Man That You Fear (song)

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This article is about the song. For the single, see Man That You Fear (single).
"Man That You Fear"
Man That You Fear cover
Song by Marilyn Manson
Album Antichrist Superstar
Released October 8, 1996
Recorded 1996 at Nothing Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana
Genre Alternative rock
Length 6:10
Label Nothing, 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 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 ("Peel off all 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 history contained in The Long Hard Road out of Hell in which Manson as a child found a coffee box with something inside. His mother would tell him it was rotten meat, but later told him that it was actually an aborted fetus.

The album version of Man That You Fear contains the very great noise in the final two minutes of the song. In the middle of the noise, the phrase "when all of your wishes had granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed" sounded repeatedly.

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Albums

Versions

Music video

Manson as seen in the 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.

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

Trivia

The opening line of the song was first used in the song "Luci in the Sky With Demons" from The Family Jams.