Share your favorite Dan Swanö lyrics of all time!

[Metal88]

Pick any project you want, as long as Dan worked on it in some way. Mine would have to be Infestdead's "Christinsanity." I think it's awesome because it promotes a very strong code of ethics and morals (by mocking and degrading a concept that obviously eptiomizes the unethical and immoral - Christianity!) Let's examine these sensible, powerful, thought-provoking and beautiful lyrics! Glory!


I Deny! I Deny!
Your Savior Is A Fake
How Can You Believe In A Religion
Based On An Ancient Tale
Carved In Stone

Chapter after Chapter
In Your Book Of Fables, You Praise Your So-Called Lord
You Dedicate Your Lies To The Pre-Historic Lies
My Conviction Is My Sword

In Your Eyes You Are Divine
You Will Face The Truth When You Die
You Think You See The Sign
What You See Is What You Get And You Are Blind

Christianity
Face Reality
Christianity
Fake Reality

I Deny! I Deny!
Your Savior Is A Fake
How Can You Believe In A Religion
Based On An Ancient Tale

Chapter after Chapter
In Your Book Of Fables, You Praise Your So-Called Lord
You Dedicate Your Lies To The Pre-Historic Lies
My Conviction Is My Sword

Fuck God! Fuck Your Christ!

In Your Eyes You Are Divine
You Will Face The Truth When You Die
You Think You See The Sign
What You See Is What You Get And You Are Blind

 

[Tumn]

This is gar's favorite song!

 

[Metal88]

This is gar's favorite song!

gar who? What? ::looks around all confused::

 

[Fuentealba]

This is gar's favorite song!

GAGAAGAGAGAHAHAHAHA YEAH,

mine is at the edge of the bridge.

 

[Kenneth R.]

oh man, talk about stirring it up!

I'll go with

Have you ever tried to count the stars?
Do they remind you of how small we are?
We the people of the planet earth,
we cannot rule the universe.

But my love is bigger than all those things.
It makes me feel like I'm the king of kings.
When I see your hair blowing in the wind.
I close my eyes and I can hear you sing:

My heart belongs to you, my soul if you want it too.
But when I open up my eyes, it's like a
big black hole in my heart that cries.

Because in every word you say
and every time I pray there is a wire bursting deep inside of me.
And everytime I read the words that you have seen
there is a fire burning deep inside of me.


or all of Glory Days

 

[Blekota]

GAGAAGAGAGAHAHAHAHA YEAH,

mine is at the edge of the bridge.

You mean probably At the end of the bridge...

 

[AlexGuinness]

15:36 - It has been with me for a long time...

 

[AnTz0r]

We're siamese children related by heart, nothing, NOTHING can tear us apart!!! (dan didn't make that line up himself, did he?)

and

NO! I refuse to let these angels take me away!

my new favourite:

you were born to believe in different lies!
the angels... etc

 

[chrisdoig24k]

I must say that my favourite Swano moment has been (for a fair while now):

The king had showed them that it could be done
When this woman gave birth to the sacred one
But is she of man, made of flesh and blood
Or is she the offspring of the unholy

GOD!!

Sets my spine tingling every time!

 

[Dan Swanö]

oh man, talk about stirring it up!

I'll go with

Have you ever tried to count the stars?
Do they remind you of how small we are?
We the people of the planet earth,
we cannot rule the universe.

But my love is bigger than all those things.
It makes me feel like I'm the king of kings.
When I see your hair blowing in the wind.
I close my eyes and I can hear you sing:

My heart belongs to you, my soul if you want it too.
But when I open up my eyes, it's like a
big black hole in my heart that cries.

Because in every word you say
and every time I pray there is a wire bursting deep inside of me.
And everytime I read the words that you have seen
there is a fire burning deep inside of me.


or all of Glory Days

Cool...But that lyrix is not mine. It´s written by Peter Edwinzon!!
Thanx anyway!!

 

[Dan Swanö]

We're siamese children related by heart, nothing, NOTHING can tear us apart!!! (dan didn't make that line up himself, did he?)

and

NO! I refuse to let these angels take me away!

my new favourite:

you were born to believe in different lies!
the angels... etc

The first line is written by Fish and I say something about that in the booklet.
Too good to be forgotten on Fugazi!!

 

[Kenneth R.]

you sang em

 

[Dan Swanö]

Pick any project you want, as long as Dan worked on it in some way. Mine would have to be Infestdead's "Christinsanity." I think it's awesome because it promotes a very strong code of ethics and morals (by mocking and degrading a concept that obviously eptiomizes the unethical and immoral - Christianity!) Let's examine these sensible, powerful, thought-provoking and beautiful lyrics! Glory!


I Deny! I Deny!
Your Savior Is A Fake
How Can You Believe In A Religion
Based On An Ancient Tale
Carved In Stone

Chapter after Chapter
In Your Book Of Fables, You Praise Your So-Called Lord
You Dedicate Your Lies To The Pre-Historic Lies
My Conviction Is My Sword

In Your Eyes You Are Divine
You Will Face The Truth When You Die
You Think You See The Sign
What You See Is What You Get And You Are Blind

Christianity
Face Reality
Christianity
Fake Reality

I Deny! I Deny!
Your Savior Is A Fake
How Can You Believe In A Religion
Based On An Ancient Tale

Chapter after Chapter
In Your Book Of Fables, You Praise Your So-Called Lord
You Dedicate Your Lies To The Pre-Historic Lies
My Conviction Is My Sword

Fuck God! Fuck Your Christ!

In Your Eyes You Are Divine
You Will Face The Truth When You Die
You Think You See The Sign
What You See Is What You Get And You Are Blind

Hmm...
I am quite sure Dread wrote all Infestdead lyrix, but there might have been a few by me on the last one....does it say my name in the linernotes??

 

[Dan Swanö]

15:36 - It has been with me for a long time...

15:36 is written by Anders Jakobson from Nasum/Coldworker
I turn out to be quite the lyricist

Ha, ha!!!

I just had 2 15:36 incidents...
I get a parkingreciept that tells me I have until 15:36
to do mz errands. And then I just happen to look at a customers watch with these biiiig digits on them at exactly 15:36

never ends...

 

[Demilich]

Well, I go with At the End of the Bridge,

and Crimson (though others surely contributed)

 

[AnTz0r]

The first line is written by Fish and I say something about that in the booklet.

well i had seen that in the booklet but never bothered to look up how much you actually stole looked it up now... you still made up the 2nd part

either way, i dont really care. for me lyrics are something secondary... as in secondary to the music. a great lyric can make a good song great if the lyrics and the music match together. that's why i still love that siamese part... it's like you scream it out man, NOTHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING. damn convincing. same with the NOOOOOOOOo in the big sleep.

 

[Earthbound]

Now he's here inside her ocean sky.
He's dreaming again, he's released from all his fears.
I'm standing here watching the world through his eyes,
There's no reason to leave since I know no time never dies.

But I can fell the rain upon your cheek
'Cause you don't know that I could steal the moon for you.
You don't know I'd sing an endless croon for you.
It's strange in here, knowing I'll have your name.
I'll never be me, I'm like art in a stolen frame.

And if I would die, would I be reborn like you,
And start all over again, with a life so fresh and new
A combination of love hate and jealousy.
I'm stuck in here but you will soon be free
You don't know I could steal the moon for you,
You don't know I could steal the moon for you,

and

I'm all alone
Waiting for no one
I see the daylight fade away

I'm so afraid
I know you're around me
I hear you crying in the wind

If I could bring you back
If I had the power, I'd give you my world
And my life, you'd have it all
But life is not a game
And I know the rules and I know I must follow
them every single day

I feel that I'm loosing it all
There's nothing left to live for
I'm ending it all in my dreams
It always seems so easy in my sleep

I'm all alone
Waiting for darkness
I wish the sun would slip away

I still believe that you didn't leave me
I see your shadow in the haze

If I could have some peace
Ending the nightmare, closing the chapter
And join you in your sleep
But life is not a game
And I know the rules and I know I must follow
them every single day

I feel that I'm loosing it all
There's nothing left to live for
I'm ending it all in my dreams
And deep inside I knew

That there was one part of me
That tried to save you from yourself
The other let you go and I will
Never deny I was walking on the line of
Here and nevermore in selfish pride

notworthy

 

[Skaldir]

It's funny that lots of the stuff mentioned here was written by others. Poor Dan, but your lyrics are good.

For example I really like this one...

"There will always be the moments when life has no mercy,
and the loved ones will be leaving before we die."

Fits perfect.


And the lyrics of "Draw" also rule
Especially this part:

"When will he see her draw pictures of all they never saw?
When will he see her eyes closer them a dream away?"

 

[Timmeth]

SHADOWLAND SERENADE
"How come I never knew until the night that she had spoken?
Why did she have to tell me 'bout the way we used to be?"


THE WAKE
"And you don't know where you've arrived this time my love"

A JOURNEY'S END
"So long ago
I gave you my heart, it was...
So long ago
I gave you my soul, it was...
So long ago
But you gave me hell in return"

THE BOY AND THE IMPOSSIBLE
"With flowers in my hand I asked you
to bring joy to my life. But you
told me things I couldn't hear so the
roses were replaced by a knife."

IN EMPTY PHRASES
"Here I am in my chamber
In my room full of words
Always searching for patterns that will give life to a line
My poetry is frozen though it's beginning to melt
The solid form is changing to the liquid of thoughts written down
Sentence after sentence in a language not mine
Loss of point no direction
A jigsaw where no pieces fit
I envy the writers and the ðîåts who know the way to the places were poetry
grow
There is no harvest if you never sow
So I beg. steal and borrow wherever I go
If words were like music this would be a book
But this is not even worth the time that it took
Not even a novel just a self-pity tale written by someone that always will
fail
So very fragile inside
That's why I hide in the empty phrases"

 

[Tumn]

My favorite lyrics are from "Hell Is Where the Heart Is" demo version with scratch lyrics.

You fucked me in my ass!

Just joking though, not sure what my favorite ones are.