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.
I think I've become one of them
I think I've become one of them
I think I've become one of them
There was a frail syrup dripping off
His lap danced lapel, punctuated by her
Decrepit prowl she washed down the hatching
Gizzard soft as a mane of needles
His orifice icicles hemorrhaged
By combing her torso to a pile
Perspired the trophy shelves made room for his collapse
She was a mink handjob in sarcophagus heels
Bring me to my knees
Read the sharpened lines
All my arms
Bled me blind
Faucet leaks in shadows
Spilling from morgue lancet
Caressed your fontanelle
I've sworn to kill
Every last one
Every last one
Panic in the shakes of the wounded
Panic in the worms
Onto the floor
And out of your mouth
Out of your eyelids
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
All your dreams
Splintered off
Leech by leech
On this catafalque
Anyone will tell you
Yes anyone
Chance had me setting a trip wire alarm
Your mother flirted with disease
When she skinned that costume by it's navel strings
Panic in the shakes of the wounded
Panic in the worms
Onto the floor
And out of your mouth
Out of your eyelids
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
Shockless shackles free you
Fools taste tongues
I better leave you again,
I won't be owned
Not this time
Shockless shackles free you
Volt face cons
Abandon you again
I won't feel not this time
Brick by brick
The night eclipsed
Pricked by cuticle thorns
Dried the sleep
On nursery slits
Into this life I'm born
Heaven's just a scab away
I'd like to see you after just one taste
Sink your teeth into the flesh of midnight
Night forever more
Let them see it has begun
The others I've become
If you should see the dice
Charmed with it's snaked choked eyes
You'll wear the widows weeds
Because they're just your size
Behind the snail secretion
Leaves a dry heave that absorbs
A limbless procreation
Let the infant crawled deformed
A bag replace the breath
Of these suffocating sheets
And now when the craving calls
I'll scratch my itchy teeth
And soon
Come on
If you don't know...
Come on
If you dont know
Sink your teeth into
The flesh of midnight
Night forever more
Sink your teeth into
The flesh of midnight
Night forever more
She fell for the whispers
Sister flooded deaf tears
That night tore a river
In her baron womb mirror
And his multiple sons
With their mandible tongues
Set crucified fires to petrified homes
Let it burn
And the owls they were watching
And the owls did't care
Then the owls came a knocking
Placenta in their stares
They will feed on all the carnage
Leftover from the flood
And in the corner of their eyes
Fled sister L'Via
Now the pieces went floating
Reflecting all at dusk
Conceived from the stabbing
Was Vismund Cygnus
Twenty five wives in the lake tonight
Raw bark in the water of the marble shrine
Twenty five snakes pour out your eyes
Yeah the icepicks cumming on the marble shrine
Twenty five snakes are drowning
You cant bend your crooked arms
Or fold your punctured proof
The air is growing cold
And there's nothing you can do
Soon there'll be no gauze
Inside the confessional
Only rows of crows
Defrocking every breath
And one day you'll remember
Behind the melting cones
I said one day you'll remember
Behind the melting cones
You've already had a family
In the burial of your home
Not forevermore
And I peel back all of my skin
Peel it back let it all run
Brick by brick
The night eclipsed
Pricked by cuticle thorns
Dried the sleep
On nursery slits
Into this life I'm born
Heaven's just a scab away
I'd like to see you after just one taste
Sink your teeth into the flesh of midnight
Night forever more
Let them see it has begun
The others I've become
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there's no light
No there's no time
You ain't got nothing
Your life was just a lie
I think I've become one of them
I think I've become one of them
There was a frail syrup dripping off
His lap danced lapel, punctuated by her
Decrepit prowl she washed down the hatching
Gizzard soft as a mane of needles
His orifice icicles hemorrhaged
By combing her torso to a pile
Perspired the trophy shelves made room for his collapse
She was a mink handjob in sarcophagus heels
Bring me to my knees
Read the sharpened lines
All my arms
Bled me blind
Faucet leaks in shadows
Spilling from morgue lancet
Caressed your fontanelle
I've sworn to kill
Every last one
Every last one
Panic in the shakes of the wounded
Panic in the worms
Onto the floor
And out of your mouth
Out of your eyelids
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
All your dreams
Splintered off
Leech by leech
On this catafalque
Anyone will tell you
Yes anyone
Chance had me setting a trip wire alarm
Your mother flirted with disease
When she skinned that costume by it's navel strings
Panic in the shakes of the wounded
Panic in the worms
Onto the floor
And out of your mouth
Out of your eyelids
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
Shockless shackles free you
Fools taste tongues
I better leave you again,
I won't be owned
Not this time
Shockless shackles free you
Volt face cons
Abandon you again
I won't feel not this time
Brick by brick
The night eclipsed
Pricked by cuticle thorns
Dried the sleep
On nursery slits
Into this life I'm born
Heaven's just a scab away
I'd like to see you after just one taste
Sink your teeth into the flesh of midnight
Night forever more
Let them see it has begun
The others I've become
If you should see the dice
Charmed with it's snaked choked eyes
You'll wear the widows weeds
Because they're just your size
Behind the snail secretion
Leaves a dry heave that absorbs
A limbless procreation
Let the infant crawled deformed
A bag replace the breath
Of these suffocating sheets
And now when the craving calls
I'll scratch my itchy teeth
And soon
Come on
If you don't know...
Come on
If you dont know
Sink your teeth into
The flesh of midnight
Night forever more
Sink your teeth into
The flesh of midnight
Night forever more
She fell for the whispers
Sister flooded deaf tears
That night tore a river
In her baron womb mirror
And his multiple sons
With their mandible tongues
Set crucified fires to petrified homes
Let it burn
And the owls they were watching
And the owls did't care
Then the owls came a knocking
Placenta in their stares
They will feed on all the carnage
Leftover from the flood
And in the corner of their eyes
Fled sister L'Via
Now the pieces went floating
Reflecting all at dusk
Conceived from the stabbing
Was Vismund Cygnus
Twenty five wives in the lake tonight
Raw bark in the water of the marble shrine
Twenty five snakes pour out your eyes
Yeah the icepicks cumming on the marble shrine
Twenty five snakes are drowning
You cant bend your crooked arms
Or fold your punctured proof
The air is growing cold
And there's nothing you can do
Soon there'll be no gauze
Inside the confessional
Only rows of crows
Defrocking every breath
And one day you'll remember
Behind the melting cones
I said one day you'll remember
Behind the melting cones
You've already had a family
In the burial of your home
Not forevermore
And I peel back all of my skin
Peel it back let it all run
Brick by brick
The night eclipsed
Pricked by cuticle thorns
Dried the sleep
On nursery slits
Into this life I'm born
Heaven's just a scab away
I'd like to see you after just one taste
Sink your teeth into the flesh of midnight
Night forever more
Let them see it has begun
The others I've become
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there's no light
No there's no time
You ain't got nothing
Your life was just a lie
Miranda, That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore: B. Pour Another Icepick song meanings
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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Bee Gees
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Gentle Hour
Yo La Tengo
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
Head > Heels
Ed Sheeran
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“Head > Heels” is a track that aims to capture what it feels like to experience romance that exceeds expectations. Ed Sheeran dedicates his album outro to a lover who has blessed him with a unique experience that he seeks to describe through the song’s nuanced lyrics.
"There was a frail syrup dripping off..." This sounds like a little tip o' the hat to Tom Waits. Does anyone else hear that, or is it just me?
This album is fantastic!