| Marilyn Manson – Murderers Are Getting Prettier Every Day Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Yeah, it does. He said this album is about his feelings and his personal transformation. He's also said this album is what he calls the "grandest concept of all" because of how vague and abstract it is meaning-wise. So, people can hear the album and relate it to their own personal transformation. | |
| Marilyn Manson – Murderers Are Getting Prettier Every Day Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Yeah, it does. He said this album is about his feelings and his personal transformation. He's also said this album is what he calls the "grandest concept of all" because of how vague and abstract it is meaning-wise. So, people can hear the album and relate it to their own personal transformation. | |
| Marilyn Manson – Hey, Cruel World... Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"Creator, preserver, destroyer; ask which one I am" ☰ = Creator / Sky / Father / Strong ☷ = Preserver / Earth / Mother / Devoted (Yielding) ☳ = Destroyer / Thunder / Inciting Movement or Change "What I’m going to take is the fact that life is all about change, and the villain is always the catalyst, the villain is always the person who creates something different in the story. I don’t mean “villain” in the sense that people might define it as the “bad guy,” I’m not saying the “bad guy.” When I say the villain, I mean in the traditional sense like in Macbeth, like in anything else. The hero doesn’t do anything in any story and I didn’t have to go to school to learn this, it was me being a fan of literature and film. The hero doesn’t do anything different. The hero always stays the same, there’s no character arc, he’s always the hero. The villain is the person who has the chance to change something. They might break the rules, but that’s the thing, sometimes if you don’t fucking break the rules, you’re not going to save anything, you’re not going to change anything." |
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| Marilyn Manson – Pistol Whipped Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Recent interview revealed another detail about this song: May 1, 2012 - "I don't know where [the flower imagery] came from essentially. Maybe it's because my dad was in Vietnam and there's an iconic image of the flower being put into the rifle. A 'pistil' is obviously the female part of the flower and I think that this record and everything on it is an implied threat." |
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| Marilyn Manson – Born Villain [Album Version] Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The song begins to wrap up the album, as he has finally gotten rid of the confusion from the circumstances of his life. He realises what he thinks he should be, and also acknowledges who he is. Although, for an individual listening to the song, it could be interchangeable to fit your own personal transformation into who you think you should be. Its all about being who you think you should be, not who other people think you should be; and you shouldn't care who other people think you should be either. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Hey, Cruel World... Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Reading "RAPETURE" by Marilyn Manson should explain everything this song is about: Rapeture: Christianity Manufactures Yesterdays Killers Brave Now World. Don’t ever believe what you read, especially if you are illiterate. Art will be the burning churches, burning beds, burning witches, burning bridges, burning Cadillacs, burning forests, burning flags, and the burning human remains that are the evidence of the burned books, filled with stories of our razor and rope burns. But we will not be the ashes. We will not be cremated, we will cauterize our wounds. We never wanted our wings anyway. We are more than the flightless creatures, that are always expected to rise from the bonfire. These are barbecues for trembling, idiot arsons who pretend to be America’s Vatican in whatever ‘ism’ is easiest to swallow. After the horrid blowing jobs, they expect us to fight against each other to obtain the security of willing slaves. We do not walk among them. I am among no one. Marilyn Manson |
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| Marilyn Manson – Hey, Cruel World... Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Marilyn Manson is not a christian, he wouldn't follow what it says. He's made it rather clear over the years that he does what he feels is right. He hasn't said anything about doing what a simple book says is right (or wrong). | |
| Marilyn Manson – Murderers Are Getting Prettier Every Day Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Heh. Disregard this, and it should be deleted... It was a first impression on the first day I read them. There have been interviews since then. d: | |
| Marilyn Manson – Disengaged Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Disregard as it was my first impression on the first day I'd read the lyrics. Should be deleted... | |
| Marilyn Manson – The Gardener Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Should be deleted | |
| Marilyn Manson – Overneath The Path Of Misery Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This was my first impression, but it is not part of what the album represents. Disregard. (Any way this can be deleted?) | |
| Marilyn Manson – Breaking the Same Old Ground Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| He now comes to the fruition of who he knew he could be, and he reflects on it. As the album closes, he admits who he is and why he is. | |
| Marilyn Manson – Breaking the Same Old Ground Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Though it was my first impression, this is part of what the album represents as it turns out. Should be deleted... | |
| Marilyn Manson – Born Villain Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| In this song, he's shaken off all the confusion and comes to the fruition of who he knew he could be. | |
| Marilyn Manson – Born Villain Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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| Marilyn Manson – Lay Down Your Goddamn Arms Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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In this song, he admits he doubts being able to be "human." It ties together the theme to a couple other songs on this album as well. (i.e. Hey, Cruel World..., The Gardner) He is describing himself as a person no one will be able to figure out, nor may anyone ever figure out who he is. But to him, the only important thing is that he knows who he is. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Lay Down Your Goddamn Arms Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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| Marilyn Manson – Disengaged Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"And I could look into the crowded morgue of mistakes. The sun stopped its smile and frowned on me, too." In the past, he would lament his mistakes. But he realises now that thinking about his mistakes as mistakes is a mistake. His "mistakes" were actually beneficial to his current transformation all along. --- "My re-built/re-mastered heart is smashed into its faces, and its face is confused." As he changes, he feels better and more confident about who he's becoming; just as he was confident before his confusion. --- "I cut my throat in two. I said 'sorry' to you for being a fool, but I didn’t forgiveness; it was regret--not an apology--it was regret." For the mistakes he percieved, he would appologise but he wasn't sorry he only regretted it. But now that he doesn't see the past as a mistake, he only has the future to look to and to become what he knows he can become. --- "Disengaged, you’re with me, against me but the only thing forever is hate." Everything he did to try to change in the past made people "anything with a dis- in it" and he realises that there's always going to be someone who's dissatisfied with him and accepts that because he's confident in who he's becoming. --- "I forget what I saw before and after that day. I’d trade all I was worth to make myself in to the handsomest gun, and put the diamond bullet into your 404 ERROR face." Here he talks about "when someone threatens what I love or care about." And to defend that, he has to be "a person no one wants to fuck with." --- "And I’m an event everybody knows. You decide if you can live or you decide to let someone decide for you." Here he talks about how he was, and tells people that they have the same choice he once did. And that's what the second sentence in the line is. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Murderers Are Getting Prettier Every Day Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Actually, going over the album again this song doesn't seem to have anything really to do with a woman. Its actually about his transformation, and what he's changing from. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Children of Cain Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song follows what Hey, Cruel World... talked about. He clearly sees society the same way he always has. His reference to monkeys has always followed Charlie Manson's reference to monkeys in Mechanical Animals. Basically, the monkey represents the god in the TV, the celebrity, the star. |
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| Marilyn Manson – The Gardener Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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After the arrival of the official lyrics and recent interviews, it appears that this song was not what my first impression of it was. (I kinda jumped the gun on this one...) A much simpler explanation: ------------------------- This song is about him looking inside himself and coming to a realisation about certain evident truths about himself that he wasn't aware of. And he also seems to realise just who he can become through this change, like he's remembering his ideal of who he's wanted to be all along. |
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| Marilyn Manson – No Reflection Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I'm not sure there are two Mansons represented in the video, but to add to my explanation: The reason the song ends with being about not reflecting on the past is because its about him looking to change, because he became confused as to who he wanted to be. He said that when he was making this album, he decided he didn't like who he was; because he was straying from who he's always wanted to be because of the circumstances in his life including the Columbine thing and his exs. He also says that while it happens to everyone, this album was his personal way out of that confusion. When he went to write the album, he locked everything from his house away and basically just sat in it with a paper and pencil and "start[ed] fresh." So basically, he got away from is all so he could gain insight on being himself again. So the song is basically about the beginning of that process. |
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| Marilyn Manson – The Flowers of Evil Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"I’ve been running from the bloodless for fear of exile for all of my sorceries that shun the light." Okay, now I have a greater insight on the album now that I've read more interviews and read more correct lyrics. This goes along with what he's said in Overneath the Path of Misery in: "The Rape of Persephone was choreographed by all the wrong Greeks. The Rape of Persephone was a marketing scheme. Rape rape rape per so phony." He's said in a couple interviews now, about how the Columbine media fire had affected him. It was but one more of the circumstances that caused confusion in his mind as to who he wanted to be. He said, in one interview, "But I guess after I made The Golden Age of Grotesque and after dealing with Columbine–where I got blamed with something that I did not do–I had to deal with the [start of a] whole era which probably made [critics] like you disenfranchised. Dissatisfied. Dis-engaged, anything with “dis” in it." So, its about the same as it meant in Overneath the Path of Misery, he is realising he was never a victim at all, and that what he'd become to escape that was a facade of sorts that he used to run away from that. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Overneath The Path Of Misery Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Now that the OFFICIAL lyrics are available, I can now reassess about the song after much confusion caused by the unofficial lyrics in the past: [I also base all of my analysis on interviews with Manson in the passed 6 months] Born Villain is the coming off of The High End of Low, about his finding the way to being himself again after all the circumstances of life clouding his judgment as to who he wanted to be in life. ---------- "Stare into my Kodak Rome jack-hammer ice eyes" This seems to signify all he's been through in the past, and all the circumstances that confused him about who he wanted to be in life. As he speaks to the person opposite him, he wants them to understand his struggles. -------------------- "I never thought you’d see the asphalt crack, crack, crack like black eggshell." This line reminds me of a line in the song White Knuckles they did back in 1990: "Smack dab flat on my back, and the solid ground began to crack. I took her down, and down, and down, and down. I lost my breath. I thought I'd drown." It has a similar theme. In White Knuckles, he would depend on his loved ones. But now, in Overneath the Path of Misery, its the other way around. He wants to be someone his loved ones can depend on. -------------------- "Don’t ever say I never warned you from the start. You’re not a shovel and I’m not your dirt." This kind of follows the theme from 15: "Not letting you win won't satisfy me, I'll teach you about loss. If you don't know what forever feels like, I'll show you what it feels like without it." - "I don't need you, I'll say it to myself. But it doesn't mean I won't need somebody." So, once again, its about him breaking himself of his dependence on others. -------------------- "Is there any way to unswallow my pride. Can I fuck myself down?" Before, he would have to swallow his pride to become dependent in order to properly love someone. Now, since he no longer confuses love with dependence he wants to "unswallow" his pride to gain back his confidence in himself to love someone and stay independent at the same time. -------------------- "While I die you can kill the father. 'Dad' is missing an 'E.' " With I Ching being a big theme in this album, I think that has something to do with this line. ☰ is the symbol for "the creative one." It means force, strength. The head. The father. I think in this line, he's talking about his change; and saying that while he changes, he must "kill" the circumstances that had caused him to be what he had become. ------------------- "No Macbeth confessed Oedipus, no longer present tense." He is saying that despite all the confusion [since the GAG era] that he's moving on from who he'd become because of all the circumstances that caused it, and he's becoming "who I knew I could be." (From an interview) MacBeth is a Shakespearean reference, to a play he did about a man, MacBeth, who killed his father to become king and further murdered to maintain his power. So its like the previous line, also a Shakespearean reference to the same play, where he must "kill" all the circumstances which were clouding his judgment as to who he wanted to be, stripping his life down to restrict himself so he has time to think for himself. -------------------- "I won’t regret letting you live even if you forgot what you never saved me from. So I say whatever or for never." Once again, coming off the previous album. Letting go of the past, all the ones who he felt had let him down; as he realises he shouldn't have depended on them in the first place. -------------------- "The Rape of Persephone was choreographed by all the wrong Greeks. The Rape of Persephone was a marketing scheme. Rape rape rape per so phony." Here, he seems to be talking about his victimisation with the Columbine incident; realising he was never a victim at all, and that what he'd become to escape that was a facade of sorts that he used to run away from that. -------------------- "High and overneath, overblown, unbeloved; I cannot be low" This just about reviews the song as a whole. This is about his feelings while he's been what he realised he didn't like he'd become, and about his overcoming those feelings and stripping his life down to restrict himself in order to think for himself. He's coming to the fruition of becoming confident in who he's always wanted to be. -------------------- "From the top of my lungs, to the bottom of my heart--I scream at the chasm in between, and the path of misery." This wraps up the song, and is about coming out of his shell once again and facing his fears once again in order to achieve this next internal transformation. |
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| Moonspell – EuroticA Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| The voice at the beginning is muffled, its hard to hear the last part but its a word with s's and its two syllables.... | |
| Marilyn Manson – Doppelherz Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Some of this ended up being lyrics in their songs later on, all the way through The High End of Low. My guess is that these were some of Marilyn Manson's creative thoughts and processes as he would sit and ponder about the world. Slutgarden A song about his desire for Dita Von Teese, as back then--as he says now--he confused desire with weakness: "I'm a VCR funeral of dead-memory waste and my smile is a chainlink fence that I have put up" ---------- Vodevil A song about his life in the media, eaten up by the counter-culture and hated on by the pop culture: "VIP ADD TRD violent shiny hate crime 'Total Requested Dead' it's version point (less) downloadable suicide." ---------- Devour A song about his confusion in love and desire, a coming off EAT ME, DRINK ME: "My pain is not ashamed to repeat itself." ...and I think that's about it. Huh. Coulda swore there was more. I don't think these words were intended to be his last because I can't see him doing that, really... suicide. I actually don't think he ever intended to kill himself, even if he had ever thought of it. |
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| Marilyn Manson – SLO-MO-TION Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Don’t we wish that we had something more than hate and morbid panic (Morbid Panic) Hate and morbid panic |
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| Marilyn Manson – White Knuckles Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Its definitely a song about desire. For a long time, Marilyn Manson confused desire with weakness. This song describes how he'd "fallen for" an attractive woman and that made her stronger than him. It was a woman he could fear. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Better Of Two Evils Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song is Marilyn Manson's views toward the music industry, and about the people who obsess over them both the mainstream pop-culture and the mainstream counter-culture. -------------------- "Haters call me bitch, call me faggot, call me whitey; but I am something that you'll never be." This line is about the people who don't like him, the new generation who like rap--or as Marilyn Manson puts it--garbage. --- "I won't look prettier if I smile for the picture. Motherfuckers never liked me then and they sure won't like me now. Don't try to drag me down with your cliche. Your fake grin fits your faker face. But I find pleasure in your misery." In this line he talks about his "fans." Or so-called anyways. They expect his band to be this sold-out-goth-rock-idol like many of the other bands in the Rock / Metal genre. That's part of the reason they moved in a new direction and made the new shit, to see who the real fans were. And as it turns out, not that many people like the new shit, they're still stuck in the past; not able to accept him or his band for who they are and what they stand for. --- "I will step on you on my way up. And I will step on you on my way down." He will step on his so-called fans on his way up, an on his way down. --- "I'll be your scapegoat. I'll be your saviour. I'm the better of two evils." He's a scapegoat for the mainstream pop-culture, and he's treated as a savior in the mainstream counter-culture. He'll be whatever he wants, it doesn't matter what they think of him or his band. "I want to hang all you cattle with your velvet rope. Motherfuckers, step up and get into an orderly line. I'll Show you how to make a muscle. It takes less strength to grin than it does to spit on all you Paparazzi Nazis." This, again, is about his so-called fans and the mainstream counter-culture. As they obsess over him and treat him like the mainstream would treat a pop star. --- "Don't try to lead me to temptation. I've been delivered and I already know the way." He's saying here that he won't conform to what his so-called fans want him to be, he'll keep doing his own thing. And so will his band. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Omega Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This poem is a reflection of the preceding story on the album. About how Omega led a revolution which later would become sold out, as he became one of the stars (the beautiful people) in space (HOLY WOOD) and "led" them as the next big star. But his public persona, being what they wanted him to say, was a sold out rock star who only wanted to be high an famous. His personal side pursued what was, in his mind, perfect happiness; and sought that through the abuse of drugs. Which ultimately led to his death. |
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| Marilyn Manson – The Last Day On Earth Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is one of the 7 songs about Omega's personal side. Its a song about Coma White, his ideal of perfect happiness. -------------------- "Yesterday was a million years ago. In all my past lives I played an asshole." Omega speaks about his "past lives" like his life in the Valley of Death and his life in space, or HOLY WOOD, and to everyone on the opposite sides of where he was he was "an asshole." --- "Now that I found you, it's almost too late. And this earth seems obliviating. We are trembling in our crutches. High and dead, our skin is glass. I'm so empty here without you. I crack my xerox hands." Omega seems to have found the happiness he'd been looking for, or perhaps he'd overdosed too much on his drugs and is dying. As the drugs make him feel so empty, he feels peace in his heart for the first time; and it would seem he is dying. --- "I know it's the last day on earth. We'll be together while the planet dies. I know it's the last day on earth. We'll never say goodbye." As he finds the happiness he'd been pursuing at the moment of his death. --- "And the dogs slaughter each other softly. Love burns its casualties. We are damaged provider modules, and spill the seeds at our children's feet." He reflects on space, HOLY WOOD, the place he'd been as he dies. --- "I'm so empty here without you I know they want me dead." He knows that, as a star, his death would be martyred and he would be immortalised and idolised through people's fear and confusion about death. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Fundamentally Loathsome Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is one of the 7 songs on the album that are a satire on rock stars and sell-outs alike. This song expresses a limited and closed-minded choice between self-loathing, or a narcissistic loathing of others. "Shoot myself to love you. If I loved myself, I'd be shooting you." ------------------- "I want to wake up in your white, white sun, and I wanna wake up in your world with no pain. But I'll just suffer in a hope to die someday while you are numb all of the way." This line is a wallowing in self-pity, defeatism in a world that doesn't care. Its a sort of "why-try" attitude. |
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| Marilyn Manson – User Friendly Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is one of the 7 songs about a satire and exaggeration of rock stars. User Friendly is Omega glorifying blatant promiscuity. Its defeatist, and pessimistic; its a kind of a "why-try" kind of attitude and a self-loathing, sexual feeling of need and desperation for affection. |
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| Marilyn Manson – New Model No. 15 Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is one of the 7 songs on mechanical animals that make fun of and exaggerate rock stars. This song is more defeatist and nihilistic, as it promotes the idea of "anything to belong." It depicts a person who will do anything to belong, who chooses not to be their own person so they will feel adored for something they're not. |
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| Marilyn Manson – I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is one of the 7 songs on mechanical animals that are a satire on rock stars. This song, in particular, glorifies the abuse of drugs and justifies it through his "rebellious" attitude toward the system. Its especially nihilistic among the other 6 in this group, being defeatist and pessimistic in a kind of "might-as-well" kind of message and giving ascent to drugs as the only thing people can resort to in order to escape from their problems. |
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| Marilyn Manson – I Want To Disappear Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is one of the 7 songs on mechanical animals that are a satire and exaggeration of rock stars. Its an especially nihilistic and superficial song about the glorification of the abuse of drugs and the negative outlook on life, apathy, and pessimism. There is a theme in these 7 songs, as they're all along the same lines; a satire on pretty much all you hear from rock bands anymore most of whom are sold out druggies with no motivation and want to stay famous and will do "anything to belong." |
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| Marilyn Manson – Posthuman Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is one of the 7 songs about Omega's personal side. Its about his attraction to Coma White and about his increasing distaste for HOLY WOOD. -------------------- "She's got eyes like Zapruder and a mouth like heroin. She wants me to be perfect like Kennedy." The Zapruder film is known to be the best view of the shooting of Kennedy. Though she's a mataphor for a person's ideal of perfection, in the story she's told as a relation to the dead president who'd been shot and martyred. So she would know more about that than anyone else would. And since he's pursuing perfection, in turn its his very ideal of perfection that expects him to be perfect. --- "This isn't god. God is just a statistic." He starts to believe that perfection is real, moreso than god anyways. --- "Say, 'Show me the dead stars, all of them sing.' This is a riot, religious and clean." This is, from his perspective, what HOLY WOOD tells says to him. They want him to be just like them. --- "God is a number you cannot count to. You are posthuman and hardwired." The beautiful (horrible) people believe in a god which is not real, and they're also like mechanical animals. This becomes increasingly evident to Omega. --- "She's pilgrim and pagan, softworn and so-cial. In all of her dreams, she's a saint like Jackie-O." Again, about Coma White. Its about another line describing his ideal of what perfection would look like. --- Coma white: "All that glitters is cold, all that glitters is cold." Through his ideal of perfection, he begins to see the world he's come into ever increasingly unattractive, while his pine for perfection--to be better than the world that's been so drained of its colour. |
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| Marilyn Manson – The Speed Of Pain Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is one of the 7 songs on the album about Omega's personal side. Its about life in "space", or HOLY WOOD, and his failure to attain Coma White (perfection). ------------------- "They slit our throats like we were flowers. And our milk has bee devoured." Everyone in space, aka HOLY WOOD, is dead inside. --- When you want it, it goes away too fast. When you hate it, it always seems to last. Just remember when you think you're free, the crack inside your fucking heart is me." His life in HOLY WOOD. And that last line kind of goes with what is said in Antichrist Svperstar as a similar message to the beautiful people: "When you are suffering, know that I have betrayed you." --- "{Thought, not spoken}: I want to outrace the speed of pain for another day." Self-explanitory --- "I wish I could sleep, but I can't lay on my back because there's a knife for everyday that I've known you." This is about Coma White. He feels like as long as he's had his idea of perfection, it always feels out of reach; like it lures him and then deceives him, and eludes him. --- "Lie to me. Cry to me. Give to me. I would." Also about Coma White. He wishes that he could live out his ideal of perfection. Even if it were a lie. --- "Keep all your secrets wrapped in dead hair, for always. I hope that we die holding hands, for always." He still wants to believe he can achieve perfection, and hopes that--one day--he can. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Disassociative Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This is one of the 7 songs on the album that are about Omega's personal side. It is about his life in "space", or HOLY WOOD, and he feels like he can't leave their because of his fame and money. Yet he hates it there, and wishes he could get out of there. | |
| Marilyn Manson – Rock Is Dead Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is one of the 7 songs on mechanical animals that are a satire on rock stars and the music industry. Omega is a sold out rock star because he wants to stay famous. -------------------- "All simple monkeys with alien babies. Amphetamines for boys, crucifixes for ladies. Sampled and soulless, worldwide and real webbed. You sell all the living for more safer dead." This is more glorification of drugs and sex, and negative attitude. As well as a "rebellious" attitude with a can't-trust-the-system kind of attitude. --- "Anything to belong." Omega glorifies the idea that everyone has to fit into a "crowd", and that you must do anything in order to do so. --- "Rock is deader than dead. Shock is all in your head. Your sex and your dope is all that we're fed. So fuck all your protests and put them to bed." He's acting like a rebel, singing a genre that's "dead." And he once again justifies the use of drugs, while glorifying them. --- "God is in the TV" Omega glorifies TV stars, probably to get more people to notice him to continue his stardom. --- "1,000 mothers are praying for it. We're so full of hope and so full of shit. Build a new god to medicate and to ape. Sell us ersatz dressed up and real fake." More negativity banter and drug glorification. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Mechanical Animals Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is one of the 7 songs that are from Omega's personal side. Its about the world in which he lives, but its also about Coma White--or his desire to be perfect. -------------------- "We were neurophobic and perfect the day we lost our souls. Maybe we weren't so human, but if we cry, we will rust." Omega speaks about the stars, the beautiful (horrible) people which he's become a part of. They all become emotionless with the stride of fame. --- "And I was a hand grenade that never stopped exploding. You were automatic and as hollow as the "o" in God." Omega speaks of his rise to fame, as he made big hits to get there. And now he speaks of Coma White, again; as he gets a glimpse of her (an ideal of perfection) and becomes enamored with her (the idea of perfection). But he feels like perfection itself is not real, fake, "hollow", just as god is. --- "I am never going to be the one for you. I am never going to save the world from you." He doubts his abilities to be perfect, and doesn't want to hide that idea from the world. --- "They'll never be good to you or bad to you. They'll never be anything, anything at all." Omega doesn't think anybody has the ability to be perfect. --- "You were my mechanical bride, a phenobarbidoll, a mannequeen of depression with the face of a dead star." Omega sees perfection as impossible, fake, but a glorious idea nonetheless. --- "This isn't me, I'm not mechanical. I'm just a boy playing the suicide king." He denies being so emotionless, so soulless, so white (drained of colour). And acknowledges he's nothing to everyone else but a rock star who acts for them, as famous as Jesus. |
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| Marilyn Manson – The Dope Show Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is one of the 7 songs that are a satire on rock stars. Yet, this song is special among the 7 as it more describes how a rock star has his fame along as he's "on all the covers" or they "love another." And he glorifies drugs and sex so that he stays famous, thus being a sold out rock star. But fame was all that mattered, or no one would remember him. -------------------- "The drugs they say make us feel so hollow. We love in vain narcissistic and so shallow. The cops and queers to swim you have to swallow. Hate today, no love for tomorrow." Here, Omega glorifies the drug use but sneers on those who say they're bad. He also promotes negative attitude by "no love for tomorrow." --- "We're all stars now in the dope show." He's appealing to those who love to do drugs, and glorifying the use. --- "There's a lot of pretty, pretty ones that want to get you high; but all the pretty, pretty ones will leave you low and blow your mind." Pretty, pretty ones are the beautiful people of HOLY WOOD. Being that he plays the part of a rebel to get ratings, he questions authority saying you can't trust the system's drugs. --- "They love you when you're on all the covers. When you're not then they love another." This part more talks about Omega singing about the things he does in order to stay famous. --- "The drugs they say are made in California. We love your face, we'd really like to sell you. The cops and queers make good-looking models. I hate today. Who will I wake up with tomorrow?" More snide comments toward the people who condemn drugs. And more rebellious banter about the system. And, of course, promoting negative attitude and blatant promiscuity. All so he can sell records. ---------- Concerning the video, that is illustrative of Omega selling out and becoming everything the beautiful people want him to he; taking their drugs and doing everything they tell him to. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Great Big White World Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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On mechanical animals, there are 7 songs that are about the personal side of Omega and 7 about the public side of Omega, which are just a satire on rock stars. The story is about a post-revolutionary world, where Omega led a revolution that would become sold out. And so he because a performing rock star. Great Big White World is one song from the personal side of Omega. The song itself is about Omega's understanding of the world around him, and he has been at the bottom and been to the top; and realises what a white world that had been drained of its colours its become. -------------------- "In space the stars are no nearer. They just glitter like a morgue. And I dreamed I was a spaceman, and burned like a moth in a flame. And our world was so fucking gone." Stars are the beautiful people. Space would be where they are, HOLY WOOD. Omega had gone straight to the top, and had experienced HOLY WOOD. And he realises that its not as glamourous as the TV says it is. In fact, he seems to be saying it is all dead there; everyone is dead and hollow inside. Like they have no soul. --- "But I'm not attached to your world and nothing heals and nothing grows." Self explanitory --- "Because it's a great big white world and we are drained of our colors. We used to love ourselves, we used to love another." When it comes to subtractive colours, the more you take out the more white it becomes. In these terms, white means blank, empty, dead, etc. --- "All my stiches itch. My prescription's low. I wish you were queen just for today. In a world so white what else could I say?" He has stitches because he has scars from the past, he speaks of his prescription because now he has an addiction to drugs since drugs was all he knew from the beautiful people because they sell it. Now, here he appears to be speaking to Coma White. Figuratively speaking, Coma White represents perfection. And Omega's obsession with her represents his desire to be perfect. --- "And hell was so cold. All the vases are so broken, and the roses tear our hands all open. Mother marry miscarry, and we pray just like insects. And the world is so ugly now." Before the revolution, he lived in the valley of death. He talks about how broken everyone there is. And their obsession with media and drugs has them praying "just like insects." |
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| Marilyn Manson – Track 99 Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is the disintegrator's message to the beautiful people. He wanted them to know he blames them for what happened to him and what he did to them. And he also wanted to tell them that their society is the way it is because of them, HOLY WOOD and the Valley of Death, and that everyone deserves that. He acknowledges that its a depraved world, and he leaves the last of his message. The end. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Song Number 99 Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is the disintegrator's message to the beautiful people. He wanted them to know he blames them for what happened to him and what he did to them. And he also wanted to tell them that their society is the way it is because of them, HOLY WOOD and the Valley of Death, and that everyone deserves that. He acknowledges that its a depraved world, and he leaves the last of his message. The end. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Song Number 99 Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Go ahead and build a better messiah. | |
| Marilyn Manson – This Is The New Shit Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This song is definitely about how they moved into a new era, and will not make music like they did before this. That era is over, they finished three concept albums that moved in a trilogy. They turned their creativity in a new direction. And they're not looking back. | |
| Marilyn Manson – Man That You Fear Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is the culmination of the album, which results in the disintegrators martyrdom at the hands of the beautiful people. In the end, he realises that since his wishes were granted many of his dreams had been destroyed. He had become the thing he set out to destroy because he was unable to understand his own suffereing, and he paid for it in the end. "The ants are in the sugar, muscles atrophied. We're on the other side, the screen is us and we're TV." He realises that it is the end for him, because they are coming for him. --- "Spread me open, sticking to my pointy ribs. Are all your infants in abortion cribs?" He welcomes his death after all that had been done, yet he still questions their society. --- "I was born into this, everything turns to shit. The boy that you loved is the man that you fear." He blames their society for what he'd become, a monster, which was truly only partly to blame. --- "Pray until your number, asleep from all your pain. Your apple has been rotting. Tomorrow's turned up dead." He awaits his death from the people who are coming for him, as he now realises its inevitable. --- "I have it all and I have no choice but to, I'll make everyone pay and you will see. You can kill yourself now because you're dead in my mind. The boy that you loved is the monster you fear." In his mind, by being killed by them he makes them all pay; because he thinks that everyone will then understand him and understand what their society had been doing to people like him--thus forcing change in their society which is what he wanted all along. But in reality, he will have his 15 minutes of fame (shame) and will be replaced by the next dead star. --- "Peel off all those eyes and crawl into the dark. You've poisoned all of your children to camouflage your scars. Pray unto the splinters, pray unto your fear, pray your life was just a dream. The cut that never heals Pray now baby, pray your life was just a dream." He still yet questions their society, and is thinking they will pay by martyring him. --- "I am so tangled in my sins that I cannot escape." He realises that after all the things he'd done that it is inevitable that the will come to kill him no matter what he does. --- "Pinch the head off, collapse me like a weed. Someone had to go this far." Another line about his acceptance of his death, and his incorrect thought that his death will change their society. --- "The world in my hands, there's no one left to hear you scream there's no one left for you." Even as he dies, he still believes he will change society with his death; which turns out to be a fruitless effort in the end. --- "When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed." His realisation in this moment. |
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| Marilyn Manson – The Reflecting God Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"Your world is an ashtray, we burn and coil like cigarettes; the more you cry your ashes turn to mud." The disintegrator realises that through knowing himself as he became and understanding his own suffering and circumstances, that he could see how the beautiful people felt when they were in rule and doing all the terrible things they were doing. --- "Its the nature of the leeches. The virgin's feeling cheated. You've only spent a second of your life." The disintegrator starts to think that this is just how the world is, not realising that if he had come to grips with his past before all this he would have been able to understand his oppressors and that they could all co-exist all along. --- "My world is unaffected. There is an exit here. I'll say it is, and its true." He doesn't care about how he thinks the world should work. He knows there's another way out, and also that they'll still do what he says. --- "There is a dream inside a dream. I'm wide awake the more I sleep. You'll understand when I'm dead." He seems to realise that his wishes were granted, and that his dreams in the past had been destroyed. Yet, he now believes that if he dreams his dreams now that he can still have what he wants as he is and not what he wanted as he used to be. And the last line there expresses his realisation that when he's dead--now that he's become such a public figure--he will be idolised and thinks that's the only way people will understand him; just like the dead stars before him. --- "I went to god just to see, and I was looking at me. I saw heaven and hell were lies. When I'm god, everyone dies." He realises that the only person that could've changed his fate in the past was him, which meant to him that in the present he could still forge his own destiny. So he chose to stay with his original wish to destroy their society, and started a genocide of all those who had mistreated him. Since he figured things couldn't get worse for him anyways, and that his "other exit" was his death so it didn't much matter to him anymore; because then at least people who understand him. --- "Scar/scar. Can you feel my power? Shoot here, and the world gets smaller. One shot and the world gets smaller." He takes satisfaction in killing them, but at the same time feels guilty for doing so. And so he even wishes for his own death because his life had become an abominable hell, anyways. --- "Let's jump up on the sharp swords and cut away our smiles. Without the threat of death, there's no reason to live at all." He justifies his genocide, yet enjoys the threat of death; for it makes him feel a reason for living. --- "Each thing I show you is a piece of my death. No salvation. No forgiveness. This is beyond your experience." In his mind, he may understand them; but he realises they don't understand him. That is, until his death. And he knows they won't forgive him, nor will they let him live after all he's done. --- "Shoot, shoot, shoot, motherfucker." At this point, he welcomes his death. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Minute of Decay Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This song is about the disintegrator coming to grips with all the things that had happened to him in the past, and his realisation of the atrocities he had been committing; and realising since he had become the very thing he set out to destroy, he may even destroy himself in the process of ridding the world of what he saw as evil. | |
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