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My MonkeyMarilyn Manson

Released: July 19, 1994

Songwriter: Daisy Berkowitz Marilyn Manson

Producer: Marilyn Manson Trent Reznor

[Intro]
Why are the children doing what they're doing? Why does a child reach up and kill his mom and dad and murder his two little sisters and then cut his throat?

[Verse 1]
I had a little monkey
I sent him to the country and I fed him on gingerbread
Along came a choo-choo, knocked my monkey coo-coo
And now my monkey's dead
At least he looks that way
Then again, don't we all?

[Chorus]
What I make is what I am
I can't be forever

[Interlude]
Raise up children, kill your moms and dads?

[Verse 2]
I had a little monkey
I sent him to the country and I fed him on gingerbread
Along came a choo-choo, knocked my monkey coo-coo
And now my monkey's dead

[Interlude]
Poor little monkey
"Make you, break you, make you, break you"
"Make you, break you, make you, look out"

[Chorus]
What I make is what I am
I can't live forever

[Bridge]
We are our own wicked gods
With little "g's" and big dicks
Sadistic, constantly inflicting a slow demise

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3]
I had a little monkey, I sent him to the country
And I fed him on gingerbread
Along came a choo-choo, knocked my monkey coo-coo
And now my monkey's dead

[Interlude]
Raise up children, kill your moms and dads?

[Bridge]
I had a little monkey, I sent him to the country
My monkey, my monkey
My monkey, my monkey
My monkey [?]

[Outro]
Where nothing is real but the medication and the and then they cut their wrists and write "I love you God" all over the walls and hang themselves on the ventilators

Marilyn Manson

Brian Hugh Warner who is better known under his stage name of Marilyn Manson is a musician, painter, actor, multimedia artist, and former music journalist. His stage name is a combination of the names of two American icons, actress Marilyn Monroe and multiple murder conspiracy convict Charles Manson.

I picked that (Marilyn Manson) as the fakest stage name of all to say that this is what show business is, fake. Marilyn Monroe wasn’t even her real name, Charles Manson isn’t his real name, and now, I’m taking that to be my real name. But what’s real? You can’t find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best. As long as you know everything’s a lie, you can’t hurt yourself.

—Marylin Manson

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