Editing Hey, Cruel World... (song)

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{{Song
|Name        = Hey, Cruel World...
|Cover       = BornVillain(front).jpg
|Artist      = [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]
|Album       = [[Born Villain]]
|Released    = April 25, 2012
|Recorded    = 2009–January 2011 at Zane-a-Due in California
|Genre       = Industrial metal, technical death metal
|Length      = 3:44
|Label       = [[Hell, etc.]], [[Cooking Vinyl]]
|Writer      = [[Marilyn Manson]]
|Composer    = [[Twiggy]], [[Chris Vrenna]]
|Producer    = Marilyn Manson, Chris Vrenna
}}

"'''Hey, Cruel World...'''" is the first song on [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]'s eighth studio album ''[[Born Villain]]''.

== Versions ==
* "Hey, Cruel World..." appears on ''Born Villain''.
* Snippets of an early version of this song can be heard in a video clip posted on Manson's website on May 22, 2011. Leaked by Manson via Twitter, who called it an "excerpt from an undisclosed song with an unreleased title", this snippet was the first audio revealed from the new album "Born Villain", which was released two years after this preview. Dubbed by fans as '''I Am Among No One''', this song previewed lyrics "''I am among no one''".

=== Early Preview ===
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== Lyrics ==
     Hey, cruel world…
     You don’t have what it takes
     We don’t need your faith.
     We’ve got fucking fate.
<br>
     Hey, cruel world…
     You don’t have what it takes
     We don’t need your faith.
     We’ve got fucking fate.
<br>
     Creator
     Preserver
     Destroyer
     Ask which one i am.
     There’s no drugged-out devils or
     Square-halo angels
     Walking among us.
<br>
     I am among no one
     I am among no one
     I am among no one
     No one
<br>
     Hey, cruel world…
     You don’t have what it takes
     We don’t need your faith.
     We’ve got fucking fate.
     Fate
     Fate
     Fate
<br>
     The center of the universe
     Cannot exist
     When there are no,
     No edges
     The center of the universe
     Cannot exist
     When there are no,
     No edges
<br>
     Hey, cruel world…
     You don’t have what it takes
     We don’t need your faith.
     We’ve got fucking fate.
     Fate
     Fate
     Fate
<br>
     Fate
<br>
     Fate, fate, fate
     Fate, fate, fate
<br>
     I am among no one
     I am among no one
     I am among no one
     No one
<br>
     Hey, cruel world…
     You don’t have what it takes
     We don’t need your faith.
     We’ve got fucking fate.
     Fate
     Fate
     Fate
     Fate
     Fate
     Fate
<br>

== Trivia ==
[[File:F33.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|The song's chorus, scrawled on a door in a Facebook upload.]]

* A portion of the song's chorus can be seen in a 2010 Facebook photo entitled "your goddamn right."
* "Square-halo angels" references early Christian paintings of religious scenes, in which living persons, who often-times had commissioned the actual painting, were portrayed with a square-shaped halo.<ref>[http://mb-soft.com/believe/txw/halo.htm Christian Halo, Nimbus]. BELIEVE Religious Information Source.</ref>
* The lyric "creator, preserver, destroyer" references three ''I Ching'' trigrams. Respectively these are ''quán'' (☰), "the creative," ''kūn'' (☷), "the receptive" and ''zhèn'' (☳), "the arousing." ''Born Villain'' conceputalizes the archetypical villain, whom has the chance to change; with this line [[Marilyn Manson]] assumes the role of the destroyer in order to make the change. Creation, preservation and destruction are also the three forms in the Hindu concept of Trimurti.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimurti Trimurti]. Wikipedia.</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:Born Villain era]]
[[Category:Marilyn Manson songs]]
[[Category:Songs from Born Villain]]
[[Category:Marilyn Manson songs with music videos]]