Swans – Failure (Guitar)

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And I, I've been lonely

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And I, I've been blind

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And I, I've learned nothing

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So my hands are firmly tied

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To the sinking lead weight of failure

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I've worked hard all my life

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Money slips through my hands

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My face in the mirror tells me

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It's no surprise that I am

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Pushing the stone up the hill of failure

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And they tempt me with violence

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And they punish me with ideals

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And they crush me with an image of my life

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That's nothing but unreal

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Except on the goddamned slaveship of failure

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And I'll drown here trying

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To get up for some air

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But each time I think I breathe

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I'm laid on with a double share

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Of the punishing burden of failure

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I don't deserve to be down here

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But I'll never leave

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And I, I've learned one thing

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You can't escape the beast

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In the null and void pit of failure

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When I get my hands on some money

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I'll kiss its green skin

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And I'll ask its dirty face

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"Where the hell have ya been?"

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"I'm the fuel that fires the engines of failure"

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And I'll be old and broken down

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And I'll forget who and where I am

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I'll be senile or forgotten

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But I'll remember and understand

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You can bank your hard-earned money on failure

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I saw my father crying

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I saw my mother break her hand

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On a wall that wouldn't weep

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But that certainly held in

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The mechanical moans of a dying man who was a failure

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My back hurts me when I bend

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'Cause I carry a load

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And my brain hurts like a knife-hole

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'Cause I've yet to be shown

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How to pull myself out from the sucking quicksand of failure

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Some people lie in Hell

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Many bastards succeed

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But I, I've learned nothing

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I can't even elegantly bleed

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Out the poison blood of failure