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.
Here's looking at you, kid
It was gonna leak eventually
So eventually it did
And bad news travels fast, I think
In minutes half the country will be stiff, stiff inside their pants
All the editors are hard
All the journalists are wet
All the boys are jerking off in private on the internet
The manager is sweating
The parents smoking cigarettes
And it doesn't matter if the vision flatters
It's the nudity and that much is understood (and that much is understood)
And it better be, and it better fucking be, and it better be good
And she looks hungry
On that tape
Yes she looks starving
In the limelight
In that sickly green, she might have been
A girl I know or a place I've seen
Now all the editors are hard
And all the journalists are wet
And all the boys are jerking off in private on the internet
Now all the editors are hard
And all the journalists are wet
And all the boys are jerking off in private on the internet
Between the sweat and the silhouette
Between the drink and the regret
Have your fill but don't forget
Everyone's naked
Somewhere on the internet
Somewhere on the internet
The Jonas Generation's got rings wrapped round their dicks
The whole world waits with patience for one them boys to slip
Reflected, directed by one simple fact
Be careful what you're looking at because it might be looking back
Reflected, directed by one simple fact
Be careful what you're looking at because it might be looking back
Be careful what you're looking at because it might be looking back, ugh
And in that sickly green, she might have been
A girl I know, a place I've seen
And in that sickly green, she might have been
A fantasy that I've forseen
Yeah, get it up, get it off online
Get it up, get it on, get it off online
In a sickly green, she might have been, a girl I know, a place I've seen
A girl I know, or a place I've seen
It was gonna leak eventually
So eventually it did
And bad news travels fast, I think
In minutes half the country will be stiff, stiff inside their pants
All the editors are hard
All the journalists are wet
All the boys are jerking off in private on the internet
The manager is sweating
The parents smoking cigarettes
And it doesn't matter if the vision flatters
It's the nudity and that much is understood (and that much is understood)
And it better be, and it better fucking be, and it better be good
And she looks hungry
On that tape
Yes she looks starving
In the limelight
In that sickly green, she might have been
A girl I know or a place I've seen
Now all the editors are hard
And all the journalists are wet
And all the boys are jerking off in private on the internet
Now all the editors are hard
And all the journalists are wet
And all the boys are jerking off in private on the internet
Between the sweat and the silhouette
Between the drink and the regret
Have your fill but don't forget
Everyone's naked
Somewhere on the internet
Somewhere on the internet
The Jonas Generation's got rings wrapped round their dicks
The whole world waits with patience for one them boys to slip
Reflected, directed by one simple fact
Be careful what you're looking at because it might be looking back
Reflected, directed by one simple fact
Be careful what you're looking at because it might be looking back
Be careful what you're looking at because it might be looking back, ugh
And in that sickly green, she might have been
A girl I know, a place I've seen
And in that sickly green, she might have been
A fantasy that I've forseen
Yeah, get it up, get it off online
Get it up, get it on, get it off online
In a sickly green, she might have been, a girl I know, a place I've seen
A girl I know, or a place I've seen
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Sex Tapes Lyrics as written by Rody Walker Lucas Hoskin
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