Putting Holes in Happiness

"Putting Holes in Happiness" is the second track from the 2007 release Eat Me, Drink Me. Written on his own birthday Manson describes the song as been "a romantic-misogynistic-cannibal-gothic-vampire ballad". Similarly he has described the whole album as been "cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance – but with an upbeat swing."

Music details

Mid-tempo, guitar-orientated, more synths audible than on the album opener. Manson adopts a tortured croon; a guitar solo punctuates the track for almost a minute (2:46 – 3:37).

Appearances

Albums

• Eat Me, Drink Me

Versions

• Putting Holes in Happiness — Appears on Eat Me, Drink Me

Lyrics

    The sky was blonde like her
    It was a day to take the child
    Out back and shoot it
    I should have buried all my dead
    Up in her cemetery head 
    She had dirty word witchcraft
    I was in the deep end of her skin
    Then, it seemed like a one car wreck
    But I knew it was a horrid tragedy
    Ways to make the tiny satisfaction disappear
    
    Blow out the candles 
    On all my frankensteins
    At least my death wish will come true
    You will taste like Valentine’s and
    We cry
    You’re like a birthday 
    I should have picked the photograph 
    It lasted longer than you
    
    Putting holes in happiness 
    We’ll paint the future black
    If it needs any color
    My death sentence is a story
    Who’ll be digging when you finally let me die?
    The romance of your assassination
    If you’re Bonnie, I’ll be your Clyde
    But the grass is greener here
    And I can see all of your snakes
    You wear your ruins well
    Please run away with me to hell
    
    Blow out the candles 
    On all my frankensteins
    At least my death wish will come true
    You will taste like Valentine’s and
    We cry
    You’re like a birthday 
    I should have picked the photograph 
    It lasted longer than you