Wrapped In Plastic Lyrics
One of the greatest songs of old Manson, while the topic is the same: religion and hypocrisy.
one of my favorites, dealing with, i think, how society tries to keep things oh so neat and pristine on the outside, no matter that the shiny plastic's covering hypocrisy and decay and terrible deeds.
@anemic_knifeprty 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...
@anemic_knifeprty 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
@anemic_knifeprty "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."
@anemic_knifeprty "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."
I remember this having to do with the David Lynch show "Twin Peaks'. There was even a fanzine for Twin Peaks called Wrapped In Plastic.
when i hear this i think of the mainstream media and how everything is force-fed to people and how they tell you what to believe
Marilyn Manson said in "Long Hard Road Out of Hell" that this song is about how families wrap thier furniture up in plastic, keeping it nice and clean on the outside, but all the dirt is trapped inside, and that this is a metaphore. So very true...
Yeah in Twin Peaks a guy find the seemingly perfect happy rich girl type or something dead and wrapped in plastic and yells "she's wrapped in plastic"
Like freakishfae mentioned, this song is about couches being wrapped in plastic with the mindset that the dirt will be kept off the couch. Metaphorically, i believe MM is conveying the message of how families behave: the parents will dress and pamper their kids to look like perfect little school children. Yet as the kids look perfect, their "perfect" family has several problems, all hidden by the "plastic" coveralls on the kids. Or something along those lines.
Well, i say that the lines "come into our home/wont you stay/i know the steak is cold/but it's wrapped in plastic" is kind of a hopeless feeling of being this person that is looked at a such a drag and a disgust but wanting to be accepted because they arent bad even though they are different cold. Not like Manson feels hopeless now, but in an interview he said that he used a lot of his childhood poems and stories as inspiration for his first songs. And kids tend to feel different and tend to want to be accepted.
Allegedly while the band was recording this song with Trent in the house where Sharon Tate lived and was killed, Reznor nicknamed the place Le Pig, the group was working with two twenty-four track machines, running in synch. And supposedly a snippet from "My Monkey" (The song that interpolates a verse from Charles Manson's "Mechanical Man") kept popping up. It was a sample of Charles saying "Why are the kids doin' what they're doin', why did the child reach out and kil his mom and dad?" The team decided to call it an evening. When they resumed work the nexy day, the tapes had returned to normal.
"I'm only as sick as the stick in the pig" Is probably a refrence to Lord of the Flies, which Roger kills a big by sticking a stick in the pigs ass.
Other than that, this song is about how people force-feed religion and isolate children from reality. "thin and so white, thin and so white daddy tells the daughter" "guilt [religion!] is a snake we beat with a rake to grow in our kitchen in the pies we bake feed it to us to squirm in our bellies twisting our guts make our spines to jelly" Freakish Has nicely summerised what the 'wrapped in plastic' is all about
And he talks about, making your children hate things is only going to make them rebel. "fear of the beast is calling it near" And states how religous people hate things out of fear that there religion is not right. "creating what we're hating, it's only fear that is here"
"to wash away sin you must take off your skin the righteous father wears the yellowist grin" This line shows that if you REALLY wish to see who is morally right- you need to take off your 'mask'. The mask that many relgious people where that makes them look like 'good people' when deep down they are morally corrupt.
Sorry this is so long, and points out the obvious. I love this song, so I have a need to explain every sing part of it. lmfao