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.
And now as I would judge and say you're aloof
But you know the truth is a seed
You know what you need is a conflagration
Cause when I see the blood
And the bits of your broken tooth
It gives me the proof that I need
It's the proof that you bleed
It's a revelation
Yeah it's a revelation, it's a revelation
I thought you were a life-sized paper doll
Propped up in the hardware store
Propped up on the front lawn watching the parade
Of those legionnaires with two-by-four's
As they're marching off to war
Yeah they're marching off to war
I didn't know what you were made of
The colour of your blood, what you're afraid of
Are you made of calcium or are you carbon-based
And if you're made of calcium I'll have to take a taste
Cause, listen, calcium is deadly tender to the tooth
And it's one sure-fire way to know if you're
Mx-missile-proof, oh no, or if you're just aloof
You were in the ground in late November
When the leaves in earth are down
Did you, did you think they would remember
How you almost made stage-out
Cause when you're running for the game against alfonso
And you fell upon the ground and chipped a tooth
Oh no, listen, I really have surprised her
To learn that you are really MX-missile-proof
Oh, I thought you were a life-sized paper doll
And you're propped up in the hardware store
You were propped up on the front lawn watching the parade of those legionnaires with two-by-four's
As they're marching off to war
Yeah they're marching off to war
Oh they're marching
But you know the truth is a seed
You know what you need is a conflagration
Cause when I see the blood
And the bits of your broken tooth
It gives me the proof that I need
It's the proof that you bleed
It's a revelation
Yeah it's a revelation, it's a revelation
I thought you were a life-sized paper doll
Propped up in the hardware store
Propped up on the front lawn watching the parade
Of those legionnaires with two-by-four's
As they're marching off to war
Yeah they're marching off to war
I didn't know what you were made of
The colour of your blood, what you're afraid of
Are you made of calcium or are you carbon-based
And if you're made of calcium I'll have to take a taste
Cause, listen, calcium is deadly tender to the tooth
And it's one sure-fire way to know if you're
Mx-missile-proof, oh no, or if you're just aloof
You were in the ground in late November
When the leaves in earth are down
Did you, did you think they would remember
How you almost made stage-out
Cause when you're running for the game against alfonso
And you fell upon the ground and chipped a tooth
Oh no, listen, I really have surprised her
To learn that you are really MX-missile-proof
Oh, I thought you were a life-sized paper doll
And you're propped up in the hardware store
You were propped up on the front lawn watching the parade of those legionnaires with two-by-four's
As they're marching off to war
Yeah they're marching off to war
Oh they're marching
Lyrics submitted by progosk, edited by mattjcline, felineelliott
MX Missiles Lyrics as written by Andrew Wegman Bird
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing
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Just wanted to thank bobwronski for the insight, and I agree with Pants, this song got even better as I read bob's comment.