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* Before playing "[[The Fight Song]]" in Los Angeles, California on [[2004/12/20 Los Angeles, CA|December 20, 2004]], Manson sung 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 sung a handful of lines from both this and "[[Little Child]]", however this is the only time the song has been heard live. | ||
| + | * The stanza "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" alludes to the Beatles song "Happiness is a Warm Gun" from the ''White Album'' which, in its day, also criticized America's love affair with guns and violence. It also contained the ironic 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. | ||
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Revision as of 06:25, 18 August 2010
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| Song by 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 | Alternative metal | |
| Length | 4:39 | |
| Label | Nothing, 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 was inspired by the way the media presents death a la Manson's observation that the media views tragic death as a form of entertainment for the masses. It also makes references to assassination victims treated as martyrs such as John F. Kennedy, referred to by nickname ("thats how Jack became sainted"), John Lennon ("nothing's going to change the world", a line from The Beatles song "Across the Universe" which Lennon wrote, and "There was Lennon in the happy gun"), and Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's killer ("we were looking for Mark David").
Contents
Appearances
Albums
Versions
- Lamb of God — Appears on Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death).
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
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
- Before playing "The Fight Song" in Los Angeles, California on December 20, 2004, Manson sung a handful of lines from both this and "Little Child", however this is the only time the song has been heard live.
- The stanza "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" alludes to the Beatles song "Happiness is a Warm Gun" from the White Album which, in its day, also criticized America's love affair with guns and violence. It also contained the ironic 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.
