Helpless Child

by Swans

From the album: Soundtracks For The Blind

Track 3 of 26 on Soundtracks For The Blind (1996).

Duration: 15:47

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Lyrics for Helpless Child

Now you be the mother, and I'll be your fool I'll hide myself deep inside Your crimson pool The muddy water runs Beneath your folds You won't let me breathe You won't let me go Now you be the stranger, and I'll be the white-skinned son You'll blacken my innocence With sugar and opium The children were suffocating Down in your damp cave And you were the mother, and I was the sleeping slave Protect me from violence Hold me in your cool lips You drug me with kindness So I can pretend I exist Now you be the only child I'll suck on your breast You'll feed me with gasoline I'll burn my name in your head Ah, ah, ah Ah, ah, ah Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah Ah, ah, ah

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  2. I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull
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  4. Live Through Me
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  6. The Beautiful Days
  7. Volcano
  8. Mellothumb
  9. All Lined Up
  10. Surrogate 2
  11. How They Suffer
  12. Animus
  13. Red Velvet Wound
  14. The Sound
  15. Her Mouth Is Filled With Honey
  16. Blood Section
  17. Hypogirl
  18. Minus Something
  19. Empathy
  20. I Love You This Much
  21. YRP
  22. Fan's Lament
  23. Secret Friends
  24. The Final Sacrifice
  25. YRP 2
  26. Surrogate Drone