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Marilyn Manson - Lunchbox

Marilyn Manson - Lunchbox Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Portrait Of An American Family
Released: 1994

Lunchbox Lyrics

Next motherfucker's gonna get my metal

On we plow
The big bully try to stick his finger in my chest
Try to tell me tell me he's the best
But I don't really give a good goddamn cause
I got my Lunchbox and I'm armed real well
I got my lunchbox and I'm armed real well
I got my lunchbox and I'm armed real well
I want to grow up
I want to be a big rock and roll star
I want to grow up
I want to be
So no one fucks with me, yeah
I got the pencils in my pocket, try to put me down
Want to go out, gotta get out to the playground
Want to throw down at the playground
I want to go out
Next motherfucker gonna get my metal
Next motherfucker gonna get my metal
Next motherfucker gonna get my metal
Next motherfucker
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Writer/s: CRANE, KER, FINESILVER, BROWN, MANSON, BERKOWITZ, GEIN
Publisher: GOWMONK, INC.
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Lunchbox

This is about a young boy who is bullied at school and immerses himself in rock music to drown the pain. It is somewhat autobiographical. The album was exploring the fears of the average middle-class, Christian, conservative, white trash family, and one of them is that their child will become a "Punk Rocker."

The single was released on January 24, 1995 - the band's second single that year, the first being "Sweet Dreams." It featured the album version of the song, as well as four remixes - "Next Motherf***er," "Brown Bag," "Metal" and "Highschool Dropouts" - and a cover of Gary Numan's "Down in the Park." Most of the remixes just changed the intros or sound bytes, and "Highschool Dropouts" was simply the radio edit which muted out the obscenities.

Manson wrote about lunchboxes in this song because in Florida, where he was living at the time, the schools had banned metal lunchboxes because the children were hitting each other in the head with them. Manson used to have a metal KISS lunchbox which he used to defend himself at school. (thanks, Phil - Rockville, MD)

The music video, which dramatized the song, featured the band singing near a roller rink. It was included on "Dead to the World".

There is a 1993 CD which features demos of the band performing this and several other songs while they were still called "The Spooky Kids." It is called "Demos In Lunchbox."

Marilyn Manson - The Family Trip

Marilyn Manson - The Family Trip Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Portrait Of An American Family
Released: 1994

The Family Trip Lyrics

The Family Trip

This was the first track off Manson's first album.

The song consists of Manson reciting the poem Willy Wonka softly sang in the 1971 musical comedy Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory - "There's no earthly way of knowing, which direction we are going..." The first part of the poem is found in Ronald Dahl's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but the end of it (which describes death, Hell, and fear in general) was added for the film. Manson sometimes recites the poem at the beginning of his concerts.

The song's official title is "Prelude (The Family Trip)." It is filled with werewolf-esque growling and a screaming voice in the background. It leads directly into the second track, "Cake and Sodomy," where the growling die down.

Portrait of an American Family was a concept album about the fears of a middle-class white trash Christian family manifesting themselves. "Cake and Sodomy" is about conservative homophobia, "Lunchbox" is about a child deciding to become a rock star when he grows up, "Get Your Gunn" is about teenaged self-abuse, etc. Hence, this was an appropriate way to start it off.

Prior to Portrait Of An American Family's release in 1994, Manson had already sampled most of this spoken-word prelude on a demo from his Spooky Kids era called Choklit Factory. (thanks, Matt - Scone, Australia)

When Manson remixed his song "Cake and Sodomy" for his second album, Smells Like Children, it was called "Everlasting C--ksucker," a reference to the Everlasting Gobstopper, which was a candy in the film Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory. The album also included a slow cover of "Cake and Sodomy" by Tony F. Wiggins called "White Trash," which was simply him singing it slowly while strumming his guitar.

Manson was considered for the role of Willy Wonka in a remake of the classic children's film that originally starred Gene Wilder. Johnny Depp got the job; however, Depp has stated that he based his performance on Manson, much like he based his portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl on Keith Richards. (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada, for all above)

Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals

Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Mechanical Animals
Released: 1998

Mechanical Animals Lyrics

Mechanical Animals

This was partially inspired by a boy who killed himself. His dad found him dead with Manson's Antichrist Superstar on repeat in his CD player. The dad then blamed Manson for his son's suicide. (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ)

Marilyn Manson - The Nobodies

Marilyn Manson - The Nobodies Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death)
Released: 2000

The Nobodies Lyrics

Today I'm dirty
And I want to be pretty
Tomorrow, I know I'm just dirt
Today I'm dirty
And I want to be pretty
Tomorrow, I know I'm just dirt

We are The Nobodies
Wanna be somebodies
When we're dead
They'll know just who we are
We are the nobodies
Wanna be somebodies
When we're dead
They'll know just who we are

Yesterday I was dirty
Wanted to be pretty
I know now that I'm forever dirt
Yesterday I was dirty
Wanted to be pretty
I know now that I'm forever dirt

We are the nobodies
Wanna be somebodies
When we're dead
They'll know just who we are
We are the nobodies
Wanna be somebodies
When we're dead
They'll know just who we are

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
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

We are the nobodies
Wanna be somebodies
When we're dead
They'll know just who we are
We are the nobodies
Wanna be somebodies
When we're dead
They'll know just who we are
We are the nobodies
Wanna be somebodies
When we're dead
They'll know just who we are
We are the nobodies
Wanna be somebodies
When we're dead
They'll know just who we are

Writer/s: WARNER, BRIAN/LOWERY, JOHN /
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Like several of the songs on the album, this makes reference to the Columbine shootings, for which the mass media attempted to blame Manson's influence despite all evidence to the contrary. Like a lot of his lyrics, this deals with Manson's perception that the media tend to martyr and deify those who die within the public eye. (thanks, Stefano - Old Bridge, NJ)

Marilyn Manson - Kinderfeld

Marilyn Manson - Kinderfeld Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Antichrist Superstar
Released: 1996

Kinderfeld Lyrics

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"Kinderfeld" is about Marilyn Manson's Grandfather Jack Warner, who used to go into his basement and masturbate, then cover this behavior by saying he was playing with a train set. As Manson explains in his book The Long Hard Road Out of Hell , his grandparents had strict punitive rules that they would reinforce with making him kneel on broomsticks ("I had to kneel on broomsticks just to make it go away"). He broke the rules often because the pain made him forget what he saw. Other forms of punishment are referenced in the lyrics "three holes upon the leather belt, the gut is swollen the edge the edge is showing, there is no one her to save ourselves." The song also refers to how parents and religion tell us what to think and feel ("This is what you should fear"). (thanks, Shaun - Adelaide, Australia)

As a child, Manson always wanted to witness the forbidden. This led to his spying on his grandfather, along with spying on naked women. Around that same time in his childhood, he began having vivid dreams filled with distorted images of the things he saw. These images still haunt him in his sleep and have led to the creation of many of his songs.

Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Smells Like Children
Released: 1995

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) Lyrics

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody looking for something
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused.

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody is looking for something
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused.

I want to used you and abused you
I want to know what's inside
Moving on hold your head,
Moving on keep your head,
Moving on hold your head,
Moving on keep your head,
Moving on hold your head,
Moving on keep your head,
Moving on.

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody looking for something
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused

I gotta used you and abused you
I gotta know what's inside
I gotta used you and abused you
I gotta know what's inside you

Writer/s: TOUSSAINT, ALLEN /
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Eurythmics originally recorded this song in 1982. Manson gave it a much more ominous sound fitting of the band.

The album is a collection of remixes and covers, with a few originals. This was the only song to get a lot of attention.

This paved the way for Manson's next record, Antichrist Superstar, to debut at #3 on the US albums chart. This put him in strange company: the top two spots were held by Celine Dion and Kenny G.

Around the time this was released, Manson was gaining a cult following of alienated white suburban teens.

This became a hit thanks to MTV, which declared this a "Buzzworthy" video and put it in heavy rotation.

This was produced by Nine Inch Nails leader and Manson's mentor, Trent Reznor.

Manson often comes up with song inspiration in his dreams, but the idea to cover this song came from his first acid trip, according to his autobiography The Long Hard Road out of Hell . He says that he hallucinated a "slower, meaner" version of the dance hit playing, sung in his voice. (thanks, Stefano - Old Bridge, NJ)

In Manson's auto-biography, he related to this song by mentioning that he met people who wanted to be abused by him; and who wanted to use him as well. (thanks, Renae - Mill Grove, PA)

Marilyn Manson - The Fight Song

Marilyn Manson - The Fight Song Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death)
Released: 2000

The Fight Song Lyrics

Nothing suffocates you more than
The passing of everyday human events
Isolation is the oxygen mask you make
Your children breath into survive

But I'm not a slave to god
That doesn't exist
And I'm not a slave to 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!
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

You'll never grow up to be a big-rock-star-
Celebrated-victim-of-your-fame
They'll just cut our wrists like
Cheap coupons and say that death
Was on sale today

And when we were good
You just closed your eyes
So when we are bad
We'll scar your minds

But I'm not a slave to god
That doesn't exist
And I'm not a slave to world
That doesn't give a shit

The death of one is a tragedy
The death of one is a tragedy
The death of one is a tragedy
The death of millions is just a statistic

But I'm not a slave to god
That doesn't exist
And I'm not a slave to world
That doesn't give a shit
But I'm not a slave to god
That doesn't exist
And I'm not a slave to world
That doesn't give a shit

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Writer/s: MARILYN MANSON, JOHN LOWERY
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Manson helped direct the video, which features "Jocks" against "Goths" in a football game shot at an abandoned field in Los Angeles.

This song includes a quote from Russian dictator Josef Stalin: "The death of one is a tragedy; the death of millions is just a statistic." (thanks, Stefano - Old Bridge, NJ)