I think scd2104 was close to what it meant. I believe that this song, like many other songs by Manson, was inspired by Evan(she's a girl), whom he met when she was nineteen, so he was much older than her, not unlike the relationship between Hades and Persephone. They started to date and he brought her into his life.
"Jackhammer eyes never thought you'd see the asphalt
Crack, crack, crack like a black eggshell"
I believe that his life is the crack in the asphalt that she fell through, and when she fell she got trapped and absorbed into his life.
In this metaphor, she is Persephone and he is Hades, and the rest of the world that believes he is a bad influence are the Olympic gods.
I'm surprised I haven't seen more on the subject of Persephone here. Manson seems to be suggesting that any woman he gets involved with is destined to be damaged by him, but that this current one (or maybe imaginary one) is being let go before this happens because he is changing and becoming more aware of what goes on inside him. He now realizes that he has been looking "above" when he should have been looking "below," and that when he looks deep inside he finds that he has no heart. Only an empty place, a void. When he calls...
I'm surprised I haven't seen more on the subject of Persephone here. Manson seems to be suggesting that any woman he gets involved with is destined to be damaged by him, but that this current one (or maybe imaginary one) is being let go before this happens because he is changing and becoming more aware of what goes on inside him. He now realizes that he has been looking "above" when he should have been looking "below," and that when he looks deep inside he finds that he has no heart. Only an empty place, a void. When he calls the Persephone story a "marketing scheme," I think he is saying that the original story was just designed to sell patriarchy -- the practice of keeping a woman against her will / against her best interests just because, as a man, it suited you.
I think scd2104 was close to what it meant. I believe that this song, like many other songs by Manson, was inspired by Evan(she's a girl), whom he met when she was nineteen, so he was much older than her, not unlike the relationship between Hades and Persephone. They started to date and he brought her into his life. "Jackhammer eyes never thought you'd see the asphalt Crack, crack, crack like a black eggshell" I believe that his life is the crack in the asphalt that she fell through, and when she fell she got trapped and absorbed into his life. In this metaphor, she is Persephone and he is Hades, and the rest of the world that believes he is a bad influence are the Olympic gods.
I'm surprised I haven't seen more on the subject of Persephone here. Manson seems to be suggesting that any woman he gets involved with is destined to be damaged by him, but that this current one (or maybe imaginary one) is being let go before this happens because he is changing and becoming more aware of what goes on inside him. He now realizes that he has been looking "above" when he should have been looking "below," and that when he looks deep inside he finds that he has no heart. Only an empty place, a void. When he calls...
I'm surprised I haven't seen more on the subject of Persephone here. Manson seems to be suggesting that any woman he gets involved with is destined to be damaged by him, but that this current one (or maybe imaginary one) is being let go before this happens because he is changing and becoming more aware of what goes on inside him. He now realizes that he has been looking "above" when he should have been looking "below," and that when he looks deep inside he finds that he has no heart. Only an empty place, a void. When he calls the Persephone story a "marketing scheme," I think he is saying that the original story was just designed to sell patriarchy -- the practice of keeping a woman against her will / against her best interests just because, as a man, it suited you.