Great Big White World

MissVladTepes17 and Trinixy, I love your interpretations. The song describes Manson as a spaceman, looking down on Earth, and seeing a revolting and depressing sight which is our destroyed world. Everyone is mechanical, self-destructive and hollow. And instead of doing something about it, they wait for God to do something about it. Instead of making the world a better place, they pray just like insects to God to make it better, and all the while the world is just dying. By saying 'I'm not attached to your world' Manson is also saying he feels alienated from everyone and everything aorund him, and that he doesn't want to take part in the murder of this planet any longer. Moving further along, by saying 'It's a great big white world, we are drained of our colors' he's calling the world fake, lifeless, ugly and empty. I like this song a lot, it's a song for everyone. If people could only try to understand it, they'd learn to start helping themselves before it's too late for all of existence.

Well, the album is divided into two "halves": Marilyn Manson and Omega and the Mechanical Animals. The Manson half, or as Wikipedia calls it, "Alpha", is about all the things wrong in the world from when he falls to earth to when the Omega character, or from the Triptych, Adam, becomes disassociative and like in Holy Wood, kills himself. Meanwhile, Omega's "half" shows the reason for things gone wrong: the celebrities and television. If you have seen the videos, excluding Rock Is Dead, it shows his crashing to Earth (Dope Show), along with the self-sufficiency of celebrities, it shows how obsessed everyone in this world is with television (Drugs), and Coma White shows not only a prequel to the subject matter of Holy Wood, but the crucifixion of Marilyn F. Kennedy. In this context, it is saying we all have someone who is so influential, they act as a "Messiah", in this case, Omega and his songs about consumption, drugs, and sex.

About how shallow the world is. Love this song

The first verse seems like all the things he was yearning for in the beginning are not greater once he's close to them...being a spaceman now he burns up (out) and it wasn't as glittery as he thought stardom would be (or any place higher than the norm for the general public)

and as unsatisfactory as the star studded life is, he doesn't miss the lacking world he left behind, where all there is is pain and digression.

The corus... Everything is white...everything. so he's pointing out how monotonous people are, cities are all the same, everywhere is white (the default standard form). We don't know what love is anymore really, we hate ouselves trying to be better, we hate other people, not even giving them a chance...people don't even try to make new friends really anymore. He's in a state of discomfort and isn't being looked after by anyone. Wishing that this girl was queen... maybe she'll be able to fix everything wrong with this world... all he can do is wish and hope though...that's all he can say.

Hell froze over...so something that wasn't supposed to happen happened, wether he wanted it to or not. Thr rose a simbol of love or friendish is hurting him, the thing that held those friends is broken and they're all falling away. and the rest is his usual jesus mary part, but what's interesting about it is he's saying it the way it didn't happen, saying taht even if jesus wasn't born people would still be praying... like first nature... like a praying mantis does automatically.

and no matter which way you cut it, the world is ugly now, all the same, mindless, no evolution... ugly.

in reality nothing has color sop manson is saying that by accepting that things have color you are taking away their true colors. maybe he's saying that in his imagination he wished he could live in space where not much of anything matters but because his whole life he was taught that things like color exist even in his wildest fantasy he still can't escape reality and is burnt like a moth by the stars. a great bug white world reminds me of the idea that if you shed all of the ideas that you were taught and actually did whatever you wanted (which in my cue would by taking everything and destroying it) then the world would become your canvas. the second to last stanza reminds me that even though you may not believe in god you still may hope to some degree that there something outside of your power that can change your situation. the irony of it is that if it were the god that they taught you existed that was listen you might pray that he would die or never have existed at all so you pray like an insect or a parasite that is feeding off reality rather than being what you could have been if you were never jaded by these lies

I really love this song. I think this song is about how terrible the world is."our world is so fucking gone" It really is one of my favorite manson songs...

You are all taking it really literally. This song, and most of the album if you think about it is about Conformity aswell as drugs.

Because it's a great big white world and we are drained of our colors (All our individuality is taken away)

We used to love ourselves, we used to love another (A reference to everyone being exactly the same)

damn good song just like all of mansons songs

first time i heard this song i thought it was about drugs becasue i misheard they lyrics, this is what i thought i heard "how much did you take? my prescription is low, wish u were clean, just for one day, in a world thats so white what else can i say" this made perfect sense to me, wishing the person was clean an off of drugs, an a world thats so white, world thats full of coke but as i learned when i read the REAL lyrics this song has nothing to do with drugs

I think the line "we used to love ourselves, we used to love one another" means that we used to accept and love everyone for who they were/are (love thy neighbor) and we used to appreciate our lives and didn't do self-destructive things.