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In the 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''. | In the 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== | ==Lyrics== |
Revision as of 20:20, 23 June 2007
"Man That You Fear" is the third single of the second album Antichrist Superstar. The song is inspired by what 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 chorus ("Pray unto those eyes, crawl into the dark") is about how parents are hiding their children from what is really going on out there and how they are teaching them to fear anything that is different. The line, "Are all your infants in abortion cribs" substantiates a rumour that Marilyn Manson's mother was going to abort him and eventually told him so.
Contents
Appearances
Albums
Singles
- "Man That Your Fear"
Versions
- Man That You Fear — Appears on Antichrist Superstar .
- Man That You Fear (Radio Edit) — Appears on the "Man That You Fear" promotional single.
- Man That Your Fear (Acoustic Requiem to Antichrist Superstar) — Appears on Remix & Repent.
Music video
In the music video, directed by Wiz, 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.
Track listing
Promotional
- "Man That You Fear" (Radio Edit) – 4:18
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