Fundamentally Loathsome

"Fundamentally Loathsome"
Song by Marilyn Manson
Album	Mechanical Animals
Released	September 14, 1998
Recorded	1997–1998 at the White Room, Westlake Recording Studios in West Hollywood, California and Conway Studios
Genre	Alternative rock, south rock, post-industrial sadcore
Length	4:49
Label	Nothing, Interscope
Writer	Marilyn Manson
Composer	Madonna Wayne Gacy, Zim Zum
Producer	Michael Beinhorn, Marilyn Manson

"Fundamentally Loathsome" is the twelfth track on the 1998 release Mechanical Animals.

Appearances

Albums

• Mechanical Animals

Versions

• "Fundamentally Loathsome" — Appears on Mechanical Animals.

Lyrics

    I want to wake up in your
    White, white sun
    I want to wake up in your world
    With no pain
    But I'll just suffer in a hope to die someday
    While you are numb all of the way
    
    When you hate it you know you can feel but
    When you love it you know it's not real
    No
    
    And I am resigned to this wicked fucking world
    On its way to hell
    The living are dead and
    I hope to join them too
    I know what to do and I do it well...
    
    When you hate it you know you can feel but
    When you love it you know it's not real
    No
    
    Shoot myself to love you
    If I loved myself I'd be shooting you

Personnel

• Marilyn Manson – vocals
• Twiggy Ramirez – bass
• Madonna Wayne Gacy – piano and other keyboards
• Zim Zum – lead guitar and rhythm guitar
• Ginger Fish – drums

Trivia

• The lyrics "In a wicked world/on the way to hell/we know what to do and we do it well" was tested out as a live spoken interlude during the transition of songs on the Smells Like Children tour and Dead to the World tour. This lyrics originally comes from a song recorded for the Antichrist Superstar recording sessions called "Piss in the Wound".