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Misery Machine Lyrics

Man in the front got a sinister grin
Careen down highway 666
We wanna go, crush the slow
As the pitchfork bends, the needles grow

My arms are wheels
My legs are wheels
My blood is pavement

We're gonna ride to the Abbey of Thelema
To the Abbey of Thelema
Blood is pavement

The grill in the front is my sinister gun
Bugs in my teeth make me sick sick sick
The objects may be larger
Than they appear in the mirror

My arms are wheels
My legs are wheels
My blood is pavement

We're gonna ride to the Abbey of Thelema
To the Abbey of Thelema
Blood is pavement

When you ride you're ridden
When you ride you're ridden
I am fueled by filth and fury
Do what I will, I will hurry there, there

My arms are wheels
My legs are wheels
Blood is pavement
Blood is pavement


"Go home to your mother!
Doesn't she ever watch you?
Tell her this isn't some communist daycare center,
Tell your mother I hate her
Tell your mother I hate you!"


"I want my son off of your mailing list,
I have already contacted the post office about your pornographic material that has been received in the mail,
My next stop will be my attorney,
I do not want this number called anymore and I do not want anything delivered to my address,
If I receive anything else from this band or this [group?], my next phone call will be my attorney and you will be contacted,
Thank you and goodbye"
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Cover art for Misery Machine lyrics by Marilyn Manson

The silence at hte end of the track isn't really silence. If you turn up your volume up all the way you hear ringing. then it's answered and you hear a clip form a movie who's name i can't recall at the moment

@alfrin his horn went beep beep beep?

that's the creepiest part ever to me lol. marilyn manson was awesome. marilyn manson + trent reznor was even better.

Cover art for Misery Machine lyrics by Marilyn Manson

Many levels to this song. First the title..it is a play of Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Machine where the gang rode in. The Abbey of Thelema was Aleister Crowley's legendary academy of the magickal arts, where people partipated in drug orgies and debauchery. This song is another song about Social Darwinism (as is alot of Manson's songs) about how the weak get crushed by the strong. The "strong" in this song is the car and he is crushing the slow or "weak" It's about standing up for yourself and not letting any weakminded people get in your way. "Do what thou will shall be the whole of the law..."

I've listened to this song for some time.

Just now caught the Aleister crowley reference.

Good show chap.

Cover art for Misery Machine lyrics by Marilyn Manson

I don't know if it has any relevance, but I have some rarity cd thing with a live performance of this song. Before it, a voice(presumably Marilyn's, but it doesn't really sound like him) says:

On our way over here, we were driving in our van, and we saw a girl on the side of the road. So we pulled over, cause she was hitchhiking, and I told her, "Didn't your mom ever tell you not to hitchhike?". She said "No." Then I leaned in real close to her and I grabbed her hair, and whispered in her ear, "This won't hurt a bit"

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The "Go home to your mother" rant at the end is from the film Desperate Living, directed by John Water.

The Phone message is an actual recording from an angry parent that had called the then-in-effect Marilyn Manson Family Intervention Hotline phone number.

@marquicerise I know that

@marquicerise I know that

@marquicerise go home to your mother! doesn't she ever want you? tell her this isn't some communist day care center. tell your mother i hate her! tell your mother I! hate! you! haha. sounds like a great flick.

Cover art for Misery Machine lyrics by Marilyn Manson

Awesome song. I'm such a huge fan of this album, easily one of the most uinderrated albums ever. Everyone thinks this album sucks because it's so rough, but that's what makes it so good. It's so undeniably raw, you have no choice but to ROWYCO!!!!

Cover art for Misery Machine lyrics by Marilyn Manson

it is necessary that you know the "go home to your mother" rant is from Desperate Living.

Cover art for Misery Machine lyrics by Marilyn Manson

The end of the song (after the 5/6 minutes of silence) remember me of once when a friend's mom called my mother because of the "pornography" I was sending to him, she sounded almost like that.

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Cover art for Misery Machine lyrics by Marilyn Manson

his horn went beep beep beep!

Cover art for Misery Machine lyrics by Marilyn Manson

Oops. Ignore annoying double post? no edit. His horn went beep beep beep = The platters song beep beep i don't know if that's sampled from the song, but it's lyrics from the song.

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Cover art for Misery Machine lyrics by Marilyn Manson

The end of the song is left out. The part where some mother is yelling at a child, and then when a phone is ringing for a really long time until some mother leaves a message about how she will call authorities if they send her son any more pornography.