Man That You Fear (song)
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- This article is about the song. For the single, see Man That You Fear (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 | 6:10 | |
| Label | Nothing, Interscope | |
| Writer | Marilyn Manson | |
| Composer | Twiggy Ramirez, Marilyn Manson, Madonna Wayne Gacy, Daisy Berkowitz | |
| Producer | Trent Reznor, Dave Ogilvie, Marilyn Manson | |
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"Man That You Fear" is the third and final single of the second album Antichrist Superstar. The song is inspired by what Manson had to grow up with and how it turned him into what he is now, a man or monster that people now have grown to fear. The chorus ("Peel off all those eyes, crawl into the dark") is about how parents are hiding their children from what is really going on out there and how they are teaching them to fear anything that is different. The line, "Are all your infants in abortion cribs" substantiates a history contained in The Long Hard Road Out of Hell in which Manson as a child found a coffee can with something rotting inside. His mother told him it was discarded meat, but later told him that it was actually an aborted fetus.
The album version of Man That You Fear contains the very great noise in the final two minutes of the song. In the middle of the noise, the phrase "when all of your wishes had granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed" sounded repeatedly.
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[edit] Appearances
[edit] Albums
[edit] Singles
[edit] Versions
- Man That You Fear — Appears on Antichrist Superstar .
- Man That You Fear (Radio Edit) — Appears on the "Man That You Fear" promotional single.
- Man That Your Fear (Acoustic Requiem for Antichrist Superstar) — Appears on Remix & Repent.
[edit] Music video
In the music video, directed by Wiz, Manson portrays a man who is condemned to die. He is "chosen" by a blindfolded child who spins around pointing her finger. When she stops spinning, she removed the blindfold and sees the trailer home that she is pointing to — the condemned's home. The video features all events of his last day on earth, leading up to his death by stoning in an isolated location of the desert. It is oddly reminiscent of Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery.
[edit] Lyrics
the ants are in the sugar
the muscles atrophied
we're on the other side, the screen is us and
we're t.v.
spread me open, sticking to my pointy ribs are
all your infants in abortion cribs
I was born into this
everything turns to shit
the boy that you loved is the
man that you fear
pray until you're number, asleep from all
your pain, your apple has been rotting
tomorrow's turned up dead
i have it all and i have no choice but to
i'll make everyone pay and you will see
you can kill yourself now
because you're dead
in my mind
the boy that you loved is the
monster you fear
peel off all those eyes and crawl into the
dark, you've poisoned all of your children
to camouflage your scars
pray unto the splinters, pray unto your fear
pray your life was just a dream
the cut that never heals
pray now baby, pray your
life was just a dream
(I am so tangled in my sins that I cannot
Escape)
pinch the head off, collapse me like a weed
someone had to go this far
I was born into this
everything turns to shit
the boy that you loved is the
man that you fear
peel off all those eyes and crawl into the
dark, you've poisoned all of your children
to camouflage your scars
pray unto the splinters, pray unto your fear
pray your life was just a dream
the cut that never heals
pray now baby, pray your life was just a
dream
the world in my hands, there's no one left to
hear you scream
there's no one left for you
[edit] Trivia
The opening line of the song was first used in the song "Luci in the Sky with Demons" from The Family Jams.
