This is one of the two songs that Manson wrote on christmas (the other is If I Was Your Vampire, in 2006). He wrote it in 2008, after cutting himself 158 times with a razor blade for every unanswered call from his girlfriend at that moment, Evan Rachel Wood. He said:
"The record is really about the metaphor that exists in all great and historic literature: Lucifer falling from heaven, losing his wings, and wanting to fall in love with someone who is mortal. [It's about] the inability to find love, so you want to destroy everyone else's love. that's the story of my life. By the time I got to Into the Fire, I thought that was the last song on the record. It has a very epic musical ending with one of the greatest guitar solos in music. Twiggy blew me away; it made me cry. I thought this was the way the record has to end, this is the way my life is, at the edge of no real hope. I've become a total cold-hearted monster..."
Maybe the message in this song is that is better to be alone or on your own, than in bad company. Especially in the pre-chorus:
"It's better to push something when it's slipping than to risk being dragged down"
I think the chorus is the Wood's point of view about this:
If you want to hit bottom
Don't bother to try taking me with you
I won't answer if you call
she doesn't want to be in his deppresive state with him. And "I won't answer if you call" it's an obvious reference to the 158 calls.
another line that makes us understand the song is:
"You'll never be good enough to even look upon"
he's telling her that she will never realize how he is suffering, and that she will never care about that.
This is one of the two songs that Manson wrote on christmas (the other is If I Was Your Vampire, in 2006). He wrote it in 2008, after cutting himself 158 times with a razor blade for every unanswered call from his girlfriend at that moment, Evan Rachel Wood. He said:
"The record is really about the metaphor that exists in all great and historic literature: Lucifer falling from heaven, losing his wings, and wanting to fall in love with someone who is mortal. [It's about] the inability to find love, so you want to destroy everyone else's love. that's the story of my life. By the time I got to Into the Fire, I thought that was the last song on the record. It has a very epic musical ending with one of the greatest guitar solos in music. Twiggy blew me away; it made me cry. I thought this was the way the record has to end, this is the way my life is, at the edge of no real hope. I've become a total cold-hearted monster..."
Maybe the message in this song is that is better to be alone or on your own, than in bad company. Especially in the pre-chorus:
"It's better to push something when it's slipping than to risk being dragged down"
I think the chorus is the Wood's point of view about this:
If you want to hit bottom Don't bother to try taking me with you I won't answer if you call
she doesn't want to be in his deppresive state with him. And "I won't answer if you call" it's an obvious reference to the 158 calls.
another line that makes us understand the song is:
"You'll never be good enough to even look upon"
he's telling her that she will never realize how he is suffering, and that she will never care about that.