Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes (song)
"Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes" is a b-side of the 1996 album Antichrist Superstar. It was released officially on The Last Tour on Earth in 1999, and became a single and music video, the latter which featured the band as MTV Celebrity Deathmatch characters performing.
This is also the first song with a writing credit for John 5.
Contents
Appearances
Albums
Singles
- "Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes"
Versions
- Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes — Appears on The Last Tour on Earth and the "Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes" single.
- Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes (Clean Version) — Appears on the "Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes" single.
- Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes (Live) — Appears on the Guns, God and Government World Tour DVD.
Music video
The music video is done in the style of Celebrity Deathmatch, showing Manson and the band performing as clay figures. Manson is dressed in the same outfit as he wore in the Rock is Dead music video. The video starts as a standard performance by the band, and then a pair of conjoined monkeys watching a TV with mechanical legs is seen. The monkeys begin to run after the TV as it runs away, but later the TV runs after them, and eventually the monkeys' heads are replaced by a large television screen. The music video ends, with the mechanical TV seemingly broken.
Track listing
Promotional
- "Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes" (Clean Edit) – 3:28
- "Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes" (Original Version) – 3:58
Lyrics
the boy's got a head like an atom bomb hang him from a cross like the number one son and he's been waiting so long to get it on the boy's 15 but he's 16 gauge wants to break out from his Jesus cage he's already torn out the last page it's the "latest rage" violence for the people they always eat the hand that bleeds violence for the people give the kids what they need kill your god, kill your god kill your t.v. the boy's purified by the quitter gods burning up his cross like a revelation and his glass jaw opens like a puppet head this is what you should fear you are what you should fear