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| Marilyn Manson – Vodevil Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Thank you, Mr. Murdock. Unlike a few others here, I did know how to spell "vaudeville," but you provided some insight that I was missing. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Use Your Fist And Not Your Mouth Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This song is about class, not race, Maffew100209. Blue-collar workers = lower-status working class. White-collar workers = higher-status workers (office staff, businesspeople; more likely to be into "political correctness"). Black = color of hate. Lots of people hate what's going on with class/economic status/inequality, but they're doing it with endless chatter and handwringing. Let's stop talk, talk, talking and start doing something. Channel all that hate into your hand and, as one poster said, "kick some ass." |
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| Marilyn Manson – Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I think it is Manson's fans who are "manically depressed and manically dressed." There is a big tradition of dressing up like him, wearing the crazy make-up, and such at his concerts. So the fans themselves could be considered his doppelgangers. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Ka-Boom Ka-Boom Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I interpret this as a song that says: "I love you, but not in a very nice way." The singer is too full of himself, too full of his own fame and status to really relate to the one he's fallen for. "Peter Pan off the wagon / Entertain but never trust anyone sober" = the boy who never grew up, abusing drugs and alcohol again. "My (S)top Hat's top hat(ed)" = my form of entertainment (top hat) is top-heavy with hate. If it's top-heavy, then it must be unstable. Totally agree with delyla_blue; "ka-boom" must be a heartbeat. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand) Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I've seen only one person here comment that the "heart-shaped glasses" are a way of perceiving the world with the innocence of a young girl. Don't break my heart and I won't shatter your charming illusions about the world. There are dozens of comments suggesting that the bloody sex scene in the video is an attempt to get back at Dita by parading his new relationship onscreen, but I have to disagree. Manson believes that he always ends up hurting the women he loves. This is very clear in Born Villain. He is afraid he will cause his girlfriend to lose herself, to metaphorically die. That's why she's covered with blood in the video. He's been with more than one "little girl"; Dita was only eighteen or nineteen when they met. I take offense at the suggestion that this is pedophilia. My husband is eighteen years older than I am. Does that make me a victim? |
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| Marilyn Manson – Overneath The Path Of Misery Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I'm surprised I haven't seen more on the subject of Persephone here. Manson seems to be suggesting that any woman he gets involved with is destined to be damaged by him, but that this current one (or maybe imaginary one) is being let go before this happens because he is changing and becoming more aware of what goes on inside him. He now realizes that he has been looking "above" when he should have been looking "below," and that when he looks deep inside he finds that he has no heart. Only an empty place, a void. When he calls the Persephone story a "marketing scheme," I think he is saying that the original story was just designed to sell patriarchy -- the practice of keeping a woman against her will / against her best interests just because, as a man, it suited you. |
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| Marilyn Manson – mOBSCENE Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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"Your freedom's not free or dumb"
Dumb = mute
Your freedom is going to cost something, and it will not be "not heard" |
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| Marilyn Manson – Born Villain Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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The singer is becoming aware of the potential for violence within himself. He compares himself to a gun with only one bullet, as in Russian Roulette, and realizes that not only does he have the ability to kill, but that ability is unpredictable. Manson once said that the villain in any story is more interesting than the hero because, while the hero stays the same all the way through, the villain has the opportunity to change. |
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