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| − | The music video features a boy being bullied by two older students. The boy goes home, fed up with the way he is treated, and shaves his head and prepares for any future retaliation against the bullies with his metal lunchbox. The boy later goes to the rollerskating rink where [[Marilyn Manson]] is performing. The boy gives [[Marilyn Manson|Manson]] his lunchbox, which Manson lights on | + | The music video features a boy being bullied by two older students. The boy goes home, fed up with the way he is treated, and shaves his head and prepares for any future retaliation against the bullies with his metal lunchbox. The boy later goes to the rollerskating rink where [[Marilyn Manson]] is performing. The boy gives [[Marilyn Manson|Manson]] his lunchbox, which Manson lights on fire and parades around. The video ends with the boy staring into the burning lunchbox. |
==Lyrics== | ==Lyrics== | ||
Revision as of 04:28, 28 May 2007
"Lunchbox" is the second single of the first album Portrait of an American Family. It was inspired by a piece of legislation dating back to 1972, which makes it illegal to have metal lunchboxes in schools. The song tells the story of a school age child who is bullied and uses his own lunchbox as a weapon in retaliation, waiting for the day he can "grow up to be a big rock & roll star" who is never intimidated by others. The earliest recording of this song dates back to the band's After School Special cassette tape, released in January 1991.
Appearances
Albums
Singles
- "Lunchbox"
Versions
- "Lunchbox" — Appears on Portrait of an American Family, Lest We Forget (The Best Of), and the "Lunchbox" single.
- "Next Motherfucker" (Remix) — Appears on the "Lunchbox" single.
- "Brown Bag" (Remix) — Appears on the "Lunchbox" single.
- "Metal" (Remix) — Appears on the "Lunchbox" single.
- "Lunchbox" (Highschool Drop-outs) — Appears on the "Lunchbox" single.
- "Lunchbox" (Demo) — Appears on After School Special.
- "Lunchbox" (Demo) — Appears on Refrigerator.
- "Lunchbox" (Live) — Appears on Dead to the World.
- "Lunchbox" (Live) — Appears on The Last Tour on Earth.
- "Lunchbox" (Live) — Appears on the Guns, God and Government World Tour DVD.
Music video
The music video features a boy being bullied by two older students. The boy goes home, fed up with the way he is treated, and shaves his head and prepares for any future retaliation against the bullies with his metal lunchbox. The boy later goes to the rollerskating rink where Marilyn Manson is performing. The boy gives Manson his lunchbox, which Manson lights on fire and parades around. The video ends with the boy staring into the burning lunchbox.
Lyrics
on we plow
the big bully try to stick his finger in my chest
try to tell me, tell me he's the best
but I don't really give a good goddamn cause
i got my lunchbox and I'm armed real well
i got my lunchbox and I'm armed real well
i got my lunchbox and I'm armed real well
i wanna grow up
i wanna be a big rock and roll star
i wanna grow up
i wanna be
so no one fucks with me
i got the pencils in my pocket, try to put me down
wanna go out, gotta get out
to the playground, gonna throw down at the playground
i wanna go out
next motherfucker gonna get my metal
next motherfucker gonna get my metal
next motherfucker gonna get my metal
next motherfucker gonna get my metal
pow pow pow, pow pow pow, pow pow pow, pow pow pow
i wanna grow up
i wanna be a big rock and roll star
i wanna grow up
i wanna be
so no one fucks with me
