Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Nowhereman 

Cover art for Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis) lyrics by Marilyn Manson

Spot on with the analysis guys.

Echo's of Anne Bradstreets poems, 'pitiful anonymous' meaning that he isn't a threat and that maybe the US should look beyond the easy scapegoat. Shakepeare as a scapegoat could just be a reference to poets or artists ie. Manson and how they get blamed for societies ills when all they really do is point them out.

Manson is one of the greatest songwriters since dylan, although his lyrics are more obscure and harder to interpret.

'Booth and Oswald' two famous assasin's. Maybe an assasin is what society is crying out for, maybe though these assasins were part of the totalitarian government and its seizure of control from those who would present a threat. Whatever they are both key figures in US history and Manson, being the intelligent bloke he is, understands and can highlight this.

Gotta love it, all his work is a challenge to white, christian, hypocritical, consumer based, decadent american society.

Wonder how many times I spelt soceity wrong?

Matt