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.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
All our monkeys have monkeys
We drive our death crush diamond jaguar limousines
We're not fantastic motherfuckers
But we play them on TV
It's a dirty word Reich
Say what you like
It's a dirty word Reich
Say what you like
We're the low art gloominati
And we aim to depress
The scabaret sacrilegends
This is the golden age of grotesque
We're the low art gloominati
And we aim to depress
The scabaret sacrilegends
This is the golden age of grotesque
The devils are girls with van Gogh's missing ear
You say want you want but filth is all that they hear
I've got the jigger
To make all of you bigger
Ladies und gentlemen, so drop your pissroom bait
And make sure you're not late, you tramps and lunatics
Here's a trick that's gonna make you
Click
We're the low art gloominati
And we aim to depress
The scabaret sacrilegends
This is the golden age of grotesque
We're the low art gloominati
And we aim to depress
The scabaret sacrilegends
This is the golden age of grotesque
It's a dirty word Reich
Say what you like
It's a dirty word Reich
Say what you like
So my bon mots, hit-boy Tommy trons, rowdy rowdies
Honey-fingered goodbye dolls
Hellzapoppin, open your third nostril
Put on your black face and your god is gone
We're the low art gloominati
And we aim to depress
The scabaret sacrilegends
This is the golden age of grotesque
We're the low art gloominati
And we aim to depress
The scabaret sacrilegends
This is the golden age of grotesque
We sing
La la la la la la la
We sing
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
We sing
La la la la la la la
We drive our death crush diamond jaguar limousines
We're not fantastic motherfuckers
But we play them on TV
It's a dirty word Reich
Say what you like
It's a dirty word Reich
Say what you like
We're the low art gloominati
And we aim to depress
The scabaret sacrilegends
This is the golden age of grotesque
We're the low art gloominati
And we aim to depress
The scabaret sacrilegends
This is the golden age of grotesque
The devils are girls with van Gogh's missing ear
You say want you want but filth is all that they hear
I've got the jigger
To make all of you bigger
Ladies und gentlemen, so drop your pissroom bait
And make sure you're not late, you tramps and lunatics
Here's a trick that's gonna make you
Click
We're the low art gloominati
And we aim to depress
The scabaret sacrilegends
This is the golden age of grotesque
We're the low art gloominati
And we aim to depress
The scabaret sacrilegends
This is the golden age of grotesque
It's a dirty word Reich
Say what you like
It's a dirty word Reich
Say what you like
So my bon mots, hit-boy Tommy trons, rowdy rowdies
Honey-fingered goodbye dolls
Hellzapoppin, open your third nostril
Put on your black face and your god is gone
We're the low art gloominati
And we aim to depress
The scabaret sacrilegends
This is the golden age of grotesque
We're the low art gloominati
And we aim to depress
The scabaret sacrilegends
This is the golden age of grotesque
We sing
La la la la la la la
We sing
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
We sing
La la la la la la la
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First I have to give you a little introduction to the album: the golden age of grotesque. Manson is always refering to historical points to create paradoxes between them. This album is historically place in the 30' nazi germany. The society the government the religion etc are represented by the nazi party and marilyn manson a bit like a jewish, at the time the jazz music, mikey mouse, jewish artist etc were represented like the "degenerate". And manson is making a paradox between this and the actual society that has just became in a new form another nazi reich: conformism, ethic, religion, stereotypes, the government, the news, and particulary in this case "metal music/jazz music. Like in each of his album the dichtomy of the opposite combination is apply.
In the todays society: Satanism: individualism, sexual liberty, freedom. The actual society: control, stereotypes and disinformation everywhere and other related stuff.
In the comparative nazi germany: The jewish "degenerate-art": jazz, free music inspiration etc... Nazis: Fascist, control over people and their sexual preferences, rascist etc...
A lot of references to the 30' movies, kabarett, society, art.
This was just to give you a small idea of the theme of the album so now lets have a look at the lirycs.
"All our monkeys have monkeys We drive our death crush diamond jaguar limousines"
The death crushed (nazi dead head) and the diamond jaguar limousing wich was a german limousines for the SS.
"We're not fantastic motherfuckers, But we play them on TV."
"We're the low art gloominati And we aim to depress"
The "degenerate" music (at the time jazz, today metal)
"The scabaret sacrilegends"
scab cabaret, scrilege legends A mix of these word to show their relation.
"The devils are girls with van goh's missing ear You say want you want but filth is all that they hear"
"And I've got the jigger To make all of you bigger, so "ladies und gentlemen...drop your pissroom bait And make sure you're not late, you tramps and lunatics." Here's a trick that's gonna make you Click."
"So my bon mots, hit-boy Tommy trons, rowdy rowdies, Honey-fingered goodbye dolls: "hellzapoppin, open your third nostril, Put on your black face and your god is gone."
A lot of references to the "degenerate" show of the 30'
Source for all info about all MM work of art: nachtkabarett.com
Information about the golden age of grotesque: nachtkabarett.com/DegenerateArt nachtkabarett.com/ArtAndTheGoldenAgeOfGrotesque