You and Me and the Devil Makes 3 Lyrics

Lyric discussion by toomuchtimeonmyhands 

I’m just like rolling a stone up A hill in the Hades

Sisyphus was condemned in Greek mythology to rolling a stone up a hill in the Hades for all eternity as punishment for his deceitful acts on Earth in Greek mythology.

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Hell-flavored, I've got my mood poisoning You must be something that I hate

Almost verbatim from the film Wild Palms:

Harry Wyckoff: You have a flu? Eli: Small case of mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.

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“If we get in bed someone will fall in love / you and me and the devil makes 3” are lines Manson wrote down on hotel notepaper and the starting point for the song. The devil, he told Jodowrsky, is essentially his dark side. In O Brother Where Art Thou the sirens sing “you and me and the devil makes 3” to lure men.”

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Watch out your face, my sperm’s cold as ice

A reference to the old Christian myth of the Medieval times of how the Devil was said to have cold sperm particularly the witchcraft confession of Slyviane de la Plaine (1616), alleged to have had sex with the Devil, who wrote “The devil’s member was like that of a stallion and when it penetrated it was as cold as ice, as was his sperm.” In the film Brother Of Sleep, one character says “they say that the devil has cold sperm”.

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