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.
Don't fret precious I'm heree
Step away from the window
Go back to sleep
Lay your head down child
I won't let the boogeyman come
Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble
Head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Pay no mind what other voices say
They don't care about you
Like I do
Like I do
Safe from pain and truth and choice and other poison devils
See they don't give a fuck about you
Like I do
Just stay with me
Safe and ignorant
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Lay your head down child
I won't let the boogeyman come
Count the bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble
Head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums
I'll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and all your demons
I'll be the one to protect you from
A will to survive and a voice of reason
I'll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and your choices son
One and the same I must isolate you
Isolate and save you from yourself
Swaying to the rhythm of the new world order and
Count the bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drum
The boogeymen are coming
The boogeymen are coming
Keep your head down go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Stay with me
Safe and ignorant
Just stay with me
Hold you and protect you from the other ones
The evil ones
Don't love you son
Go back to sleep
Step away from the window
Go back to sleep
Lay your head down child
I won't let the boogeyman come
Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble
Head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Pay no mind what other voices say
They don't care about you
Like I do
Like I do
Safe from pain and truth and choice and other poison devils
See they don't give a fuck about you
Like I do
Just stay with me
Safe and ignorant
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Lay your head down child
I won't let the boogeyman come
Count the bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble
Head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums
I'll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and all your demons
I'll be the one to protect you from
A will to survive and a voice of reason
I'll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and your choices son
One and the same I must isolate you
Isolate and save you from yourself
Swaying to the rhythm of the new world order and
Count the bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drum
The boogeymen are coming
The boogeymen are coming
Keep your head down go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Stay with me
Safe and ignorant
Just stay with me
Hold you and protect you from the other ones
The evil ones
Don't love you son
Go back to sleep
Lyrics submitted by OwnPersonalDemon
Pet Lyrics as written by Maynard James Keenan Billy Howerdel
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Swaying to the rhythm of the new world order and counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums"
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@knowforever I got the exact opposite idea from these lyrics. This is not good advice from a benevolent higher power. It is literally the wolf telling the sheep to trust only the information that comes from him, don’t think for yourself, believe what the overlords and their media gatekeepers tell you, stay a helpless child reliant on the government to protect you from the ‘boogey man’ which for liars with nefarious motives always turns out to be the truth. <br /> <br /> Maynard is so skill full with his lyrics and so prescient about how the corrupt system works that it fulfills this meaning on every level. From all forms of addiction used to numb, control and distract the masses to the demand for being the sole agent of control (‘protect’ you from using your discernment to ascertain reality based on a variety of information sources and making decisions and accepting responsibility for the consequences including learning from your mistakes…they want you asleep to the true nature of their intentions and kept under their mesmerising spell, compliant and obedient, not an adult with god-given sovereignty and the maturity to understand our obligation and responsibility to protect the precious freedoms that were wrested from tyrants with blood. They want you trust government and WEF and the corporate captured public institutions to look after your best interests, to keep you in a childlike state of dependence, the last thing they want is mature adults who are confident in their ability to survive and thrive outside their control. Pay no mind to the rabble, they don’t want you listening to other independent minded truth seekers, and they will demonise and censor all inconvenient observations and questions because lies do not stand up to the light of truth for long.<br /> <br /> The message is their modus operandi, and they’ve become so confident and brazen about it that they simply censor any views contradicting or questioning the inconsistencies in the official narrative openly, calling it misinformation and demonising the ‘rabble’ with slurs like ‘conspiracy theorist’ and ‘anti/vaxxer’ or anti science when the opposite is true. In their Pinocchio world everything is the opposite to reality. Science welcomes being challenged and tested, so what they call ‘following the science’ is actually a faith based cult of conforming results to a preset agenda, the word for that is scientism. They use people’s faith in real science and their lack of awareness at the level of corruption that has infiltrated every level of our system, inculcating trust for authority and the urge to conform to the ‘experts’ they accredit through the ‘education’ system which is really an indoctrination program. That people are hypnotised and in cognitive dissonance is apparent as they continue to trust that the government somehow works for them and has their best interest at heart in the face of constant, long-standing and ongoing demonstrations that dishonesty, self-seeking, power-hunger, immorality, greed and outright criminality are the true motivations of those who since Covid are openly ruling us with out consultation or referendum to even give window dressing of supposed democratic decision making. <br /> <br /> Now they have developed the all the technology they need to implement a worldwide totalitarian state that will reduce the majority to the level of serfdom while the 0.001% rule with the help of AI to implement ubiquitous surveillance and eliminate all notion of privacy or human rights, even to the right to think your own thoughts in what used to be the privacy of our own minds. <br /> <br /> This is the Global New World Order that Maynard has been trying to warn us about, and addiction is but one arm of this powermad group of billionaires arsenal in its war on humanity. This is a multi-generational plan and is getting close to fruition. Of course Maynard didn’t spell it out because he would be endangering his life and career and those of his loved ones if he openly attacked them, much like people like David Icke and others who have been ridiculed and ‘discredited’ as kooks and others who have lost their lives for threatening the plan in any way- look at Julian Assange, they are doing everything in their power to get him to the US so they can execute him or send him yo Guantamo for exposing how inhumane their military tactics and decision making in the field is - and that’s for just exposing a peripheral detail. <br /> <br /> It is no accident that so many people who are enslaved by addictions are those who are the most intelligent, sensitive, spiritual and creative. Addiction is one of their main arsenals to imprison our spiritual growth and atrophy our potential for personal power and growth. 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Which has proven to be be phenomenally successful in this latest Covid Trojan horse scam to get us all to willingly give up our privacy and freedom of movement and association in the name of ‘safety’ and ‘health’. It’s so sad that people cannot see their so-called concern for our health as the blatant mechanism for implementing new powers that people would otherwise reject. That’s why they don’t teach true history in any official institution of education, because they have used the same playbook over and over and if people knew their history they’d recognise what’s being perpetrated. They’d know that vaccines never eradicated or saved any population from any disease, that celebrated propaganda ‘victories’ like the purported eradication of childhood polio and the dreaded smallpox along with many other diseases were already in decline because of improvements to hygiene practices and the engineering of environmental sanitary improvements like sewerage systems and pest control. 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