Was He Ever Alive? Swans

When I die let me down
In the field in the ground
Where the water runs beneath me
And the sky's red and falling down
Round my eyes that I closed
And the world that I know
Is a shadow of a dream
That left me in my loneliness
Without a life behind me
That I can say I ever knew
That I can say I ever knew
That I can say I ever lived at all

Now I'm a drunken man
And I'm killing time
From what was mislaid
I've never been alive
I was never born in blood
I've never breathed a word
And the people that I knew
The women and the thieves
They left my body bleeding
On this piece of fallow ground
They left my body bleeding
On this piece of closing in
They left my body bleeding
On this piece of emptiness