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.
There's a song I know, I know - too well
An there's a place I go, I go to dwell
Some forsaken land, where you're not around
Desiring, dividing your time
Nothing I could do it was pretty risky
Fifty-fifty, she'll make good problem for me
She's as cold as ice, she deep frozen
She's a saint at home, devil abroad
Calculated cool, so worldly wise
If you take my advice, just hightail out of there
Go right ahead before she tells
Some cock-and-bull story about some school boy
She neurotic, psychotic, you name it, she's got it
Ooh Another great divide, another great divide
(La-la-la)
Now how can I figure this equation, if multiplication's the rule
You keep subtracting me from you, and it just doesn't add up at all
How can I figure this equation, if multiplication's the rule
You keep subtracting me from you, and it just doesn't add up at all
Ooh another great divide, another great divide
Just another great divide, just another great divide
Just another great, just another great, just another great divide
An there's a place I go, I go to dwell
Some forsaken land, where you're not around
Desiring, dividing your time
Nothing I could do it was pretty risky
Fifty-fifty, she'll make good problem for me
She's as cold as ice, she deep frozen
She's a saint at home, devil abroad
Calculated cool, so worldly wise
If you take my advice, just hightail out of there
Go right ahead before she tells
Some cock-and-bull story about some school boy
She neurotic, psychotic, you name it, she's got it
Ooh Another great divide, another great divide
(La-la-la)
Now how can I figure this equation, if multiplication's the rule
You keep subtracting me from you, and it just doesn't add up at all
How can I figure this equation, if multiplication's the rule
You keep subtracting me from you, and it just doesn't add up at all
Ooh another great divide, another great divide
Just another great divide, just another great divide
Just another great, just another great, just another great divide
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Another Great Divide [Bonus Track] Lyrics as written by Brian Timothy Finn Anthony Edward Charles Rayner
Lyrics © Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, PFIVE Entertainment Mexico, Hipgnosis Songs Group
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