Recurring Motifs

Many of Michael Gira's music is thematically and lyrically similar across songs and albums.

## Children/Youth

### Children Of God

* *Beautiful Child*
* *Children Of God*

### Feel Good Now

* The cover is a photo taken by Norman Westberg of Michael Gira posing with a group of children in Gdansk, Poland.

### White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity

* *Better Than You* starts with a sample of a baby cooing.

### Love Of Life

* *The Golden Boy That Was Swallowed By The Sea*

### The Great Annihilator

* *In* ends with children laughing
* *I Am The Sun:* And when the light goes out, I kill another child
* *My Buried Child*
* *The Child's Right*

### *My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky*

* *You Fucking People Make Me Sick* has a child speaking

### To Be Kind

* The cover is a painting of a crying baby.
* Just a Little Boy

## Love

### Young God

* Young God: "I love your flesh/I love your face"

### Greed

* Fool: "Everyone would love me if I could fool the world"

### Children Of God

* Our Love Lies
* Trust Me: "Because I love you"
* Real Love
* Blind Love

### Feel Good Now

* *Into Blind Love and Out*
* *Manchester In Love*

### The Burning World

* The River That Runs With Love Won't Run Dry

### Love Of Life

* Love Of Life
* God Loves America

## Rape

### Swans EP

* Take Advantage
* Sensitive Skin's (Implied)

### Filth

* Freak: "Big erection in your hands/And you rule the world/You're gonna murder somebody weak"
* Gang: "Rape his memory"

### Cop

* Cop: "Nobody rapes them like a cop with his club"
* Butcher (implied)

### Time Is Money (Bastard)

* Time Is Money (Bastard): "You should be raped/Someone weaker than you should rape you"

### Greed

* Anything For You: "Force yourself on me"

## The Sun

### Children Of God

* Blood and Honey: "And the sun will shine on your pale shape"

### The Burning World

* The River That Runs with Love Won’t Run Dry: "And I, I was born beneath the dying sun"
* Mona Lisa, Mother Earth: "We'll walk a burning world where the sun shines darkness"
* Saved: "And I've got no sun to pull down from the sky"
* See No More: "See God's sun go down behind that hill/Then see God's sun fall behind that hill in darkness/Then see our sun go black because we made one mistake"
* God Damn The Sun

### White Light From the Mouth of Infinity

* Song for Dead Time: "And the sun is an emptiness that burns through the sky/And lay your loneliness down for the sun to consume/And lay your loneliness down for the sun to burn to sand"
* Will We Survive: "Now the sun will kill the garden"
* Song for the Sun
* Blind: "When I walked out in the sun I was strong, clear-minded and blind"
* When She Breathes: "In her shadow, the sun was born/And from Heaven, she'll rain down the sun"
* The Most Unfortunate Lie: "I saw the sun rise in an ancient desert"

### Love of Life

* The Other Side of the World: "And the sun was rising on the other side of the world"
* Amnesia: "The sun is an acid eye/The sun will not rise today"
* In the Eyes of Nature: "And cut into the heart of the sun"

### Drainland

* Low Life Form: "Then laid me out into the sun"
* Why I Ate My Wife: "Your hand holds onto the sun, protecting"
* Where Does Your Body Begin? & Where Does a Body End? (TGA): "The bodies in the river float beneath the sun"
* I See Them All Lined Up & All Lined Up (SFTB): "Their blood is shining in the sun/And soon the sun begins to sink"

### Sacrificial Cake

* The Body Lover: "At last it's coming up, the sun"

### The Great Annihilator

* I Am the Sun
* Blood Promise: "And time is born beneath the sun"
* Mind/Body/Light/Sound: "There's a sun in the sky"
* Telepathy: "And the blood and the bodies floated through the blue sun"

### Die Tür ist zu

Ich Sehe Die Alle In Einer Reihe: "Ihr glück glänzt in der **sonne**/Und noch geht die **sonne** unter"

### Soundtracks for the Blind

* Volcano: "And every evening the sun comes up when she goes down"

### Various Failures

* Was He Ever Alive?: "Where the brown cloud shuts the sun"
* Picture of Maryanne: "These are the hands that hold the sun"

### New Mother

* His Entropic Highness: "Into the melting yellow-red sun"

### How I Loved You

* My True Body: "The white sun is rising"
* Two Women: "You hold the knife that cuts the sun"

### The Angels of Light Sing ‘Other People’

* Destroyer: "Here she comes down from the sun"

### We Are Him

* Not Here / Not Now: "And the sun burns your words/To steal the sun, I’ll feel the light/To feel the sun or taste the light"
* We Are Him: "To his home, through the sun/Through the rain, through the sun/In the sun!"
* Sunflower’s Here To Stay

### My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky

* Reeling the Liars In: "Now the sun will hide beneath the ridge tonight"

### The Seer

* Lunacy: "Forming sun, forming love"
* Mother of the World: "Mother sun, mother of senseless things"
* A Piece of the Sky: "In the blood of the swans as the sun fucks the dawn"

### To Be Kind

* Screen Shot: "Sun, come, sky, tar; mouth, sand, teeth, tongue"
* A Little God in My Hands: "Eye full of sun, hand full of mud"
* Bring The Sun/Toussaint L’Ouverture
* To Be Kind: "The falling sun, the fallen one"

### The Glowing Man

* Cloud of Forgetting: "The sun"
* Finally, Peace: "We're praising the sun for the damage he's done"