Difference between revisions of "The Telephone"
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| + | | Name = The Telephone | ||
| + | | Cover = TheBeaverMeatCleaverBeat.png | ||
| + | | Artist = [[Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids]] | ||
| + | | Album = [[The Beaver Meat Cleaver Beat]] | ||
| + | | Released = March 1990 | ||
| + | | Recorded = January–March 1990 | ||
| + | | Genre = Alternative metal | ||
| + | | Length = 2:57 | ||
| + | | Label = Beat Up Your Mom | ||
| + | | Writer = [[Marilyn Manson]] | ||
| + | | Composer = | ||
| + | | Producer = [[Frank Falestra]] | ||
| + | }} | ||
"'''The Telephone'''" is the seventh track on the 1990 release ''[[The Beaver Meat Cleaver Beat]]''. | "'''The Telephone'''" is the seventh track on the 1990 release ''[[The Beaver Meat Cleaver Beat]]''. | ||
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==Versions== | ==Versions== | ||
* "The Telephone" <small>— Appears on ''The Beaver Meat Cleaver Beat''.</small> | * "The Telephone" <small>— Appears on ''The Beaver Meat Cleaver Beat''.</small> | ||
| − | * "Telephone" (Reversed Charge Remix) <small>— Appears on '' | + | * "Telephone" (Reversed Charge Remix) <small>— Appears on ''Dancing with the Antichrist''.</small> |
==Lyrics== | ==Lyrics== | ||
Revision as of 08:17, 3 April 2009
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| Song by Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids | ||
| Album | The Beaver Meat Cleaver Beat | |
| Released | March 1990 | |
| Recorded | January–March 1990 | |
| Genre | Alternative metal | |
| Length | 2:57 | |
| Label | Beat Up Your Mom | |
| Writer | Marilyn Manson | |
| Producer | Frank Falestra | |
"The Telephone" is the seventh track on the 1990 release The Beaver Meat Cleaver Beat.
Contents
Appearances
Cassettes
Versions
- "The Telephone" — Appears on The Beaver Meat Cleaver Beat.
- "Telephone" (Reversed Charge Remix) — Appears on Dancing with the Antichrist.
Lyrics
Another night of too much cough syrup. I am awakened by the incessant ringing of the telephone.
I still have dreams caked in the corners of my eyes and my mouth is dry and tastes shitty.
Again—the ringing. Slowly, I bustle out of bed. The remnants of an erection still lingering in
my shorts like a bothersome guest.
Again the ringing. Carefully I abscond to the bathroom so as to not display my manhood to
others. 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.
Again the ringing. I shake twice like most others, as I am annoyed by the dribble that always
seems to remain, causing a small acreage of wetness on the front of my briefs. I slowly,
languidly, lazily, crazily stumble into the den where my father smokes his guitars—I mean
cigars—In his easy chair. I know all about easy chairs. And then I sing a song for my friends:
"Jesus is my boyfriend
Jesus is my boyfriend
You can't have him
Because Jesus is my boyfriend"
Ringing, ringing. Dang it goddamn motherfucking son-of-a-bitch is ringing. I walk into the
kitchen and I stare blankly at that shrieking plastic bastard. Since it keeps ringing I know
it's her, and since it keeps ringing she knows it's me.
We are the world, we are the children
We are the ones who make a darker day
So let's start killing
There's a choice you're making
We're sparing our own lives
It's true we'll make a darker day
Just you and me
Trivia
- The instrumental at the end of the song is titled "The Nighthawks".
- The song has been incorrectly referred to by such names as "Bitchy Beginnings of an Oversexed Twelve-Year-Old", "Jesus Is My Boyfriend", and "Talk of One, Thought of None".
- "The Telephone" is one of Marilyn Manson's favorite poems, according to his autobiography The Long Hard Road out of Hell.
