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.
Let's jump from five story windows holding tight to black garbage bags
Let's stare in the face of all physics deny the laws and turn our backs
Capture and cage all the fire that engulfs entire forests
Bottle and swallow it down until it fuels every inch of our chests
You'll know the speed with which we live
Yesterday was a half empty glass filled with a curious substance I should
Have left alone on the shelf inside the parts of myself that I avoid
Woke up today with the sunrise through the blinds and an ocean between where I stood
Just a few hours before I ran and I ignored the world
I'll live in the picture on the wall in the moment that never exists
I'll be in the day dream that repeats a scene that I always forget
Walking the streets of the city at night feeling warm in my coat
My legs will never grow tired the roads will never lead me home
I'll always feel safer alone
Last night I dreamt of gasoline
Of leaping off of everything
With the hope that this mountain would move
From the air in my lungs
Today I woke desiring
To leave these metaphors and similes
And I would scream aloud
Let's stare in the face of all physics deny the laws and turn our backs
Capture and cage all the fire that engulfs entire forests
Bottle and swallow it down until it fuels every inch of our chests
You'll know the speed with which we live
Yesterday was a half empty glass filled with a curious substance I should
Have left alone on the shelf inside the parts of myself that I avoid
Woke up today with the sunrise through the blinds and an ocean between where I stood
Just a few hours before I ran and I ignored the world
I'll live in the picture on the wall in the moment that never exists
I'll be in the day dream that repeats a scene that I always forget
Walking the streets of the city at night feeling warm in my coat
My legs will never grow tired the roads will never lead me home
I'll always feel safer alone
Last night I dreamt of gasoline
Of leaping off of everything
With the hope that this mountain would move
From the air in my lungs
Today I woke desiring
To leave these metaphors and similes
And I would scream aloud
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Last night I dreamt of gasoline And leaping off of everything In the hopes that this mountain would move From the air in my lungs And today I woke desiring To leave these metaphors and similes And I would scream aloud I'll take the world for all that it's worth And I would mean every action I made And live every word.