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Swans

Blind

Release date: 9th June 1995

From White Light from the Mouth of Infinity
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'Blind' moves through states of self-deception with a kind of remorseless clarity. The narrator charts a progression from youthful strength and ignorance, through the construction of deliberate falsehoods, toward a final reckoning where even the mirror offers no truth. Each verse narrows the aperture: what begins as observation of others' suffering becomes admission of one's own willful blindness, then a recognition that blindness may be permanent, structural, inescapable. The song builds its argument through negation and refusal. Don't pray. Don't ask questions. The logic is bleak and circular: self-deception breeds confidence, confidence breeds control, control dissolves into numbness. Swans anchor this in the physical, the corporeal; bodies that are strong but minds that are compromised, voices that repeat a single word until it loses meaning. The sun, that classical symbol of illumination, becomes instead the source of blindness, a white light so intense it obliterates sight rather than enabling it.

"Blind" is a track by Swans, from the album White Light from the Mouth of Infinity, released 9th June 1995. Full lyrics are available below.

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Swans

Swans

Lyrics

Blind

[Verse 1]

Now some of us are weak

And some endure

And some people live their life

With a violence that’s pure and clean

But I saw a man cry once

Down on his knees

In the corner of a darkened cell

And his pain meant nothing to me

[Chorus 1]

But I was younger then

And young men never die

When I walked out in the sun

I was strong, clear-minded and blind

[Verse 2]

Now don’t say a prayer for anyone

It doesn’t do any good

Please don’t ask me a question

You'll just be misunderstood

And if you could step inside me

You'd feel what hatred brings

And if you saw with my eyes

You'd see what self-deception means

[Chorus 2]

I was younger once

And I created a lie

And though my body was strong

I was self-deluded, confident and blind

[Verse 3]

Now show some pity

For the weak of will

Because when we’re drinking

We can never be filled

Show some understanding

For the lonely fool

Because when I’m drinking

I am out of control

[Chorus 3]

I was never young

Nothing has transpired

But when I look in the mirror

I feel dead, I feel cold, I am blind

[Outro]

I am blind, mmm

I am blind, mmm

I am blind, mmm

Mmm

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Track details

From White Light from the Mouth of Infinity

1995
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White Light from the Mouth of Infinity
White Light from the Mouth of Infinity
Swans
Release year
1995
  1. —Blind
  2. —Song for Dead Time
  3. —Better Than You
  4. —Love Will Save You
  5. —When She Breathes
  6. —Miracle of Love
  7. —Power And Sacrifice
  8. —The Most Unfortunate Lie
  9. —Why Are We Alive?
  10. —You Know Nothing
  11. —Failure
  12. —Will We Survive
  13. —Song for the Sun

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