Swans "A Piece of the Sky" ("The Seer" Full Album Part 10) 

Best song in the album...everything you could want in a swans song. The end is so mellow, like peace emerging out of chaos.

I love this because you can listen to it when you're pissed of and by the end you feel better.

I like how this track is pretty much a combination of Soundtracks and White Light

The masterpiece of Swans' entire career in my opinion

To me, The Seer is the greatest piece of art ever made by human hands. It's perfect. Every second is so intricately crafted. This song being the best of all. Thank you Swans!

Micheal Gira is a master of repetition

This is not just a song, this is a spiritual journey.

Part of me wishes this was the last song on the album. The other parts of me are too scared to tell Gira how I feel.

15:04 and onward is so tender and beautiful, especially after hearing the massive "The Seer" and the terrifying/bleak "93 Ave. B Blues" earlier on the album. The contrast is spectacular. I just recently bought CD copies of The Seer and To Be Kind and now all other music sounds less interesting in comparison.

this reminds me of LSD, the anxiety and the overwhelming feeling, like you are launching into the sky, but then you get into orbit and it becomes so unbelievably beautiful

that slow jam around 9:30 minutes. eargasm

this chord progression is crazy...

I recently discovered swans thanks to my script teacher, and I am grateful I did I began listening to all their music and when I reached the seer I knew they were my favorite band, I love everything of these album This song is perfect for a perfect album, I have listened to the whole album about 20 times just to hear this song as I like to experience it I love it. It is indescribable and perfect.

Thank you, Michael Gira and co.

The end is like the feeling after a thunderstorm.. You can practically hear the dewdrops. It's chillingly beautiful

this and apostate are perfect.

now i see why people say swans is post-rock

The last 4 minutes of this makes me feel like I’m in Alaska and it’s cold and snowy outside but I’m nice and warm in a cosy log cabin

I remember the first time I heard it. it was like suddenly falling into heaven

"Are you in there? On the moon? In the air? Crushed in my hand? Thrown in a fire?" great, guys!

14:40 to the end is ohhhh some wonderful music to be heard.

A long elevator to heaven

This one is as glorious as Helpless Child, yet It is more enigmatic to me...

This song feels like meeting god and then decide to stay in heaven with him

I always play this part 6:55 really loud and just get lost in the chaos.

What a masterpiece. Epitomizes what I love about this kind of winding post-rock; it's like a journey and it makes me feel so many different ways. When I finish this it's a similar feeling to the one I get from finishing a lengthy book that I've grown attached to.

I have not ever known another song that could so easily take me to such a sad place. 🥺 This song is perfect for hitting that teary-eyed euphoria.

This is the song of my life. It's a struggle. An endless struggles. But in the end..

9:37 Always gets me.

Many, many years of SWANS attention here.. from the first experience around 1990, I recognized the importance of this convergence of artists..Filth & Feel good now..and all the rest over the years..agony and extacy..please carry on

Truly one of the best albums this century, in my humble opinion, and I'd put To Be Kind right there with it.

That fucking bassline at 15:04 is so good holy shit

one of the top ten albums of all time imo

It's like ascending to the Heavens in an ocean of glass and chaos.

The most amazing piece of music ever made. I love you too, Mr. Gira. Thank you.

My favourite Swans song.

This is incredible

Life-affirming music

Swans are just on a whole other level

The first 9 minutes feels like I am experiencing something I couldn't feel as an alive being

A Piece Of The Sky Swans Featuring Akron/Family & Jarboe Produced by Michael Gira Album: The Seer (c) [Instrumental] [Verse 1] Through a door in the air On a crumbling stair In a clear and rushing vein In a tunnel full of rain In a piece of yellow light On the skin of my eye Are you there? [Verse 2] In the wind of my lung In methane and in love In petroleum plumes There's a floating slice of moon In your tooth and your claw And your unforgiving jaws Are you there? [Verse 3] In a burning white ship In the taste of her lips In the blood of the swans As the sun fucks the dawn In the mud of the lake In the drunk and the dazed Are you there? [Verse 4] In the now that is not On a ladder to God On a mountain stripped bare With your hand in my hair Behind the face of the sky On a disappearing line Are you there? [Verse 5] In the then that was now In the now that is not In our names we forgot In a thought we just lost We become what we choose We are stumbling fools Who are not there [Verse 6] There's some tangled dirty twine In some idiot's clouded mind There's some wires that won't unwind Around the ankles of the blind There's some walls lined with soft lead And in that room is your bed Is that really you? [Outro] Are you in there? On the moon? In the air? In my hand? Thrown in a fire? Written by: Michael Gira 2012 Copyright (p) - Michael Gira

Thank you swans for this

2:43 is the most beautiful thing, hearing that low g-note come in completes the insane vocal drones

Absolutely amazing

Beautiful, the best from the album.

Beautiful album and song.

This is not a song, this is an experience

This song is fear and uncertainty, it is so tranquil.

So incredible! :) Thank you! Love Swans and M Gira.

that 15 minute intro is something!

Genius and art...a sublime masterpiece!!!!!

This track is soooooo slow even for Swans standards, but it's soooo rewarding and good aswell 10/10

Awesome!!

We love you!

Amazing

Sounds like the angels of light, the second part that is.

Man. I love Akron Family, and I love Swans. I love you all. This song is special, to all the fans, and artists.

Gira sounding uncannily like Iggy at times on this.

Man, I fucking love this band.

Very Dark side of the rainbow.

Is this anyone else's favorite Swans song?

I LOVE YOU TOO MICHAEL GIRA

This might be my new favorite Swans song...

This is so beautiful wth

I really can't decide if this or 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! ascend! (from GY!BE) was the best album of 2012. Both are great at what they are and both could be considered the band's best album by certain opinions.

ARE YOU THERE!?

Swans is one the best bands ever. No question

This feels like the person in this song is trying to be patient and trying to find hope in religion and is trying to look from different perspectives to help. However, in apostate, the person becomes spiteful and angry with religion and resents it. This song and the last are very sad and dramatic , yet both tell a very real story that many I’m sure can relate to and or give perspectives to those who don’t relate to it such as myself. Swans really did an amazing job writing this album

From 15:00 onwards...... Goddamn.....

I want to be as free as this man

There is something about the music that reminds me of GY!BE..... And Not just this track. I discovered them with the release of Lift up your skinny fists like antennas to heaven. But, only discovered Swans with the release of The Glowing Man, at the same time as seeing the appropriate live gig on RU-vid. I bough the double CD with live concert DVD bonus, which I absorbed. Then it was the To Be Kind double CD with live concert DVD Bonus. Then it was The Seer, just a double CD. So kinda backwards originally! Also got very familiar with a lot of the other albums and Gira's solo albums that I also listen too lots, of which I have some favourites that I bought. There's some music, since the first EP and album in the early Eighties onwards.. with the different periods/styles that I'm not so fond of, but occasionally I do listen to them. Their periods that I'm not so keen on, are very over compensated by the awesome ones!

When I first heard that scratching part I thought my record player was broken

holy shit this album on mushrooms yes

Maybe their best work

Yet another Swans album to order through my local record store.

the last part of this song sounds like it would play over the credits of a Wes Anderson movie

shit's hella dope fam

Reminds me of the There Will Be Blood soundtrack.

3:44 It's more dischordant, but anyone else hearing Coil - Moon's Milk in this? Great minds clearly think alike. If you haven't heard it, do yourself a favour, it's on youtube. ;)

I dare say this is good shit

Idk why but for me, 9:37 and onward just feels extremely sad

Ηχητικός οργασμός!

way better album than To be Kind, more compact and pure.

9:36

ARE YOU THERE

A Westie .....with human teeth.What's not to FEAR ?

It's like I'm witnessing such a terrible event unfold, but in the end there is hope. Bleak but hopeful.

I just love evil kitties

Does anyone else know any artist or band that does transcendental music? I really love this stuff and please recommend me this type of music.

:)

anyone know what kind of instrument is the one starting at 6.58???

soundtrack to Blood Meridian

Call me crazy, but is there a bit of Brian Wilson in the last 5mins or so of this song?

9:36 made me jump so hard the first time i heard it

I love this song so much but the audio clips every 5 to 10 seconds and it’s so annoying

Why is there someone pissing at the beginning of the song

9:37

What is the meaning behind this lyrics?

Ya know I just don't feel like the album art matches the music. Love this album to death but I've always thought that.

Body Lovers?