Released: July 19, 1994

Songwriter: Daisy Berkowitz Gidget Gein Marilyn Manson

Producer: Marilyn Manson Trent Reznor

[Verse 1]
I am the face of piss and shit and sugar
I do a crooked little dance with my funny little monkey
What I want, what I want is just your children
I hate what I have become to escape what I hated being!

[Verse 2]
Calliopenis envy from your daddy
You're not gonna hear what he don't want to hear
What I say disgusts him
He wants to be me and that scares him
"Let's do a funny little dance with my funny little monkey"
The black keys

[Chorus]
Here is my real head
Here is my real head
I wear this fucking mask, because you cannot handle me
Here is my real head

[Verse 3]
They try to blink me, not to think me, don't wanna bring me out
I am the rotten teeth, my fists are lined with suckers
My prison skin's an eyesore-mirror-sketch-pad
I am your son, your dad, your fag, I am your fad

[Chorus]
Here is my real head
Here is my real head
I wear this fucking mask, because you cannot handle me
Here is my real head

[Interlude]
Here we are children, come and get your lollipops! Lollipops! Come along my little ones
If there are children here my friend, you will die!

[Chorus]
Here is my real head
Here is my real head
Here is my real head
Here is my real head
I wear this fucking mask, because you cannot handle me
Here is my real head
I wear this fucking mask, because you cannot handle me
Here is my real head

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