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Nursing Home Lyrics
The moat in my eyes never bring me no sleep
They just strap me inside with the demons I keep
Gotta leave me alone gotta let it be lone
Tired of living, too tired to die
Makes the sharks keep swimming when he don't know why
Gotta get the lean fin
Only thin that he wears
[Chorus:]
Not dead yet, just losing control.
Not dead yet 'cause there's nowhere to go.
Not dead yet, can't you leave me alone?
Not dead yet in this nursing home
Sleeping and working and an old man
Come just to profit my feet with a broken old hose
Stop riding those rails
Stop setting those sails
He likes (boom boogie ??)
He's got an old trombone
While he's laughing at the fires with a broken beat phone
Got a troubled soul
But he's not that cold
[Chorus:]
I've been nursed ten years in a nursing home!
Stinking on water I could use me food
He needed big fat gravy on the wake of pot roast
Got a fire inside
It's gonna burn him alive
Talking and struggle till the roof is blown
Got a bed and three squares in a nursing home
Gonna say bye-bye
He's gonna walk on by
They just strap me inside with the demons I keep
Gotta leave me alone gotta let it be lone
Tired of living, too tired to die
Makes the sharks keep swimming when he don't know why
Gotta get the lean fin
Only thin that he wears
Not dead yet, just losing control.
Not dead yet 'cause there's nowhere to go.
Not dead yet, can't you leave me alone?
Not dead yet in this nursing home
Come just to profit my feet with a broken old hose
Stop riding those rails
Stop setting those sails
He's got an old trombone
While he's laughing at the fires with a broken beat phone
Got a troubled soul
But he's not that cold
Stinking on water I could use me food
He needed big fat gravy on the wake of pot roast
Got a fire inside
It's gonna burn him alive
Talking and struggle till the roof is blown
Got a bed and three squares in a nursing home
Gonna say bye-bye
He's gonna walk on by
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I don't think that the lyrics above are correct, at all. This was a really dark time for Uncle Al. The Dark Side of the Spoon was produced in the shadows of Jourgensen's fight with addiction, rehabilitation, and the death of guitarist William Tucker. I think that this song reflects the withdrawal from life once known, and the emotional pull of the life of a junky, as well as the rehab experience.
Just in case my edit doesn't make it through, the chorus lyrics are:
"Not dead yet, just losing control. Not dead yet 'cause there's nowhere to go. Not dead yet, can't you leave me alone? Not dead yet in this nursing home!"