Stained Glass

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"Stained Glass" from The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
"Stained Glass" from The Long Hard Road Out of Hell cover
Written by Marilyn Manson
Released: February 14, 1998
Illustrator: P. R. Brown
Publisher: ReganBooks
Narrator:
Media type: Print (Paperback)
Length: 288 pages
ISBN: 0060392584

"Stained Glass" is a poem Brian Warner wrote to Night Terrors magazine in 1988. The letters along with the poem can be found in The Long Hard Road Out of Hell.

Poem

In the wooden silence
genuflecting fornicators
seek penance and false-toothed
idealists throw grub steaks on the offering plate

light a candle for the sinners
light a fire

self-pronounced prophet, parable seeking Protestant
preaches his diatomic dogma,
disembowelling indiscreetly.

Supplicate
congregate
the world looks better through stained glass

light a candle for the sinners
set the world on fire

Falsities
Falsities
Falsified, Factuality’s
All sitting like eager sponges,
soaking up the tertiary realities of life.


Trivia

  • The poem can be found on page 58 in The Long Hard Road Out of Hell.
  • The line "light a candle for the sinners, set the world on fire" was to be used 8 years later in the song "1996".
  • The line "Falsities, falsities, falsified factuality's" was used in "All Fall Down", their first live-in-rehearsal track with former bassist Olivia Newton Bundy.