A Place in the Dirt

"A Place in the Dirt"
Song by Marilyn Manson
Album	Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
Released	November 13, 2000
Recorded	1999–2000 at the Mansion in Death Valley, California
Genre	Alternative metal
Length	3:37
Label	Nothing, Interscope
Writer	Marilyn Manson
Composer	John 5
Producer	Marilyn Manson, Dave Sardy

"A Place in the Dirt" is the ninth track on the 2000 release Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death).

The song consist only of four verse sections and two refrain sections. All refrain sections of the song were loud, and all verse sections of the songs were quiet, consist only of the effect sound made by synthesizer and the effected drum beat. In the first verse section, the drum beat were unavailable, making the section as the most quiet section of the song.

Appearances

Albums

• Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)

Versions

• A Place in the Dirt — Appears on Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death).

Lyrics

    We are damned and we are dead
    all god's children to be sent
    to our perfect place in the sun
    and in the dirt
    
    There's a windshield in my heart
    we are bugs so smeared and scarred
    and could you stop the meat from thinking
    before I swallow all of it,
    could you please?
    
    Put me in the motorcade
    put me in the death parade
    dress me up and make me
    dress me up and make me
    your dying god
    
    angel with needles
    poked through our eyes
    and let the ugly light
    of the world in
    and we were no longer blind
    and we were no longer blind
    
    Put me in the motorcade
    put me in the death parade
    dress me up and make me
    dress me up and make me
    your dying god
    
    Now we hold the "ugly head"
    the Mary-whore is at the bed
    They've cast the shadow of our perfect death
    in the sun and in the dirt.