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.
Say hello to the rug's topography
It holds quite a lot of interest with your face down on it
Say hello to the shrinking in your head
You can't see it but you know its there so don't neglect it
I'm taking her home with me all dressed in white
She's got everything I need pharmacy keys
She's falling hard for me I can see it in her eyes
She acts just like a nurse with all the other guys
Say hello to all the apples on the ground
They were once in your eyes but you sneezed them out while sleeping
Say hello to everything you've left behind
It's even more a part of your life now that you can't touch it
I'm taking her home with me all dressed in white
She's got everything I need some pills in a little cup
She's falling hard for me I can see it in her eyes
She acts just like a nurse with all the other guys
Say hello to the rugs topography...
It holds quite a lot of interest with your face down on it
Say hello to the shrinking in your head
You can't see it but you know its there so don't neglect it
I'm taking her home with me all dressed in white
She's got everything I need pharmacy keys
She's falling hard for me I can see it in her eyes
She acts just like a nurse with all the other guys
Say hello to all the apples on the ground
They were once in your eyes but you sneezed them out while sleeping
Say hello to everything you've left behind
It's even more a part of your life now that you can't touch it
I'm taking her home with me all dressed in white
She's got everything I need some pills in a little cup
She's falling hard for me I can see it in her eyes
She acts just like a nurse with all the other guys
Say hello to the rugs topography...
Lyrics submitted by prayingmantis84
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everyone's entitled to their opinion, but some rly make it more complicated than it is. reading things like 'the rug is a vagina', i mean, come on.
also, the nurse as a drug metaphor seems poetically invalid. this lyric doesnt seem to contain an extended metaphor. take the sentence "she's got everything; i need pharmacy keys". 'she' would mean 'drug'. ok, but then he sais she, the drug, has 'pharmacy keys', which cant rly be a metaphor for something i think. so basically, than would be saying 'the drug has pharmacy keys'. makes no sense.
i think its simple. the verses are the nurse talking, basically waking a patient up ("say hello to...") to start his day, uselessly spent by studying the carpet etc (rug's topography) due to the patient being kinda fucked up still, in rehab prolly. the apples on the ground he sneezed out, are the bad desires (adam and eve reference) he lost now that he's being treated. theyre not in his eyes anymore ie he doesnt chase it anylonger.
the choruses are the patient himself; his illusion the nurse rly loves him because she takes care of him, because hes fuckd in the head still. thats why the music is dreamy, and somewhat childish, walt disney like. cause he's on the level of a child again due to the drugs fuckin him up, full of imagination.
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@Lupi You're definitely overthinking this too. "apple of my eye" is an expression. It means something you cherish. The part about apples is obviously a play on words. I have no idea how you got an Adam and Eve reference out of that, or that the apples are somehow bad desires.<br /> <br /> Also, the music being dreamy is just how APC made it. This is a cover of a grunge rock song from the 90s that definitely does not have a dreamy feel. So you can just throw all the stuff you said about them being like a child out the window.<br /> <br /> I think this song is obviously about the Florence Nightingale effect where patients fall in love with their nurse, as well as addiction to painkillers.<br /> <br /> And it seems like it's about someone in a mental institution too. The "shrinking in your head" is probably referencing psychiatry(shrinks), and having your face down on the rug is probably referencing being forcefully subdued.