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.
Violent J And Shaggy 2 Dope:
Always uninvited fuck off unrespected, sometimes he creeps other times he's expected
He hangs out in bad neighborhoods up at the park he will strike in broad day light but prefers the dark
Three little kids caught inside a burning home he'll just sit there and wait for 'em leave 'em alone!
As sure as we're alive today and death is inveitable he's waitin' there watching through the eyes of a crow fo' sho' I know yo
Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope Chorus:
Death is always a shitty time
Don't bother trying to run and hide
Take his hand cross to the other side (Step to the other side)
Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope:
Freeway intersections when the bars close, he loves 'em
Blew out traffic lights? He hovers above him
And he loves the motherfuck out of crackheads and heroin
Rehab centers and caring mothers always scaring him
Sharing them needles?
He encourages and raw sex?
They got him working and steady collecting soul checks
Then again
What?
Nine times out of ten, I wish he's take me
Instead of some of these poor children we see
I'm sayin
Skwo
What
Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope Chorus:
Death is always a shitty time No where to run
Don't bother trying to run and hide No where to hide
Take his hand cross to the other side
Step to the other side! (Step to the other side)
Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope:
He remainds nameless but we call him the Wraith
He is the 6th Jokers Card of the Dark Carnival faith
That's it, now your clock is ticking, every second counts
And everyhting you do that right or wrong, it all amounts
And whether you going to heaven or hell he doesn't care
He's only here to give you the death touch and send you there
Most people fear him because they don't understand
That once he finally touches you with death eternity can begin
That's what the fuck I'm talkin' about
Lotus
What
Mother fuck
Yea yeah
Woop Woop
Hoe
Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope Chorus:
Death is always a shitty time No where to run
Don't bother trying to run and hide No where to hide
Take his hand cross to the other side
Step to the other side! (Step to the other side)
Always uninvited fuck off unrespected, sometimes he creeps other times he's expected
He hangs out in bad neighborhoods up at the park he will strike in broad day light but prefers the dark
Three little kids caught inside a burning home he'll just sit there and wait for 'em leave 'em alone!
As sure as we're alive today and death is inveitable he's waitin' there watching through the eyes of a crow fo' sho' I know yo
Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope Chorus:
Death is always a shitty time
Don't bother trying to run and hide
Take his hand cross to the other side (Step to the other side)
Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope:
Freeway intersections when the bars close, he loves 'em
Blew out traffic lights? He hovers above him
And he loves the motherfuck out of crackheads and heroin
Rehab centers and caring mothers always scaring him
Sharing them needles?
He encourages and raw sex?
They got him working and steady collecting soul checks
Then again
What?
Nine times out of ten, I wish he's take me
Instead of some of these poor children we see
I'm sayin
Skwo
What
Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope Chorus:
Death is always a shitty time No where to run
Don't bother trying to run and hide No where to hide
Take his hand cross to the other side
Step to the other side! (Step to the other side)
Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope:
He remainds nameless but we call him the Wraith
He is the 6th Jokers Card of the Dark Carnival faith
That's it, now your clock is ticking, every second counts
And everyhting you do that right or wrong, it all amounts
And whether you going to heaven or hell he doesn't care
He's only here to give you the death touch and send you there
Most people fear him because they don't understand
That once he finally touches you with death eternity can begin
That's what the fuck I'm talkin' about
Lotus
What
Mother fuck
Yea yeah
Woop Woop
Hoe
Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope Chorus:
Death is always a shitty time No where to run
Don't bother trying to run and hide No where to hide
Take his hand cross to the other side
Step to the other side! (Step to the other side)
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The Wraith Lyrics as written by Michael John Jr. Puwal Joseph Bruce
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