Real Love

See my analysis of "Blind Love" for my stronger opinions. Being in an album called Children of God dealing with misguided love and religious hypocrisy, this has the dual nature of being a slavish love song to a dead, abusive lover from a subservient and blindly obsessed widow(er), or the hymn of a religious fanatic to whatever god they praise (probably Christ), saying that the only true love is that of their deity, who they blindly follow to maniacal lengths.

I don't think this album overall is as anti-religion as some would argue. I understand it as a more realist view on religion, cultivating the theme of the two conflictual types of love, a pure and unconditional type and and the sensual/erotic one. I think it's a pretty deep exploration of both and even the name of the album itself has a semnificant meaning if you take the religious context (in christian theology those who become "children of god" basically aren't born from sex anymore, like Christ, so the dichotomy between sex and the spirit is pretty obvious). Now I find this song a genuine love song, probably dedicated to Christ though the lyrics reveal a sort of human nature to this love, without falling into erotism, I see it as a harmony between the two types of love explored throughout the album, but prone to falling anyway, like anything beautiful in this world, with it's sequel "blind love". Overall I find this album probably the most spiritually complex in the swans discography and this song is genuinely beautiful and sincere.