Lamb of God
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| Song by Marilyn Manson | ||
| Album | Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) | |
| Released | November 13, 2000 | |
| Recorded | 1999–2000 at the Mansion in Death Valley, California | |
| Genre | Alternative metal | |
| Length | 4:39 | |
| Label | Nothing, Interscope | |
| Writer | Marilyn Manson | |
| Composer | Twiggy Ramirez | |
| Producer | Marilyn Manson, Dave Sardy | |
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"Lamb of God" is the twelfth track on the 2000 release Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death). The song was inspired by the way the media presents death a la Manson's observation that the media views tragic death as a form of entertainment for the masses. It also makes references to assassination victims treated as martyrs such as John F. Kennedy, referred to by nickname ("thats how Jack became sainted"), John Lennon ("nothing's going to change the world", a line from The Beatles song "Across the Universe" which Lennon wrote, and "There was Lennon in the happy gun"), and Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's killer ("we were looking for Mark David").
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[edit] Analysis
"if you die when there's no one watching/then your ratings drop and you're forgotten/if they kill you on their TV/you're a martyr and a lamb of god." And that's such a damned shame. Traveling from "how Jack became sainted" to the assassination of John Lennon (the reference to "Lennon and the happy gun" points up the awful irony that death-by-bullet befell the man who wrote and sang the savage satire "Happiness Is a Warm Gun"), Manson here instead of castigating the death'n'fame process simply and quietly grieves over it: his voice drops to a soft breaking whisper to sing "nothing's gonna change the world," another Lennon homage. Even the bitter aside about the value of the serial rights to crucifixion coverage (just imagine the ratings that would draw these days...) doesn't take the tenderness out of this one.
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- Lamb of God — Appears on Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death).
[edit] Lyrics
There was Christ in the metal shell
there was blood on the pavement
The camera will make you god
that's how Jack became sainted
If you die when there's no one watching
then your ratings drop and you're forgotten
but if they kill you on their TV
you're a martyr and a lamb of god
nothing's going to change
nothing's going to change the world
There was Lennon in the happy gun
There were words on the pavement
we were looking for the lamb of god
we were looking for Mark David
If you die when there's no one watching
then your ratings drop and you're forgotten
but if they kill you on their TV
you're a martyr and a lamb of god
Nothing's going to change the world
nothing's going to change
Nothing's going to change the world
nothing's going to change
the world
it took three days for him to die
so the born again could buy the serial rights
lamb of god have mercy on us
lamb of god won't you grant us
Nothing's going to change the world
nothing's going to change
Nothing's going to change the world
nothing's going to change
the world
If you die when there's no one watching
then your ratings drop and you're forgotten
but if they kill you on their TV
you're a martyr and a lamb of god
nothing's going to change the world
