Black Swan
TH1RT3EN
2011
Duration: 4:10
Track number: 9
Times played live: 0
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: Dave Mustaine
Theme
A deeply introspective song about personal regret, addiction, and self-destruction. The narrator feels abandoned by their 'angels' and haunted by their mistakes. The **'Black Swan'** is a metaphor for a devastating, unexpected event or realization of loss (perhaps a re-recording of a song originally intended for the *'United Abominations'* album, reflecting on Mustaine's past struggles). The **'churchyard shadow'** symbolizes their fate catching up to them.
Lyrics
I thought at this hour any pleasure
Can never really be a sin in vain
One hundred and one shots of opportunity
I'd gladly take them all again and again..... and again
My angels left me, sorrows are my own
And now I'm here with the Devil, on my own
Just like a Churchyard Shadow, creeping after me
It's only there to terrify my mind, Black Swan keeps haunting me.
I promise that my soul not to get paid away
Wind always starts of as psychedelic and then it turns to black
My head starts swaying, I forgot what it was that I was saying
I don't know where I am and I'll never, never make it back.
I sealed my fate, and I paid my debt
I fell from grace with deep regret
My angels left me, sorrows are my own
And now I'm here with the devil on my own
Just like the Churchyard shadow, creeping after me
It's only there to terrify my mind, Black Swan keeps haunting me
Just like the Churchyard shadow, there's nothing left to see
It's only there to terrify my mind, Black Swan keeps haunting me
My angels left me, sorrows are my own
And now I'm here with the devil on my own (on my own)
Just like the Churchyard shadow, creeping after me
It's only there to terrify my mind, Black Swan keeps haunting me
Just like the Churchyard shadow, there's nothing left to see
It's only there to terrify my mind, Black Swan keeps haunting me
Just like the Churchyard shadow, creeping after me
There's nothing left to see, there's nothing left of me
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