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.
[These lyrics border on David Lynchiansim]
Darkness has covered the opera house
Something is wrong you can fell
There's a devil in disguise
A traitor has taken the dais
Catalogue people spend a pitying gaze
What can a man do in such a case
Aristocratic experts on art vomit all over the place
And they wish I'd be doomed eternally
[Chorus]
Forever French-frying
You'd love to see me dying
Wo's let the peacock in to
Rock the house - opera house
You want me French-fried and
You'd love to see me fired and
Then kill Judas in the opera house
Opera house
Huntsmen are rushing around
After the peacock oh no
The baton is pink and it's clear: He is a queer
He likes it into his rear
Rumors arise he is from outerspace
THey're out for the bounty
And still they're amazed
Aristocratic lemmings with a Highsnobiety leer
Get the chef to make peacock fillet steak
[Chorus]
We came from a solar system far away
Facing your goggle eyes
To protect this jolly bedlam from decay
Facing your goggle eyes
Who do you think you are
To think you're off a better class?
Who do you think you are
TO expect us to kiss your ass?
We've come to chase the monkey off your back
Facing your goggle eyes
And we're expected some may sound an attack
Facing your goggle eyes
Who do you think you are
To think you're of a higher class?
Who do you think you are
TO expect us to kiss your ass?
We're gonna be
Taking a chance - taking the chance
TO get you darting a glance - darting a glance
At us starting to prance - starting the dance
Of the oddballs
And you're invited
Taking the chance - taking the chance
To get you darting a glance - darting a glance
At us starting to prance - starting to dance
Of the oddballs
Frankenstein is out of control
Donkey has been given a soul
Flamboyantly he's playing his song
And they can't get it
The nuthead he is going insane
The screwball is igniting the flame
Pandora's box has opened behold
Madness rising
[Solo]
You say treason but I tell you
There ain't no reason
We just have our share
We don't care as long as we're alive
Love our sound and like to hear:
Where's the chef to make Judas-fillet-steak
[Chorus]
Darkness has covered the opera house
Something is wrong you can fell
There's a devil in disguise
A traitor has taken the dais
Catalogue people spend a pitying gaze
What can a man do in such a case
Aristocratic experts on art vomit all over the place
And they wish I'd be doomed eternally
[Chorus]
Forever French-frying
You'd love to see me dying
Wo's let the peacock in to
Rock the house - opera house
You want me French-fried and
You'd love to see me fired and
Then kill Judas in the opera house
Opera house
Huntsmen are rushing around
After the peacock oh no
The baton is pink and it's clear: He is a queer
He likes it into his rear
Rumors arise he is from outerspace
THey're out for the bounty
And still they're amazed
Aristocratic lemmings with a Highsnobiety leer
Get the chef to make peacock fillet steak
[Chorus]
We came from a solar system far away
Facing your goggle eyes
To protect this jolly bedlam from decay
Facing your goggle eyes
Who do you think you are
To think you're off a better class?
Who do you think you are
TO expect us to kiss your ass?
We've come to chase the monkey off your back
Facing your goggle eyes
And we're expected some may sound an attack
Facing your goggle eyes
Who do you think you are
To think you're of a higher class?
Who do you think you are
TO expect us to kiss your ass?
We're gonna be
Taking a chance - taking the chance
TO get you darting a glance - darting a glance
At us starting to prance - starting the dance
Of the oddballs
And you're invited
Taking the chance - taking the chance
To get you darting a glance - darting a glance
At us starting to prance - starting to dance
Of the oddballs
Frankenstein is out of control
Donkey has been given a soul
Flamboyantly he's playing his song
And they can't get it
The nuthead he is going insane
The screwball is igniting the flame
Pandora's box has opened behold
Madness rising
[Solo]
You say treason but I tell you
There ain't no reason
We just have our share
We don't care as long as we're alive
Love our sound and like to hear:
Where's the chef to make Judas-fillet-steak
[Chorus]
Lyrics submitted by Ninji-X
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It must be about the record companies that did not support Edguy in the beginning.
That could be it i took it way differently lol
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Ha ha. This song is perfect. Love the lyrics and I don't understand why they put this song on the ep instead of the album.
i know right its a really good song and give you a laugh once in a while
This looks like one of those "commonly misheard lyrics" things but it's exactly what they're saying!
ha ha ha this song is hillarous love it totally making fun of the bible well actually kind of saying juda (the guy who betrayed god) in the bible is a queer so its pretty funny ha ha ha good song though
I think this is Tobi sending out the message that he will not be swayed to make music he doesn't truly like.
"You say treason but I tell you There ain't no reason We just have our share We don't care as long as we're alive Love our sound and like to hear:
Where's the chef to make Judas-fillet-steak"
"You say treason" could be fans upset that Edguy is evolving their sound, or record companies complaining of the same thing.
"We just have our share" could mean Edguy just accepts their share of the money from the album and doesn't care so much about how big of a hit it was, but that they brought their ideas to life as their music.
"We don't care as long as we're alive and love our sound" again means that Tobi and the guys are satisfied if they just love the music theyve created.
"Like to hear: Where's the chef to make judas-fillet-steak?" I think Tobi is using Judas as a metaphor for himself and the band, saying they know they're growing as a band and changing their sound if they hear people calling them traitors to their OLD sound.
The song seems to be a reference to Tobi's other project Avantasia, which was starting to arise once again in 2006/2007. The "peacock" mentioned in the lyrics is Tobi himself and the "aristocratic experts" are all the critics of the new sound of Edguy. Probably some of them are from the sound industry and Tobi is basically saying he's doesn't care about their opinion or the fact that some of them want him "fired" or "dying" or "doomed eternally". He just takes "his share" from the sales and he's happy with it. Also, the "from outer space" mentioned in the lyrics most probably refers to the "Rocket Ride" album. The mentioning of "Judas" and "treason" in the lyrics reestablishes the fact that he's seen as the bad guy even though he does't feel as such and that "There ain't no reason" for that.