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| Marilyn Manson – The Speed Of Pain Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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I think this song is mostly about a painful relationship, looking back on it after it has ended, and seeing how both of the people came out of it worse than they started. He wants to outrace the speed of pain so that he can stop thinking about her, and about what they have lost, about how quickly it was gone. "When you want it, it goes away too fast." Everything beautiful in the world is ephemeral, and he's just now realizing it, of course when it's already too late. But the true beauty of this song is even though the character in the song wants his ex to feel pain like he has felt ("Just remember, when you think you're free, the crack inside your fucking heart is me"), he still has a small bit of catharsis dropped in at the end - "I hope at least we die holding hands," which seems to say to me that there can be two people so steeped in misery and hate, but in the end there is always hope, even in death. |
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| Marilyn Manson – The Reflecting God Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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I think that the title, "The Reflecting God," if you compare it with the line "When I'm God, everyone dies..." means that humankind is destroying itself. I don't think the song has much of anything to do with "God," Manson is just using the word God to reflect the unfortunate traits of humans. When he says, "Your world is an ashtray," he is saying that whether or not there is a God out there, we humans have created an ashtray of the world we've been given, and perhaps the reason most people believe in a God is so that they don't have to face the reality of how destructive and callous they have really become. That's just my take, though... |
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