Editing Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)

{{Song
| Name        = Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)
| Cover       = HolyWood(InTheShadowOfTheValleyOfDeath).jpg
| Artist      = [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]
| Album       = [[Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)]]
| Released    = November 13, 2000
| Recorded    = 1999–2000 at the Mansion in Death Valley, California
| Genre       = Alternative metal, industrial metal
| Length      = 4:18
| Label       = [[Nothing]], [[Interscope Records|Interscope]]
| Writer      = [[Marilyn Manson]]
| Composer    = [[Twiggy Ramirez]], [[John 5]]
| Producer    = Marilyn Manson, Dave Sardy
}}
"'''Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)'''" is the fifth track on the 2000 release ''[[Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)]]''. The song is for the majority, a pun utilized to mock the media's sole interest in ratings. ''Narcissus as Narcosis'' is the title of the chapter four of ''Understanding Media'' by Marshall McLuhan. The chapter opening paragraph reads:

{{cquote|The Greek myth of Narcissus is directly concerned with a fact of human experience, as the word Narcissus indicates. It is from the Greek word narcosis, or numbness. The youth Narcissus mistook his own reflection in the water for another person. This extension of himself by mirror numbed his perceptions until he became the servomechanism of his own extended or repeated image. The nymph Echo tried to win his love with fragments of his own speech, but in vain. He was numb. He had adapted to his extension of himself and had become a closed system.}}

== Appearances ==
=== Albums ===
* ''[[Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)]]''

== Versions ==
* Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis) <small>— Appears on ''Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)''.</small>

== Lyrics ==
     Am I sorry your sky went black,
     put your knives in babies backs?
     Am I sorry you killed the Kennedy's, and Huxley too?
     
     But I'm sorry Shakespeare
     was your scapegoat
     and your apple's sticking into my throat
     Sorry your Sunday smiles are rusty nails
     and your crucifixion commercials failed
     but I'm just a pitiful anonymous
     
     And I see all the young believers
     Your target audience
     I see all the old deceivers
     we all just sing their song
     
     Am I sorry just to be alive
     put my face in the beehive?
     Am I sorry for Booth and Oswald, pinks and cocaine too?
     I'm sorry you never check
     the bag in my head for a bomb
     and my halo was a needle hole
     Sorry I saw a priest being beaten
     and I made a wish
     but I'm just a pitiful anonymous
     
     And I see all the young believers
     Your target audience
     I see all the old deceivers
     we all just sing their song
     we all just sing their song
     
     "the valley of death we are free
     your father's your prison you see"
      "the valley of death we are free
     your father's your prison you see"
     
     And I see all the young believers
     Your target audience
     I see all the old deceivers
     we all just sing their song
     
     you're just a copy of an imitation
     you're just a copy of an imitation
     
     "The president is dead, Let us pray"

== Trivia ==
* At MTV's ''Total Request Live'', Marilyn Manson went on to say it was his favorite song off ''Holy Wood''.
* The band expressed great interest in performing this song during the [[Rape of the World (tour)|Rape of the World Tour]] upon the return of [[Twiggy]], however the song was not performed for unknown reasons.
* The song ends with the famous snippet uttered by WABC Radio broadcaster Don Gardiner after the confirmation of President John F. Kennedy's expiration, "The President is dead. Let us pray". It would then lead to the next song [["President Dead"]], itself taken from a newspaper headline announcing the president's passing.

[[Category:Marilyn Manson songs]]
[[Category:Songs from Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)]]
[[Category:Never performed live]]
[[Category:Holy Wood era]]