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.
Lost in this icy cave
Can't seem to get away
Fingers and toes go numb
Crystal knives cut up my lungs
Harken ahead a strange sight
Dancing orbs of green light
Rising and falling again
Calling us out to reckoning
Our lives are done, unless we run
Slipping and falling and screaming,
and crawling and standing and falling again
Hypnotizing, beckoning, calling us out to reckoning
Listen to me, don't look in it's eyes, mesmerized
By the stare of the Ice Wyrm
Take heed, look away, don't fall prey to the glare of the Ice Wyrm
Nowhere to run, we're trapped
Blind-sided by avalanche
Glacier cracking again
Facing the wyrm, only way we can win
Form up, circle in tight
Confront the dragon's might
Rise up, inhaling to breathe
Cold blast of ice
If it hits us we freeze
Jaws open wide
It's time to strike
Steady aiming and throwing, declaiming
Gzoroth, aid us again
Hypnotizing, beckoning, calling us all to reckoning
Listen to me
Don't look in it's eyes
Mesmerized by the stare of the Ice Wyrm
Look away, don't fall prey to the glare of the Ice Wyrm
Trapped in it's gaze
Paralyzed by it's power
Unholy fear, hopeless prey to devour
Rooted in place
Can't fight, cannot flee
A frozen death it is then for me
Trapped in it's gaze
Test my will
Break the spell of the Ice Wyrm
Raise your tusks
Raise your axe
Make a stand in the lair of the Ice Wyrm
Turn away from it's gaze
Test of will, test of strength
For the tribe
Don't fall prey to the stare of the Ice Wyrm
Raise your tusks
Raise your axe
Cast your spell
And attack
For our tribe
For our lives
Must escape from the lair of the Ice Wyrm
Can't seem to get away
Fingers and toes go numb
Crystal knives cut up my lungs
Harken ahead a strange sight
Dancing orbs of green light
Rising and falling again
Calling us out to reckoning
Our lives are done, unless we run
Slipping and falling and screaming,
and crawling and standing and falling again
Hypnotizing, beckoning, calling us out to reckoning
Listen to me, don't look in it's eyes, mesmerized
By the stare of the Ice Wyrm
Take heed, look away, don't fall prey to the glare of the Ice Wyrm
Nowhere to run, we're trapped
Blind-sided by avalanche
Glacier cracking again
Facing the wyrm, only way we can win
Form up, circle in tight
Confront the dragon's might
Rise up, inhaling to breathe
Cold blast of ice
If it hits us we freeze
Jaws open wide
It's time to strike
Steady aiming and throwing, declaiming
Gzoroth, aid us again
Hypnotizing, beckoning, calling us all to reckoning
Listen to me
Don't look in it's eyes
Mesmerized by the stare of the Ice Wyrm
Look away, don't fall prey to the glare of the Ice Wyrm
Trapped in it's gaze
Paralyzed by it's power
Unholy fear, hopeless prey to devour
Rooted in place
Can't fight, cannot flee
A frozen death it is then for me
Trapped in it's gaze
Test my will
Break the spell of the Ice Wyrm
Raise your tusks
Raise your axe
Make a stand in the lair of the Ice Wyrm
Turn away from it's gaze
Test of will, test of strength
For the tribe
Don't fall prey to the stare of the Ice Wyrm
Raise your tusks
Raise your axe
Cast your spell
And attack
For our tribe
For our lives
Must escape from the lair of the Ice Wyrm
Lyrics submitted by sokorny
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