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.
Committing crimes and we're running down the alley,
I am the captain, you're in the galley.
I'm with this girl, she said that she was hungry,
we just got done swapping our IDs.
Ice on the sheets, look at the floor.
Soon as I can walk, I walk out the door and never stop.
Ice on the sheets, look at the floor.
As soon as I can walk, I walk out the door and never stop.
I'm look'n at an old photograph,
it looked like we took it at gunpoint so I, had to laugh.
Look at the ice, look at the floor.
Ice on the sheets and I'm on the floor,
I never stop.
A wholeness comes and you feelin a phenomenon,
I can't die, I just keep going on...
Got there and a brand new... (Unknown)
Don't want nothing but a band now, bad karma beside me.
Ice on the sheets, a week's worth of pay,
and all the Munadine, you got to where you look at your shoes
and you say, hey hey.
I'm out of breath, I'm out of wits,
I'm out of these every day of the week. Oh yeah.
Committing crimes and we're running down the alley,
I am the captain, you're in the galley.
I'm with this girl, she said that she was hungry,
we just got done swapping our IDs.
Committing crimes and we're running down the alley,
I am the captain, you're in the galley.
I'm with this girl, she said that she was hungry,
we just got done swapping our IDs.
Like back in the day where everywhere was the sticks.
They used to go to bars and they'd dance in lines and get sick.
You dance you dance and then you'd dance some more.
You put on your disco shoes and dance 'til there's holes in the floor.
Back in the days when they died their hair,
They still wouldn't dance in the lack of kids that cared.
Back in the days when they danced to death...
Back in the days when they banged their head...
There was dance and dace and being under (unknown)
(unknown) for drunk and we laughed.
The disco came and they did some coke.
They didn't have codine and the biggest joke...
Well their deaf, their fucked, they fucked, they fought, they faught they fuck.
And now (unknown) a little red lip stick, a red bra, and a cheap cheap trick,
and that's me.
I brung your kids to the house to the home to the schools,
In the bad place.
Yeah how long? You don't care they arn't yours.
They arn't saying, didn't know nothin but time is cheap.
I got rock now, I got a kid now, I got friends now.
How have you been? uh hu hu hu...
Committing crimes and we¹re running down the alley,
I am the captain, you're in the galley.
I'm with this girl, she said that she was hungry,
we just got done swapping our IDs.
Committing crimes and we¹re running down the alley,
I am the captain, you're in the galley.
I'm with this girl, she said that she was hungry,
we just got done swapping our IDs.
Committing crimes and we¹re running down the alley,
I am the captain, you're in the galley.
I'm with this girl, she said that she was hungry,
we just got done swapping our IDs.
Committing crimes and we¹re running down the alley,
I am the captain, you're in the galley.
I'm with this girl, she said that she was hungry,
we just got done swapping our IDs.
I am the captain, you're in the galley.
I'm with this girl, she said that she was hungry,
we just got done swapping our IDs.
Ice on the sheets, look at the floor.
Soon as I can walk, I walk out the door and never stop.
Ice on the sheets, look at the floor.
As soon as I can walk, I walk out the door and never stop.
I'm look'n at an old photograph,
it looked like we took it at gunpoint so I, had to laugh.
Look at the ice, look at the floor.
Ice on the sheets and I'm on the floor,
I never stop.
A wholeness comes and you feelin a phenomenon,
I can't die, I just keep going on...
Got there and a brand new... (Unknown)
Don't want nothing but a band now, bad karma beside me.
Ice on the sheets, a week's worth of pay,
and all the Munadine, you got to where you look at your shoes
and you say, hey hey.
I'm out of breath, I'm out of wits,
I'm out of these every day of the week. Oh yeah.
Committing crimes and we're running down the alley,
I am the captain, you're in the galley.
I'm with this girl, she said that she was hungry,
we just got done swapping our IDs.
Committing crimes and we're running down the alley,
I am the captain, you're in the galley.
I'm with this girl, she said that she was hungry,
we just got done swapping our IDs.
Like back in the day where everywhere was the sticks.
They used to go to bars and they'd dance in lines and get sick.
You dance you dance and then you'd dance some more.
You put on your disco shoes and dance 'til there's holes in the floor.
Back in the days when they died their hair,
They still wouldn't dance in the lack of kids that cared.
Back in the days when they danced to death...
Back in the days when they banged their head...
There was dance and dace and being under (unknown)
(unknown) for drunk and we laughed.
The disco came and they did some coke.
They didn't have codine and the biggest joke...
Well their deaf, their fucked, they fucked, they fought, they faught they fuck.
And now (unknown) a little red lip stick, a red bra, and a cheap cheap trick,
and that's me.
I brung your kids to the house to the home to the schools,
In the bad place.
Yeah how long? You don't care they arn't yours.
They arn't saying, didn't know nothin but time is cheap.
I got rock now, I got a kid now, I got friends now.
How have you been? uh hu hu hu...
Committing crimes and we¹re running down the alley,
I am the captain, you're in the galley.
I'm with this girl, she said that she was hungry,
we just got done swapping our IDs.
Committing crimes and we¹re running down the alley,
I am the captain, you're in the galley.
I'm with this girl, she said that she was hungry,
we just got done swapping our IDs.
Committing crimes and we¹re running down the alley,
I am the captain, you're in the galley.
I'm with this girl, she said that she was hungry,
we just got done swapping our IDs.
Committing crimes and we¹re running down the alley,
I am the captain, you're in the galley.
I'm with this girl, she said that she was hungry,
we just got done swapping our IDs.
Lyrics submitted by aboutaprettysunset
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Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
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This song is definitely about methamphetamine.
The part about the photograph they took "at gunpoint", well when you are scared your pupils get huge, think like a cats. So when you have huge pupils due to using a bunch of methamphets (stimulants widen the pupil while painkillers make them like pinpoints) you could also look like you are being held at gunpoint.
I think that part with Munadine is supposed to be "I'm on all day".
One thing I have been wondering is why Isaac used meth over coke, probably because it was cheaper..
@perfektdisguize nah, some people just actually prefer meth and it’s hella addicting.