| Björk – Army of Me Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I think it's about dictatorship and free speach Stand up You've got to manage I won't sympathize Anymore as well as You're alright There's nothing wrong Self-sufficience please! And get to work reminds me of how everything got coldly dictated by the NS-regime (but the song is probably about dictatorship in general). In a dictatorial regime problems don't get taken seriously and especially people's psyche doesn't matter but I think the lines are a reference to how morally questionable things get downplayed. If you complain once more You meet an army of me She (as the antagonist) is making everyone think the same as her. So when someone speaks up, she attacks back with all the other people she's convinced and made to be like her. You're on your own now We won't save you Your rescue squad Is too exhausted I think is about how everyone is kind of callous and no one minds any business that hasn't been dictated to them She underlines this by giving the song an unusually simple and continuous structure: Verse 1 Chorus Verse 2 Chorus Verse 3 Chorus In the music video she's the citizen. in the beginning she's just in the system, not really enjoying what she does. Then, I think, the geezer is a bad word coming out of her mouth. She goes to the people who can help her with that only to find that they're taking away the most valuable thing from her which is freedom of speech. When she gets it back she feels better again because she now knows that she's alright saying bad words. The end I don't really understand but I assume it's rebellion |
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| Marilyn Manson – Running To The Edge Of the World Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| This is one of the saddest songs I've ever heard. It's about running away because you're simply not capable of destroying the world. They run away together because they have the same mind, they're in love but they only love each other and have only ever found disappoint in the world around them. They run because it's the only thing that makes them not feel oppressed but they wish they were actually free even at that point and they would really love to destroy (probably to become actually free). However this escape is short-lived, they're just in love and on drugs and their legs will not carry them forever, even though no one actually says it, they both secretly know it well, are afraid of it and tell each other and themselves that the moment is forever | |
| Marilyn Manson – Use Your Fist And Not Your Mouth Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I think it's a goth-anthem When blue collar the cloths and the symbol for the workers class is then the black collar is the symbol for the goth "class". I woke up today and wished for tommorow I don't want to be like anyone else I woke up today and wished for tommorow I don't want to even be myself This passage stands for so desperately wanting to be different. I think "I don't want to even be myself" is because being youseld you're predictable and not actually that different. Anyone wants to be themselves in some way and then you're still chasing human pleasures. I think the lines express the paradox of wanting to be free (because when you're free then you don't have to want to be yourself) and the despair that comes from it. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Angel With The Scabbed Wings Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I just realized, I think know what the meaning is so I wanted to share it The angle with the scabbed wings is obviously him but the song is written from a fans perspective. The fan realizes that he is too perfect to be a good influence. All that he does is good for him himself, not necessarily for others and when one sees him the best they can do is strive to be him because he is perfect but exactly that would make you dependent on him and being dependent is the absolute worst, especially for yourself. That's why he warns from himself because "you're never gonna leave him" and "always gonna please him" (not yourself). That's why he is the maker (giving people hope that someone like him can exist) and the taker (taking that hope again because he suggests that they can never be like him) and the savior and the raper for the same reasons. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Para-Noir Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[SweeterThanPoison:30193] I don't think he would do it under that condition.. | |
| Marilyn Manson – Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[NijWij:30171] That line is a coverage to all the political content in the song. The song sounds so much fun, that line has so little content, it could as well be a reference to how hippies never get taken seriously because of their drugs use but I think it more likely refers to the things at that time like dadaism and of course swing, that were despised by the nazis | |
| Charles Manson – Mechanical Man Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| This song might actually be about prescriptive medicine and how they are trying to affect his mind and other people's mind with it | |
| Marilyn Manson – Killing Strangers Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I think this song refers to that we might not want to kill people we know or with our own hands but we are still responsible for people for people dying elsewhere and then we don't give fuck even though we're no less killing them. "We don't need a bigga knife 'cause we got gun" With a knife you need to get your hands dirty and feel how it pokes through the skin and with a gun it's much easier, I guess, much less of a decision. The gun is metaphorical for doing from the distance and not getting your hands dirty in the process. That could refer to support of war in other countries - that we don't need to have more people killed where we see and feel it to kill more people. Also people very much tend to act without morals when that saves the ones they love. I don't know if he means that but for example in oppressive systems or soldiers in a war, isn't it always said that they think about doing good to their loved ones? |
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| Marilyn Manson – This Is The New Shit Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Pretty sure it expresses the worry (mainly among older people) that there will be no innovation anymore because we've reached the peak of human civilization and gone past it, that everything will be indifferent and kids will only follow the violent and rebellious without seeking to achieve anything without questioning it and just trying to be happy. The worry is that eventually every information will have been found, and we won't need learn or change anything anymore and stagnate. That's what the song stands for to me. I think he portraits this worry in the song because it comes up all the time throughout history and in different contexts and has therefore some relevance but I don't think that it's necessarily his personal opinion. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Burning Flag Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I just realized, maybe "we are all just stars and we're waiting" - this song is from the perspective of rebellious teens that don't like the insensible way America is governed - could mean that the protagonists are all potential culprits of future massacres because, as he MM often states in interviews, they have a similar position in American society as popstars |
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| Marilyn Manson – In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I think most people are completely missing that it's about the Columbine High School massacre. Of all the songs in this album this is probably the one in which he shows the most sympathy with the culprits. The protagonist/antagonist of the song is someone is someone thinking about doing something like this. They're depressed, not having anything to loose and seeing the only salvation in death (emphasized in the bridge where death is praised like a god). I think "the valley of death" by the way means the childhood because that's what decides how you will later be. When it was a valley of death then you'll have to live in it's shadow when you're getting older. He emphazises that it's about something like Columbine with the gun-fire sounds that make the beat to the song, so they're omnipresent, and that it's the shadow of the childhood with the baby crying. It's not a happy baby |
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| Marilyn Manson – In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[Agustin:30158] The main character of the song praises the death here because it makes sure that our minds don't get completely out of control |
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| Marilyn Manson – Great Big White World Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I think the beginning of the song talks about the overwhelming feeling when you realize how huge the infinity of space is and how much everything we know is nothing in comparison. This helps him detach and think about how ridiculous we act in our tiny little world destroying everything we have and restricting who we are allowed to be ("And we are drained of our colors"). I think it says that it doesn't matter anymore how huge our little tiny world when there's nothing (mainly, no love) in it. In verse 2: "And hell was so cold; All the vases are so broken; And roses tear hands all open" We should stop thinking of hell as a hot place because it's the absence of love and we should look that we don't make our world to hell. The vases are people's hearts or souls (in the anime 'Happy Sugar Life' a person's heart is candy jar because it can be filled with sweet things and it can break so that everything falls out) or maybe it's the people themselves. Then people are controllable by things that look like love because they're so desperately needing it. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Wrapped In Plastic Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[anemic_knifeprty:30142] "All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from." | |
| Marilyn Manson – Wrapped In Plastic Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[anemic_knifeprty:30141] I think that's what the line "The steak is cold but it's wrapped in plastic" means but the rest seems to say that by making people feel guilty we just get more guilt (because when they're feeling bad they unconsciously try to break the chains, 'cause they seem to be what hurts, I'd say). There's a quote of him saying something like that the seven deadly sins are just natural for humans and when we always make ourselves feel so bad for it we get trapped in a sin-and-repent-cycle. I think what he said there is what the song is about .. and it's hypocrisy | |
| Marilyn Manson – The Beautiful People Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[ravenous11:30140] I do agree that it's about the wealthy one but not that it's about them getting better and better off. I think it's more about how they're blinded by their status and neither them nor the others can see that they're to be pitied for how they can't get out | |
| Marilyn Manson – The Beautiful People Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[ravenous11:30139] no, fascism is opponent to capitalism in this song. It probably means that in a capitalistic society you have to be beautiful and if you are then you're narcissistic and hate everyone else and with a fascistic regime you are born a certain way and when you were lucky (in the other version, the lucky ones were the beautiful ones) then it doesn't matter what you look like and you can canalize your hate towards those who weren't lucky. It says that it's shit one way or the other and that people have the instinct to hate, basically. That's damn negative |
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| Marilyn Manson – The Beautiful People Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| I think it's about how everyone wants to be oh so beautiful but being beautiful actually captivates a person in thinking they're better and always trying to fit the ideals. That's what I guess the music video makes fun of, that they make themselves look unnatural and the things there are taking away the freedom of the ones waring it. Thus the line "what do you see? Something beautiful or something free?". I think in his view someone is then beautiful when they can be themself. (I would recommend the manga "Kasane" to that topic by the way. I think it deals with this in a very similar way) He wants to say that if you want to be beautiful then you want to be an asshole that's imprisoned in their own mind as well, because that's what it very easily does with your mind and that you loose the ability to look on trends from a relatively objective perspective and simply go with the common view | |
| Marilyn Manson – Tourniquet Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| Forgot to say I love this song. One of my favorites. I'd say it's one of the hardest to understand and I love how he's talking about childhood memories getting distorted and about clinging onto and seperating from the thoughts and dreams he had had back then | |
| Marilyn Manson – Tourniquet Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I read online that this song is because he always wanted to make a doll out of things like his hear and finger nails and that kinda stuff. So I thought about it and this way the lyrics as well as the video really do make sense (though I think they have a slightly different story). "She's made of hair and bone, little teeth" quite obviously introduces her. The teeth are little because they're the milk teeth he's been keeping. That it's bone is a little weird but it might just be bones he's found somewhere or it sounded good. ",things that cannot speak; she comes on like crippled plaything; spine is just a string" sounds like she's rather naively, almost childish. And that she's made of things that cannot speak - I think in this entire song, because she's something he came up with as a child, she's a personification of his childhood thoughts - that probably hints that kids don't get heard. "I wrapped our love in all this foil Silver tight like spider legs I never wanted it to ever spoil But flies will lay their eggs" That's clearly about that he wanted and still wants to keep her so badly (therefore his childhood thoughts and dreams) but time, rising age and society (the flies) distort her. "Take your hatred out on me Make your victim my head You never ever believed in me I am your tourniquet" I think it says that his childhood thoughts now only hurt him. When he was young he either didn't believe in himself, that he would ever become evil or that evil exists at all. I don't know which one. His thoughts now are destroying and suppressing her so he's her tourniquet. I don't think that I quite understand the second verse but I'm pretty sure it talks more about how desperately he wants to preserve her but it changes anyway. The bridge just seems to emphasize that it's his desires from the past that the song is talking about. He changes the last chorus "Take your, take your Get up out of me I'm not proud with me I never ever believed in me I am your tourniquet" Those old, distorted thoughts now hurt him so much that he now just wants them to go away, he's depicting self-hate and he's drawing the line to "You never ever believed in me" saying that it's actually him who doesn't believe in himself. This suggests that she's just a part of him and with her hating him he hates himself or that he just projected his self-hate on her I would tell you my interpretation of the video as well but it's already really long and I worry that no one would ever read it then |
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