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.
Video countdown, cyber phallic optics
Profligate talk shows scrounging for a topic
Rock-a-bye gravy train cradle's gonna rock me
Thirty-seven million's what Larry Parker got me
World War Fourteen, my first Sony
Beatles wrote the Nike song and called it macaroni
Billy Jean, Burger King, chauvinist pig pen
U.S. Army only wants a few straight men
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Panaflex Soloflex Genuflect Pope
What the world needs now is babies, guns and hope
Guardian angel dust, in the wind cries Mary
Wanna be Madonna, but the price is too high, very
Perfect rhythm Nazi in the Pagan rhythm nation
Everybody's equal in the glow of radiation
Got a four-wheel drive and I park it in the driveway
When I get drunk, I drive it on the parkway
Gotta get a TV set for my car
Tonight's the Battle of the Network Stars
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Saniflush Bud-Bowl makin' me sick
'Cause anybody in a helmet looks just like a dick
Steely Dan rather be a hammer than a nail
The Serbs, the Poles, and the check's in the mail
Eat, sleep, live, die, fucking record label
G. Gordon Liddy under my table, table, table
Clarence Thomas, organ grinder, Frank DiLeo's dong
Maybe if I'd let him, I'd have had a hit song
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Profligate talk shows scrounging for a topic
Rock-a-bye gravy train cradle's gonna rock me
Thirty-seven million's what Larry Parker got me
World War Fourteen, my first Sony
Beatles wrote the Nike song and called it macaroni
Billy Jean, Burger King, chauvinist pig pen
U.S. Army only wants a few straight men
Na-na
Na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na
Na-na
Panaflex Soloflex Genuflect Pope
What the world needs now is babies, guns and hope
Guardian angel dust, in the wind cries Mary
Wanna be Madonna, but the price is too high, very
Perfect rhythm Nazi in the Pagan rhythm nation
Everybody's equal in the glow of radiation
Got a four-wheel drive and I park it in the driveway
When I get drunk, I drive it on the parkway
Gotta get a TV set for my car
Tonight's the Battle of the Network Stars
Na-na
Na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na
Na-na
Na-na
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Na-na
Saniflush Bud-Bowl makin' me sick
'Cause anybody in a helmet looks just like a dick
Steely Dan rather be a hammer than a nail
The Serbs, the Poles, and the check's in the mail
Eat, sleep, live, die, fucking record label
G. Gordon Liddy under my table, table, table
Clarence Thomas, organ grinder, Frank DiLeo's dong
Maybe if I'd let him, I'd have had a hit song
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The Na-Na Song Lyrics as written by David Francis Baerwald Brian S. Macleod
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Downtown Music Publishing, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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