This is a painting done by Manson - isn't the symbolism just beautiful?
I take it to be a criticism of Christian-based thinking in our world. Unthinking people who all look the same covering up things that don't need to be covered. They're all blending into each other and they don't mean anything.
Marilyn Manson is an extremist, yes, but if one chooses to look deeper into his message it is very intelligent and well thought out. You cannot tell from the surface what his meaning is, and by this he may be doing detriment to himself, or he may simply be choosing to scare off those who were not open minded enough to look deeper in the first place. Not that anyone has any obligation to.
I have found that while Manson emanates a black aura of pessimism, and is indeed pessimistic about humanity in general a lot of the time, his words are essentially a cry for help in what he sees as a world that has been perhaps irreperably damaged. Thus his bleak-seeming words can be taken as hopeful, though Manson himself may not necessarily expect anyone to respond to his projections as passionately as he has put them forth.
Marilyn Manson is a sun sign Capricorn. His birthdate is January 5, 1969 - making his moon in Leo, I believe (for those of you who are as interested in Astrology as am I).
Here are some of Manson's words. The ones deemed most important by me.
These first ones are from his 2000 album, HOLY WOOD. On this album he focuses on Christianity once again, linking it to mass media and the ever-popular herd mentality that he views most of humanity as having. He uses guns as an important symbol on this album.
GODEATGOD
the only smiling are you dolls that I made
but you are plastic and so are your brains
Dear God if you were alive
you know we'd kill you
THE FIGHT SONG
Nothing suffocates you more than
the passsing of everyday human events
Isolation is the oxygen mask you make
But I'm not a slave to a god
that doesn't exist
I'm not a slave to a world
that doesn't give a shit
And when we were good
you just closed your eyes
So when we are bad
we'll scar your minds
fight, fight, fight, fight
the death of one is a tragedy
but the death of millions is just a statistic.
KING KILL 33(degree symbol here)
Is this what you wanted?
This is what you get.
Turned all your lives into this shit.
You fucked yourselves and you
raised these sheep
the blue and the withered seeds
you will reap.
You never gave me a chance to be me
or even a fucking chance just to be.
But I have to show you that
you played a role
The world that hates me has taken its toll
but now I have finally taken control.
You wanted so bad to make me this thing
DISPOSABLE TEENS
I never really hated the one true god
but the god of the people I hated
TARGET AUDIENCE
Sorry your Sunday smiles are rusty nails
and your crucifixion commercials failed
but I'm just a pitiful anonymous
And I see all the young believers
Your target audience
I see all the old deceivers
and we all just sing their song
"the valley of death we are free
your father's your prison you see"
you're just a copy of an imitation
CRUCI-FICTION IN SPACE
this is your creation
the atom of Eden
was a bomb
this is evolution
the monkey
the man
and then the gun
THE NOBODIES
Some children died the other day
we fed machines and then we prayed
puked up and down in morbid faith
you should have seen the ratings that day...
LAMB OF GOD
it took three days for him to die
so the born again could buy the serial rights
Nothing's going to change the world
BORN AGAIN
the valley of the dolls is
the valley of the dead
BURNING FLAG
They want to sell it out
buy it up
and dumb it down
a good god is hard to find
VALENTINE'S DAY
I saw that pregnant girl today
she didn't know that it was dead inside
even though it was alive
some of us are really born to die
THE FALL OF ADAM
The Abraham Lincoln town cars
arrive to dispose of our king and queen
and the orchestrated dramatic new scenes
for Celebritarian(TM) needs
When one world ends
something else begins
but without a scream
just a whisper because we
just start it all over again...
The following artful words come from Manson's 1998 album, MECHANICAL ANIMALS, on which he satirizes Western society's faults. He names us all as Mechanical Animals, singing that we have all become the same; mechanical, boring, dependent, shallow non-animals. As always, there is the thread of the harmful and "hollow" God ever-present on this album.
GREAT BIG WHITE WORLD
the world is so ugly now
because it's a great big white world
and we are drained of our colors
we used to love ourselves,
we used to love one another
all my stitches itch
my prescription's low, I wish you
were queen
just for today
in a world so white what else could I say?
POSTHUMAN
god is just a statistic
god is a number you cannot count to
you are posthuman and hardwired
come white:
"all that glitters is cold, all that glitters is cold"
MECHANICAL ANIMALS
we were neurophobic
and perfect
the day that we lost our souls
maybe we weren't so human
if we cry we will rust
you were automatic and
as hollow as the 'o' in god
ROCK IS DEAD
all simple monkeys with alien babies
amphetamines for boys
crucifixes for ladies
sampled and soulless
worldwide and real webbed
you sell all the living
for more safer dead
anything to belong
your sex and your dope is all that we're fed
god is in the tv
build a new god
to medicate and to ape
sell us ersatz
dressed up and real fake
I DON'T LIKE THE DRUGS [BUT THE DRUGS LIKE ME]
norm life baby
"we're white and oh so hetero and
our sex is missionary."
norm life baby
"we're quitters and we're sober
our confessions will be televised."
you and I are underdosed and we're ready to fall
raised to be stupid, taught to be nothing at all.
norm life baby
"our god is white and unforgiving
we're piss tested and we're praying."
FUNDAMENTALLY LOATHSOME
I want to wake up in your
white, white sun
I want to wake up in your world
with no pain
but I'll just suffer in a hope to die someday
while you are numb all of the way
when you hate it you know you can feel but
when you love it you know it's not real
and I am resigned to this wicked fucking world
on its way to hell
the living are dead and
I hope to join them too
I know what to do and I do it well...
shoot myself to love you
if I loved myself I'd be shooting you.
NEW MODEL No. 15
I'm as fake as a wedding cake
and I'm vague and I know that I'm
homopolitan
pitifully predictable
correctly political
I'm the new, I'm the new, new model
I've got nothing inside
lifelike and poseable
hopeless and disposable
new
new
new model
THE DOPE SHOW
we're all stars now in the dope show
You are guest number
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