Hey, Cruel World... Lyrics

Lyric discussion by TryingToBeHuman 

Cover art for Hey, Cruel World... lyrics by Marilyn Manson

"Creator, preserver, destroyer; ask which one I am"

☰ = Creator / Sky / Father / Strong

☷ = Preserver / Earth / Mother / Devoted (Yielding)

☳ = Destroyer / Thunder / Inciting Movement or Change

"What I’m going to take is the fact that life is all about change, and the villain is always the catalyst, the villain is always the person who creates something different in the story. I don’t mean “villain” in the sense that people might define it as the “bad guy,” I’m not saying the “bad guy.”

When I say the villain, I mean in the traditional sense like in Macbeth, like in anything else. The hero doesn’t do anything in any story and I didn’t have to go to school to learn this, it was me being a fan of literature and film. The hero doesn’t do anything different. The hero always stays the same, there’s no character arc, he’s always the hero. The villain is the person who has the chance to change something. They might break the rules, but that’s the thing, sometimes if you don’t fucking break the rules, you’re not going to save anything, you’re not going to change anything."

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