Editing Wight Spider

{{Song
| Name        = Wight Spider
| Cover       = The-High-End-of-Low.jpg
| Artist      = [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]
| Album       = [[The High End of Low]]
| Released    = May 20, 2009
| Recorded    = March 2008–January 2009 in Los Angeles and Hollywood, California
| Genre       = Alternative metal, gothic rock
| Length      = 5:32
| Label       = [[Interscope Records|Interscope]]
| Writer      = [[Marilyn Manson]]
| Composer    = Marilyn Manson, [[Twiggy]], [[Chris Vrenna]]
| Producer    = Marilyn Manson, Chris Vrenna, Twiggy, [[Sean Beavan]]
}}
"'''Wight Spider'''" is the tenth track from the 2009 release ''[[The High End of Low]]''. Its title was revealed on April 7, 2009, in a blog which described both it and eight other songs from the album.<ref name="Metal Hammer 04/07/09">[http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/uncategorized/marilyn-manson-high-end-of-low-album-track-by-track/ Marilyn Manson 'High End Of Low' Album Track-By-Track]. ''Metal Hammer''. April 7, 2009.</ref>

== Music details ==
A blog by ''Metal Hammer'' describes "Wight Spider" as having "Massive chords replete with omonious semi-tones. This may not be groundbreaking stuff for the band, but it is what they do best. Spooky black-glam vocal delivery and taunting bullying choruses with falsetto layers that dance round you like a black mass meets the hokey-cokey. Lyrically, the themes fit, with accusations of "possession" and an aggressive recurring "you". Again there are melodic similarities to material from ''[[Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)]]'', but not so much as to be embarrassing. The pop-structures of previous tracks from the album are gone and what he learned from [[Trent Reznor]] is back – whether conscious or not: the track builds and builds without changing direction. Again the slower tempo brings the album average down, and you might find yourself wanting something a bit quicker to plug-in the aggression – the kind that has you pounding your steering wheel and you pass a born again Christian who's been blocking you since the service station on the motorway. Or something."<ref name="Metal Hammer 04/07/09"/>

In his review for The Quietus, John Robb explains that the song "drives along with a bass line that sounds like it was borrowed from everyone's favourite uber-Viking Peter Hook- that kind of snaking, one fingered, minor key thing."<ref>[http://thequietus.com/articles/01639-marilyn-manson-high-end-of-low-album-review Marilyn Manson's High End Of Low Reviewed Track-By-Track]. John Robb. The Quietus. May 12, 2009</ref>

== Appearances ==
=== Albums ===
* ''[[The High End of Low]]''

== Versions ==
* "Wight Spider" <small>— Appears on ''The High End of Low''</small>
* "[[Wight Spider (Alternate Version)]]" <small>— Appears on the deluxe edition of ''The High End of Low''</small>

== Lyrics ==
     I'll build you a shiny dollhouse a church
     where you can shrink
     into a tiny wight spider
     and gorge on horrid memories
     with conceited wings
     
     smother the past in a cocoon
     or me
     and I'll help you move
     all the bodies
     oh oh
     
     i'll possess you but I don't
     need you
     to be another one
     of my possessions
     i don't need you to be my possession
     
     and I won't make you kneel,
     for anyone
     but me
     i won't promise a star
     don't promise your soul
     we'll say that we don't believe
     
     i'll keep you wet
     when the world is dry
     I can see them coming
     I'll take you back inside
     if they came for answers i'll
     wrap my claws round your mouth tight
     we'll consume each other
     until there's nothing left to hide
     and they can all drown in our blood
     
     i'll possess you but I don't
     need you
     to be another one
     of my possessions
     i don't need you to be my possession
     
     and I won't make you kneel,
     for anyone
     but me
     i won't promise a star
     don't promise your soul
     we'll say that we don't believe
     and I won't make you kneel,
     for anyone
     but me
     i won't promise a star
     don't promise your soul
     we'll say that we don't believe
     
     we can't haunt this home,
     home anymore
     no no no no nowe can't haunt this home
     home anymore
     no no no no nowe can't haunt this home
     home anymore
     no no no no nowe can't haunt this home
     home anymore
     no no no no nowe can't haunt this home
     home anymore
     no no no no nowe can't haunt this home
     home anymore
     no no no no no

== Trivia ==
* There is a [[Wight Spider (Painting)|painting]] with the same title.

== External links ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h2caEaUcbk "Wight Spider" rehearsals]

== References ==
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[[Category:Marilyn Manson songs]]
[[Category:Songs from The High End of Low]]
[[Category:The High End of Low era]]