Editing Man That You Fear (song)

{{Disambiguation|the song|the single|Man That You Fear (single)|the live bootleg recorded on [[1997/05/04 Pittsburgh, PA|May 4, 1997]]|Man That You Fear (bootleg)}}

{{Song
| Name        = Man That You Fear
| Cover       = AntichristSuperstar.png
| Artist      = [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]
| Album       = [[Antichrist Superstar]]
| Released    = October 8, 1996
| Recorded    = 1996 at Nothing Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana
| Genre       = Alternative rock, Experimental rock, Piano rock
| Length      = 6:10
| Label       = [[Nothing]], [[Interscope Records|Interscope]]
| Writer      = [[Marilyn Manson]]
| Composer    = [[Twiggy Ramirez]], Marilyn Manson, [[Madonna Wayne Gacy]], [[Daisy Berkowitz]]
| Producer    = [[Trent Reznor]], Dave Ogilvie, Marilyn Manson
}}
"'''Man That You Fear'''" is the third and final single and the sixteenth track of the second album ''[[Antichrist Superstar]]''. The song is inspired by what [[Marilyn Manson|Manson]] had to grow up with and how it turned him into what he is now, a man or monster that people now have grown to fear. The line, "Are all your infants in abortion cribs?" refers to a story told in ''[[The Long Hard Road Out of Hell]]'' in which Manson as a child found a coffee can with something rotting inside. His [[Barbara Warner|mother]] told him it was discarded meat, but later told him that it was actually an aborted fetus.

== Appearances ==
=== Albums ===
* ''[[Antichrist Superstar]]''
=== Singles ===
* ''[[Man That You Fear (single)|Man That You Fear]]''

== Versions ==
* Man That You Fear <small>— Appears on ''Antichrist Superstar''.</small>
* Man That You Fear ([[Man That You Fear (Radio Edit)|Radio Edit]]) <small>— Appears on the "Man That You Fear" [[Man That You Fear (single)|promotional single]].</small>
* Man That You Fear ([[Acoustic Requiem for Antichrist Superstar]]) <small>— Appears on ''[[Remix & Repent]]''.</small>
* Man That You Fear (Demo #1) <small>— Never officially released but available online and appears on ''[[Antichrist Final Songs]]''.</small>
* Man That You Fear (Demo #2) <small>— Never officially released but available online and appears on ''Antichrist Final Songs''.</small>

== Music video ==
[[File:ManThatYouFearScreenshot.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|Manson as seen in the music video]]
In the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rthl_O4_G2o music video], directed by Wiz, [[Marilyn Manson|Manson]] portrays a man who is condemned to die. He is "chosen" by a blindfolded child who spins around pointing her finger. When she stops spinning, she removed the blindfold and sees the trailer home that she is pointing to — the condemned's home. The video features all events of his last day on earth, leading up to his death by stoning in an isolated location of the desert. It is oddly reminiscent of Shirley Jackson's short story ''The Lottery''.

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== Lyrics ==
    the ants are in the sugar
    the muscles atrophied
    we're on the other side, the screen is us and
    we're t.v.
    spread me open, sticking to my pointy ribs are
    all your infants in abortion cribs
    I was born into this
    everything turns to shit
    the boy that you loved is the
    man that you fear
    pray until you're number, asleep from all
    your pain, your apple has been rotting
    tomorrow's turned up dead
    i have it all and i have no choice but to
    i'll make everyone pay and you will see
    you can kill yourself now
    because you're dead
    in my mind
    the boy that you loved is the
    monster you fear
    peel off all those eyes and crawl into the
    dark, you've poisoned all of your children
    to camouflage your scars
    pray unto the splinters, pray unto your fear
    pray your life was just a dream
    the cut that never heals
    pray now baby, pray your
    life was just a dream
    (I am so tangled in my sins that I cannot
    Escape)
    pinch the head off, collapse me like a weed
    someone had to go this far
    I was born into this
    everything turns to shit
    the boy that you loved is the
    man that you fear
    peel off all those eyes and crawl into the
    dark, you've poisoned all of your children
    to camouflage your scars
    pray unto the splinters, pray unto your fear
    pray your life was just a dream
    the cut that never heals
    pray now baby, pray your life was just a
    dream
    the world in my hands, there's no one left to
    hear you scream
    there's no one left for you

== Demo Versions ==
In 2011, Scott Putesky released the first demo version of "Man That You Fear", that was published as two different demo versions with purely minor audio differences, to the public via the website SoundCloud. The first version was recorded in the fall of 1995, and the other in 1996. Both versions are considerably shorter than the final song and notably lack several verses and the bridge present in the final version.

{{Videos
| khtkwi6LmbQ = Demo #1
| xEhVaRF-hGI = Demo #2
}}

== Trivia ==
* The opening line of the song was first used in the song "[[Luci in the Sky with Demons]]" from ''[[The Family Jams]]''.
* The song was initially penned during Manson's [[Chad McCabe|cousin]]'s wedding ceremony.

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