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 go
With bloodshot eyes, I watch you sleeping
The warmth I feel beside me is slowly fading
Would she hear me, if I called her name?
Would she hold me, if she knew my shame?
There's always something different going on
The path I walk's in the wrong direction
There's always someone fucking hanging on
Can anybody help me make things better?
(Tears) your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home
Your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home
The moments died, I hear no screaming
The visions left inside me are slowly fading
Would she hear me, if I called her name?
Would she hold me, if she knew my shame?
There's always something different going on
The path I walk's in the wrong direction
There's always someone fucking hanging on
Can anybody help me make things better?
(Tears) your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home
Your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home
Oh, yeah
This battered room I've seen before
The broken bones they heal no more, no more
With my last breath I'm choking
Will this ever end? I'm hoping
My world is over one more time
Let's go
Would she hear me, if I called her name?
Would she hold me, if she knew my shame?
There's always something different going on
The path I walk's in the wrong direction
There's always someone fucking hanging on
Can anybody help me make things better?
(Tears) your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home
(tears don't fall) Your tears don't fall, they crash around me
(conscience calls) her conscious calls, the guilty to come
Better
Your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home (conscience calls)
With bloodshot eyes, I watch you sleeping
The warmth I feel beside me is slowly fading
Would she hear me, if I called her name?
Would she hold me, if she knew my shame?
There's always something different going on
The path I walk's in the wrong direction
There's always someone fucking hanging on
Can anybody help me make things better?
(Tears) your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home
Your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home
The moments died, I hear no screaming
The visions left inside me are slowly fading
Would she hear me, if I called her name?
Would she hold me, if she knew my shame?
There's always something different going on
The path I walk's in the wrong direction
There's always someone fucking hanging on
Can anybody help me make things better?
(Tears) your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home
Your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home
Oh, yeah
This battered room I've seen before
The broken bones they heal no more, no more
With my last breath I'm choking
Will this ever end? I'm hoping
My world is over one more time
Let's go
Would she hear me, if I called her name?
Would she hold me, if she knew my shame?
There's always something different going on
The path I walk's in the wrong direction
There's always someone fucking hanging on
Can anybody help me make things better?
(Tears) your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home
(tears don't fall) Your tears don't fall, they crash around me
(conscience calls) her conscious calls, the guilty to come
Better
Your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home (conscience calls)
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I've just noticed, shouldn't it be: "Her conscience calls the guilty to come home"?