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.
when i saw the blossoms broke after the rain
limp and sodden, when you wrote me again
made me think of spiders i washed down the drain
spiders' ghosts, thrown up and back again
blessing all the birds that died so i could live
be a woman, be a woman
blessing all the birds that died so i could live
be a woman, be a woman
blessing all the birds that died so i could live
be a woman, be a woman
blessing all the birds that died so i could live
be a woman, be a woman
when i see the blossoms broke after the rain
limp and gray, when you wrote me again
made me think of spiders i washed down the drain
be a woman, be a woman
limp and sodden, when you wrote me again
made me think of spiders i washed down the drain
spiders' ghosts, thrown up and back again
blessing all the birds that died so i could live
be a woman, be a woman
blessing all the birds that died so i could live
be a woman, be a woman
blessing all the birds that died so i could live
be a woman, be a woman
blessing all the birds that died so i could live
be a woman, be a woman
when i see the blossoms broke after the rain
limp and gray, when you wrote me again
made me think of spiders i washed down the drain
be a woman, be a woman
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"blessing all the birds that died so I could live"
this might sound kind of odd but the way I think of it is that the birds are ex-girlfriends who she is half-jokingly thinking of as martyrs who left her boyfriend in his previous relationships so that fate would let her have him.
"Blessing all the birds that died so I could live."
That puts an image in my head of an archer who lives in the woods and hunts for all her own food. But she has respect for life, so she appologizes to everything she kills. Of course, she doesn't like killing things, but she understands that you have to do unpleasant things to live, sometimes. That she must "be a woman," and handle these things with maturity, and know that you have to do things that make you uncomfortable, sometimes.
It's kind of an analogy to how we all have to live, really.
Does anyone else notice a sort of asian sound to this song? I do, and it makes this song remind me of Princess Mononoke. Same with the similar segment of "Only Skin."
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you can find a live version of this song as transcribed here on the milkymoon fansite!
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does anyone have the live version of this song? the milkymoon website is down and i don't have it downloaded. anyone of service to me?
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that's a very interesting way of interpreting this song. i like your thinking.
The bird line may have to do with the whole dying bird part of only skin. In that song, by providing a bird with some comfort in its final moments, the speaker feels (in one interpretation, one that works with this song) an intense awareness of her own being.
Atagamay41: Indeed. The melody is built on a pentatonic scale, which is used in a lot of Asian music. Guess it maybe adds to the meditative feel?