Hello There

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Hello there

Thanks for showing support for the upcoming in progress new Swans studio album

By acquiring this special edition of the Swans live album entitled "We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head"

A few of the live songs you've just heard will appear on the upcoming studio album

It's untitled yet

In much different form, with different orchestration etcetera

Obviously it will be different recordings of these songs made in a studio

Some have already been recorded in Berlin by the time of this reading

And those songs are:

The Apostate; this one I'm really looking forward to working on, it's one of my favorite songs we've ever done

And I'm wondering if I should get Lady Gaga to sing on it, but I don't know, might ruin it, who knows

All I can say is the intro will have lots of electric dulcimer and guitars

And I think it uh, be quite, uh, magisterial *sneers*

The long intro to I Crawled, here on the live album, will appear again in a much different form as an intro to a song called "The Seer" on the studio album

It's gonna be much different and less plotting, uh and it's going to build very gradually

We might even use a version with additional instrumentals and maybe with a groove inserted of the intro to the song "No Words / No Thoughts", that appears here on the live album

We might use that as an intro to the intro of "The Seer"

It seems that as things are going, that song'll be about thirty minutes by the time it's done

Also from this live album, we're going to use a new recording of the song "93 Avenue B. Blues" on the studio album

It will act as an intro to the song "The Daughter Brings The Water", that's following later on this recording

There's also a song we've been playing live called "Avatar" that will appear on the studio album

It's not on this live album, and it won't appear anywhere except the studio album

Except the three thousand versions that are on YouTube right now

Now, these acoustic versions that follow, they are sketches for other new songs for the studio album

And these acoustic recordings only appear on this here special edition of "We Rose from Your Bed..." etcetera

In other words, they were made only for you, generous and conscientious one thousand supporters

Only you should here these versions, forever, they are for you

They are not intended for the general public

Please, please, please, refrain from posting them on YouTube, or making them available for download anywhere, forever

Please, they are for you, no one else, period

They are rough sketches, they are not for public consumption

They are for you

I think I've made that clear