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.
I knew so well those eyes
I know so well what they won't tell
Freeze in the window light
You've been too long away
I left you heartsick in the morning
Just to come again at dark
Scattered poems on the floor is all I left behind
This fading earth
This heavy dark-blue sky around me
I'm laying the night, awake, forsaken and mistaken
Against my life I hold this silver blade in my hand
Who am I to think you'll wait for me on the other side
My paradise was never here
This hopeless fight amongst the living
I fear that age and death someday brings you to decay
Coloured with the death of man
A hundred years of wait and drain
Sick with hatred, sick with pain
Your patience is wearing thin
This fading earth
This heavy dark-blue sky around me
I'm laying the night, awake, forsaken and mistaken
Against my life I hold this silver blade in my hand
Who am I to think you'll wait for me on the other side
Why try to be patient with life
Once so promising but yet so vulnerable
But yet so vulnerable
This fading earth
This heavy dark-blue sky around me
I'm laying the night, awake, forsaken and mistaken
Against my life I hold this silver blade in my hand
Who am I to think you'll wait for me on the other side
This fading earth on the other side
I pray you'll wait for me on the other side
At the other side (x2)
I know so well what they won't tell
Freeze in the window light
You've been too long away
I left you heartsick in the morning
Just to come again at dark
Scattered poems on the floor is all I left behind
This fading earth
This heavy dark-blue sky around me
I'm laying the night, awake, forsaken and mistaken
Against my life I hold this silver blade in my hand
Who am I to think you'll wait for me on the other side
My paradise was never here
This hopeless fight amongst the living
I fear that age and death someday brings you to decay
Coloured with the death of man
A hundred years of wait and drain
Sick with hatred, sick with pain
Your patience is wearing thin
This fading earth
This heavy dark-blue sky around me
I'm laying the night, awake, forsaken and mistaken
Against my life I hold this silver blade in my hand
Who am I to think you'll wait for me on the other side
Why try to be patient with life
Once so promising but yet so vulnerable
But yet so vulnerable
This fading earth
This heavy dark-blue sky around me
I'm laying the night, awake, forsaken and mistaken
Against my life I hold this silver blade in my hand
Who am I to think you'll wait for me on the other side
This fading earth on the other side
I pray you'll wait for me on the other side
At the other side (x2)
Lyrics submitted by EpicNight13
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