Adding to what "laurelin" wrote, "This is only a game" appears in Lolita as an entry in Humbert's diary after having seduced Lolita (anotehr one of Manson's phoning it in moments, Humbert first has sex with Lolita at 6am.
The trees in the courtyard
Are painted in blood
So I’ve heard
She hangs the headless
Upside down to drain
In Invitation to a Beheading Cincinnatus C. is to be beheaded in a courtyard which he knows of but has never seen himself explaining the "so I've heard". The hanging upside down to drain may be inspired by this from Nabokov's Information to a Transformation "the butterfly creeps out -- and in its turn hangs down from the twig to dry." But maybe not.
There are some unlisted lyrics in the bridge to the song - Manson's whispering when reversed says "I hear voices in my head" and below this is a chopped verse at the end of which the following can made out:
Some people expect
Sometimes it's hard to see
I expected myself to but I -- didn't think
It's an execution.
Adding to what "laurelin" wrote, "This is only a game" appears in Lolita as an entry in Humbert's diary after having seduced Lolita (anotehr one of Manson's phoning it in moments, Humbert first has sex with Lolita at 6am.
The trees in the courtyard Are painted in blood So I’ve heard She hangs the headless Upside down to drain
In Invitation to a Beheading Cincinnatus C. is to be beheaded in a courtyard which he knows of but has never seen himself explaining the "so I've heard". The hanging upside down to drain may be inspired by this from Nabokov's Information to a Transformation "the butterfly creeps out -- and in its turn hangs down from the twig to dry." But maybe not.
There are some unlisted lyrics in the bridge to the song - Manson's whispering when reversed says "I hear voices in my head" and below this is a chopped verse at the end of which the following can made out:
Some people expect Sometimes it's hard to see I expected myself to but I -- didn't think It's an execution.