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.
Comes and goes
Like in fits and dizzy spells
Like the weather
And it blows
Like it knows what's going wrong
Like it's clever
Has a name but the name goes unspoken
Weather wanes
Were all twisted and broken
So soldier on, soldier on
Flailing to the whir of a snack machine
And muted screams of an old regime
And then oh
Something get is in it
The nightshade gets in it
We were all fast asleep
Were all so fast asleep
But you woke us
You woke us from the strangest dream that
An aubergine could ever know
Would ever know
Lava flows over crooks and craggy
Cliffs to the ocean
And explodes in a steam heat fevered
Cyclical motion
Has a name
But the name goes unspoken
It's in vain
Cause the language is broken
So cast your own, cast your own
Soldier on
Like in fits and dizzy spells
Like the weather
And it blows
Like it knows what's going wrong
Like it's clever
Has a name but the name goes unspoken
Weather wanes
Were all twisted and broken
So soldier on, soldier on
Flailing to the whir of a snack machine
And muted screams of an old regime
And then oh
Something get is in it
The nightshade gets in it
We were all fast asleep
Were all so fast asleep
But you woke us
You woke us from the strangest dream that
An aubergine could ever know
Would ever know
Lava flows over crooks and craggy
Cliffs to the ocean
And explodes in a steam heat fevered
Cyclical motion
Has a name
But the name goes unspoken
It's in vain
Cause the language is broken
So cast your own, cast your own
Soldier on
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Fitz And The Dizzyspells Lyrics as written by Andrew Wegman Bird
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I think it is very fun to say the word aubergine (eggplant) aloud. It flows nicely from the mouth, and creates a natural smile when it leaves.
after reading the lyrics, i think this song is in fact his attempt at trying to write a song about the food poisoning he experienced. the fits and dizzy spells even adds to what happens when a body is poisoned, all these natural bodily reactions happen to get rid of the poison or sucuumb to it. a nightshade is a plant related to the patatoe that has posinous red or black berries. he probably confused a posionous nightshade for a dark purple colored eggplant and eat it straight from the wild while fishing with his dad, which most likely poisoned him. why he would compare the wind, or a volcanoe's motion to this, might be the motion it does, so it happened inside him. thats my interpretation as Bug2's interpretation makes sense.
Heh, that's kind of gross, but it really does make more sense than any other interpretation. Although Mr. Bird does like his double (and triple) meanings..
Thus, with this "surface intepretation"... Cast your own could simply be what he said to his Dad on the fishing trip: I'm too sick to be a good little soldier and go out to the river / lake with you... go on Cast your Own FISHING LINE! That is hilarious to me! <br /> Diving deeper into his surface description of his own song... (thriggle you will love this one, I think.) It could be he was speaking of his Dad, meaning the universal Father or creator, food poisoning was eating of the apple of knowledge, which then thrust him away from his Barn of Eden, causing him to wander as a lost soldier, trying to soldier on trying to cast his own net ( the whole, fishing stories about Jesus and the fishermen apostles stuff.) O-- or that the nightshade that gets in the word of goodness and kindness and morphs into biggotry, you know when people try to use faith to justify in the judgements of other peoples behaviors. Then Cast your Own could mean, be nice, and cast your own stones first. <shrug><br /> <br />
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