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"GodEatGod" is the first track on the 2000 release Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death). Its title is spoonerism of the term "dog eat dog".
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- GodEatGod — Appears on Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death).
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Dear god do you want to tear your knuckles down
And hold yourself
Dear god can you climb off that tree
Meat in the shape of a 'T'
Dear god the paper says you were the King
In the black limousine
Dear John and all the King's men
Can't put your head together again
Before the bullets
Before the flies
Before authorities take out my eyes
The only smiling are you dolls that I made
But you are plastic and so are your brains
Dear god the sky is as blue
As a gunshot wound
Dear god if you were alive
You know we'd kill you
Before the bullets
Before the flies
Before authorities take out my eyes
The only smiling are you dolls that I made
But you are plastic and so are your brains
[edit] Trivia
- It is interesting to note that the sequence of beats before the guitars hit are a prime example of the Fibonacci Sequence,a mathematical algorithm that is found in all of nature, and was programmed into Manson's work, most notably Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death).The sequence of the beats of the sounds before the introduction of the guitars in GodEatGod are as follow. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5; one noise, another, two in succession, three in succession, five in succession and the song begins. As pointed out on The Nachkabarett: Fibonacci & Holywood
- A raw instrumental version of the track was used in the "Autopsy" video that was used to promote Holy Wood. The video is available as an easter egg on the Lest We Forget (The Best of) bonus DVD.
- There are only two live shows where the band performed "GodEatGod": 2000/11/14 New York City, NY and 2001/02/06 Bologne, Italy.
- The line "Dear John and all the King's men / Can't put your head together again" is reference to the nursery rhyme of Humpty Dumpty: "All the king's horses and all the king's men / Couldn't put Humpty together again".
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