He certainly did earn that reputation.
Where were you when I was lonesome?
Locked away with freezing cold
Someone flying only stolen
I can't tell, this lights so old
I don't wanna swim the ocean
I don't wanna fight the tide
I don't wanna swim forever
When it's cold I'd like to die
What was that my sweet, sweet nothing?
I can't hear you through the fog
If I holler, let me go
If I falter, let me know
I don't wanna swim the ocean
I don't wanna fight the tide
I don't wanna swim forever
When it's cold, I'd like to die
I don't wanna swim forever
I don't wanna fight the tide
I don't wanna swim the ocean
When it's cold, I'd like to die
I don't wanna swim the ocean
I don't wanna fight the tide
Locked away with freezing cold
Someone flying only stolen
I can't tell, this lights so old
I don't wanna swim the ocean
I don't wanna fight the tide
I don't wanna swim forever
When it's cold I'd like to die
What was that my sweet, sweet nothing?
I can't hear you through the fog
If I holler, let me go
If I falter, let me know
I don't wanna swim the ocean
I don't wanna fight the tide
I don't wanna swim forever
When it's cold, I'd like to die
I don't wanna swim forever
I don't wanna fight the tide
I don't wanna swim the ocean
When it's cold, I'd like to die
I don't wanna swim the ocean
I don't wanna fight the tide
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Like a lot of the other comments are saying, I think this mainly about voyeurism. If the song was about his girlfriend, then why would he use the word spy. If you are a spy it means you shouldn't be caught, that is kind of the whole point, and if you are a voyeur, the whole point of the pleasure you get from it, is the fact that the other people don't know you are watching them. See a bit of a connection there?
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And, of course, the fact that she sees in him a fellow "idealist" and "dreamer" (terms commonly given to people with the INFP personality on the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)) portends that she'll always be left wondering if they would've been perfect together.
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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.
The Night We Met
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"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:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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this song is purely sexual. its like lust in music form.
Wow, what a totally straight foward unabashed song about sex. It reminds me a lot of Lene Nystrom's "Play with me" in how it's not dirty and it's not sexual for shock value or anything, it's just an honest song about what he's feeling.