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.
(Look nigga, you know the name)
(Where we from nigga? 718)
(Brooklyn! M plus O plus P!)
C'mon c'mon, c-c-c'mon!
(M plus O plus P!)
Check it out now
All games aside, all lames aside
I'm a rebel, with all games combined
All things in line
I ain't heard of y'all, I'm from murder march
One of the illest spitters with a verbal bark
Yo where your burners at?
Fizzy wo' will raise the heat like a thermostat
Don't get the man vexed, you'll get scratched, pronto
Bill and fame make magic like premier and, Eddie Sancho
(Yo where you been kid?) I don't know, gettin' ready for war
Parlayin' with ebony and kwa
Foes want to surround me with jealousy and war
But dem nah worry me, what you wan' bury me for?
I'm tired of fools askin' me
If mop stand for "monkeys on parole"
And how many copies did the first album
"mop: to the death" sold?
And if "how about some hardcore" went gold?
What up with these r&b cats nowadays
Rockin' doo-rags with braids (they fucked up now)
Singers want to be gangsters, gangsters want to be rappers
But fizz is gonna be famester, famester's gonna be slapper
I been doin' this pah
I done stuffed tissue in the top of a tape
Just to record marley marl
(it's the firing squad) yo (jump) yo (jump)
(first family) for the two (oh) oh (oh)
Follow instructions! crews, listen!
Who, is it? move (bounce!)
First family move (bounce!)
Now here's what I want y'all to do, for me
Follow instructions! crews, listen!
Who, is it? move (bounce!)
First family move (bounce!)
Hey yo they stuck me in the line of fire, where everything is wild
I made twenty dollars, and they callin' it a mistrial
Now I'm a suspect that play by his own rules
And most dudes can't fit in my shoes
The world needs to know it's only one William Danzini
You synthetic-ass niggas can't see me (nope)
You plexiglass-ass niggas can't be me
You generic-ass nigga won't believe me
(we've been trained by the old code)
Talk while you unload ?
I try to keep it tight, but I can't sleep at night
'Cause I hear voices, and I get the blinky lights
I'm still sufferin' from alcohol abuse
And any beef I ever had, I never called a truce
(Damn nigga you loose) I'm just me
I'm sick of tellin' you dudes, so (what it's gon' be)
Who put them hammers to use now (mop)
It's what the ghetto produce yo (first family)
I'm a predicate, you niggas is delicate
All that bullshit you talkin' is irrelevant
I am devil sent (blow 'em down)
All the way live motherfucker on some rebel shit
I make it tragic, when I rapidly (fire!)
(buck buck buck buck buck buck buck buck) bastard!
Follow instructions! crews, listen!
Who, is it? move (bounce!)
First family move (bounce!)
Now here's what I want y'all to do, for me
Follow instructions! crews, listen!
Who, is it? move (bounce!)
First family move (bounce!)
Now here's what I want y'all to do, for me
Follow instructions! crews, listen!
Who, is it? move (bounce!)
First family move (bounce!)
Now here's what I want y'all to do, for me
Follow instructions! crews, listen!
Who, is it? move (bounce!)
First family move (bounce!)
Now here's what I want y'all to do, for me
Follow instructions! crews, listen!
Who, is it? move (bounce!)
First family move (bounce!)
Now here's what I want y'all to do, for me
Follow instructions! crews, listen!
Who, is it? move (bounce!)
First family move (bounce!)
Now here's what I want y'all to do, for me
Follow instructions! (for me)
Follow instructions! (for me)
Follow instructions!
Ha ha ha ha ha, nigga! nigga!
Ha ha ha ha ha
(Where we from nigga? 718)
(Brooklyn! M plus O plus P!)
C'mon c'mon, c-c-c'mon!
(M plus O plus P!)
Check it out now
All games aside, all lames aside
I'm a rebel, with all games combined
All things in line
I ain't heard of y'all, I'm from murder march
One of the illest spitters with a verbal bark
Yo where your burners at?
Fizzy wo' will raise the heat like a thermostat
Don't get the man vexed, you'll get scratched, pronto
Bill and fame make magic like premier and, Eddie Sancho
(Yo where you been kid?) I don't know, gettin' ready for war
Parlayin' with ebony and kwa
Foes want to surround me with jealousy and war
But dem nah worry me, what you wan' bury me for?
I'm tired of fools askin' me
If mop stand for "monkeys on parole"
And how many copies did the first album
"mop: to the death" sold?
And if "how about some hardcore" went gold?
What up with these r&b cats nowadays
Rockin' doo-rags with braids (they fucked up now)
Singers want to be gangsters, gangsters want to be rappers
But fizz is gonna be famester, famester's gonna be slapper
I been doin' this pah
I done stuffed tissue in the top of a tape
Just to record marley marl
(it's the firing squad) yo (jump) yo (jump)
(first family) for the two (oh) oh (oh)
Follow instructions! crews, listen!
Who, is it? move (bounce!)
First family move (bounce!)
Now here's what I want y'all to do, for me
Follow instructions! crews, listen!
Who, is it? move (bounce!)
First family move (bounce!)
Hey yo they stuck me in the line of fire, where everything is wild
I made twenty dollars, and they callin' it a mistrial
Now I'm a suspect that play by his own rules
And most dudes can't fit in my shoes
The world needs to know it's only one William Danzini
You synthetic-ass niggas can't see me (nope)
You plexiglass-ass niggas can't be me
You generic-ass nigga won't believe me
(we've been trained by the old code)
Talk while you unload ?
I try to keep it tight, but I can't sleep at night
'Cause I hear voices, and I get the blinky lights
I'm still sufferin' from alcohol abuse
And any beef I ever had, I never called a truce
(Damn nigga you loose) I'm just me
I'm sick of tellin' you dudes, so (what it's gon' be)
Who put them hammers to use now (mop)
It's what the ghetto produce yo (first family)
I'm a predicate, you niggas is delicate
All that bullshit you talkin' is irrelevant
I am devil sent (blow 'em down)
All the way live motherfucker on some rebel shit
I make it tragic, when I rapidly (fire!)
(buck buck buck buck buck buck buck buck) bastard!
Follow instructions! crews, listen!
Who, is it? move (bounce!)
First family move (bounce!)
Now here's what I want y'all to do, for me
Follow instructions! crews, listen!
Who, is it? move (bounce!)
First family move (bounce!)
Now here's what I want y'all to do, for me
Follow instructions! crews, listen!
Who, is it? move (bounce!)
First family move (bounce!)
Now here's what I want y'all to do, for me
Follow instructions! crews, listen!
Who, is it? move (bounce!)
First family move (bounce!)
Now here's what I want y'all to do, for me
Follow instructions! crews, listen!
Who, is it? move (bounce!)
First family move (bounce!)
Now here's what I want y'all to do, for me
Follow instructions! crews, listen!
Who, is it? move (bounce!)
First family move (bounce!)
Now here's what I want y'all to do, for me
Follow instructions! (for me)
Follow instructions! (for me)
Follow instructions!
Ha ha ha ha ha, nigga! nigga!
Ha ha ha ha ha
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