1996

"1996"
Song by Marilyn Manson
Album	Antichrist Superstar
Released	October 8, 1996
Recorded	1996 at Nothing Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	4:01
Label	Nothing, Interscope
Writer	Marilyn Manson
Composer	Twiggy Ramirez
Producer	Trent Reznor, Dave Ogilvie, Marilyn Manson

"1996" is the thirteenth track on the 1996 release Antichrist Superstar.

Song credits

• Marilyn Manson – vocals, lyrics
• Twiggy Ramirez – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass, music
• Madonna Wayne Gacy – keyboards, loops
• Ginger Fish – programming

Appearances

Albums

• Antichrist Superstar

Versions

• 1996 — Appears on Antichrist Superstar.
• 1996 (Spoken) (Live) — Appears on Dead to the World.

Lyrics

    anti choice
    anti girl
    I am the anti-flag unfurled
    anti white and anti man
    I got the anti-future plan
    anti fascist
    anti mod
    I am the anti-music god
    anti sober
    anti whore
    there will never be enough of anti more
    I can't believe in the things
    that don't believe in me
    now it's your turn to see what I hate about me
    anti people now you've gone too far
    here's your antichrist superstar
    anti money
    anti hate
    anti things I fucked and ate
    anti cop
    anti fun
    here is my anti-president gun
    anti Satan
    anti black
    anti world is on my back
    anti gay and anti dope
    I am the faggot anti-pope
    I can't believe in the things
    that don't believe in me
    now it's your turn to see what I hate about me
    anti people now you've gone too far
    here's your antichrist superstar
    anti peace
    anti life
    anti husband, anti wife
    anti song and anti me
    I don't deserve a chance to be
    anti people now you've gone too far
    here's your antichrist superstar

Trivia

• The line "light a candle for the sinners, set the world on fire" that is spoken in the beginning of the song, is taken from a poem Manson wrote called "Stained Glass". The poem can be read on page 58 of Manson's autobiography The Long Hard Road Out of Hell.
• The song features the same riff as "She's Not My Girlfriend", a song from Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids' 1990 cassette Grist-o-Line, albeit played faster. Curiously, Twiggy Ramirez is given sole credit for writing "1996", despite Daisy Berkowitz having composed the riff lifted from "She's Not My Girlfriend" several years before Ramirez had even joined the band.