Giant Swan

The giant swan's got ghosts in his eyes

His guts are stuffed with polaroids, and they're all humiliating

And when the wine's drunk and the wild cabaret has sung it's last voice

And you're sitting all alone in the 4am darkness of a pitch-black theater

He explodes like fireworks on the stage with gold smoke

Sing, your voice just wont stop blooming

He wrote a play and you're the protagonist

All the girls you wish you'd fucked make a guest appearance

Oh, and you just won't believe the ending

Fly me home, giant swan!

The giant swan's got a pixelated beak

His eyes are twin mushroom clouds

His feathers are unsuspecting cities

And his breasts are hollow apartments with the highest quality furnishings

And you can watch tv until you die there, deflated skin draped over luxury chairs

Sing, your voice just won't stop blooming

If your heart's a diamond, buddy, what's the price?

If your heart's a diamond what's the fucking price?

Your mouth is cheap and your hair is shoddy

So sit and watch the ballerinas kick and spin

Then strip down to your vulgar skeleton

You'd better take one more drink of captain morgan's rum

Oh, it's gonna sting like a raw sunrise when they black swan's gone

Back at the resort, the curtains closed, you haven't left the room for two solid weeks

With a pound of cocaine under the bed where the call girls perform their services

And you have to leave cnn on so you don't think about her newborn son

Who entered this town from the crotch you're renting out

"Who's at the door? What the fuck!

Who's at the door? What the fuck!

Who's at the door? What the fuck! "

Your heart is sweating; your hands are turning black

Your shadow breaks in wearing a ski mask

Is that a machete at your throat?

"Give me all your money! Give me all the dope! "

And the sun's like a painting of your whole life

You scratch at the canvas, but you can't get inside

And the sun's like a painting of your whole life

You scratch at the canvas, but you can't get inside

Your family is gurgling grief

You think you're fast asleep

Is that the curtain closing?

Giant swan, take me to the river

Is that my flesh corroding?

Giant swan, take me to the river

All the things you wish you said are buried with your x'd out head

All your ulterior motives

Giant swan, take me to the river