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Swoon

by The Revenants

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1.
It is down here in a dark place Behind the closed door There is movement Protoplasm Bursting open like a spore The stair is twisting like an Escher Up and back and through All these pictures collecting dust Hence and hitherto It is the longest dream And it will never end It is the longest dream A lost world of pretend There is laughter and there is rage And there is illness all around It’s in this building It’s on these streets It’s all over this seasick town I see fat faces, I hear odd voices They bubble up through the cracks I look for clues. I parse the logic I study the syntax There is weeping In cathedrals There are virgins sacrificed All these rituals They come to naught In the name of Jesus Christ
2.
I heard a sound from just beyond the door It was like nothing I had heard before Was it a laugh or was it a cry I felt my brittle bonds liquefy Come to me Come to me Won’t you come to me my friend Come to me Come to me Into the wild we will descend Go go mad I felt the pull and tug of a secret song It sung to me smack dab where I belong Was I in or was I out of my mind Or was it somehow both intertwined I took a drink from a most wicked ale And the I saw my whole world in great detail The moon sat down beside me on the bed While a secret song played in my head
3.
The sky it is crying as if it's filled with despair And the rain pours through my window As I sleep in my old chair It's ruined all my draperies and carried away my TV It's swallowed up all my records And dragged me off to sea I am down with the fishes, down with the fishes There go all of my neighbors Trying to swim against the tide They are struggling to cross over But the water it is wide We are down with the fishes, down with the fishes The water keeps a-coming Sweeping through my town The water keeps a-coming Keeps coming down Keeps coming down It keeps coming down There is good old Captain Nemo And the great Poseidon, too I ask them where dry land is But they haven't got a clue We are down with the fishes, down with the fishes Oh, here comes the flood, gonna wash us down the drain Oh, here comes the flood, rain, rain, rain I should've heeded all the warnings And paid attention to the signs I should've built myself an ark I'd be where the sun still shines I am down with the fishes, down with the fishes
4.
Power 02:47
Ain’t got no power Ain’t got no say-so You pull your shit on me And I, I just gotta let it all go You got all the power You hold all the aces It’s your rules and I must abide No matter what the case is Ain’t got no power Ain’t nothin’ but a eunuch I toil in the mines While you sashay in a tunic You got all the moola You got all the juice All I can do sit on back And take all your abuse Ain’t got no power I'm such a frickin’ loser I always gotta get out of your way You’re a big bruiser You took away my strength You took away my will I’m an ugly wad of kudzu And you’re a daffodil
5.
Black Sheep 03:24
Here I am back home again I’m here to rest All they ask is where I’ve been Knowing I’ve been west I’m the family’s unowned boy With golden curls of envied hair Pretty girls with faces fair See the shine in the black sheep boy If you love me let me live in peace And please understand That the black sheep wears a golden fleece And holds the winning hand I’m the family’s unowned boy Golden curls of envied hair Pretty girls with faces fair See the shine in the black sheep boy I’m the family’s unowned boy Golden curls of envied hair Pretty girls with faces fair See the shine in the black sheep boy
6.
Release Me 04:50
I been a prisoner here Been here for a million years Could be here for a million more Open up the gate before it's too late Won't someone help me knock down the door Is anybody out there Does anybody have the key Won't somebody come along and set me free Won't you release me, I’m down on my knees Won't you release me, please, please, please I want to let it all go, I want to give it all up But I guess I just don't have the guts I want to be strong, don't care if I'm wrong No ifs, no ands, and no buts Wouldn't hurt you to help me In fact I would do more than ask You might like to if you are up to the task Won't you release me Grom this troubled place Won't you release me And send me to a state of grace I want to hang it all up, I want to pack it all in The question is why haven't I I want to say, See ya I want to say farewell I want to kiss you all goodbye You could make it easier If you'd pitch right on in Plan a little send off Best to leave you with a grin
7.
This feeling takes me over I know it well The details shiny and clear, as clear as a bell I can't make it stop, it's out of my hands I try to explain it but no one understands Down, down and down I go To meet my old familiar It greets me in the morning Takes me through the afternoon It's with me in the evening Playing a familiar tune The sound it makes unnerves me Cuts me to the quick It's all that I can do to keep from feeling sick I am a passenger along for a bumpy ride On a train that never stops Across a great divide I can't hold it, it has no taste But it is stuck to me like paste I'm sure there's a reason There must be a plan I'm just not privy I'm just an ordinary man
8.
Who Are You? 04:52
Thought that I knew ya What did I know Just the guy I thought you were You talked a good game Sounded like truth But most of it went by me in a blur Now when I look back I feel deceived Now when I look back I feel peeved I should have read between the lines I should have looked at all the signs Who are you, who are you I can’t really say Who are you, who are you You always slip away Thought that I knew ya Man I was wrong Turns out you were a question mark You had an easy way Of seeming light But what you were was pretty dark Now when I look back I feel like a fool Now when I look back I feel like a tool I should have listened a lot more close I should have said adios You are one of those tricky, tricky guys Yeah you and your tricky, tricky lies Thought I knew ya Boy was I mistaken You turned out to be a petty jerk You trashed our friendship Like it was nothing What a wally, what a burk Now when I look back I feel real had Now when I look back I feel real bad I should have seen it all along I should have not plunged in headlong
9.
My whole life has been a wilderness year In the middle of nothing I disappear You never asked, “Where did he go” Wherever I went how would you know Blow along, blow along I wish you’d miss me so I knew you cared The slightest gesture and we’d be squared Will we ever get ourselves back on track I guess I won’t know until I get back Till I come back home again My whole life has been an unraveling On this road that I been traveling I guess I should’ve had a smarter plan Went from Alaska down to the Yucatan Zig and zag, zig and zag I wish you’d miss me so I knew you cared The slightest gesture and we’d be squared Will we ever get ourselves back on track I guess I won’t know until I get back Till I come back home again My whole life has been chaotic You look at me like I’m idiotic Got no peg to hang my coat Got no supplies in my lifeboat ‘Round and ‘round, ‘round and ‘round I wish you’d miss me so I knew you cared The slightest gesture and we’d be squared Will we ever get ourselves back on track I guess I won’t know until I get back Till I come back home again
10.
Vespertine 04:27
Well we both love the nighttime Nighttime's when we come alive And the day just begins When the sun goes sliding down Can't wait for evening to arrive You can say that we're nocturnal Don't you dare call us diurnal Vespertine do you know what I mean Do you know what I mean Vespertine The nighttime is the right time The time to be with the one you love Yeah we love the wee, wee hours We get up when your day's all done We nurture our rock star tans And we both hate the sun Some folks they think that we must be bats Running 'round like a couple of midnight cats Well our alarm it is set for six p.m. For us that works out right We yawn and stretch and get out of bed And we get ready for the dead of night We're like two old vampires Living out our nighttime desires
11.
Swoon 05:06
I yanked off my great gray coat And I draped it on the chair I conjured you up like a ghost Your dark eyes, your dark hair Your lips parted slightly And you breathed a gentle sigh You reached out and took my hand Reflections in a golden eye My soul swooned slowly As I heard the snow fall faintly Through the stars and faintly falling Upon the living and the dead We waltzed around the room Like we did when we were young You smelled familiar and blue I tasted your sweet tongue I held on to your hips You took me for a ride ‘Round and ‘round and 'round we went As the music amplified I dragged on my gray coat And I headed out the door You stood there like a chest And I closed the drawer I walked among the strangers No one I recognized I heard your song echo in the streets It flew away like butterflies
12.
There’s a lot of ways that you can go And how that goes should be up to you And though quite often you just can’t But if you can it’s what you should do Me, I’m going out Yeah, I’m going out my own way Yeah, me, I’m going out No one else will have a say There’s a lot of ways that you can leave And when you leave, leave in grace Don’t be the guy who tripped and fell And split his skill and smashed his face I won’t let you do me in I won’t let you lay that claim I won’t let you take my choice I will do it, if it’s all the same There’s a lot of ways that you can go You know, vamoose, split the scene In the end I wanna pick my means A box of pills or the guillotine
13.
Points West 05:00

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"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead." –James Joyce

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released December 13, 2023

Cover "Swoon" by Eliot Wider

Songs written and performed by Eliot Wilder

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