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This page lists lyrics of songs by [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]] which incorporate similar elements thematically, as well as lyrics which are identical or near-identical.
 
This page lists lyrics of songs by [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]] which incorporate similar elements thematically, as well as lyrics which are identical or near-identical.
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''Lyrics that are italicized were not written by [[Marilyn Manson]].''
  
 
''This list is incomplete.''
 
''This list is incomplete.''
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*"[[Angel with the Scabbed Wings]]": "he is the angel with the scabbed wings"
 
*"[[Angel with the Scabbed Wings]]": "he is the angel with the scabbed wings"
 
*"[[Antichrist Superstar (song)|Antichrist Superstar]]": "the angel has spread its wings"
 
*"[[Antichrist Superstar (song)|Antichrist Superstar]]": "the angel has spread its wings"
*"[[Golden Years]]": "Don't let me hear you say life's taking you nowhere, angel" and "Last night they loved you, opening doors and pulling some strings, angel"
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*"[[Golden Years]]": "''Don't let me hear you say life's taking you nowhere, angel''" and "''Last night they loved you, opening doors and pulling some strings, angel''"
 
*"[[In the Shadow of the Valley of Death]]": "Death is an angel"
 
*"[[In the Shadow of the Valley of Death]]": "Death is an angel"
 
*"[[A Place in the Dirt]]": "angel with needles / poked through our eyes"
 
*"[[A Place in the Dirt]]": "angel with needles / poked through our eyes"
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*"[[I.V.-T.V.]]": "black sun came and changed our name"
 
*"[[I.V.-T.V.]]": "black sun came and changed our name"
 
*"[[Organ Grinder]]": "the black keys"
 
*"[[Organ Grinder]]": "the black keys"
*"[[Rock 'n' Roll Nigger]]": "baby was a black sheep"
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*"[[Rock 'n' Roll Nigger]]": "''baby was a black sheep''"
 
*"[[Irresponsible Hate Anthem]]": "Hey victim, should I black your eyes again?"
 
*"[[Irresponsible Hate Anthem]]": "Hey victim, should I black your eyes again?"
 
*"[[Kinderfeld]]": ""because today / is black/because there is no turning back.""
 
*"[[Kinderfeld]]": ""because today / is black/because there is no turning back.""
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*"[[The Golden Age of Grotesque (song)|The Golden Age of Grotesque]]": "Put on your black face and your god is gone."
 
*"[[The Golden Age of Grotesque (song)|The Golden Age of Grotesque]]": "Put on your black face and your god is gone."
 
*"[[Vodevil]]": "Jaw me black ball me"
 
*"[[Vodevil]]": "Jaw me black ball me"
*"[[This Is Halloween]]": "Red and black, slimy green"
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*"[[This Is Halloween]]": "''Red and black, slimy green''"
 
*"[[If I Was Your Vampire]]": "beyond the pale everything is black"
 
*"[[If I Was Your Vampire]]": "beyond the pale everything is black"
 
*"[[Putting Holes in Happiness]]": "We'll paint the future black if it needs any color."
 
*"[[Putting Holes in Happiness]]": "We'll paint the future black if it needs any color."
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===Blue===
 
===Blue===
 
*"[[The Telephone]]": "There I make the perfunctory morning faces, which always seem to precede my daily contribution to the once-blue toilet water that I always enjoy making green."
 
*"[[The Telephone]]": "There I make the perfunctory morning faces, which always seem to precede my daily contribution to the once-blue toilet water that I always enjoy making green."
*"[[A Rose and a Baby Ruth]]": "Now I'm as a blue as I know how to be"
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*"[[A Rose and a Baby Ruth]]": "''Now I'm as a blue as I know how to be''"
*"[[Little Child]]": "Tell me where is the bluebird of happiness found / Tell me why is the sky up above us so blue"
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*"[[Little Child]]": "''Tell me where is the bluebird of happiness found / Tell me why is the sky up above us so blue''"
 
*"[[GodEatGod]]": "Dear god the sky is as blue / As a gunshot wound"
 
*"[[GodEatGod]]": "Dear god the sky is as blue / As a gunshot wound"
 
*"[[King Kill 33°]]": "the blue and withered seeds / you will reap."
 
*"[[King Kill 33°]]": "the blue and withered seeds / you will reap."
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*"[[Red (in My) Head]]": "red red in my head" and "red red they call me red red in bed"
 
*"[[Red (in My) Head]]": "red red in my head" and "red red they call me red red in bed"
 
*"[[Cake and Sodomy]]": "red-neck-burn-out-mid-west-mind"
 
*"[[Cake and Sodomy]]": "red-neck-burn-out-mid-west-mind"
*"[[This Is Halloween]]": "Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red" and "Red and black, slimy green"
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*"[[This Is Halloween]]": "''Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red" and "Red and black, slimy green''"
 
*"[[The Red Carpet Grave]]": "Here comes the red carpet grave"
 
*"[[The Red Carpet Grave]]": "Here comes the red carpet grave"
 
*"[[EAT ME, DRINK ME]]": "In the wasteland / on the way to the Red Queen... / it's no wonder our stage clothes / have dreams to be famous."
 
*"[[EAT ME, DRINK ME]]": "In the wasteland / on the way to the Red Queen... / it's no wonder our stage clothes / have dreams to be famous."
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*"[[Cake and Sodomy]]": "white trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy"
 
*"[[Cake and Sodomy]]": "white trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy"
 
*"[[Wrapped in Plastic]]": ""thin and so white, thin and so white""
 
*"[[Wrapped in Plastic]]": ""thin and so white, thin and so white""
*"[[Down in the Park]]": "Little white lies like 'I was there'"
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*"[[Down in the Park]]": "''Little white lies like 'I was there'''"
 
*"[[1996]]": "anti white"
 
*"[[1996]]": "anti white"
 
*"[[Great Big White World]]": "Because it's a great big white world / And we are drained of our colors" and "In a world so white what else could I say?"
 
*"[[Great Big White World]]": "Because it's a great big white world / And we are drained of our colors" and "In a world so white what else could I say?"
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===Alcohol===
 
===Alcohol===
*"[[Get My Rocks Off]]": "Some men need two women, some need alcohol"
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*"[[Get My Rocks Off]]": "''Some men need two women, some need alcohol''"
 
*"[[Doppelherz (song)|Doppelherz]]": "Stop rehearsing alcohol and start performing narcotics"
 
*"[[Doppelherz (song)|Doppelherz]]": "Stop rehearsing alcohol and start performing narcotics"
  
 
===Cocaine===
 
===Cocaine===
 
*"[[Junk the Magic Dragon]]": "Coke, tar, crystal methane thrill"
 
*"[[Junk the Magic Dragon]]": "Coke, tar, crystal methane thrill"
*"[[Get My Rocks Off]]": "Some men need cocaine"
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*"[[Get My Rocks Off]]": "''Some men need cocaine''"
 
*"[[Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)]]": "Am I sorry for Booth and Oswald, pinks and cocaine too?"
 
*"[[Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)]]": "Am I sorry for Booth and Oswald, pinks and cocaine too?"
  
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*"[[Rock Is Dead (song)|Rock Is Dead]]": "Amphetamines for boys"
 
*"[[Rock Is Dead (song)|Rock Is Dead]]": "Amphetamines for boys"
 
*"[[Posthuman]]": "She's got eyes like Zapruder / And a mouth like heroin"
 
*"[[Posthuman]]": "She's got eyes like Zapruder / And a mouth like heroin"
*"[[Get My Rocks Off]]": "Some men need some killer weed" and "Some men need some cactus juice"
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*"[[Get My Rocks Off]]": "''Some men need some killer weed''" and "''Some men need some cactus juice''"
 
*"[[Doppelherz (song)|Doppelherz]]": "Stop rehearsing alcohol and start performing narcotics"
 
*"[[Doppelherz (song)|Doppelherz]]": "Stop rehearsing alcohol and start performing narcotics"
*"[[Mind of a Lunatic]]": "A ragin' psychotic full of that angel's dust"
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*"[[Mind of a Lunatic]]": "''A ragin' psychotic full of that angel's dust''"
  
 
===Pills===
 
===Pills===
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*"[[1996]]": "light a candle for the sinners, set the world on fire"
 
*"[[1996]]": "light a candle for the sinners, set the world on fire"
 
*"[[The Reflecting God]]": "we burn and coil like cigarettes"
 
*"[[The Reflecting God]]": "we burn and coil like cigarettes"
*"[[Dirt]]: "Can you feel it when you touch me? / There's a fire" and " The fire inside"
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*"[[Dirt]]: "''Can you feel it when you touch me? / There's a fire" and " The fire inside''"
 
*"[[Apple of Sodom]]": "I drained my heart and burn my soul"
 
*"[[Apple of Sodom]]": "I drained my heart and burn my soul"
 
*"[[In the Shadow of the Valley of Death]]": "we burn ourselves to hell" and "she's a burning string"
 
*"[[In the Shadow of the Valley of Death]]": "we burn ourselves to hell" and "she's a burning string"
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*"[[Coma Black]]": "I burned all the good things in The Eden Eye"
 
*"[[Coma Black]]": "I burned all the good things in The Eden Eye"
 
*"[[Diamonds & Pollen]]": "Brilliant sluts and fire worship"
 
*"[[Diamonds & Pollen]]": "Brilliant sluts and fire worship"
*"[[Sick City]]": "Sick city burn their houses down"
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*"[[Sick City]]": "''Sick city burn their houses down''"
 
*"[[Spade|♠]]": "Burn your empty rain down on me"
 
*"[[Spade|♠]]": "Burn your empty rain down on me"
 
*"[[The Bright Young Things]]": "We set it on fire and we have no reason why"
 
*"[[The Bright Young Things]]": "We set it on fire and we have no reason why"
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*"[[Deformography]]": "you eat up my heart and all the little parts"
 
*"[[Deformography]]": "you eat up my heart and all the little parts"
 
*"[[Apple of Sodom]]": "I drained my heart and burn my soul"
 
*"[[Apple of Sodom]]": "I drained my heart and burn my soul"
*"[[Golden Years]]": "Don't cry my sweet, don't break my heart"
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*"[[Golden Years]]": "''Don't cry my sweet, don't break my heart''"
 
*"[[The Speed of Pain]]": "The crack inside your fucking heart is me"
 
*"[[The Speed of Pain]]": "The crack inside your fucking heart is me"
*"[[Spine of God]]": "So ride me, baby, in my bed of sweat and truth / And babble and groan words of praise and love / And fry like a pig / In the heart of the sun..."
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*"[[Spine of God]]": "''So ride me, baby, in my bed of sweat and truth / And babble and groan words of praise and love / And fry like a pig / In the heart of the sun...''"
 
*"[[A Place in the Dirt]]": "There's a windshield in my heart"
 
*"[[A Place in the Dirt]]": "There's a windshield in my heart"
 
*"[[Compass and the Ruler]]": "My heart keeps breaking and I keep taking this"
 
*"[[Compass and the Ruler]]": "My heart keeps breaking and I keep taking this"
 
*"[[Born Again]]": ""I'll put down your disco / and take your heart away.""
 
*"[[Born Again]]": ""I'll put down your disco / and take your heart away.""
 
*"[[Coma Black]]": "my heart's a tiny bloodclot" and "Her heart's bloodstained egg"
 
*"[[Coma Black]]": "my heart's a tiny bloodclot" and "Her heart's bloodstained egg"
*"[[Tainted Love]]": "Sometimes I feel I've got to / Run away I've got to / Get away / From the pain you drive in the heart of me"
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*"[[Tainted Love]]": "''Sometimes I feel I've got to / Run away I've got to / Get away / From the pain you drive in the heart of me''"
 
*"[[(s)AINT]]": "You said I tasted famous, so I drew you a heart"
 
*"[[(s)AINT]]": "You said I tasted famous, so I drew you a heart"
 
*"[[Ka-boom Ka-boom]]": "I'd like to love you / but my heart is a sore"
 
*"[[Ka-boom Ka-boom]]": "I'd like to love you / but my heart is a sore"
 
*"[[Spade|♠]]": "You drained my heart"
 
*"[[Spade|♠]]": "You drained my heart"
*"[[What Goes Around... Comes Around]]: "It's breaking my heart to watch you run around"
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*"[[What Goes Around... Comes Around]]: "''It's breaking my heart to watch you run around''"
 
*"[[If I Was Your Vampire]]": "You press the knife against your heart.", "The hole is where the heart is.", and "Blood-stained sheets / in the shape of your heart"
 
*"[[If I Was Your Vampire]]": "You press the knife against your heart.", "The hole is where the heart is.", and "Blood-stained sheets / in the shape of your heart"
 
*"[[Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)]]": "Don't break, don't break / my heart / and I won't break your / heart-shaped glasses"
 
*"[[Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)]]": "Don't break, don't break / my heart / and I won't break your / heart-shaped glasses"
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*"[[Great Big White World]]": "And hell was so cold"
 
*"[[Great Big White World]]": "And hell was so cold"
 
*"[[Fundamentally Loathsome]]": "And I am resigned to this wicked fucking world / On its way to hell"
 
*"[[Fundamentally Loathsome]]": "And I am resigned to this wicked fucking world / On its way to hell"
*"[[Highway to Hell]]": "I'm on the highway to hell"
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*"[[Highway to Hell]]": "''I'm on the highway to hell''"
 
*"[[In the Shadow of the Valley of Death]]": "we burn ourselves to hell"
 
*"[[In the Shadow of the Valley of Death]]": "we burn ourselves to hell"
 
*"[[The Death Song]]": "we light a candle on an earth / we made into hell"
 
*"[[The Death Song]]": "we light a candle on an earth / we made into hell"
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*"[[The Fight Song]]": "They'll just cut our wrists"
 
*"[[The Fight Song]]": "They'll just cut our wrists"
 
*"[[Valentine's Day]]": "They slit our wrists and send us to heaven"
 
*"[[Valentine's Day]]": "They slit our wrists and send us to heaven"
*"[[Mind of a Lunatic]]": "Both of my wrists was slit"
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*"[[Mind of a Lunatic]]": "''Both of my wrists was slit''"
  
 
==Stars==
 
==Stars==
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*"[[Mechanical Animals (song)|Mechanical Animals]]": "I'm just a boy / Playing the Suicide King"
 
*"[[Mechanical Animals (song)|Mechanical Animals]]": "I'm just a boy / Playing the Suicide King"
 
*"[[I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)]]": "'We're talkshown and we're pointing / Just like Christians at a suicide.'"
 
*"[[I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)]]": "'We're talkshown and we're pointing / Just like Christians at a suicide.'"
*"[[Suicide Is Painless]]": "Suicide is painless / It brings on many changes / And I can take or leave it if I please."
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*"[[Suicide Is Painless]]": "''Suicide is painless / It brings on many changes / And I can take or leave it if I please.''"
 
*"[[Coma Black]]": "I'll kill myself to make everybody pay"
 
*"[[Coma Black]]": "I'll kill myself to make everybody pay"
 
*"[[Vodevil]]" and "[[Doppelherz (song)|Doppelherz]]": "Downloadable suicide"
 
*"[[Vodevil]]" and "[[Doppelherz (song)|Doppelherz]]": "Downloadable suicide"
*"[[Mind of a Lunatic]]": "A homicidal maniac with suicidal tendencies"
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*"[[Mind of a Lunatic]]": "''A homicidal maniac with suicidal tendencies''"
 
*"[[The Red Carpet Grave]]": "Us boys are all dressed up like a mediocre suicide omen."
 
*"[[The Red Carpet Grave]]": "Us boys are all dressed up like a mediocre suicide omen."
 
*"[[EAT ME, DRINK ME]]": "She has been forecast with an attempt to kill herself/ourself"
 
*"[[EAT ME, DRINK ME]]": "She has been forecast with an attempt to kill herself/ourself"
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==Recurring phrases==
 
==Recurring phrases==
''Backslashes (without spaces) denote that the word alters between songs. Parenthesis denote that the word or phrase that appears is not present in at least one of the songs that share the lyric.''
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''Backslashes (without spaces) denote that the word differs between songs. Parentheses denote that the word or phrase that appears is not present in at least one of the songs that share the lyrics.''
  
 
*"[[Luci in the Sky with Demons]]"/"[[Scapegoat]]"/"[[Angel with the Scabbed Wings]]": "Sketch a little boy/key hole / For looking-glass people / I/You don't want to be/see me/him / (I don't want to fear no)/(You only want to be him) / Momma's/Mommy's got a scarecrow, gotta let the corn grow / Man can't always reap what he sow"
 
*"[[Luci in the Sky with Demons]]"/"[[Scapegoat]]"/"[[Angel with the Scabbed Wings]]": "Sketch a little boy/key hole / For looking-glass people / I/You don't want to be/see me/him / (I don't want to fear no)/(You only want to be him) / Momma's/Mommy's got a scarecrow, gotta let the corn grow / Man can't always reap what he sow"

Revision as of 22:33, 16 January 2010

This page lists lyrics of songs by Marilyn Manson which incorporate similar elements thematically, as well as lyrics which are identical or near-identical.

Lyrics that are italicized were not written by Marilyn Manson.

This list is incomplete.

Abortion

Angels

Antichrist

Colors

Black

Blue

Red

White

Drugs

Alcohol

  • "Get My Rocks Off": "Some men need two women, some need alcohol"
  • "Doppelherz": "Stop rehearsing alcohol and start performing narcotics"

Cocaine

Dope

Other

Pills

  • "Dope Hat": "Stars and pills and needles dance before our eyes"
  • "The Suck for Your Solution": "You're kissing me like benzocaine with your sleeping pill eyes"
  • "Coma White": "A pill to make you numb / A pill to make you dumb / A pill to make you anybody else"
  • ""President Dead"": "Give the pills time to work"
  • "The Death Song": "We take a pill"
  • "Devour": "I'll swallow up all of you / Like a big bottle of big, big pills"

Fire

Flies

Hearts

Heaven

  • "Cryptorchid": "Each time i make my mother cry an / angel dies and falls from heaven"
  • "Wormboy": "when you get to heaven you will wish you're in hell"
  • "The Reflecting God": "saw heaven and hell were lies"
  • "In the Shadow of the Valley of Death": "heaven wasn't made for me"
  • "The Death Song": "we take a pill, get a face / buy our ticket / and we hope that heaven's true" and "we light a candle on an earth / we made into hell / and pretend that we're in heaven"
  • "Valentine's Day": "they slit our wrists and send us to heaven"
  • "Four Rusted Horses": "forbidden in heaven and useless in hell"
  • "Unkillable Monster": "Sometimes I dream I'm an / exterminating angel / a traveling executioner from heaven"

Hell

Slitting wrists

Stars

  • "Lunchbox": "i wanna be a big rock and roll star"
  • "Dope Hat": "stars and pills and needles dance before our eyes"
  • "Rock 'n' Roll Nigger": "and the world spreads its legs / for another fuckin' star"
  • "Little Horn": "the world spreads its legs for another star"
  • "Deformography": "when you wish upon your star / don't let yourself fall, fall in too hard", "rock star yeah (you're such a dirty, dirty) / rock star yeah (dirty, dirty, dirty), and "i'm such a dirty Rock star yeah..."
  • "Mister Superstar": "Hey Mr. Superstar", "hey mr. porno star, I, I, I, I want you", "hey mr. sickly star", "hey mr. fallen star", "hey mr. big rock star", and "superstar, superfuck baby..."
  • "Antichrist Superstar": "now you'll see your star"
  • "1996": "here's your antichrist superstar"
  • "Great Big White World": "In space the stars are no nearer"
  • "The Dope Show": "We're all stars now in the dope show"
  • "Mechanical Animals": "A manniqueen of depression / with the face of a dead star"
  • "Posthuman": ""Show me the dead stars, / All of them sing.""
  • "Untitled": "A city filled with dead stars and a girl I called Coma White"
  • "Diamonds & Pollen": "The face of a Dead Star"
  • "The Love Song": "I'm gonna be a star someday"
  • "The Fight Song": "You'll never grow up to be a big-rock-star-celebrated-victim-of-your-fame"
  • "Burning Flag": "We are all just stars and we're waiting / We are all just scarred and we're hating / We are all just stars on your burning flag"
  • "Ka-boom Ka-boom": "I'm a big star"
  • "EAT ME, DRINK ME": "But then our star rushes in, / feeling like a child and looking / like a woman..."
  • "Wight Spider": "i won't promise a star"

Suicide

VCR's/TV

Recurring phrases

Backslashes (without spaces) denote that the word differs between songs. Parentheses denote that the word or phrase that appears is not present in at least one of the songs that share the lyrics.

  • "Cryptorchid"/"Antichrist Superstar": "Prick your finger it is done / The moon has now eclipsed the sun / The angel has spread its wings / The time has come for bitter things"
  • "Wormboy"/"Kinderfeld": "Then I got my wings and I never even knew it / when I was a worm, thought I wouldn't/couldn't get through it"
  • "Slutgarden"/"Doppelherz": "I'm/I am a VCR funeral of dead-memory waste", "My smile is a chainlink fence", and "Love the/your enemy, my/because love is thee enemy"