Failure lyrics

And I, I've been lonely

And I, I've been blind

And I, I've learned nothing

So my hands are firmly tied

To the sinking lead weight of failure

I've worked hard all my life

Money slips through my hands

My face in the mirror tells me

It's no surprise that I am

Pushing the stone up the hill of failure

And they tempt me with violence

And they punish me with ideals

And they crush me with an image of my life

That's nothing but unreal

Except on the goddamned slaveship of failure

And I'll drown here trying

To get up for some air

But each time I think I breathe

I'm laid on with a double share

Of the punishing burden of failure

I don't deserve to be down here

But I'll never leave

And I, I've learned one thing

You can't escape the beast

In the null and void pit of failure

When I get my hands on some money

I'll kiss its green skin

And I'll ask its dirty face

"Where the hell have ya been?"

I'm the fuel that fires the engines of failure

And I'll be old and broken down

And I'll forget who and where I am

I'll be senile or forgotten

But I'll remember and understand

You can bank your hard-earned money on failure

I saw my father crying

I saw my mother break her hand

On a wall that wouldn't weep

But that certainly held in

The mechanical moans of a dying man who was a failure

My back hurts me when I bend

'Cause I carry a load

And my brain hurts like a knife-hole

Because I've yet to be shown

How to pull myself out from the sucking quicksand of failure

Some people lie in Hell

Many bastards succeed

But I, I've learned nothing

I can't even elegantly bleed

Out the poison blood of failure

• Artist:Swans
• Album:White Light From the Mouth of Infinity