Editing Thingmaker

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{{Song
| Name        = Thingmaker
| Cover       = TheFamilyJams.png
| Artist      = [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]
| Album       = [[The Family Jams]]
| Released    = August 1992
| Recorded    = August 1991–August 1992
| Genre       = Alternative rock
| Length      = 4:08
| Label       = Beat Up Your Mom
| Writer      = [[Marilyn Manson]]
| Composer    = [[Daisy Berkowitz]], [[Gidget Gein]]
| Producer    = Daisy Berkowitz
}}
"'''Thingmaker'''" is the fourth track on the 1992 release ''[[The Family Jams]]''. The song was inspired by a man referred to in ''[[The Long Hard Road Out of Hell]]'' as Carl, who intentionally looked and acted like [[Marilyn Manson|Manson]], used the image of a gnarled, twisted tree that Manson had created in a poster for another local band; and how Manson was sick of his stealing from him. Manson's then-girlfriend, referred to as Teresa, was also implied to have been having an affair with Carl.

Select lines of lyrics were later reworked for "[[Mutilation Is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery]]", a song from the band's 2007 album ''[[Eat Me, Drink Me]]''.

==Appearances==
===Cassettes===
* ''[[The Family Jams]]''
===Albums===
* ''[[Lunch Boxes & Choklit Cows]]''

==Video==
{{Videos
| 8rrEhf5D-X4 = The Family Jams
| jfvWKx3zm5Y = 1993 Rehearsal
}}

==Versions==
* "Thingmaker" <small>&mdash; Appears on ''The Family Jams''.</small>
* "Thingmaker" (Remastered mix) <small>&mdash; Appears on ''Lunch Boxes & Choklit Cows''.</small>

==Lyrics==
 You want to look like me 
 You want to act like me, 
 You've got no sense of your own identity 
 You can't begin to see that you and me makes we 
 That's not what I want to be 
 So fuck you
 
 Imitation's not a flattery, so
 you can't begin to feel, 
 you can't begin to feel, 
 you can't begin to feel, 
 I said fuck you
 
 I don't want to know you, 
 I don't want to know...
 
 It's about time made up my mind, 
 get out of my life you motherfucker, 
 it's about time made up my mind, 
 I'm taking what's mine you motherfucker, 
 
 You are made from things you steal from me, 
 You can't begin to feel,
 You can't begin to feel, 
 You can't begin to feel
 So fuck you
 
 You suck my energy, my personality, 
 you steal steal steal from me, 
 you can't begin to feel, 
 you can't begin to feel, 
 You can't begin to feel 
 Fuck you 
 
 Imitation' not a flattery 
 So you're a pitiful thief, 
 You're a pitiful thief, 
 You're a pitiful thief, 
 Fuck you
 
 I don't want to know you, 
 I don't want to know...
 
 It's about time, I've made up my mind, 
 Get out of my life you motherfucker 
 It's about time, made up my mind, 
 I'm taking what's mine you motherfucker, 
  
 You are made from things you steal from me, 
 You can't begin to feel, 
 Can't begin to feel, 
 Can't begin to feel 
 Fuck you
 
 If you want to worship me then just worship me, 
 Don't even try to be...
 You're a fucking thief, 
 You're a fucking thief, 
 You're a fucking thief, fuck you 
 Fuck You
 
 Imitation's not a flattery, so 
 You're a pitiful thief, 
 You're a pitiful thief, 
 You're a fucking thief 
 I said fuck you
 
 I don't want to know you
 I don't want to know...
 I don't want to know you

==Trivia==
* The name of this song comes from a '60s/'70s toy line from Mattel where "creepy" figurines could be made using pre-existing molds.  Another clue to this meaning comes from [[The Family Jams]] demo which dedicates the song "to the creeple people" -- one of the names for the completed figurines.

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