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"'''The Death Song'''" is the eleventh track on the 2000 release ''[[Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)]]''. | "'''The Death Song'''" is the eleventh track on the 2000 release ''[[Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)]]''. | ||
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+ | "we sing the death song, kids, because we've got no future, and we wanna be just like you." Hopelessness squared and underlined, on "an earth we made into hell," where heroes die, heaven is only a vague hope, and maybe even god would like to end it all. (over and over, here, the failure of the institutionalized god to offer anything of value; only the magician's personal relationship with god yields anything at all.) | ||
==Appearances== | ==Appearances== |
Revision as of 14:14, 1 July 2009
"The Death Song" | ||
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Song by Marilyn Manson | ||
Album | Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) | |
Released | November 13, 2000 | |
Recorded | 1999–2000 at the Mansion in Death Valley, California | |
Genre | Alternative metal | |
Length | 3:30 | |
Label | Nothing, Interscope | |
Writer | Marilyn Manson | |
Composer | John 5, Marilyn Manson | |
Producer | Marilyn Manson, Dave Sardy |
"The Death Song" is the eleventh track on the 2000 release Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death).
Contents
Analysis
"we sing the death song, kids, because we've got no future, and we wanna be just like you." Hopelessness squared and underlined, on "an earth we made into hell," where heroes die, heaven is only a vague hope, and maybe even god would like to end it all. (over and over, here, the failure of the institutionalized god to offer anything of value; only the magician's personal relationship with god yields anything at all.)
Appearances
Albums
Versions
- The Death Song — Appears on Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death).
- The Death Song (With Bible Speech) (Live Version) — Appears on the "The Nobodies" single.
- The Death Song (Live) — Appears on the Guns, God and Government World Tour DVD.
Lyrics
We're on a bullet and we're headed straight into god even he'd like to end it too we take a pill, get a face buy our ticket and we hope that heaven's true I saw a cop beat a priest on the TV and they know they killed our heroes too We sing the death song kids because we've got no future and we want to be just like you and we want to be just like you Let's sing the death song kids we light a candle on an earth we made into hell and pretend that we're in heaven each time we do we get the blind man's ticket and we know that nothing's true I saw priest kill a cop on the TV and I know now they're our heroes too We sing the death song kids because we've got no future and we want to be just like you and we want to be just like you we write our prayers on a little bomb kiss it on the face and send it to god We sing the death song kids because we've got no future and we want to be just like you and we want to be just like you We were the world but we've got no future and we want to be just like you we want to be just like you.