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==Lyrics==
 
==Lyrics==
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Love is a fire.
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    Burns down all that it sees.
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    Burns down everything.
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    Everything you think burns down
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    Everything you say   
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     She blew me her death-kiss
 
     She blew me her death-kiss
 
     And the mouth-marks
 
     And the mouth-marks
     bled down my eye
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     bled down my eyes
 
     like her dying,
 
     like her dying,
 
     on my windshield.
 
     on my windshield.
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     eating my spine.
 
     eating my spine.
 
     So how can it be this lonely?
 
     So how can it be this lonely?
     Is this all we get
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     Is that all we get
 
     for our lives?
 
     for our lives?
     Is love only sweet when one
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     Is love only sweeter when one
 
     of us dies?
 
     of us dies?
 
      
 
      
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     Burns down all that it sees.
 
     Burns down all that it sees.
 
     Burns down everything.
 
     Burns down everything.
     Everything you think
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     Everything you think burns down
     will burn everything you say
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     Everything you say  
 
      
 
      
 
     Love is a fire.
 
     Love is a fire.
 
     Burns down all that it sees.
 
     Burns down all that it sees.
 
     Burns down everything.
 
     Burns down everything.
     Everything you think
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     Everything you think burns down
     will burn everything you say
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     Everything you say
 
      
 
      
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    Love is a fire.
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    Burns down all that it sees.
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    Burns down everything.
 +
    Everything you think burns down
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    Everything you say
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     I knew that our love was
 
     I knew that our love was
 
     just a car crash away.
 
     just a car crash away.
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     Just a car crash away.
 
     Just a car crash away.
 
      
 
      
    I knew that our love was
 
    just a
 
    car
 
    crash
 
    away.
 
   
 
    I knew that our love was
 
    just a
 
    car
 
    crash
 
    away.
 
   
 
    Love is a fire.
 
    Burns down all that it sees.
 
    Burns down everything.
 
 
     Everything you think
 
     Everything you think
    will burn everything you say
 
   
 
    Love is a fire.
 
    Burns down all that it sees.
 
    Burns down everything.
 
 
     Everything you think
 
     Everything you think
     will burn everything you say
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     Everything you think burns down
 +
    Everything you say   
 +
 
 +
    Love is a fire
 +
    Burns down all that it sees
 +
    Burns down everything
 +
    Everything you think burns down
 +
    Everything you say
  
 
[[Category: Marilyn Manson Songs]]
 
[[Category: Marilyn Manson Songs]]

Revision as of 22:14, 29 May 2007

"Just a Car Crash Away" is the fifth track on the 2007 release Eat Me, Drink Me. Rolling Stone describes it as "a bic-waving ballad, a death march punctuated by Tim Skold's searing guitar solo." The song was inspired by the break-up with now ex-wife Dita Von Teese. In an interview with Revolver magazine, Manson said, "I compare love to fire, and how it consumes everything, and scars everything, and changes everything. A couple people I have played it for have cried, but I don't think it's sad, I just think it's terribly romantic, in a Bram Stoker sort of way".

It was also the first song written for the album.

Music details

A subversive ballad with triturated guitars, Manson’s most emotional vocal performance of the album and perhaps most honest lyrics. Another Skold solo lifts the song to lighter-in-the-air territory until Manson belts out his final lines to end the track.

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  • Just a Car Crash Away

Lyrics

Love is a fire.

    Burns down all that it sees.
    Burns down everything.
    Everything you think burns down
    Everything you say     
    She blew me her death-kiss
    And the mouth-marks
    bled down my eyes
    like her dying,
    on my windshield.
    I can already feel
    her worms 
    eating my spine.
    So how can it be this lonely?
    Is that all we get
    for our lives?
    Is love only sweeter when one
    of us dies?
    
    Then I knew that our love was
    just a car crash away.
    I knew that our love was just a car crash away
    I knew that our love was
    just a car crash away.
    I knew that our love was
    just a car crash away.
    
    Love is a fire.
    Burns down all that it sees.
    Burns down everything.
    Everything you think burns down
    Everything you say   
    
    Love is a fire.
    Burns down all that it sees.
    Burns down everything.
    Everything you think burns down
    Everything you say
    
    Love is a fire.
    Burns down all that it sees.
    Burns down everything.
    Everything you think burns down
    Everything you say
    I knew that our love was
    just a car crash away.
    Knew that our love was
    just a car crash away.
    Just a car crash away.
    
    Everything you think
    Everything you think
    Everything you think burns down
    Everything you say     
    Love is a fire
    Burns down all that it sees
    Burns down everything
    Everything you think burns down
    Everything you say