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'm in a room
And there is something wrong
I can't remember how I got here
At all
Her body's lying next to me
On the bed
This place smells of smoke
And the alcohol on my breath
I look at her to see if she's awake
Her eyes are open
She whispers
This empty love leaves us alone
(This empty love)
This empty love leaves us alone
I leave the bed
To gather up my clothes
She covers up her skin
I'm moving for the door
She says:
If you walk out now this is the last time that we speak
You tell her that you love her so then how could you love me?
Don't make promises you can't keep.
(Her eyes are open)
I whisper
This empty love leaves us alone
(This empty love)
This empty love leaves us alone
(Her eyes are open)
(Touch,touch)
(Her eyes are open)
(Touch,touch)
(Her eyes are open)
(Touch,touch)
(Her eyes are open)
(Touch,touch)
This empty love leaves us alone
This empty love leaves us alone
This empty love leaves us alone
This empty love leaves us alone
I'm in a room
And there is something wrong
No one's lying next to me
At all
And there is something wrong
I can't remember how I got here
At all
Her body's lying next to me
On the bed
This place smells of smoke
And the alcohol on my breath
I look at her to see if she's awake
Her eyes are open
She whispers
This empty love leaves us alone
(This empty love)
This empty love leaves us alone
I leave the bed
To gather up my clothes
She covers up her skin
I'm moving for the door
She says:
If you walk out now this is the last time that we speak
You tell her that you love her so then how could you love me?
Don't make promises you can't keep.
(Her eyes are open)
I whisper
This empty love leaves us alone
(This empty love)
This empty love leaves us alone
(Her eyes are open)
(Touch,touch)
(Her eyes are open)
(Touch,touch)
(Her eyes are open)
(Touch,touch)
(Her eyes are open)
(Touch,touch)
This empty love leaves us alone
This empty love leaves us alone
This empty love leaves us alone
This empty love leaves us alone
I'm in a room
And there is something wrong
No one's lying next to me
At all
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Great version of a great song,
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an affair ...
this song is sick!!! love it love it love it
I agree, this song seems to be about an affair thats reaching its end.
I agree, this song seems to be about an affair thats reaching its end.
I don't know if this is right but here is my two cents. I think it's about a guy who gets drunk (at a party probably) and has a one night stand with a girl. Thats why he says "I'm in a room and there is something wrong./I cant remember how I got here at all." And then the real kicker is that he is already in a relationship with another girl because then songs says in the pov of the onenight stand girl "you tell her that you love her so then how could you love me?/Don't make promises you can't keep." The "her" implies that there is another women out there. Narrators "girlfiend" maybe? Then it constantly repeats "this empty love leaves us alone" implying that sex alone is nothing. It doesn't establish a good relationship so the one-night affair is nothing.So as the song goes I believe the "girlfirend" finds out about the one-night stand and leaves him because at the end it says "I'm in a room and there is something wrong./No one is lying next to me/At all." in the end the guy got nothing. He made a mistake and he paid the price. Most innerpartysystem songs, to me, seem to have an underlying message that teahces everyone a lesson. Here, the wrongs of lust and partying. In the song "everybody is the same" the problem of everyone wanting to be "perfect" and so on and so forth. But those are just my oppinions.