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.
All these dreams and all these plans
I built them all with these two hands
Everything I've realized my dreams
City lights shine down and they blind me sometimes
But through it all I was lost but I found my way
So tell me what you want
'Cause I would give you anything
Tell me what you need and I'll go get it
I'd give up all these dreams to have you in my arms right now
I'd give up everything and I'd forget it
I wasn't on a mountain
When it came to me
All my life's been wasted
Chasing shallow dreams
So here we are
Let me lift you up and show you this world over me
And all these things, what I've gained and what I've seen
It can't compare to the love you could give to me
So tell me what you want
'Cause I would give you anything
Tell me what you need and I'll go get it
I'd give up all these dreams to have you in my arms right now
I'd give up everything and I'd forget it
I wasn't on a mountain
When it came to me
All my life's been wasted
Chasing shallow dreams
Years go by
And nothing's slowing down the time
Years go by and then they're wasted
All this time I thought that I gained everything
If you are not mine I'm so empty
I wasn't on a mountain
When it came, when it came to me
That all my life's been wasted
Chasing shallow dreams
So please come back to me, I'm right here waiting
So please come back to me, now
I built them all with these two hands
Everything I've realized my dreams
City lights shine down and they blind me sometimes
But through it all I was lost but I found my way
So tell me what you want
'Cause I would give you anything
Tell me what you need and I'll go get it
I'd give up all these dreams to have you in my arms right now
I'd give up everything and I'd forget it
I wasn't on a mountain
When it came to me
All my life's been wasted
Chasing shallow dreams
So here we are
Let me lift you up and show you this world over me
And all these things, what I've gained and what I've seen
It can't compare to the love you could give to me
So tell me what you want
'Cause I would give you anything
Tell me what you need and I'll go get it
I'd give up all these dreams to have you in my arms right now
I'd give up everything and I'd forget it
I wasn't on a mountain
When it came to me
All my life's been wasted
Chasing shallow dreams
Years go by
And nothing's slowing down the time
Years go by and then they're wasted
All this time I thought that I gained everything
If you are not mine I'm so empty
I wasn't on a mountain
When it came, when it came to me
That all my life's been wasted
Chasing shallow dreams
So please come back to me, I'm right here waiting
So please come back to me, now
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i like this song after da seventh time listening its emmm ok i think im not sure realy