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.
Oh no, you've gone again
I feel like Daniel in the lion's den
Stone cold in the afternoon
So alone in the empty room
They say that four walls do not a prison make
I'm trying to find a way out but there seems no escape
When I feel the hidden power that lies inside your sound
Like the ghost inside the atom that spins it 'round and 'round
There's magic in some words, some things you can't explain
That conjures up that feeling of the sun inside the rain
When the wind is blowing like a lonesome train
I reach out and touch you, I call your name
When the night is lonely and I fear the coming day
I reach out and touch you
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
Oh no, don't let the sun go down
I'm so low, I feel underground
There's no easy road and no easy way
To say the things I have to say
'Cause I know that time is a distance and distance is a space
I've come so far to find you, it's you I can't replace
When I feel the hidden power that lies inside your sound
Like the ghost inside the atom that spins it 'round and 'round
There's magic in some words some things you can't explain
That conjures up that feeling of the sun inside the rain
When the wind is blowing like a lonesome train
I reach out and touch you, I call your name
When the night is lonesome and I fear the coming day
I reach out and touch you
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I'm calling your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I feel like Daniel in the lion's den
Stone cold in the afternoon
So alone in the empty room
They say that four walls do not a prison make
I'm trying to find a way out but there seems no escape
When I feel the hidden power that lies inside your sound
Like the ghost inside the atom that spins it 'round and 'round
There's magic in some words, some things you can't explain
That conjures up that feeling of the sun inside the rain
When the wind is blowing like a lonesome train
I reach out and touch you, I call your name
When the night is lonely and I fear the coming day
I reach out and touch you
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
Oh no, don't let the sun go down
I'm so low, I feel underground
There's no easy road and no easy way
To say the things I have to say
'Cause I know that time is a distance and distance is a space
I've come so far to find you, it's you I can't replace
When I feel the hidden power that lies inside your sound
Like the ghost inside the atom that spins it 'round and 'round
There's magic in some words some things you can't explain
That conjures up that feeling of the sun inside the rain
When the wind is blowing like a lonesome train
I reach out and touch you, I call your name
When the night is lonesome and I fear the coming day
I reach out and touch you
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I'm calling your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
I call your name, ngibiza igama lakho
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