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 was a member of a successful society.
There was a successful someone inside of me
But then it turned around
And inside out and upside down.
They trapped an wrapped and packed
Me shifty out of town.
Crawling can be beautiful
It sure beats standing still
Crawling on your hands and knees
Takes self-control and skill.
Can we declare, though scared,
This room to be a sovereign state
Where citizens share skins
And sins and copulate.
'cause if we can I think we should
And shouldn't waste a breath.
A baby place is faced
With settling on baby steps.
People party here with me.
Cause the party people's party
Puts the fear in me.
Let loose here with me.
Cause suits suit suits
But the noose suits thee.
Crawling can be beautiful
It sure beats standing still
Crawling on your hands and knees
Can be a show of will.
Who here finds this world distracting?
Who here finds this world a bore?
Who here thinks we're all play acting
And that the show's piss poor?
I for one am dazzled,
I don't care if dazzled blind,
Rapt, enraptured, captured
By every little thing I find.
There was a successful someone inside of me
But then it turned around
And inside out and upside down.
They trapped an wrapped and packed
Me shifty out of town.
Crawling can be beautiful
It sure beats standing still
Crawling on your hands and knees
Takes self-control and skill.
Can we declare, though scared,
This room to be a sovereign state
Where citizens share skins
And sins and copulate.
'cause if we can I think we should
And shouldn't waste a breath.
A baby place is faced
With settling on baby steps.
People party here with me.
Cause the party people's party
Puts the fear in me.
Let loose here with me.
Cause suits suit suits
But the noose suits thee.
Crawling can be beautiful
It sure beats standing still
Crawling on your hands and knees
Can be a show of will.
Who here finds this world distracting?
Who here finds this world a bore?
Who here thinks we're all play acting
And that the show's piss poor?
I for one am dazzled,
I don't care if dazzled blind,
Rapt, enraptured, captured
By every little thing I find.
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it actually sounds more like.... ' there was a sus-successful someone insa-side of me, and i do believe although 'shift me' makes more sense, it still sounds like shifty?