The Death Song

Marilyn Manson

We're on a bullet and were headed straight into God
Even he'd like to end it too
We take a pill, get a face, buy our ticket
And we hope heaven is true

I saw a cop beat a priest on the T. V.
And I know they killed our heroes too

We sing the death song, kids
'Cause we got no future
And we wanna be just like you
We wanna be just like you
We wanna be just like you
(We sing the death song, kids)

We light a candle on an earth we made into hell
And we pretend that we're in heaven
Each time we do we get the blind man's ticket
And we know that nothing is true

I saw a priest kill a cop on the T.V.
And I know they're our heroes too

We sing the death song, kids
'Cause we got no future
And we wanna be just like you
We wanna be just like you
We wanna be just like you

We sing the death song, kids
We sing the death song, kids

We sing the death song, kids
We sing the death song, kids
We write our prayers on a little bomb
Kiss it on the face and send it to God

We sing the death song, kids
'Cause we got no future
And we wanna be just like you
We wanna be just like you
We wanna be just like you

We were the world, but we got no future
We wanna be just like you
We wanna be just like you
We wanna be just like you
We were the world, but we got no future
We wanna be just like you
We wanna be just like you
We wanna be just like you

We sing the death song, kids


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    I always thought the whole thing was about religeon. "we take a pill, get a face buy our ticket and we hope that heaven's true" seems to me like the idea of devoting one's self to a religeon and hopeing with blind faith that it's all true.

    Also "we light a candle on an earth we made into hell and pretend that we're in heaven"

    A coment on how relgeon has cocked up the world yet tries to appear riteous... meh my interpretation... too tired to go into any great detail.

    Mary Bobon January 25, 2006   Link

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