Just a Car Crash Away

"Just a Car Crash Away" is the fifth track on the 2007 release Eat Me, Drink Me. Rolling Stone describes it as "a bic-waving ballad, a death march punctuated by Tim Skold's searing guitar solo." The song was inspired by the break-up with now ex-wife Dita Von Teese. In an interview with Revolver magazine, Manson said, "I compare love to fire, and how it consumes everything, and scars everything, and changes everything. A couple people I have played it for have cried, but I don't think it's sad, I just think it's terribly romantic, in a Bram Stoker sort of way".

It was also the first song written for the album.

Music details

A subversive ballad with triturated guitars, Manson’s most emotional vocal performance of the album and perhaps most honest lyrics. Another Skold solo lifts the song to lighter-in-the-air territory until Manson belts out his final lines to end the track.

Appearances

Albums

• Eat Me, Drink Me

Versions

• Just a Car Crash Away

Lyrics

    She blew me her death-kiss
    And the mouth-marks
    bled down my eye
    like her dying,
    on my windshield.
    I can already feel
    her worms 
    eating my spine.
    So how can it be this lonely?
    Is this all we get
    for our lives?
    Is love only sweet when one
    of us dies?
    
    Then I knew that our love was
    just a car crash away.
    I knew that our love was just a car crash away
    I knew that our love was
    just a car crash away.
    I knew that our love was
    just a car crash away.
    
    Love is a fire.
    Burns down all that it sees.
    Burns down everything.
    Everything you think
    will burn everything you say
    
    Love is a fire.
    Burns down all that it sees.
    Burns down everything.
    Everything you think
    will burn everything you say
    
    I knew that our love was
    just a car crash away.
    Knew that our love was
    just a car crash away.
    Just a car crash away.
    
    I knew that our love was 
    just a 
    car 
    crash 
    away.
    
    I knew that our love was 
    just a 
    car 
    crash 
    away.
    
    Love is a fire.
    Burns down all that it sees.
    Burns down everything.
    Everything you think
    will burn everything you say
    
    Love is a fire.
    Burns down all that it sees.
    Burns down everything.
    Everything you think
    will burn everything you say