Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)
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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 | 4:18 | |
| Label | Nothing, Interscope | |
| Writer | Marilyn Manson | |
| Composer | Twiggy Ramirez, John 5 | |
| Producer | Marilyn Manson, Dave Sardy | |
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"Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)" is the fifth track on the 2000 release Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death). The song is for the majority, a pun (Narcissus relating to narcissism, and Narcosis relating to narcotics, roughly meaning "getting high on yourself") utilized to mock the media's sole interest in ratings.
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Confronting "all the old deceivers" with an unsympathetic catalog of their worst crimes and failures - the Kennedys, Booth, Oswald, Huxley, all of "your crucifixion commercials"-- Manson taunts them with the one they let get through ("you never checked the bag in my head for a bomb"), refuses to be ashamed of his life, and defends Shakespeare along with all the "young believers" and back-stabbed babies the above-named bankrupt elders have targeted.
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- Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis) — Appears on Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death).
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Am I sorry your sky went black,
put your knives in babies backs?
Am I sorry you killed the Kennedy's, and Huxley too?
But I'm sorry Shakespeare
was your scapegoat
and your apple's sticking into my throat
Sorry your Sunday smiles are rusty nails
and your crucifixion commercials failed
but I'm just a pitiful anonymous
And I see all the young believers
Your target audience
I see all the old deceivers
and we all just sing their song
Am I sorry just to be alive
putting my face in the beehive?
Am I sorry for Booth and Oswald, pinks and cocaine too?
I'm sorry you never check
the bag in my head for a bomb
and my halo was a needle hole
Sorry I saw a priest being beaten
and I made a wish
but I'm just a pitiful anonymous
And I see all the young believers
Your target audience
I see all the old deceivers
we all just sing their song
we all just sing their song
"the valley of death we are free
your father's your prison you see"
And I see all the young believers
Your target audience
I see all the old deceivers
we all just sing their song
you're just a copy of an imitation
