| Marilyn Manson – Great Big White World Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Well, the album is divided into two "halves": Marilyn Manson and Omega and the Mechanical Animals. The Manson half, or as Wikipedia calls it, "Alpha", is about all the things wrong in the world from when he falls to earth to when the Omega character, or from the Triptych, Adam, becomes disassociative and like in Holy Wood, kills himself. Meanwhile, Omega's "half" shows the reason for things gone wrong: the celebrities and television. If you have seen the videos, excluding Rock Is Dead, it shows his crashing to Earth (Dope Show), along with the self-sufficiency of celebrities, it shows how obsessed everyone in this world is with television (Drugs), and Coma White shows not only a prequel to the subject matter of Holy Wood, but the crucifixion of Marilyn F. Kennedy. In this context, it is saying we all have someone who is so influential, they act as a "Messiah", in this case, Omega and his songs about consumption, drugs, and sex. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Coma Black Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| If this hasn't already been posted, this song is one of the pivotal moments of "Holy Wood". First off, the whole story is about revolution. Second, the character, Adam Kadmon, was speaking lies to the people of Death Valley in an attempt to revolt against Holy Wood. His attempt and triumph was successful, but in "Born Again" the lines "I'm someone else..." are talking about how everyone changed after the success: they became part of the mainstream since the "Beautiful People" are dead, and then just a sidenote, Antichrist Superstar is the last of the trilogy, anyway, and now in Black, Adam is saying that he never wanted it to be like how it is, and in symbolic terms, he is a metaphorical Christ that acted as a savior to the inhabitants of Death Valley, and he is very dissatisfied with the result. That's all I can say. | |
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