The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
Do you always
Have to hire actors
To play the devils
That talk me
Out of my
Sui-sites?
You're just a ring tone
That happens when
You get sick enough
To call the one
With bullet holes
Bullet holes for eyes
Fall on your knees
I hear the horrid voices
Of someone else's angels
Fall on your knees
I hear the horrid voices
Of someone else's angels
I broken open the box
When I spoke the spell
And I became
An entrance wound
To your bedroom grave
And I was paid
With the shadow of consensual rape
Your ransom note
Is quoted by
Your death and
Birth certificates
And all of your love
And all of your love letters
Read just like my will
Fall on your knees
I hear the horrid voices
Of someone else's angels
Fall on your knees
I hear the horrid voices
Of someone else's angels
I don't have to see
To know that murderers
Are getting prettier
Every day
I don't have to see
To know that murderers
Are getting prettier
Every day
I don't have to see
To know that murderers
Are getting prettier
Every day
Fall on your knees
I hear the horrid voices
Of someone else's angels
Fall on your knees
I hear the horrid voices
Of someone else's angels
Fall on your knees
I hear the horrid voices
Of someone else's angels
Have to hire actors
To play the devils
That talk me
Out of my
Sui-sites?
You're just a ring tone
That happens when
You get sick enough
To call the one
With bullet holes
Bullet holes for eyes
Fall on your knees
I hear the horrid voices
Of someone else's angels
Fall on your knees
I hear the horrid voices
Of someone else's angels
I broken open the box
When I spoke the spell
And I became
An entrance wound
To your bedroom grave
And I was paid
With the shadow of consensual rape
Your ransom note
Is quoted by
Your death and
Birth certificates
And all of your love
And all of your love letters
Read just like my will
Fall on your knees
I hear the horrid voices
Of someone else's angels
Fall on your knees
I hear the horrid voices
Of someone else's angels
I don't have to see
To know that murderers
Are getting prettier
Every day
I don't have to see
To know that murderers
Are getting prettier
Every day
I don't have to see
To know that murderers
Are getting prettier
Every day
Fall on your knees
I hear the horrid voices
Of someone else's angels
Fall on your knees
I hear the horrid voices
Of someone else's angels
Fall on your knees
I hear the horrid voices
Of someone else's angels
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Murderers Are Getting Prettier Every Day Lyrics as written by Chris Alan Vrenna Brian Hugh Warner
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Actually, going over the album again this song doesn't seem to have anything really to do with a woman.
Its actually about his transformation, and what he's changing from.
This seems to be about how she used him, and he's moving on from her.
Heh. Disregard this, and it should be deleted... It was a first impression on the first day I read them. There have been interviews since then. d:
What interniews? I can't find them and I want to know what does this fucking song meant to Manson when he wrote it :D
"I hear the horrid voices of someone else’s angels"
what you find good, i find bad
"I broken open the box when I spoke the spell and I became an entrance wound to your bedroom grave, and I was paid with the shadow of consensual rape Your ransom note is quoted by, your death and birth certificates and all of your love, and all of your love letters read just like my will"
he said something, or something was said that started some sort of conflict/ he goes back and forth making references to one thing is another. he talks about how everything is relative to the person and some peoples views will be destroyed along the way
This proves that his BV album has nothing to do with a girl:
[VF Daily] How did you come to record a cover of “You’re So Vain” with Johnny Depp?
[Manson] Because [of] where he’s at in his life. This record isn’t about anybody. The previous ones might have been perceived as being about this girl or that girl–and that’s what art was never supposed to be about. When I listen to my favorite songs, Bowie and the Beatles, I don’t think about who the fuck they were with when they wrote ’em. I just think about how it makes me feel.
Yeah, it does. He said this album is about his feelings and his personal transformation. He's also said this album is what he calls the "grandest concept of all" because of how vague and abstract it is meaning-wise. So, people can hear the album and relate it to their own personal transformation.
Yeah, it does. He said this album is about his feelings and his personal transformation. He's also said this album is what he calls the "grandest concept of all" because of how vague and abstract it is meaning-wise. So, people can hear the album and relate it to their own personal transformation.
cops and goverment.simple.
Very wicked song and among his most menacing lyrics. It sounds like he has been betrayed by someone who he thought cared for him and now he wants vengeance.