Editing The Reflecting God

{{Song
| Name        = The Reflecting God
| Cover       = AntichristSuperstar.png
| Artist      = [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]
| Album       = [[Antichrist Superstar]]
| Released    = October 8, 1996
| Recorded    = 1996 at Nothing Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana
| Genre       = Industrial metal, alternative metal, noise rock, groove metal
| Length      = 5:36
| Label       = [[Nothing]], [[Interscope Records|Interscope]]
| Writer      = [[Marilyn Manson]]
| Composer    = [[Twiggy Ramirez]], [[Trent Reznor]]
| Producer    = Trent Reznor, Dave Ogilvie, Marilyn Manson
}}
"'''The Reflecting God'''" is the fifteenth track on the 1996 release ''[[Antichrist Superstar]]''.

== Appearances ==
=== Albums ===
* ''[[Antichrist Superstar]]''
* ''[[Lest We Forget – The Best Of]]''

== Versions ==
* The Reflecting God <small>— Appears on ''Antichrist Superstar'' and ''Lest We Forget (The Best of)''.</small>
* The Reflecting God (Live) <small>— Appears on ''[[The Last Tour on Earth]]''.</small>
* The Reflecting God (Live) <small>— Appears on the ''[[Guns, God and Government World Tour]]'' DVD.</small>
* The Reflecting God (Outro) (Live) <small>— Performed on the [[Grotesk Burlesk]] tour and [[Twins of Evil Tour]]; never officially released.</small>
* The Reflecting God (Acoustic) (Live) <small>— Performed three times during the [[Heaven Upside Down Tour]]: in [[2017/08/02 Kyiv, Ukraine|Kyiv, Ukraine]], [[2017/08/05 Utrecht, Netherlands|Utrecht, Netherlands]], and [[2017/08/06 Lokeren, Belgium|Lokeren, Belgium]]; never officially released.</small>

== Lyrics ==
    your world is an ashtray
    we burn and coil like cigarettes
    the more you cry your ashes turn to mud
    its the nature of the leeches, the virgin's
    feeling cheated
    you've only spent a second of you're life
    my world is unaffected, there is an exit here
    I say it is and then it's true, there is a dream inside a
    dream, I'm wide awake the more I sleep
    you'll understand when I'm dead
    I went to god just to see, and I was looking at me
    saw heaven and hell were lies
    when I'm god everyone dies
    scar/can you feel my power?
    shoot here and the world gets smaller
    scar/scar/can you feel my power
    one shot and the world gets smaller
    let's jump upon the sharp swords
    and cut away our smiles
    without the threat of death
    there's no reason to live at all
    my world is unaffected, there is an exit here
    I say it is and then it's true,
    there is a dream inside a dream,
    I'm wide awake the more I sleep
    you'll understand when I'm dead
    I went to god just to see, and I was looking at me
    saw heaven and hell were lies
    when I'm god everyone dies
    scar/can you feel my power?
    shoot here and the world gets smaller
    scar/scar/can you feel my power
    one shot and the world gets smaller
    "Each thing i show you is a piece of my death"
    shoot shoot shoot motherfucker
    no salvation, no forgiveness
    "this is beyond your experience"
    Forgiveness...

== Trivia ==
* An instrumental version of "The Reflecting God" was used as an outro for "[[Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)]]" during the [[Grotesk Burlesk]] tour in 2003 and sometimes during the [[Twins of Evil Tour]] in 2012.
* During live performances Manson has changed the chorus: "Shoot, shoot, shoot motherfucker!" purposely altering that on how it was worded on the initial release of the album, thus simplifying it for unknown reasons.

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[[Category:Songs from The Last Tour on Earth]]
[[Category:Songs from Lest We Forget (The Best Of)]]