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.
Raging and swirling,
Getting inside,
I feel like I'm going to break!
Bright sun sinking low,
I never feel afraid to let emotions show.
Well I did.
Now take a look at me,
I had a close brush before your destiny.
Before I end, and you'll be victims of
My stories, tales, lies, and exaggerations.
I'm gonna
When your living life like a show
You gotta
Take a bow to the people you know
I said lie, for me
Lying under a process tree
Oh engrossing in my brain
Feeling like I'm going a little insane.
A little close inside
Feels like I'm going insane!
Red lights
Are sinking low
I grab another beer cuz it's time to go
I feel my head burst, I head out to your car
And I pray to Jesus Christ, but you won't get too far
I say uh, headlights and uh second gear
I run the road of like and skip the things you fear
I said that you might, that you might find a better way
To justify the evil things that you say
Ah, help me please, ah help me please
Because I'm going upon my knees
I said, I said
Going down to my knees
I pray to the Lord up above!
Help me,
I'm falling down
Feeling now the cold, cold, cold, hard ground
Haunting faces, and moving lines
Slumber party for tonight
Pound it hard, your gonna pound it again
But please just do not pump up my friend
Cuz it seems all right, gonna push him around
But I can't be taken for no clown.
Because,
When I am on the ground I cry!
Wowowowowowo, dub style!
Oh, cool and easy
Oh no
Cool and easy
To the sweet reggae music
Oh no
Feels all right to sweet reggae music
Feels all right
Sweet reggae music
Getting inside,
I feel like I'm going to break!
Bright sun sinking low,
I never feel afraid to let emotions show.
Well I did.
Now take a look at me,
I had a close brush before your destiny.
Before I end, and you'll be victims of
My stories, tales, lies, and exaggerations.
I'm gonna
When your living life like a show
You gotta
Take a bow to the people you know
I said lie, for me
Lying under a process tree
Oh engrossing in my brain
Feeling like I'm going a little insane.
A little close inside
Feels like I'm going insane!
Red lights
Are sinking low
I grab another beer cuz it's time to go
I feel my head burst, I head out to your car
And I pray to Jesus Christ, but you won't get too far
I say uh, headlights and uh second gear
I run the road of like and skip the things you fear
I said that you might, that you might find a better way
To justify the evil things that you say
Ah, help me please, ah help me please
Because I'm going upon my knees
I said, I said
Going down to my knees
I pray to the Lord up above!
Help me,
I'm falling down
Feeling now the cold, cold, cold, hard ground
Haunting faces, and moving lines
Slumber party for tonight
Pound it hard, your gonna pound it again
But please just do not pump up my friend
Cuz it seems all right, gonna push him around
But I can't be taken for no clown.
Because,
When I am on the ground I cry!
Wowowowowowo, dub style!
Oh, cool and easy
Oh no
Cool and easy
To the sweet reggae music
Oh no
Feels all right to sweet reggae music
Feels all right
Sweet reggae music
Lyrics submitted by skennedy97
Had a Dat Lyrics as written by Eric John Wilson Bradley James Nowell
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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i dont know what the fuck is wrong with you a true sublime fan would love every sublime song personally this is one of my favourite sublime songs i dont think it gets much better than had a dat
I truely think its about his addiction problem.
"Ah, help me please, ah help me please because I'm going upon my knees
I said, I said going down to my knees I pray to the Lord up above!
Help me, I'm falling down feeling now the cold, cold, cold, hard ground "
also ebcause when he says lies adns tuff hes sayign about his addiction. when you have an addiction , youd do anything to get what you need to feel okay.
zps2, get stoned and listen to it. i'm sure you will be able to stand it then. ;)
I would like to also had that i think that this song is truely mad up of emotions, and you dissing this song seem like your dissing his problems, i think hes tryin to give you a hint like when he gets all loud hes like im GOING TO BREAK, IM GOING TO GO CRAZY IM GUNNA FREAK OUT ya know and i think its tryin to really explain something and let his emtions out.
This song is so powerful to me, I love it, I don't understand how anyone couldn't like it. To me this isn't even a song its like audio art, Bradley is truely letting out his demons in this.
you people suck for critizing this jam...if you dont like this song then you dont like sublime which means you suck..every sublime song is so kickass
Everyone is entitles to their own opinions,mine just happens to be that you are morons for not feeling the passion that Brad put into this song.
its very poetic if you ask me.
Lemme clear the confusion. Had A DAT- Digital Audio Tape.
Now for the lyrics, "raging, swirling getting inside, feeling like i'm going insane" -He's watching the flame as he hits a pipe.
"Never felt afraid to let emotions show, but i did Now take a look at me, I had a close brush before your destiny." -He's beginning to have a bad trip.
All the rest of the song is like him leaving a party all wrecked and tripping/drunk as he drives around and stop and he falls out of the car and has a breakdown.
Then at the end of his bad trip the cool and easy, sweet reggae music calms him out of his trip. All he ever needed was his music.
-Just my two cents
This is Brad's life story put in a song. He sings with such conviction an awesome example of Sublime. A Sublime classic.