Editing A Place in the Dirt

{{Song
| Name        = A Place in the Dirt
| Cover       = HolyWood(InTheShadowOfTheValleyOfDeath).jpg
| Artist      = [[Marilyn Manson (band)|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 rock, art rock, industrial rock, experimental rock
| Length      = 3:37
| Label       = [[Nothing]], [[Interscope Records|Interscope]]
| Writer      = [[Marilyn Manson]]
| Composer    = [[John 5]]
| Producer    = Marilyn Manson, Dave Sardy
}}
"'''A Place in the Dirt'''" is the ninth track on the 2000 release ''[[Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)]]''. The song consists of only four verses and two refrains. While the instrumentation in the verses consists of only a synthesizer and percussion, the choruses are much louder and feature live drums and distorted guitars.

== Appearances ==
=== Albums ===
* ''[[Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)]]''

== Versions ==
* A Place in the Dirt <small>— Appears on ''Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)''.</small>

== Lyrics ==
     We are damned and we are dead
     all god's children to be sent
     to our perfect place in the sun
     and in the dirt
     
     There's a windshield in my heart
     we are bugs so smeared and scarred
     and could you stop the meat from thinking
     before I swallow all of it,
     could you please?
     
     Put me in the motorcade
     put me in the death parade
     dress me up and make me
     dress me up and make me
     your dying god
     
     angel with needles
     poked through our eyes
     and let the ugly light
     of the world in
     and we were no longer blind
     and we were no longer blind
     
     Put me in the motorcade
     put me in the death parade
     dress me up and make me
     dress me up and make me
     your dying god
     
     Now we hold the "ugly head"
     the Mary-whore is at the bed
     They've cast the shadow of our perfect death
     in the sun and in the dirt.

== Trivia ==
* The lyric "to our perfect place in the sun," is a reference to the 1951 film "A Place in the Sun," starring Mongomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor, which is based on the novel "An American Tragedy."

[[Category:Marilyn Manson songs]]
[[Category:Songs from Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)]]
[[Category:Never performed live]]
[[Category:Holy Wood era]]

* The intro and verse styling is very similar to the intro to the song “Emory Spaces”  by Pink Floyd