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Like many of the Mechanical Animal songs, this song has hints to how the world is so dark and horrid. And people say Marilyn Manson is so horrible, but it takes someone to slam it in their faces with a body suit, airbrushed boobs and a good guitar solo for them to realize how  bleak the world is. This also hints to plain out suffering, directing it to someone who doesn't have to face that burden. When we hate it, its there, like when we're in an uncomfortable position, it seems to last longer. And "when you love" it's not really love, it's like everything is one lie except for the pain.
  
 
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"Fundamentally Loathsome"
Fundamentally Loathsome cover
Song by Marilyn Manson
Album Mechanical Animals
Released September 14, 1998
Recorded 1997–1998 at the White Room, Westlake Recording Studios in West Hollywood, California and Conway Studios
Genre Alternative rock
Length 4:49
Label Nothing, Interscope
Writer Marilyn Manson
Composer Madonna Wayne Gacy, Zim Zum
Producer Michael Beinhorn, Marilyn Manson

"Fundamentally Loathsome" is the twelfth track on the 1998 release Mechanical Animals. It is a ballad song, comparable to "In the Shadow of the Valley of Death" from the 2000 release Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death).

Appearances

Albums

Versions

  • "Fundamentally Loathsome" — Appears on Mechanical Animals.

Lyrics

    I want to wake up in your
    White, white sun
    I want to wake up in your world
    With no pain
    But I'll just suffer in a hope to die someday
    While you are numb all of the way
    
    When I hate it I know you can feel but
    When you love it you know it's not real
    No
    
    And I am resigned to this wicked fucking world
    On its way to hell
    The living are dead and
    I hope to join them too
    I know what to do and I do it well...
    
    When I hate it I know you can feel but
    When you love it you know it's not real
    No
    
    Shoot myself to love you
    If I loved myself I'd be shooting you

Theme

Like many of the Mechanical Animal songs, this song has hints to how the world is so dark and horrid. And people say Marilyn Manson is so horrible, but it takes someone to slam it in their faces with a body suit, airbrushed boobs and a good guitar solo for them to realize how bleak the world is. This also hints to plain out suffering, directing it to someone who doesn't have to face that burden. When we hate it, its there, like when we're in an uncomfortable position, it seems to last longer. And "when you love" it's not really love, it's like everything is one lie except for the pain.