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.
Driving the pack, from the rear, with a trumpet, with an axe. Driving to the precipice, windswept and wet with starving neglect. Eternally carving my cause on a landscape that's blighted and scorched. I'm blighted and scorched with the truth, we don't listen, we shoot, from the blindside. It's a landslide, but in hindsight, I thought it was easier. But it's all much too late to turn back, I must face an eternally fateless way in a place where my orders echo my torturous ghosts. In a space with no windows, I'm counting the touch. All this time to reflect on my crimes to humanity. I'm screaming profanities, just give me a
chance to start over again. I confess, yes, I'll do it again.
chance to start over again. I confess, yes, I'll do it again.
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Because I'm obsessed with Norse mythology, this makes me think of Loki at Ragnarok. The Earth and all living things are doomed but they all keep fighting anyway, as everything is destroyed. In particular the last few lines make me think of him: "In a space with no windows, I'm counting the touch. All this time to reflect on my crimes to humanity.." He was bound to a rock [in a cave?] prior to Ragnarok as punishment for killing Balder. And he never apologizes for killing anyone, making people angry, screwing them over. As a god of chaos, he would glady do it all over again because it doesn't matter if the consequences are good or bad, only that his actions mixed things up.