Swans - The Sound of Freedom lyrics

We're standing by a river In a place where nothing moves And the white light in the sky Is meaningless and cruel And we turn our face away From a cold and violent wind And we bow our heads down And we pray to the sound of freedom With a mirror in my hand And my eyes burned in the fire Drunk on self-deception And punished by desire Leaping directly into a bright white sea I'll keep myself breathing And I'll swallow the sound of freedom Nobody else can see you Nobody knows how you feel Go further inside you Where nothing else is real Now throw yourself into a pool of silence you can see And hold the mirror before your eyes And light the white light It's the sound of freedom Now time is just a picture That moves before your eyes And every lie that I believe Is falsely compromised And this is not a sound And we are not alive Someone else was here before In someone else's mind And the ground we walk is sacred And every object lives And every word we speak Will punish or forgive And the light inside your body Will shine through history Set fire to every prison Set every dead man free And the air we're breathing now We breathed a million times And the darkest dreams we dreamed Were dreamed by other minds So take us to the water Take us to the sound And wash my soul away Where it can never be found And the white light that surrounds us Is the sound of freedom pounding And the ground that opens up Spits the fire from freedom's mouth And the concrete, gla** and steel Break with a freedom you can feel And the wind that blows through Heaven It screams the sound of freedom And the violence that destroys Is the birth of freedom singing And the lovers in the field Make the sound of freedom bleeding And the pain that eats my mind Is the shout of freedom's life And the sea that splits in two Is the cut of freedom's knife And the fire that burns this city Is the white light in freedom's eye And the white light is the sound of freedom