Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes
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- This article is about the song. For the single see Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes (single).
"Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes" is a b-side of the 1996 album Antichrist Superstar. It was released officially on The Last Tour on Earth in 1999, and became a single and music video, the latter which featured the band as MTV Celebrity Deathmatch characters performing.
This is also the first song with a writing credit for John 5, who did not initially write the guitar parts but re-worked them to become the current version of the song.
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[edit] Appearances
[edit] Albums
[edit] Singles
[edit] Versions
- Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes — Appears on The Last Tour on Earth and the Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes single.
- Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes (Clean Version) — Appears on the Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes single.
- Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes (Live) — Appears on the Guns, God and Government World Tour DVD.
[edit] Music video
The music video is done in the style of Celebrity Deathmatch, showing Manson and the band performing as clay figures. Manson is dressed in the same outfit as he wore in the Rock is Dead music video. The video starts as a standard performance by the band, and then a pair of conjoined monkeys watching a TV with mechanical legs is seen. The monkeys begin to run after the TV as it runs away, but later the TV runs after them, and eventually the monkeys' heads are replaced by a large television screen. The music video ends, with the mechanical TV seemingly broken.
[edit] Lyrics
the boy's got a head like an atom bomb
hang him from a cross like the number one son
and he's been waiting so long
to get it on
the boy's 15 but he's 16 gauge
wants to break out from his Jesus cage
he's already torn out the last page
it's the "latest rage"
violence for the people
they always eat the hand that bleeds
violence for the people
give the kids what they need
kill your god, kill your god
kill your t.v.
the boy's purified by the quitter gods
burning up his cross like a revelation
and his glass jaw opens
like a puppet head
this is what you should fear
you are what you should fear
