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.
Dear little girl
There's so much hurt for such a young age
Trapped inside a pretty little lie
Your body's betrayed
Don't fix your eyes on a fix you'll rely on
Fixed her eyes on a fix she relies upon
Stand unafraid
All the good souls
Stand unafraid
When the light starts to burn, and the pain returns
I just wish that I could heal the hurt you feel tonight
There's life in your veins
These needles are chains to hold you down
How can you expect to win this war if you're too afraid to fight?
Are you too afraid to fight?
Dear little one, there was so much pain
Time you can't replace
Trapped inside, too afraid to cry
And now hands and bruises cover face
Don't fix your eyes on a fix you'll rely on
Fixed her eyes on a fix
When the light starts to burn, and the pain returns
I just wish that I could heal the hurt you feel tonight
There's life in your veins
These needles are chains to hold you down
How can you expect to win this war if you're too afraid to fight?
Stand unafraid
All the good souls
Stand unafraid
All of the good souls stand unafraid
When the light starts to burn, and the pain returns
I just wish that I could heal the hurt you feel tonight
There's life in your veins
These needles are chains to hold you down
How can you expect to win this war
When the light starts to burn, and the pain returns
I just wish that I could heal the hurt you feel tonight
There's life in your veins
These needles are chains to hold you down
How can you expect to win this war if you're too afraid to fight?
There's so much hurt for such a young age
Trapped inside a pretty little lie
Your body's betrayed
Don't fix your eyes on a fix you'll rely on
Fixed her eyes on a fix she relies upon
Stand unafraid
All the good souls
Stand unafraid
When the light starts to burn, and the pain returns
I just wish that I could heal the hurt you feel tonight
There's life in your veins
These needles are chains to hold you down
How can you expect to win this war if you're too afraid to fight?
Are you too afraid to fight?
Dear little one, there was so much pain
Time you can't replace
Trapped inside, too afraid to cry
And now hands and bruises cover face
Don't fix your eyes on a fix you'll rely on
Fixed her eyes on a fix
When the light starts to burn, and the pain returns
I just wish that I could heal the hurt you feel tonight
There's life in your veins
These needles are chains to hold you down
How can you expect to win this war if you're too afraid to fight?
Stand unafraid
All the good souls
Stand unafraid
All of the good souls stand unafraid
When the light starts to burn, and the pain returns
I just wish that I could heal the hurt you feel tonight
There's life in your veins
These needles are chains to hold you down
How can you expect to win this war
When the light starts to burn, and the pain returns
I just wish that I could heal the hurt you feel tonight
There's life in your veins
These needles are chains to hold you down
How can you expect to win this war if you're too afraid to fight?
Lyrics submitted by TerribleThings___x
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Thankyou! <br /> you've given me to courage to say what I've really been thinking-that this song is really talking about the republic of Ireland. Seeing as you didn't feel the need to tie ANY of the song's lyrics to your claims, I probably don't need to either!<br /> <br /> P.S. Seriously though, where on earth did you get that out of the song? "little girl"?<br /> I suppose that could be tied to child abuse...somehow.<br /> But yeah, it's about a "young girl (probably teenage-20's) who got hooked on heroin. The "sex trade" certainly could go alongside drug addiction (and does quite often, serving as a tool to keep prostitutes reliant on their pimps), but two things make this irrelevant.<br /> 1) Sex workers probably comprise about 1-2% max of all heroin addicts.<br /> 2) The song doesn't ever mention sex. At all. no hints, innuendo, nothin.<br /> If you happen to have been abused, I suppose you might see sex abuse here, but if that's the case, you probably see sex abuse in Sesame street<br /> <br /> Wheh, got that off my chest<br />