Los Angeles: City of Death

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Los Angeles: City of Death by Swans

About Los Angeles: City of Death

“Los Angeles: City of Death“ is the second promotional single from Swans' sixteenth studio album, The Beggar. Michael Gira said the following about the track in an interview with Glide Magazine: “Well, I had way too much time on my hands during the pandemic, so I spent far too much time sitting at my desk with guitar in hand, thinking and drifting. At some point I obsessed for a while on my childhood and early adulthood in Los Angeles. My youth was less than ideal .

Los Angeles: City of Death Lyrics

[00:00.03] Ah, we're drugged by the sun, here he comes, here he comes
[00:07.54] Just waiting to become, here he comes, here he comes
[00:15.68] Growing in a lung, here he comes, here he comes
[00:23.46] Gathering our tongues, here he comes, here he comes
[00:30.90] Tunneling the ground, swallowing this sound
[00:38.48] Injecting insect dreams that he's singing into being
[00:46.43] Please, open up your hands, you woman, child and man
[00:53.77] Here he comes, here he comes, here we come, here I am
[01:01.45]
[01:30.71] Sucking colors from the root of the syphilis fruit
[01:39.68] Flattening this land, scattering the sand
[01:47.49] Burning every tree, burning every book
[01:54.82] Pulverizing the ruins of the city that he shook
[02:02.88] Flooding through the gates, screaming through the wires
[02:10.60] Flashing in the screen, swimming in the fire
[02:18.25] Inhaling everything that ever was or will become
[02:26.05] Gathering us in to undo what he has done
[02:33.56] Here he comes, here he comes, here he comes, here he comes
[02:41.28] Here he comes, here he comes, here he comes, here we run
[02:49.48] Run, run
[02:57.15] Run, run
[03:04.47] Become, become
[03:12.18] Run, run
[03:20.38]

From the album: The Beggar