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| − | + | 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 your 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... | |
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
Revision as of 10:33, 15 October 2012
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| Song by Marilyn Manson | ||
| Album | Antichrist Superstar | |
| Released | October 8, 1996 | |
| Recorded | 1996 at Nothing Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana | |
| Genre | Industrial rock, Industrial metal, Trash metal | |
| Length | 5:36 | |
| Label | Nothing, 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.
Contents
Appearances
Albums
Versions
- The Reflecting God — Appears on Antichrist Superstar and Lest We Forget (The Best of).
- The Reflecting God (Live) — Appears on The Last Tour on Earth.
- The Reflecting God (Live) — Appears on the Guns, God and Government World Tour DVD.
- The Reflecting God (Outro) (Live) — Performed on the Grotesk Burlesk tour and Twins of Evil Tour; never officially released.
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 your 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.
