I listened to this the night I got home from watching The Passion of The Christ in the movie theater. When I got home I wrote a very dark string quartet song inspired by the movie. Then I started to feel like I always feel when I'm discouraged by religion. And I remembered some of the words of this song and listened to it. I think that since this night (that I also made a cover of the song), I've known what the song was about.
Alright, here's my explanation of what I think it means sentance by sentance...
"when you wish upon a star
don't let yourself fall, fall in too hard"
This is him acknowledging how people take religious hopes and hates too far until they are in this whole other world.
"I fell into you and I'm on my back"
He tried to get his mind to think this way, but he realizes at this point that it did nothing for him other than waste his time and energy when he could have been doing something productive for someone else or himself.
"an insect decaying in your little trap"
He feels like religous people look down on honest people, like as if they were expendable "insects". The religious types tend to trap the "insects" into an "I'm better than you, you are going to hell" dellusion.
"I squirm into you, now I'm in your gut"
At this point, he's realizing that people might be actually listening.
"I fell into you, now I'm in a rut"
Exposure feels awesome, he is very excited, the people that can't get enough of him make him feel more confident, and the people that hate him hear:
"I lift you up like the sweetest angel,"
He can be nice to them, or...
"...I'll tear you down like a whore."
He can be destructive to them.
"I will bury your god in my warm spit,
you'll be deformed in your porn"
If they wanna preach hate, let them preach hate, he doesn't have to respect it. Let people see them for what they are.
"rock star, yeah (you're such a dirty, dirty)
rock star, yeah (dirty, dirty, dirty)"
"Jesus was the first celebrity. He kind of inspired the whole rock star ethic."
—Marilyn Manson (from St. Petersburg Times)
"you eat up my heart and all the little parts"
it really hits his heart hard that people are this mean to eachother. And yeah, it also hurts the rest of the parts on his body, which don't seem to matter as much to him.
"your star is so sharp
it leaves me jagged holes"
The religious folks try to glorify this terrible message that they are convinced that god has so much that it has hurt people who are like, "what the hell is going on here?"
"I make myself sick just to poison you
if I can't have you then no one will"
I think he's speaking in 3rd mocking what a religous person is programmed to do.
"you are the one I want and what I want is so unreal"
He knows his mission is to try to take care of this growing hate that is inspired greatly by this reality that just isn't real to him.
"i'm such a dirty Rock star yeah..."
This is his message to parents, saying "this is how you feel..."
"(I am the one you want and the one you want is so unreal)"
he's saying, again, to parents, "I will now be your target of hate, because you think what I say is not about something that is real"
I listened to this the night I got home from watching The Passion of The Christ in the movie theater. When I got home I wrote a very dark string quartet song inspired by the movie. Then I started to feel like I always feel when I'm discouraged by religion. And I remembered some of the words of this song and listened to it. I think that since this night (that I also made a cover of the song), I've known what the song was about.
Alright, here's my explanation of what I think it means sentance by sentance...
"when you wish upon a star don't let yourself fall, fall in too hard"
This is him acknowledging how people take religious hopes and hates too far until they are in this whole other world.
"I fell into you and I'm on my back"
He tried to get his mind to think this way, but he realizes at this point that it did nothing for him other than waste his time and energy when he could have been doing something productive for someone else or himself.
"an insect decaying in your little trap"
He feels like religous people look down on honest people, like as if they were expendable "insects". The religious types tend to trap the "insects" into an "I'm better than you, you are going to hell" dellusion.
"I squirm into you, now I'm in your gut"
At this point, he's realizing that people might be actually listening.
"I fell into you, now I'm in a rut"
Exposure feels awesome, he is very excited, the people that can't get enough of him make him feel more confident, and the people that hate him hear:
"I lift you up like the sweetest angel,"
He can be nice to them, or...
"...I'll tear you down like a whore."
He can be destructive to them.
"I will bury your god in my warm spit, you'll be deformed in your porn"
If they wanna preach hate, let them preach hate, he doesn't have to respect it. Let people see them for what they are.
"rock star, yeah (you're such a dirty, dirty) rock star, yeah (dirty, dirty, dirty)"
"Jesus was the first celebrity. He kind of inspired the whole rock star ethic." —Marilyn Manson (from St. Petersburg Times)
"you eat up my heart and all the little parts"
it really hits his heart hard that people are this mean to eachother. And yeah, it also hurts the rest of the parts on his body, which don't seem to matter as much to him.
"your star is so sharp it leaves me jagged holes"
The religious folks try to glorify this terrible message that they are convinced that god has so much that it has hurt people who are like, "what the hell is going on here?"
"I make myself sick just to poison you if I can't have you then no one will"
I think he's speaking in 3rd mocking what a religous person is programmed to do.
"you are the one I want and what I want is so unreal"
He knows his mission is to try to take care of this growing hate that is inspired greatly by this reality that just isn't real to him.
"i'm such a dirty Rock star yeah..."
This is his message to parents, saying "this is how you feel..."
"(I am the one you want and the one you want is so unreal)"
he's saying, again, to parents, "I will now be your target of hate, because you think what I say is not about something that is real"