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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)