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.
Yeah! Yeah!
Every single day when I get out of bed
Well the chances are I'm gonna wind up dead
Well, don't you know that it'll be alright?
Well what I don't know about is bottoming out
On an obsession putting me up on a mountainside
Up high, yeah that's right
Look down I see, all the distance around
Staring back at me, wondering why
What I see makes it hard to believe
Birds-eye-view of terrain open wide!
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote and try
Don't you want to believe?
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote your life, no boundaries
Now taking a chance, what a better way?
At least you tried, that's more than a lot can say
Thinking will only take you so far
Freedom unbinding, binding your feet again
What a better time to get up and on?
An environment to conquer and carve
No boundaries, what a maze of trees
With an opening so deep inside
No sketchin' on a session
You wanted a world of progression
And we're just trying to make it out alive!
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote and try
Don't you want to believe?
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote your life, no boundaries!
No way to con?ne!
Here on this day
Don't turn away
Fed up with just saying I might
Now out on a limb
There's no giving in
And I'm not gonna take it this time
Well here upon this day
I won't turn away
I'm fed up with just saying I might
Now out on a limb
There's no giving in
And we're not gonna take it this time
Out there in the clear!
Wrapped around by a blistering degree
I'm on top of the world and serene
Wide awake, wide awake, are we?
Are we?
Now what in the hell, what am I supposed to do?
Just turn around and regret it
Or press on and make it through?
See life is a lesson, one big fucking session
And it's right there in front of you
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote and try
Don't you want to believe?
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote your life, no boundaries!
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote your life
Don't you want to believe?
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote your life, no boundaries!
Every single day when I get out of bed
Well the chances are I'm gonna wind up dead
Well, don't you know that it'll be alright?
Well what I don't know about is bottoming out
On an obsession putting me up on a mountainside
Up high, yeah that's right
Look down I see, all the distance around
Staring back at me, wondering why
What I see makes it hard to believe
Birds-eye-view of terrain open wide!
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote and try
Don't you want to believe?
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote your life, no boundaries
Now taking a chance, what a better way?
At least you tried, that's more than a lot can say
Thinking will only take you so far
Freedom unbinding, binding your feet again
What a better time to get up and on?
An environment to conquer and carve
No boundaries, what a maze of trees
With an opening so deep inside
No sketchin' on a session
You wanted a world of progression
And we're just trying to make it out alive!
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote and try
Don't you want to believe?
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote your life, no boundaries!
No way to con?ne!
Here on this day
Don't turn away
Fed up with just saying I might
Now out on a limb
There's no giving in
And I'm not gonna take it this time
Well here upon this day
I won't turn away
I'm fed up with just saying I might
Now out on a limb
There's no giving in
And we're not gonna take it this time
Out there in the clear!
Wrapped around by a blistering degree
I'm on top of the world and serene
Wide awake, wide awake, are we?
Are we?
Now what in the hell, what am I supposed to do?
Just turn around and regret it
Or press on and make it through?
See life is a lesson, one big fucking session
And it's right there in front of you
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote and try
Don't you want to believe?
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote your life, no boundaries!
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote your life
Don't you want to believe?
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote your life, no boundaries!
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
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I wish more people would listen to this song and respond. This song is awesome...if you can understand it. This band is awesome as you can tell! The best live bands EVER!!!
It's sad nobody posts ne thing for this song............this song is the shi*, and if none of u know this than u suck!!!!!!!!!!!1
i agree this fucking kicks ass. and so do superbitch, mesa town, and over seasons. auth zero kicks ass and a passage in time does too. they slipped a little on andiamo, but its still a good cd.
This is song is actually really motivating. I think it is supposed to make you feel as though you can do anything and should not let anything stop you. If you were just to read it without hearing it you might think it was a song from Sesame Street, maybe a little cheesy. But it gets me going.
Really feeling this song as relevant to my life right now. Right song with the right lyrics with perfect timing into my world.