Both as a standalone and as part of the DSOTS album, you can take this lyric as read. As a matter of public record, Jourgensen's drug intake was legendary even in the 1980s. By the late 90s, in his own words, he was grappling with massive addiction issues and had lost almost everything: friends, spouse, money and had nearly died more than once. "Dark Side of the Spoon" is a both funny & sad title for an album made by a musical genius who was losing the plot; and this song is a message to his fans & friends saying he knows it. It's painful to listen to so I'm glad the "Keith Richards of industrial metals" wised up and cleaned up. Well done sir.
Too much of it makes me crazy
Not enough of it makes me lazy
Too much makes me lazy
Not enough of it makes me crazy
Time stops just for a moment
And then again it's only an instant
Time stops just for an instant
And then again it's only a moment
They always keep themselves clean
They always keep themselves clean
They always keep themselves clean
They always keep themselves clean
They always keep themselves clean
Clean,
Know what I mean
Know what I mean
I wish that this feeling
Would go away
They're gonna get you sooner or later
These tigers made of paper
But don't pay now
You have to pay later
Confronting tigers made of paper
They always keep themselves clean
Yeah, They always keep themselves clean
They always keep themselves clean
They always keep themselves clean
They always keep themselves clean
Clean
I can't shake this feeling
Ah, I can't shake this feeling
No, I can't shake this feeling
Feeling, how do you feel
Not enough of it makes me lazy
Too much makes me lazy
Not enough of it makes me crazy
Time stops just for a moment
And then again it's only an instant
Time stops just for an instant
And then again it's only a moment
They always keep themselves clean
They always keep themselves clean
They always keep themselves clean
They always keep themselves clean
They always keep themselves clean
Clean,
Know what I mean
Know what I mean
I wish that this feeling
Would go away
They're gonna get you sooner or later
These tigers made of paper
But don't pay now
You have to pay later
Confronting tigers made of paper
They always keep themselves clean
Yeah, They always keep themselves clean
They always keep themselves clean
They always keep themselves clean
They always keep themselves clean
Clean
I can't shake this feeling
Ah, I can't shake this feeling
No, I can't shake this feeling
Feeling, how do you feel
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Paper Tigers Lyrics as written by John Lever David Fielding
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MercyGround is right. Here's what Mark says about it:
"During our early touring, back in the days when we had 'an agent' (gasp!!) we found ourselves, courtesy of 'Wasted Talent' down to support Killing Joke in Leicester. We arrived on time ready to sound check. KJ arrived four and a half hours late and we couldn't check until they had, very boring but no problem. That is until we started our sound check. I plugged my bass in, played a few notes to make sure everything was working and the sound guy shouted "ok, good, now guitar." I started laughing and looked at Dave and he did the same thing, struck a single chord to make sure the leads were working and we got another "great, thanks" from the sound engineer. We started shouting at them that we wanted a proper sound-check, not a line check and they told us that there just wasn't time due to the lateness of Killing Joke's arrival. Things escalated and, noticing the band at the side of the stage, drawn by the commotion, Dave and I unstrapped our guitars and ran at them. Fortunately for them their crew managed to stop us before we got to them. We told them all to fuck off and blew out the gig. Later a spokesman for the band came over and apologised and hoped we'd play the rest of the gigs with them but we told them were to go. Paper Tigers came from that basically."
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@monster36604 This may well be what they've said about the song but to me this explanation makes no sense at all when you read the lyrics.<br /> <br /> I think it's about heroin and they just didn't want to say so.