Marilyn Manson

Released: April 25, 2012

Songwriter: Jeordie White Chris Vrenna Marilyn Manson

Producer: Chris Vrenna Marilyn Manson

[Intro]
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing

[Verse 1]
Stare into my Kodak Rome
Jack-hammer ice eyes
I never thought you'd see the
Asphalt crack, crack, crack like a black eggshell

Don't ever say I never warned you from the start
Don't ever say I never warned you from the start
You're not a shovel and I'm not your dirt

[Verse 2]
Is there any way to unswallow my pride?
Can I fuck myself down?
Why die, when you can kill the father?
Dad is missing an 'E'

No Macbeth confessed Oedipus
No longer present tense
No Macbeth confessed Oedipus
No longer present tense

No, no, no, no, no reason
No, no, no, no, no reason
No, no, no, no, no reason

[Chorus]
High and overneath
High and overneath

[Verse 3]
I won't regret letting you live
Even if you forgot what you never saved me from
So I say 'whatever' or fornever

For, for, for, for, for, fornever
For, for, for, for, for, fornever
For, for, for, for, for, fornever
'Whatever'

[Verse 4]
The rape of Persephone was choreographed by all the wrong Greeks
The rape of Persephone was a marketing scheme

Rape, rape, rape per so phony
Rape, rape, rape per so phony
Rape, rape, rape per so phony
Rape, rape, rape per so phony

[Chorus]
High and overneath
High and overneath

[Bridge]
Overneath, overneath
Overblown, unbeloved, cannot be low
From the top of my lungs
To the bottom of my heart I scream
At the chasm in between
And the path of misery

Overneath, overneath
Overblown, unbeloved, cannot be low
From the top of my lungs
To the bottom of my heart I scream
At the chasm in between
And the path of misery

[Chorus]
High and overneath
High and overneath

[Outro]
No, no, no, no, no reason
No, no, no, no, no reason
No, no, no, no, no reason

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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