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This article is about the song. For other uses, see Smells Like Children (album) and Smells Like Children (tour).

"Smells Like Children"
Song by Marilyn Manson
Performed	1995
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	4:30~
Writer	Marilyn Manson

"Smells Like Children" is a song performed live during the Smells Like Children tour in 1995. Several lines of lyrics were later reworked for "Kinderfeld", a song from the band's 1996 album Antichrist Superstar. Despite the song's title, it never appeared on the 1995 EP Smells Like Children, released during the tour in which this song was performed.

Versions

• "Smells Like Children" (Live)

Lyrics

    He lives inside my head, tells me what to say
    When he turns the trains on, and he makes it go away
    The hands are cracked and filthy, and the nails are beetle wings
    When he turns the trains on, he unties all of the strings
    Tell me something beautiful, tell me something free
    Tell me something beautiful, I wish that I could be
    Someone, someone
    Someone, someone
    I wish that I could be
    Someone, someone
    Someone, someone
    I wish tomorrow would never ever come, come
    Smells like children
    Smells like children
    He lives inside my mouth, and tells me what to say
    The toys all smell like children, and the scab-knees will obey
    I'll have to kneel on broomsticks, just to make it go away
    Because the children, and nothing I can say
    Tell me something beautiful, tell me something free
    Tell me something beautiful, I wish that I could be
    Someone, someone
    Someone, someone
    I wish that I could be
    Someone, someone
    Someone, someone
    I wish tomorrow would never ever come, come
    Smells like children
    Smells like children
    Sometimes I'm feeling all those things
    The things I shouldn't say
    Sometimes I'm feeling all those things
    I wish that I'd never, never...
    Someone, someone
    Someone, someone
    I wish that I could be
    Someone, someone
    Someone, someone
    I wish tomorrow would never ever...
    Someone, someone
    Someone, someone
    I wish that I could be
    Someone, someone
    Someone, someone
    I wish tomorrow would never ever...
    Smells like children

Trivia

• On most bootlegs this track is mislabeled as "Tell Me" and "Inside My Head".