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 haven't got any more excuses
We've gone way past alcohol abuses
It's too late
We gotta celebrate codependence day
Self-caused afflictions
Magnified with chemical addictions
We're on a date
We get to celebrate codependence day
Veteran role-player
You're the addict, I'll be the enabler
You wanna play?
Let's make every day codependence
See symptoms
It gets clearer
Kinda just like looking in a mirror
Celebrate our disarray on codependence day
With fireworks and power lines
Attempt to meld resolute minds
January first through New Year's Eve
We seem to spend rationalizing
We've gone way past alcohol abuses
It's too late
We gotta celebrate codependence day
Self-caused afflictions
Magnified with chemical addictions
We're on a date
We get to celebrate codependence day
Veteran role-player
You're the addict, I'll be the enabler
You wanna play?
Let's make every day codependence
See symptoms
It gets clearer
Kinda just like looking in a mirror
Celebrate our disarray on codependence day
With fireworks and power lines
Attempt to meld resolute minds
January first through New Year's Eve
We seem to spend rationalizing
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I think the beginning sums up what the song is about. Basically Fat Mike has sung song after song about America and all that so he explains it with the line "I haven't got anymore excuses". Co-dependence day is just a play on Independence day (obviously). Fat Mike has wrote about America and all that is wrong with it so I think he is trying to say that we should have Codependence day because our society has gone downhill.
"I haven't got anymore excuses We've gone way past alcohol abuses It's too late We gotta celebrate co dependence day"
I never thought much about the lyrics to this song because I assumed it was just a straightforward "life as an addict" song... but I like your interpretation that it's about American society enabling its own self destructive traditions.<br /> <br /> The song also works well for a romantic relationship between two drug abusers in denial. That interpretation is even more metaphorical and likely is not the intended meaning... but that's what the song will always mean to me. It's very easy to enable the ones you care about most to slip away for fear of driving them away....