Rock Is Dead (song)

This article is about the song. For the tour, see Rock Is Dead (tour).

"Rock Is Dead"
Song by Marilyn Manson
Album	Mechanical Animals
Released	September 14, 1998
Recorded	1997–1998 at the White Room, Westlake Recording Studios in West Hollywood, California and Conway Studios
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	3:09
Label	Nothing, Interscope
Writer	Marilyn Manson
Composer	Twiggy Ramirez, Madonna Wayne Gacy
Producer	Michael Beinhorn, Marilyn Manson

"Rock Is Dead" is the third single of the third album Mechanical Animals. The line, "Amphetamines for boys, crucifixes for ladies" implies that society is being dumbed-down and controlled by drugs and religion and that rock music is dying from censorship.

Appearances

Albums

• Mechanical Animals (1998)
• Lest We Forget (The Best Of) (2004)

Singles

• "Rock Is Dead" (1999)

Soundtracks

• The Matrix (1999)
• Beat the Devil (2002)

Versions

• "Rock Is Dead" — Appears on Mechanical Animals.
• "Rock is Dead (Live)" — Appears on The Last Tour On Earth.
• "Rock Is Dead" (Edit) — Appears on The Matrix soundtrack and music video.

Music video

Manson performing in the music video.

The music video, directed by Samuel Bayer, features a basic performance from the band, intertwined with scenes from the film The Matrix, to which soundtrack "Rock Is Dead" was included on.

Lyrics

    All simple monkeys with alien babies
    Amphetamines for boys
    Crucifixes for ladies
    Sampled and soulless
    Worldwide and real webbed
    You sell all the living
    For more safer dead
    
    Anything to belong
    
    Rock is deader than dead
    Shock is all in your head
    Your sex and your dope is all that we're fed
    So fuck all your protests and
    Put them to bed
    
    God is in the TV
    
    1,000 mothers are praying for it
    We're so full of hope
    And so full of shit
    Build a new god
    To medicate and to ape
    Sell us ersatz
    Dressed up and real fake
    
    Anything to belong
    
    Rock is deader than dead
    
    Rock is deader than dead
    Shock is all in your head
    Your sex and your dope is all that we're fed
    So fuck all your protests and
    Put them to bed
    
    God is in the TV