Putting Holes in Happiness

"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

• Eat Me, Drink Me

Versions

• Putting Holes in Happiness — Appears on Eat Me, Drink Me
• Putting Holes in Happiness — Bonus Track on Eat Me, Drink Me (Japanese Version)

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.