Majority of you are all incredibly wrong lol.. it is late so i will keep this short
the whole concept of the album is about evan, why would this song be about dita? lol..
manson has stated this in interviews and spoken directly about this song. it can be interpreted as if you choose, but literally has NO relation with religion/god what so ever.
'15', as mentioned.. is from his birthday 1/5. Hence 'but today is my birthday'. As the break up happened late last year and this album started being recorded at the beginning of this year... it probably was in fact written on his birthday lol, but im only guessing. The basis of '15' being a reoccuring theme throughout MA was because of the criticism and attention Manson received from a guy recieting The reflecting god lyrics in his suicide note (track 15 on AS - the album before MA)
He has said the album is about overcoming the pain and anguish of the break up, finding happiness after falling from grace. He credits this song to saving his life as it is the time he stopped looking back and moved forward. 'yestrday everything i thought i believed in died... BUT today is my birthday' - moving on and finding something to be happy over. he has also said each song is played in the order thy were written
closing lines of track 1. 'and ill love you if you wont make me stop'
closing lines of this track. 'not letting you win wont satisfy me. ill teach you about loss'
long story short, he credits this song as the most important because he stopped trying to change the past and started looking forward.
For anyone that actually cares or intends to understand Mansons work instead of trying to break down each and every one of his lines to make wrong conclusions. http://www.nachtkabarett.com
Whilst SOME of his work in the last 2 albums are a bit of an exception as they are based on his emotional dealings over females/relationships... Barely ANY of his work is intended to be brokn down and interpreted literally word for word. He thrives off the media and stupid people who do as his whole career has been based on negative media attention.... all the people who think an album like MA is about drug use.... haha
Thank you for setting things straight, I agree the portion of these comments are rather incorrect. However a lot of them are true at the same time. Manson is his own indevidual, while the antichrist idea was a very interesting interpretation, I think he's grown far beyond that. That album came out 14 years ago, that's a long time to change a man's perspectives. I don't think this song was even slightly about god what so ever. The idea of the number 15 does refer to his birthday (just like in the song.) and, as another person said, manson is...
Thank you for setting things straight, I agree the portion of these comments are rather incorrect. However a lot of them are true at the same time. Manson is his own indevidual, while the antichrist idea was a very interesting interpretation, I think he's grown far beyond that. That album came out 14 years ago, that's a long time to change a man's perspectives. I don't think this song was even slightly about god what so ever. The idea of the number 15 does refer to his birthday (just like in the song.) and, as another person said, manson is a satanist, a LaVeyan Satanist but a satanist none the less. For anyone who knows much about satanic holidays, ones own birthday is to be celibrated in the highest of ways. It wouldnt surprise me if the lyrics "Yesterday everything I thought I believed in died, but today is my birthday" refered to the fact that he'd jsut been devorced, but he's finally gotten over it. The song continues to say "I don't need you, I'll say it to myself." This makes me almost certain that he's speaking directly to his ex-wife. As it continues, he says "Anyone with half a soul will hear then and they'll never leave me." When he said that, I believe he implies that his ex-wife had no soul, in his eyes, atleast.In regards to the rest of the song, well, I'd love to continue, but unfortunately I think I've already made far too large of a wall of text. For all of you who were interested enough to read this far into my response, I thank you.
Majority of you are all incredibly wrong lol.. it is late so i will keep this short
the whole concept of the album is about evan, why would this song be about dita? lol.. manson has stated this in interviews and spoken directly about this song. it can be interpreted as if you choose, but literally has NO relation with religion/god what so ever.
'15', as mentioned.. is from his birthday 1/5. Hence 'but today is my birthday'. As the break up happened late last year and this album started being recorded at the beginning of this year... it probably was in fact written on his birthday lol, but im only guessing. The basis of '15' being a reoccuring theme throughout MA was because of the criticism and attention Manson received from a guy recieting The reflecting god lyrics in his suicide note (track 15 on AS - the album before MA)
He has said the album is about overcoming the pain and anguish of the break up, finding happiness after falling from grace. He credits this song to saving his life as it is the time he stopped looking back and moved forward. 'yestrday everything i thought i believed in died... BUT today is my birthday' - moving on and finding something to be happy over. he has also said each song is played in the order thy were written closing lines of track 1. 'and ill love you if you wont make me stop' closing lines of this track. 'not letting you win wont satisfy me. ill teach you about loss'
long story short, he credits this song as the most important because he stopped trying to change the past and started looking forward.
For anyone that actually cares or intends to understand Mansons work instead of trying to break down each and every one of his lines to make wrong conclusions. http://www.nachtkabarett.com Whilst SOME of his work in the last 2 albums are a bit of an exception as they are based on his emotional dealings over females/relationships... Barely ANY of his work is intended to be brokn down and interpreted literally word for word. He thrives off the media and stupid people who do as his whole career has been based on negative media attention.... all the people who think an album like MA is about drug use.... haha
Thank you for setting things straight, I agree the portion of these comments are rather incorrect. However a lot of them are true at the same time. Manson is his own indevidual, while the antichrist idea was a very interesting interpretation, I think he's grown far beyond that. That album came out 14 years ago, that's a long time to change a man's perspectives. I don't think this song was even slightly about god what so ever. The idea of the number 15 does refer to his birthday (just like in the song.) and, as another person said, manson is...
Thank you for setting things straight, I agree the portion of these comments are rather incorrect. However a lot of them are true at the same time. Manson is his own indevidual, while the antichrist idea was a very interesting interpretation, I think he's grown far beyond that. That album came out 14 years ago, that's a long time to change a man's perspectives. I don't think this song was even slightly about god what so ever. The idea of the number 15 does refer to his birthday (just like in the song.) and, as another person said, manson is a satanist, a LaVeyan Satanist but a satanist none the less. For anyone who knows much about satanic holidays, ones own birthday is to be celibrated in the highest of ways. It wouldnt surprise me if the lyrics "Yesterday everything I thought I believed in died, but today is my birthday" refered to the fact that he'd jsut been devorced, but he's finally gotten over it. The song continues to say "I don't need you, I'll say it to myself." This makes me almost certain that he's speaking directly to his ex-wife. As it continues, he says "Anyone with half a soul will hear then and they'll never leave me." When he said that, I believe he implies that his ex-wife had no soul, in his eyes, atleast.In regards to the rest of the song, well, I'd love to continue, but unfortunately I think I've already made far too large of a wall of text. For all of you who were interested enough to read this far into my response, I thank you.