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| − | "'''Lamb of God'''" is the twelfth track on the 2000 release ''[[Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)]]''. The song is [[Marilyn Manson|Manson]]'s observation on how mass media treats and reports tragic death as a form of public entertainment in the hunt for ratings. Specifically, the song criticizes the press' canonization of people who have attained fame or infamy within their lifetime, after their death, into 'martyrdom' and the cult-of-personality celebrity worship America reciprocates in response. To expound the point, Manson make allegories to martyred assassination icons Jesus Christ ("it took three days for him to die [just so] the born again could buy the serial rights"), John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy ("the camera will make you god, that's how Jack became sainted") and John Lennon ("nothing's going to change the world", a line from The Beatles song "Across the Universe" and "there was Lennon in the happy gun", a reference to the ''White Album'' anti-gun song "Happiness is a Warm Gun"). Ironically, the latter song contains the lyric "I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun" as Lennon's assassin, Mark David Chapman, would later look for his own happiness in a warm gun. | + | "'''Lamb of God'''" is the twelfth track on the 2000 release ''[[Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)]]''. The song is [[Marilyn Manson|Manson]]'s observation on how mass media treats and reports tragic death as a form of public entertainment in the hunt for ratings. Specifically, the song criticizes the press' canonization of people who have attained fame or infamy within their lifetime, after their death, into 'martyrdom' and the cult-of-personality celebrity worship America reciprocates in response. To expound the point, Manson make allegories to martyred assassination icons Jesus Christ ("it took three days for him to die [just so] the born again could buy the serial rights"), John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy ("the camera will make you god, that's how Jack became sainted") and John Lennon ("nothing's going to change the world", a line from The Beatles song "Across the Universe" and "there was Lennon in the happy gun", a reference to the ''White Album'' anti-gun song "Happiness is a Warm Gun"). Ironically, the latter song contains the lyric "I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun" as Lennon's assassin, Mark David Chapman, would later look for his own happiness in a warm gun. |
| − | == Appearances == | + | ==Appearances== |
| − | === Albums === | + | ===Albums=== |
* ''[[Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)]]'' | * ''[[Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)]]'' | ||
| − | == Versions == | + | ==Versions== |
| − | * Lamb of God <small> | + | * Lamb of God <small>— Appears on ''Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)''.</small> |
| − | == Lyrics == | + | ==Lyrics== |
There was Christ in the metal shell | There was Christ in the metal shell | ||
there was blood on the pavement | there was blood on the pavement | ||
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Nothing's going to change the world | Nothing's going to change the world | ||
| − | == Trivia == | + | ==Trivia== |
| − | * The song features some similarities to the Radiohead song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slOklBP9B_8 Climbing Up the Walls]", from their album "OK Computer", released in 1997. | + | * The song features some similarities to the Radiohead song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slOklBP9B_8 Climbing Up the Walls]", from their album "OK Computer", released in 1997. |
* Before playing "[[The Fight Song]]" in Los Angeles, California on [[2004/12/20 Los Angeles, CA|December 20, 2004]], Manson sang a handful of lines from both this and "[[Little Child]]", however this is the only time the song has been heard live. | * Before playing "[[The Fight Song]]" in Los Angeles, California on [[2004/12/20 Los Angeles, CA|December 20, 2004]], Manson sang a handful of lines from both this and "[[Little Child]]", however this is the only time the song has been heard live. | ||
