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.
When I was young
I knew a girl
Who wouldn't love God as a test
Or gamble with her happiness
And so led astray
So she did turn
Her father would say
You're only a guest of the Master
But passion was her Sunday best
And she fell away
She fell away
She fell away
She fell away from the side of the Lord
Then she was free to do what she wanted
With clouds of her own
Na na na na
When she grew up
She fell in love
She thought it was all that she wanted
She knew how it felt to be haunted
And he ran away
Picked herself up
And said through her tears
Don't waste anymore of your time
You'll spend it all standing in line
And they'll turn you away
She fell away
She fell away
She fell away from the side of the Lord
Then she was free to do what she wanted
With clouds of her own
Na na na na
Hope and superstition
And your heart's permission
'Cause you're good enough
Good enough
Good enough
To make it alone
Then when she died
She didn't ask God
To take her back into His graces
She'd taken on too many shapes
And too many were strange
And as they laid her into the ground
Her spirits they all flew all away
The sun shone so bright on that day
You'd've thought it was spring
She fell away
She fell away
She fell away from the side of the Lord
Then she was free to do what she wanted
With clouds of her own
Na na na na
I knew a girl
Who wouldn't love God as a test
Or gamble with her happiness
And so led astray
So she did turn
Her father would say
You're only a guest of the Master
But passion was her Sunday best
And she fell away
She fell away
She fell away
She fell away from the side of the Lord
Then she was free to do what she wanted
With clouds of her own
Na na na na
When she grew up
She fell in love
She thought it was all that she wanted
She knew how it felt to be haunted
And he ran away
Picked herself up
And said through her tears
Don't waste anymore of your time
You'll spend it all standing in line
And they'll turn you away
She fell away
She fell away
She fell away from the side of the Lord
Then she was free to do what she wanted
With clouds of her own
Na na na na
Hope and superstition
And your heart's permission
'Cause you're good enough
Good enough
Good enough
To make it alone
Then when she died
She didn't ask God
To take her back into His graces
She'd taken on too many shapes
And too many were strange
And as they laid her into the ground
Her spirits they all flew all away
The sun shone so bright on that day
You'd've thought it was spring
She fell away
She fell away
She fell away from the side of the Lord
Then she was free to do what she wanted
With clouds of her own
Na na na na
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So I almost got it right! But I just kept her singing "you're only a ghost or a monster",and that could be my crazy mind.But I'm almost sure that the last line of the last verse is "the sun shone bright on her day,though it was late".Makes sense.But you know English isn't my first language so I can be wrong.
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