Cake and Sodomy

"Cake and Sodomy"
Song by Marilyn Manson
Album	Portrait of an American Family
Released	July 19, 1994
Recorded	August–December 1993 at Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida, Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles, California, The Village Recorder and Pig
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	3:46
Label	Nothing, Interscope
Writer	Marilyn Manson
Composer	Daisy Berkowitz
Producer	Marilyn Manson, Trent Reznor

"Cake and Sodomy" is the second track on the 1994 release Portrait of an American Family. The earliest recording of this song dates back to the band's Grist-o-Line cassette, recorded in August 1990.

Origin

In 1990, a woman Marilyn Manson met at a McDonald's in Fort Lauderdale invited Manson to spend a weekend with her in New York City. Upon discovering that the girl was using her sister's ID because she was too young to work, Manson abandoned her, shortly after which he ran into two clubbers from South Florida. Manson spent the remainder of his stay in New York at the clubbers' hotel room, where he stumbled on public-access channels, which were "a completely new phenomenon" to him. Manson "spent hours flipping through the station, watching Pat Robertson preach about society's evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number," while "On the other channel, a guy was greasing up his cock with Vaseline and asking people to call and give him their credit card number." This inspired Manson to grab the hotel notepad and begin penning the song's lyrics.

Manson explains in his autobiography The Long Hard Road Out of Hell that "I had written other songs I thought were good, but "Cake and Sodomy" was more than just a good song. As an anthem for the hypocritical America slobbering on the tit of Christianity, it was a blueprint for our future message."

Appearances

Cassettes

• Grist-o-Line
• Lunchbox
• Refrigerator

Albums

• Portrait of an American Family

Spooky Kids Version

Grist-O-Line Version

Lunchbox Version

Live as Hell

Refrigerator

Genesis of the Devil

Versions

• "Cake and Sodomy" — Appears on Grist-o-Line.
• "Cake and Sodomy" — Appears on Lunchbox.
• "Cake and Sodomy" (Live) — Appears on Live as Hell.
• "Cake and Sodomy" — Appears on Refrigerator.
• "Cake and Sodomy" — Appears on Portrait of an American Family.
• "White Trash" (Remixed by Tony f. wiggins) — Appears on Smells Like Children.
• "Everlasting Cocksucker" — Appears on Smells Like Children.

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Lyrics

The version featured on the band's 1994 album Portrait of an American Family featured the following lyrics:

i am the god of fuck, i am the god of fuck
     
virgins sold in quantity,
Herded by heredity
Red-neck-burn-out-mid-west-mind, 
"who said date rape isn't kind?"

porno-nation,
Evaluation
what's this 'time for segregation'
libido, libido fascination,
Too much oral defecation

white trash get down on your knees,
Time for cake and sodomy
Time for cake and sodomy

(I am the god of fuck, I am the god of fuck)
     
vcr's and vaseline, 
Tv-fucked by plastic queens
     
Cash in hand and dick on screen, 
Who said god was ever clean?
     
Bible-belt round anglo-waste, 
Putting sinners in their place
     
yeah, right, great if you're so good explain the shit stains on your face
     
White trash get down on your knees, 
Time for cake and sodomy
Time for cake and sodomy

Trivia

• The words "Go on, smile you cunt" at the beginning are spoken by Marlon Brando, taken from the 1973 film Last Tango in Paris.
• On some bootlegs "Luci in the Sky with Demons" and this track are mislabeled as "White Trash".

Review by J7

• This section is only for archive purposes and has not been confirmed by any authority, and is only J7's interpretation written for your pleasure.

Cake and Sodomy was the first real song off the album, and what a perfect introduction of Marilyn Manson it was to the world. “I am the God of Fuck.” The filthy drum beat and the low bass entice you along with themes of moral and sexual boundaries, but as Manson said himself, it’s “an Anthem about hypocritical Americans slobbering on the tit of Christianity, and was a blueprint for our future message.” Brian wrote the song after spending hours in a hotel room in South Florida, having just discovered public access television for the first time. The line, “Cash in hand and dick on screen, who said God was ever clean?” came from watching Pat Robertson preach about godless American society, then asking people to call him with their credit card number; while on another channel, a guy was rubbing his cock with Vaseline and asking people to call and give him their credit card number. Filled with anger and sardonicism, Cake and Sodomy perfectly embodies the Portrait of an American Family era.