Swans - Why Can't I Have What I Want Any Time That I Want?

Swans new album, The Beggar, released worldwide June 23, 2023 on Young God Records/Mute. Formats include 2X LP, 2CD, as well as download and stream.

“After numerous pandemic-induced cancellations of tours for the previous Swans album leaving meaning, and an apparent bottomless pit of waiting, waiting, waiting, and the strange disorientation that came with this sudden but interminable forced isolation I decided it was time to write songs for a new Swans album and forget about everything else. They came relatively easily, always informed by the suspicion that these could be my last. When I finally was able to travel, songs in hand, to Berlin to work with my friends recording this record, the feeling was akin to the moment in The Wizard of Oz when the film changes from Black and White to Color. Now I’m feeling quite optimistic. My favourite color is pink. I hope you enjoy the album!” – Michael Gira

[chirimoyan]

my fav off of this album. it's such a great, ever-evolving composition, like falling down a bottomless pit

[circuits]

the most brutal and true song about alcoholism i've ever heard, from a writer already as brutal and insightful as Michael is. just reading the lyrics made me shed tears more than once

[Daniel-ewqf]

Amazing how Gira's voice hasn't aged at all. Also that background melody is so eerily mesmerizing, I love it

[RickBobO]

Jesus Christ! 6:09 sounds like the fever dream of an overworked carpenter. Unbelievable sound.

[trash_bender]

Because, thats just how it works Michael

[lowblood]

Swans with them long ass Emo/Post-Hardcore songtitles.

[syzarn]

When will time erase this stupid smile from my face?
I still feel you in my veins, pure and refined, while I raged
Questions are of no consequence
Humiliations are easily subsumed
In oblivion
And indifference
With a love that is malignant and true

All wrong, wrong, wrong
Wrong, wrong, wrong
I am wrong in this skin
But that’s where my need for you begins
With your nails through my hands
On the hill that I till
On the cross that I built
Crying for more, more, more

Give me more, give me more
I am your supplicant, I’m your whore
I’m unconscious on the floor
But my hand is reaching for your door
There's a shadow of your taste
And the bloodrush in my gut
No, it’s never, never enough
Why would I ever give you up?

All lost, lost, lost
Now I want to pay the cost
I don’t care, just erase
Every memory, every trace
Let me run through the ruins
From the failure and regret
Just open up my mouth
And pour your tongue into my head

All gone, gone, gone
I am lost without your breath
Now my teeth are cracked and red
I am begging at the foot of your bed:
Give me one more taste of death

Why can’t I have what I want any time that I want?

[uomociambella]

That last part at 6:01when the choruses and the metallic sound start...very very good

[donferwhoops]

what a song to have at a point in my life when im falling into alcoholism instead of out of it

[propoytsa]

Сильнейшая вещь. Полная безысходность . Пробирает до мозга костей. Ничего печальней не слышал

[arthurkurbedzis]

Psychedelic, feels like I am playing Limbo or so.

[vomeinsamenmadchensophie]

I still feel you in my veins...so refined...in oblivion... with the love that's true....on the cross...my hand is reaching for yours... but it's never enough but I'll never give you up ....lost lost lost... just open up my mouth and pour your tongue into my head... I'm begging at the foot of your bed.... give me one more taste of .... just when I think it can be better than the previous song... You do this tO mE....BRiLiaNT... ThankYoU, Michael for existing, this one is the one... until I hear the next..! 🎩🖤 BB