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This page lists lyrics of songs by Marilyn Manson which incorporate alliterations, portmanteaus, puns, etc...

This list is incomplete.

Alliterations

• "The Beautiful People": "Old-fashioned fascism"
• "Minute of Decay": "too tired today to hate"
• "Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)"
• "Burning Flag": "They gyrate and g-rate on election day"
• "mOBSCENE": "Your freedom's not free and dumb"
• "Use Your Fist and Not Your Mouth": "I'm on a campaign for pain"
• "Ka-boom Ka-boom": "Don't Say No, Just Say Now"
• "Ka-boom Ka-boom": "Inhale, exhale, let's all hail"
• "The Bright Young Things": "I'm most monster with my groan box"
• "Doppelherz": "Caucasian occasion"
• "Doppelherz": "The young are too senile, the young sieg heil"
• "You and Me and the Devil Makes 3": "if you want to lie with me, you're gonna be a liar"
• "Blank and White": "I want to celebrate, I want to sell you hate"
• "We're from America": "we turn literature into litter."
• "Overneath the Path of Misery": "So I say whatever or for never"
• "The Gardener": "A muse, your amusement, I am used"

Portmanteaus

• "Organ Grinder": "Calliopenis" (Calliope + Penis)
• "Mechanical Animals": "phenobarbidoll" (phenobarbital + Barbie doll)
• "Mechanical Animals": "manniqueen" (mannequin + queen)
• "New Model No. 15": "And I'm vague and I know that I'm Homopolitan" (references to Vogue and Cosmopolitan + homogeneous)
• "Cruci-Fiction in Space": (Crucifiction + fiction)
• "The Fall of Adam": "Abraham Lincoln Town Cars" (Abraham Lincoln + Lincoln Town Cars)
• "Thaeter": (theater + Täter, German for offender)
• "mOBSCENE": (mob scene + obscene)
• "Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag": "Swing heil" (swing + sieg heil)
• "Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag": "cocaingels" (cocaine + angels)
• "The Golden Age of Grotesque": "We're the LOW ART GLOOMINATI" (gloom + Illuminati)
• "The Golden Age of Grotesque": "The SCABARET SACRILEGENDS" (cabaret legends + scab + sacrilegious)
• "(s)AINT": (saint + ain't)
• "(s)AINT": "suffer-genius" (suffer + genius + suffragette)
• "(s)AINT": "Vivi-sex symbol" (vivisection + sex symbol)
• "Ka-boom Ka-boom": "We're a death-marching band" (death march + marching band)
• "Ka-boom Ka-boom": "Porn poms" (porn + pom-poms)
• "Ka-boom Ka-boom": "Dumbo jets" (Dumbo + jumbo jet)
• "Ka-boom Ka-boom": "hardcore-vettes" (hardcore + corvettes)
• "Better of Two Evils": "Paparazzinazis" (paparazzi + nazis)
• "Vodevil": (vaudeville + evil)
• "Vodevil": "fagazines" (fag + magazines)
• "Para-noir": (paranoid + noir)
• "Doppelherz": "brainforest" (brain + rain forest)
• "Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon": (Armageddon + goddamn + motherfucking)
• "Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon": "nervous breakdance" (nervous breakdown + breakdance)

Puns / Paranomasias

• "Luci in the Sky with Demons": (from the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds)
• "Shitty Chicken Gang Bang": (from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a 1968 film)
• "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)": "15 minutes of shame" (from the phrase 15 minutes of fame by Andy Warhol)
• "New Model No. 15": "Correctly political" (from politically correct)
• "New Model No. 15": "I'm spun and I know I'm stoned and rolling" (references the magazines Spin and Rolling Stone)
• "GodEatGod": (from dog eat dog)
• "mOBSCENE": "We are the thing of shapes to come" (from The Shape of Things to Come, a work of science fiction by H. G. Wells)
• "mOBSCENE": "Be obscene and not heard" (from be seen and not heard. Women should be obscene and not heard is a phrase by Oscar Wilde.)
• "Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag": "pin-down girls" (from pin-up girl)
• "Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag": "Venus Not In Furs" (from Venus in furs, a novella from Leopold von Sacher-Masoch)
• "Ka-boom Ka-boom": "We're tasteless but taste good"
• "Ka-boom Ka-boom": "It's a depraved new world After all" (from Brave New World, a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley; also refers to the Disney song It's a Small World After All)
• "Vodevil": "Total Requested Dead" (from Total Request Live)
• "If I Was Your Vampire": "The hole is where the heart is" (from home is where the heart is)
• "Mutilation Is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery" (from imitation is the most sincere form of flattery)
• "Mutilation Is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery": "Rebels without applause" (from Rebel Without a Cause, a 1955 film)
• "Blank and White" (from black and white)
• "Blank and White": "apocalypse 'how'" (from Apocalypse now, a 1979 war film)
• "Pistol Whipped": "I wanna have your ache and beat you too" (from the phrase "Have your cake and eat it too")
• "Warship My Wreck": (from worship my wreck)

Others

• "Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag"
• "Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag": "godmod"
• "The Golden Age of Grotesque": "Van Goh"
• "(s)AINT": "I've got an F and a C and I got a K too And the only thing missing is a bitch like yoU"
• "Ka-boom Ka-boom": "My (S)top hat's top hat(ed)"
• "The Bright Young Things": "We've got the loudest stereotype"
• "Vodevil": "Version point (less) downloadable suicide"
• "Obsequey (The Death of Art)"
• "Obsequey (The Death of Art)": "reverof"
• "Doppelherz": "My pupils are not students, they dilate but they never learn"
• "You and Me and the Devil Makes 3": "Murdercute happyrape"
• "Slo-Mo-Tion": "Fast-food-nude"

See also

• Recurring lyrics in Marilyn Manson's music