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| − | + | she's made of hair and bone and little teeth | |
| − | + | and things I cannot speak | |
| − | and things | + | she comes on like a crippled plaything |
| − | she comes on like a crippled plaything | + | spine is just a string |
| − | + | I wrapped our love in all this foil | |
| − | + | silver-tight like spider legs | |
| − | I wrapped our love in all this foil | + | I never wanted it to ever spoil |
| − | + | but flies will always lay their eggs | |
| − | I never wanted it to ever spoil | + | Take your hatred out on me |
| − | but flies will always lay their eggs | + | make your victim my head |
| − | + | you never ever believed in me | |
| − | Take your hatred out on me | + | I am your tourniquet |
| − | + | prosthetic synthesis with butterfly | |
| − | + | sealed up with virgin stitch | |
| − | I am your tourniquet | + | if it hurts just tell me |
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Revision as of 22:33, 12 December 2010
- This article is about the song. For the single see Tourniquet (single).
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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 | Alternative rock | |
| Length | 4:29 | |
| Label | Nothing, Interscope | |
| Writer | Marilyn Manson | |
| Composer | Twiggy Ramirez, Daisy Berkowitz | |
| Producer | Trent Reznor, Dave Ogilvie, Marilyn Manson | |
"Tourniquet" is the second single and fourth track of the second album Antichrist Superstar. In the first few seconds of the song, backmasked vocals can be heard, which are: "This is my lowest point of vulnerability". In the book The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Manson states that he had been under the influence of cocaine and was crying in the studio during the time that he recorded the aforementioned vocal.
Appearances
Albums
Singles
Versions
- Tourniquet — Appears on Antichrist Superstar and Lest We Forget (The Best of).
- The Tourniquet Prosthetic Dance Mix — Appears on the "Tourniquet" single and The Nobodies: 2005 Against All Gods Mix.
- The Tourniquet Prosthetic Dance Mix (Edit) — Appears on the "Tourniquet" Pt. 1 single, Remix & Repent, and the Deluxe Edition of Lest We Forget (The Best of).
Music video
The video for "Tourniquet" features an array of grotesque imagery within a dark and surreal environment. It is mostly concentrated around an odd humanoid, suggested by the lyrics to be a creation of Manson's, propped up on wheels to move. He tends to his creation with the assistance of another child-like creature throughout the video.
Lyrics
she's made of hair and bone and little teeth and things I cannot speak she comes on like a crippled plaything spine is just a string I wrapped our love in all this foil silver-tight like spider legs I never wanted it to ever spoil but flies will always lay their eggs Take your hatred out on me make your victim my head you never ever believed in me I am your tourniquet prosthetic synthesis with butterfly sealed up with virgin stitch if it hurts just tell me preserve the innocence I never wanted it to end this way, but flies will lay their eggs
Trivia
- Like many Marilyn Manson songs from the first three albums, the lyrics to this song were previously a poem Manson had wrote prior to the formation of the band.
