Editing The Bright Young Things

{{Song
| Name        = The Bright Young Things
| Cover       = The-Golden-Age-of-Grotesque.jpg
| Artist      = [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]
| Album       = [[The Golden Age of Grotesque]]
| Released    = May 5, 2003
| Recorded    = 2002–2003 at the Doppelherz Studio in Hollywood, California; The Mix Room in Burbank, California
| Genre       = Industrial metal
| Length      = 4:19
| Label       = [[Nothing]], [[Interscope Records|Interscope]]
| Writer      = [[Marilyn Manson]]
| Composer    = [[John 5]]
| Producer    = Marilyn Manson, [[Tim Skold]], Ben Grosse
}}
"'''The Bright Young Things'''" is the twelfth track on the 2003 release ''[[The Golden Age of Grotesque]]''.

== Appearances ==
=== Albums ===
* ''[[The Golden Age of Grotesque]]''

== Versions ==
* "The Bright Young Things" <small>— Appears on ''The Golden Age of Grotesque''.</small>

== Lyrics ==
     We'll be the worms in your apple pie
     Fake abuse for our bios
     Blacken our own eyes
     The grass isn't greener on the other side
     We set it on fire
     And we have no reason why
     We set fashion, not follow
     Spit vitriol, not swallow
     We set fashion, not follow
     Spit vitriol, not swallow
     We're
     Good for nothing, but being
     Everything that's bad
     Good for nothing, but being
     Everything that's bad
     We know who we are and what we want to say
     And we don't care who's listening
     We don't rebel to sell
     It just suits us well
     We're the bright young things
     I've got my villian necktie
     And a mouth of hi-fi
     So sharp, I'm bleeding
     From my Judas Hole
     I'm the Arch Dandy
     No-goodnik and I'm headed
     For Crashville.
     I'm most monster with my groan box
     In the "Meat Show."
     We set fashion, not follow
     Spit vitriol, not swallow
     Good for nothing, but being
     Everything that's bad
     Good for nothing, but being
     Everything that's bad
     We know who we are and
     What we want to say
     And we don't care who's listening
     We don't rebel to sell
     It just suits us well
     We're the bright young things
     
     Crashing the ether
     We've got the loudest stereotype
     Even neophytes deep 6 your pro-life
     We don't need to move a single prayer bone
     We're so beautiful and damned
     Simply as a "still life"
     
     Perpetual rebellion with absolutely no cause
     Perpetual rebellion with absolutely no cause
     Perpetual rebellion with absolutely no cause
     Perpetual rebellion with absolutely no cause
     
     Stop the song and remember what you used to be
     Somebody that fucking impressed me
     
     We know who we are and what we want to say
     And we don't care who's listening
     We don't rebel to sell
     It just suits us well
     We're the bright young things
     
     We know who we are and what we want to say
     And we don't care who's listening
     We don't rebel to sell
     It just suits us well
     We're the bright young things
     Good for nothing, but being
     Everything that's bad
     Good for nothing, but being
     Everything that's bad

== Trivia ==
* The line "We're so beautiful and damned" makes reference to the 1922 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel ''The Beautiful and Damned''.
* The title "The Bright Young Things" makes reference to the 1930 Evelyn Waugh novel ''Vile Bodies'' in which a character named Adam writes a book entitled ''Bright young things''. This book was also cited by [[David Bowie]] to be his main inspiration behind the song "Aladdin Sane".

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