? And that one song on Various Failures/White Light from the Mouth of Infinity that begins with a baby crying?

    RideNowhereon May 23, 2007   Link

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