Editing Lamb of God

{{Song
| Name        = Lamb of God
| Cover       = HolyWood(InTheShadowOfTheValleyOfDeath).jpg
| Artist      = [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]
| Album       = [[Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)]]
| Released    = November 13, 2000
| Recorded    = 1999–2000 at the Mansion in Death Valley, California
| Genre       = Industrial rock, art rock
| Length      = 4:39
| Label       = [[Nothing]], [[Interscope Records|Interscope]]
| Writer      = [[Marilyn Manson]]
| Composer    = [[Twiggy Ramirez]]
| Producer    = Marilyn Manson, Dave Sardy
}}
"'''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 ==
=== Albums ===
* ''[[Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)]]''

== Versions ==
* Lamb of God <small>— Appears on ''Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)''.</small>

== Lyrics ==
     There was Christ in the metal shell
     there was blood on the pavement
     The camera will make you god
     that's how Jack became sainted
     
     If you die when there's no one watching
     then your ratings drop and you're forgotten
     but if they kill you on their TV
     you're a martyr and a lamb of god
     nothing's going to change
     nothing's going to change the world
     
     There was Lennon in the happy gun
     There were words on the pavement
     we were looking for the lamb of god
     we were looking for Mark David
     
     If you die when there's no one watching
     then your ratings drop and you're forgotten
     but if they kill you on their TV
     you're a martyr and a lamb of god
     
     Nothing's going to change the world
     nothing's going to change
     Nothing's going to change the world
     nothing's going to change
     the world
     
     it took three days for him to die
     so the born again could buy the serial rights
     lamb of god have mercy on us
     lamb of god won't you grant us
     
     Nothing's going to change the world
     nothing's going to change
     Nothing's going to change the world
     nothing's going to change
     the world
     
     If you die when there's no one watching
     then your ratings drop and you're forgotten
     but if they kill you on their TV
     you're a martyr and a lamb of god
     nothing's going to change the world

== 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.
* 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.

[[Category:Marilyn Manson songs]]
[[Category:Songs from Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)]]
[[Category:Never performed live]]
[[Category:Holy Wood era]]