Hype-THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST

Upset-DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD

Festival Guides-YOUR ESSENTIAL FESTIVAL COMPANION

Hype-THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST

Mixtape-DORK'S BEST NEW TRACKS

Play-DORK'S NEW MUSIC FRIDAY EDIT

Upset-DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD

Playlist Covers

Playlist Directory

Before Doors-LIVE SESSIONS

Music Video Directory

Down With Boring-THE DORK PODCAST

Chart Attack-UK NUMBER ONES, DISSECTED

Dork Radio

Live

Live 24/7

Dork Radio

Down With Boring

Join thousands of music lovers getting the best new tracks, exclusive interviews, and breaking news delivered straight to your inbox every week.

In print now

June 2026

Latest issue variants

Dork, June 2026 (Bleachers cover)

Bleachers

Dork, June 2026 (Myles Smith cover)

Myles Smith

Dork, June 2026 (Towa Bird cover)

Towa Bird

|

Privacy Policy|

Cookie settings

© 2026 The Bunker Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.

Advertise on this site.

Swans – Mother/Father (1995) | Track profile | Dork

Tracks
Swans
The Great Annihilator
Mother/Father

TRACK

Mother/Father

Release date: 23rd January 1995

From The Great Annihilator

About This Track

"Mother/Father" is a track by Swans, from the album The Great Annihilator, released 23rd January 1995. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Swans

Swans

Lyrics

Mother/Father

[Refrain]

Hey hey, hey hey

Hey hey, hey hey

Hey hey, hey hey

Hey hey, hey hey

[Verse 1]

Hey hey, now mother/father

Hey hey, now bloody mind

Hey hey, now killer father

Hey hey, now mother mind

[Refrain]

Hey hey, hey hey

Hey hey, hey hey

Hey hey, hey hey

Hey hey, hey hey

[Verse 2]

There's a place in space

Where violence and love

Collide inside

And solid is wide

And heat is cold

And birth is death

And creation and time

Are made from destruction

[Refrain]

From fucking destruction (Hey hey, hey hey)

Fucking destruction (Hey hey, hey hey)

Fucking destruction (Hey hey, hey hey)

Fucking destruction (Hey hey, hey hey)

[Outro]

Now ride, ride (Hey hey, hey hey)

Ride, ride (Hey hey, hey hey)

Ride, ride

Ride, ride

Ride, ride

Ride, ride

Ride, ride

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

View full lyrics page →

Track details

From The Great Annihilator

1995

Listen

Album

The Great Annihilator

Release year

1995

—Celebrity Lifestyle
—In
—Mother's Milk
—Out
—Where Does a Body End?
—Warm
—She Lives!
—Alcohol the Seed
—Mother/Father
—Killing for Company
—Telepathy
—My Buried Child
—Blood Promise
—The Great Annihilator

More from Swans

Albums & EPs

Soundtracks for the Blind

Soundtracks for the Blind

White Light from the Mouth of Infinity

White Light from the Mouth of Infinity

The Great Annihilator (Remastered)

The Great Annihilator (Remastered)

The Seer

The Burning World

The Burning World

Children of God / World of Skin

Children of God / World of Skin

Explore

More tracks by Swans

Paradise Is Mine (Live)

Newly Sentient Being (Live)

Little Mind (Live)

The Merge (Live)

A Little God in My Hands (Live) (2025)

Guardian Spirit

The Man With The Silver Tongue

The End of Forgetting (Live)

Leaving Meaning (Live)

The Hanging Man (Live)

Cathedrals of Heaven (Live)

Birthing (Live)

The Memorious (Live)

The Beggar (Live)

Michael Is Done

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

No More of This

The Beggar Lover (Three)

Los Angeles: City of Death

Paradise Is Mine

Los Angeles: City of Death (Demo)

The Memorious (Demo)

The Parasite (Demo)

No More of This (Demo)

Unforming (Demo)

Paradise Is Mine (Demo)

Why Can’t I Have What I Want Any Time That I Want? (Demo)

Michael Is Done (Demo)

The Beggar (Demo)

Cathedrals of Heaven

Amnesia (leaving meaning.)

Some New Things

View all tracks by Swans →

A Little God in My Hands (Live) (2025)
Amnesia (leaving meaning.)
Away
Away (Live)
Birthing
Birthing (Live)
Cathedrals of Heaven
Cathedrals of Heaven (Live)
Don't Go
Ebbing

Showing 10 of 50

If you like Swans

Michael Gira

Jarboe

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Glenn Branca

Natural Snow Buildings

This Heat

Circus Mort

Boris

Coil

Coil

A Silver Mt. Zion

A Silver Mt. Zion

READ MORE ABOUT SWANS

READ MORE ABOUT SWANS

READ MORE ABOUT SWANS

READ MORE ABOUT SWANS

No coverage available for Swans yet.

Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Michael Gira
Producer: Michael Gira
Vocals: Jarboe