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.
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you
That I might reach
Straight for your throat
This is madness
Will we not be satisfied
Until we sit drenched in each other's blood?
The shame of only two appalling options:
A taker of life, or a dead man
This is why the wives, the mothers, and children are mourning
Love, as vital to life
As blood to heart
Conquers pain
Lest death intrudes by means of its
Flawed emissary, man
On this day, saints will be sinners
There will be no victors, only bereaved
This is why we mourn
Leaving the world blind, eye after eye
Disease inhabits the environs
Famine feeds our gardens
Flesh is predisposed to die
Death needs no aide
We bear blood to where we rest
And still we are not sleepless
And we will live such tragedy in perpetuity
Her loved one is dead
His loved one is dead
My loved one is dead
Your loved one is dead
This is a tragedy
Take my arms that I might reach you
That I might reach
Straight for your throat
This is madness
Will we not be satisfied
Until we sit drenched in each other's blood?
The shame of only two appalling options:
A taker of life, or a dead man
This is why the wives, the mothers, and children are mourning
Love, as vital to life
As blood to heart
Conquers pain
Lest death intrudes by means of its
Flawed emissary, man
On this day, saints will be sinners
There will be no victors, only bereaved
This is why we mourn
Leaving the world blind, eye after eye
Disease inhabits the environs
Famine feeds our gardens
Flesh is predisposed to die
Death needs no aide
We bear blood to where we rest
And still we are not sleepless
And we will live such tragedy in perpetuity
Her loved one is dead
His loved one is dead
My loved one is dead
Your loved one is dead
This is a tragedy
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Ending the Perpetual Tragedy Lyrics as written by Matthew Fletcher Geert Van Der Velde
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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the stillness of a corpse is unnerving, it is the physical form of death, the air is cold, and im sure someone somewhere is laughing. i am colder than the air, my heart is deeper than an ocean, it's pain is focused, a focus as brutal of the stillness of a corpse, on this day let them all be unnerved as the blood of the dead mixes with the blood of the gouging of my eyes, the truest tragedy complete and in perpetuity, as this is the world of imbisiles who thirst for blood, blind as bats. There are no more lessons to be learned, man unlearns wisdom as swiftly as it digs it's own grave, if you must dig, let it dig for itself,i will bury the corpses of those that would bury mine, withdowned by the loved, let the blood of my own eyes mixes with the blood of mankind, it will cleanse the world, the scorth is jet blood, it will cleanse the world this is a tragedy when a loved one is dead
i will bury the corpses
of those that would bury mine
this is a tragedy.
It will clense the world It will clense the world
THIS IS A TRAGEDY
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This scorched, jet blood; it will cleanse the world.
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