Putting Holes in Happiness
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"Putting Holes in Happiness" is the second track from the 2007 release Eat Me, Drink Me. Written on his own birthday Manson describes the song as been "a romantic-misogynistic-cannibal-gothic-vampire ballad". Similarly he has described the whole album as been "cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance – but with an upbeat swing."
Music details
Mid-tempo, guitar-orientated, more synths audible than on the album opener. Manson adopts a tortured croon; a guitar solo punctuates the track for almost a minute (2:46 – 3:37).
Appearances
Albums
Versions
- Putting Holes in Happiness — Appears on Eat Me, Drink Me
Lyrics
The sky was blonde like her it was a day to take the child out back and shoot it. I could have buried all my dead up in her cemetery head she had dirty word witchcraft I was in the deep end of her skin. Then...it seemed like a one car wreck but I knew it was a horrid tragedy Ways to make the tiny satisfaction disappear. Blow out the candles on all my frankensteins. At least my death wish will come true. You taste like Valentines and we cry, You're like a birthday. I should have picked the photograph it lasted longer than you. Putting holes in happiness We'll paint the future black if it needs any color. My death sentence is a story who'll be digging when you finally let me die? The romance of our assassination If you're Bonnie, I'll be your Clyde. But the grass is greener here and I can see all of your snakes. You wear your ruins well please run away with me to hell Blow out the candles on all my frankensteins. At least my death wish will come true. You taste like Valentines and we cry, You're like a birthday. I should have picked the photograph it lasted longer than you.