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.
Caught among the hills of tall monuments to mankind's little dreams
Where bodies keep it empty and monoliths are tearing at the seams
And it seems it's like a dream
Marionettes walking in lines
Turning back time, turning back time
Or hoping to
We were synchronistic with love unrealistic like a dream
We can see it endless, cynical and friendless at the scene
At the scene it's like a dream
Curling your lips
Moving your hips
Monuments, monuments
It's all a dream
Oh we talk, talk is cheap
And leaves me tired
So I lie through the night, through the night
Caught among the monuments walking to the shoreline and the sea
Wondering the hope for us, wondering the hope for you and me
But a shoreline at the sea
Marionettes falling in line
Wasting their time
Falling in line
With you and me
Oh but we, we want the sun
Fate [?] knives
Fate [?] knives in the night
In the night
And we were left on Vincent Street, squires writing slurs on the walls
She don't owe a thing to me, a brilliantly green leaf in the fall
Owes me nothing not at all
Where bodies keep it empty and monoliths are tearing at the seams
And it seems it's like a dream
Marionettes walking in lines
Turning back time, turning back time
Or hoping to
We were synchronistic with love unrealistic like a dream
We can see it endless, cynical and friendless at the scene
At the scene it's like a dream
Curling your lips
Moving your hips
Monuments, monuments
It's all a dream
Oh we talk, talk is cheap
And leaves me tired
So I lie through the night, through the night
Caught among the monuments walking to the shoreline and the sea
Wondering the hope for us, wondering the hope for you and me
But a shoreline at the sea
Marionettes falling in line
Wasting their time
Falling in line
With you and me
Oh but we, we want the sun
Fate [?] knives
Fate [?] knives in the night
In the night
And we were left on Vincent Street, squires writing slurs on the walls
She don't owe a thing to me, a brilliantly green leaf in the fall
Owes me nothing not at all
Lyrics submitted by casiopt10
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