Like a lot of the lyrical content on the first four Swans albums, the theme here seems to revolve around blurring the lines between literal prostitution/slavery, the employer-employee relationship, or a 'romantic' misadventure gone terribly wrong. Either way, it expresses complete self-awareness of the speaker's subservient status, but he embraces his role. I find the entirety of Greed to be oddly cathartic... this album was the soundtrack of several incredibly terrible jobs when I was younger.
Like a lot of the lyrical content on the first four Swans albums, the theme here seems to revolve around blurring the lines between literal prostitution/slavery, the employer-employee relationship, or a 'romantic' misadventure gone terribly wrong. Either way, it expresses complete self-awareness of the speaker's subservient status, but he embraces his role. I find the entirety of Greed to be oddly cathartic... this album was the soundtrack of several incredibly terrible jobs when I was younger.